The year-end roundups continue, and manga is getting some love on the general-comics lists. At PLAYBACK:stl, Jason Green includes Sugar Sugar Rune and Adam Warren’s Empowered in his top ten. Dick Hyacinth has a cascading series of lists that includes Tezuka’s Phoenix: Sun (top ten), Tekkonkinkreet, New Engineering, and Dragon Head (next ten), and Reptilia (books that deserve more attention—paging David Welsh!). Sean Collins includes Dragon Head as the odd manga out in his top 15 comics.
On the other hand, it’s not too surprising that Dave Ferraro, who reads a lot of manga, would include so many in his top 20: Emma, MW, Dragon Head, Yotsuba&!, Nana, Apollo’s Song, Andromeda Stories, and Gyo. That’s a lot of range right there.