The ComicList is showing up a little funky on my monitor, so I’ve headed back to the wellspring to look at this week’s shipping list.
The easy pick of the week is CMX’s new release of Mashashi Tanaka’s Gon. I’ve looked at a preview, and it’s as gorgeous as I expected. Just look at what Katherine Dacey-Tsuei has to say over in her Weekly Recon column. (I’m in complete agreement with her review of Pretty Face, too. Between this and Strawberry 100%, I’m thinking Viz might be on the verge of announcing a new fanservice brand.)
It’s a good week for CMX, as they also release a new volume of one of my favorite shôjo series, Sakura Tsukuba’s Penguin Revolution. Sure, it’s gender-bending pop idol silliness, but it’s genuinely funny and features great characters.
I’m a little leery of the title of Friends of Lulu’s The Girls’ Guide to Guys’ Stuff. What kind of “guys’ stuff” are we talking about here? If it’s all team sports and Radio Shack and gas grills and boxers versus briefs, I couldn’t conceivably care less. And what kind of guys are under consideration? Straight guys? Enlightened or troglodytic? Gay guys? Bi- or metro- or pansexual guys? All of the above? There are so many unanswered questions, which leads me to conclude that it’s… kind of a bad title, not unlike Sexy Chix.
I’m horribly behind in my comics reading, what with one distraction or another, so I haven’t waded too far into another anthology, Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened. I absolutely share the fascination with these cultural artifacts, though, and I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the book. I kind of hope editor Jason Rodriguez pulls back a bit on the rest of his introductory pieces, which show a tendency to gush in the early going.