Over at PopCultureSchock, Erin F. goes highbrow with the latest Manga Recon column. There are reviews of A Patch of Dreams (Fanfare/Ponent Mon), Sexy Voice and Robo (Viz), Pyonyang: A Journey in North Korea (Drawn and Quarterly), How to “Read” Manga: Gloom Party (Digital Manga Publishing), and The Push Man & Other Stories (D&Q). (The fan-service averse should skip the PCS front page, lest they be confronted by some young woman threatening site visitors with her Ass of Doom.)
At Sporadic Sequential, John Jakala takes a look at the adorable but baffling Q-Ko-Chan: The Earth Invader Girl (Del Rey) and Omukae Desu (CMX). (John isn’t as taken with OD as I was.)
MangaCast (at the spiffily redesigned site) offer reviews of RavenSkull #1 (Seven Seas), Lunar Legend Tsukihime #2 (DrMaster), and the utterly appealing, way-too-short Chikyu Misaki #3 (CMX). Brigid at MangaBlog gave her thoughts on RavenSkull not too long ago.