Geez, I go away for a day and Jack turns the place into a porn-fest. Good thing I locked the liquor cabinet before I left!
There are still a few hours left in Talk Like a Pirate Day, so put yer sails to the wind and head over to ComiPress, which is talking like a pirate just for today. And while you’re there, check out the interview with the artist of Kochi-Kame
MangaCast has the new comics list, and be sure to check out the comments thread for the hottest new accessories coming to a con near you.
At Love Manga, David Taylor takes apart the manga chart. Interesting sidelights: Star Trek: The Manga makes it to number three, and a new book I really liked, Vampire Doll, debuts at number 50.
As always, ChunHyang72 finds tons of stuff worth reading on the Tokyopop blogs.
At her blog, Tokyopop editor Lillian Diaz-Pryzbyl talks about a new manga, 12 Days, which sounds interesting despite its plot:
I think the description on our website says something about a woman drinking the ashes of her dead lover in the form of smoothies, to which most readers go, “WTF?! GROSS!” And yet…it works.
Put me in the “most readers” category, but now I’m curious to see how they will pull it off.
John Jakala liked discussing Bleach with David Welsh so much that he put up some images to match the conversation.
ICv2 has some very generic comments from Viz on the recent controversy about edits to volume 8 of Fullmetal Alchemist. Tom Spurgeon critiques the response.
Blogcritics likes Mitsukazu Mihara’s Beautiful People and Oh!great’s Air Gear, and Lyle hearts Yakitate!! Ja-Pan.
Global yaoi manga publisher Yaoi Press introduces young adult yaoi.
PW Comics Week doesn’t have much on manga today, so I’ll save you the trouble of clicking and reproduce the one bit they do have:
Korean comics publisher Netcomics is launching three new online manhwa series simultaneously in English (Netcomics.com) and in Korean through eComiX.co.kr, Netcomics’ Korean afiliate. The online manhwa are June, a sci-fi thriller by Youngran Lee; 100% Perfect Girl, a romantic series by Wann; and Roureville, a fantasy drama with shonen-ai undertones by E.Hae. The online series will all launch in September. June will be available in bookstores in October and 100% Perfect Girl and Roureville will be available in bookstores in early 2007.
You have the porn-fest, we have the Carl-fest. 0_0
And somehow I don’t think these two fests are mutually exclusive. :D
Hey, cool, I grumble about not knowing nothing about 12 Days and somebody finaly writes something about it. I have to say, the image in the calendar is very, very nicely drawn.