While I have been finding manga that I enjoy, I have still been plagued by the problem of not knowing where to look for quality manga. From the start I was frustrated that no one could point me in the right direction based on my interest in everything by Naoki Urasawa (Pluto, 20th Century Boys, and Monster)….
The start of a new year is upon us. It’s a good time to look ahead of what 2010 might hold. Vaneta Rogers over at Newsarama put together a nice article the gathered quotes from editors and publishers from around the industry looking at their outlooks on the new year. I found this to be far more…
The Beat has a interesting look at various sales chart related things. It helped shed some light on something I have been wondering as well as helping to illustrate some of the differences in the costumers between comic shops and book shops. The part that shed some light for me are the numbers from Brian…
Duane Swierczynski Swierczynski answered some reader questions over at CBR mostly regarding Cable. Everything happening in Cable is leading into a X-book event called “Second Coming” in March which Swiercynski will write. Sadly it does not sound like he will writing more Cable after that, but it’s hard to say since he could only say…
The Beat has a rather interesting article on the debate between periodicals, as in the monthlies, versus original graphical novels. It is in response to what Brian Hibbs wrote in a recent column. It is a curious debate as some think the monthly format is becoming obsolete. From my perspective I thought it was obvious that the…
The past week has been rather uninspiring for me. Last week’s releases made for one of those weeks where nothing was truly bad but nothing felt noteworthy. Most of the good were things like the latest issue of Walking Dead, which almost seems pointless to review because anyone who likes it is already reading and…
Ezra Klein of the Washington Post today compared President Obama’s Nobel Peace Price acceptance speech to a metaphor Klein had made early last year while at The American Prospect — “A Superman approach to foreign policy” — life ideally imitating art imitating life. Superman and Captain America were superheroes of an odd sort: tremendously powerful…
If you didn’t read USA Today this morning, I don’t blame you, but you missed out on some interesting (see: not interesting) news. Bruce Wayne is coming back! Kind of. In the “Who Didn’t See This Coming?” department, I’d say this ranks right up there with Hulk Hogan coming out of retirement as soon as…
I’m not sure if I’m just cynical or if there really is a lack of interesting comics news out there of late. It’s probably a mix of both, but DC’s recent announcement of a new Earth One line is a welcome bit of good news among the daily fluff. This will be done through a series…
In line with my previous post about Marvel’s current pricing schemes Bleeding Cool had a short but entertaining break down of the value of of the Dark Avengers annual that came out this week with the hefty $4.99 price tag. I do kind of feel bad for the talent involved in that Dark Avengers book. It is…