Anne Freaks (ADV) is reviewed in the latest Entertainment Weekly. My memory of EW isn’t exactly encyclopedic, but I think this is the first time they’ve ever profiled a manga title. That’s always struck me as kind of odd for a magazine about popular entertainment.
If you’d asked me which manga title would be the first to land on EW‘s pages, I probably wouldn’t have picked Anne Freaks, no matter how much I like it. It gets a B+, described as “a frantic page-turner,” which is fair enough. The blurb is by Jennifer M. Contino.
Also reviewed is Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda, which inexplicably gets a B-. Reviewer Whitney Pastorek says the book is “beautifully illustrated” but “lacks subtlety.”
Oh, and EW gets an exclusive from Warner Brothers, which is a huge scoop, seeing as they’re owned by the same company. Anyway, WB is putting together an animated Justice League feature that might be an adaptation of Identity Crisis. Wasn’t it gross enough when the pictures didn’t move?
Perhaps reporter Jeff Jensen’s plea for “No Gleek, please” is really based on fear of precisely what could happen to that poor monkey.