Oh, Digital Manga, how you tease me. You have two books coming out this week, and the pre-release buzz has me all betwixt and between.
The description of Bambi and Her Pink Gun doesn’t do much for me, but the title is certainly catchy, and the sample art is intriguing. I usually avoid lowlifes and gunfights, but a really interesting cross-section of people have praised this book or are eagerly looking forward to it, so I feel like I should set my genre prejudices aside. (I’ll even ignore the deal-breaking adjective, “Tarantinoesque,” and the endorsement of Puffy AmiYumi.)
On paper, Antique Bakery sounds like a manga created by people who have eavesdropped on my subconscious. Lyle at Crocodile Caucus was somewhat ambivalent about the first volume, though, and our tastes in manga seem to overlap. It’s possible that I’ve raised my expectations dangerously high, though Dorian at Postmodern Barney has seen and liked a scanslation of the title.
I’m glad it’s a slow week otherwise, because these two books are consuming all my anticipatory attention.