When two companies love each other very much, they celebrate their union with a merger. Viz and ShoPro Entertainment have joined in mergermonial bliss to form Viz Media. The details are here.
In other Viz Media news that doesn’t involve the obscuring of what may or may not be considered naughty bits, you can now subscribe to Shojo Beat and its companion newsletter here.
Two Davids (we are legion) offer up some nice manga reviews. David Taylor at Love Manga looks at Doubt!!, Dead End, and The Tarot Cafe. At Yet Another Comics Blog, Dave Carter offers side-by-side comments on two Shonen Jump titles, The Prince of Tennis and the splendid Hikaru No Go. In non-David manga criticism news, Johanna Draper Carlson has updated the Othello page with notes on the third volume at Comics Worth Reading.
By now, I’d meant to have read the first volumes of Tramps Like Us and Wallflower, but I got distracted by prose, specifically Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise, by Ruth Reichl. I really enjoyed Reichl’s other books, Tender at the Bone and Comfort Me With Apples, and G&S continues the trend. It covers her time as restaurant critic for The New York Times, and it’s very difficult to put down.
In this week’s Flipped, I’m apparently fixated on nipples. Be afraid.