by Robin Brenner | May 30, 2014 |
Highlights from the past week, with commentary from the NFNT gang: Gangsta Volume 2 (Viz, 9781421564531) Jenny: Gangsta’s first volume caught and maintained my interest with its scratchy, bold art, dark world-building, and intense characters and left me eager... by Robin Brenner | May 30, 2014 |
Here’s our staff highlights for this week — all the titles, creators, programs, conferences, and library shenanigans that made our week, comics-wise! [all_around id=”24″] by Marissa Lieberman | May 28, 2014 |
Fifteen-year-old Hime Kino is an aspiring voice actress. More than anything, she wants to be like her idol Sakura Aoyama, a famous actress on the hit shojo anime series Lovely Blazers. Shojo voice actresses need to be able to do cute voices, but unfortunately, Hime... by Saeyong Kim | May 27, 2014 |
The series A Bride’s Story represents “life on the nineteenth-century Silk Road,” according to the publisher’s blurb. The reader travels with an English researcher, Henry Smith, a bespectacled nice guy who asks awkward questions and takes copious notes in his... by Jessikah Chautin | May 26, 2014 |
Haruna is really great at sports. In junior high, she spent most of her days as the star of the girls’ softball team and spent all her free time reading shoujo manga, which might explain why she has some weird expectations when it comes to boys. Romance is... by Robin Brenner | May 25, 2014 |
The title of The Undertaking of Lily Chen has a double meaning, just as the mountain peaks and valleys on the cover of the book represent the landscape while forming a trompe l’oeil skull. The first meaning is entirely dark — Deshi, a young man who feels, and... by Robin Brenner | May 24, 2014 |
Mystic: The Tenth Apprentice spins a familiar-yet-compelling story of orphans, prophecies, and magic. Neither its plot points nor its steampunk setting break new ground, but the customary pieces are assembled skillfully. Mystic breaks away from the pack of similar... by Robin Brenner | May 23, 2014 |
Here’s our staff highlights for this week — all the titles, creators, programs, conferences, and library shenanigans that made our week, comics-wise! [all_around id=”23″] by Traci Glass | May 23, 2014 |
Recently I read and reviewed The Joker: Clown Prince of Crime, a collection of Joker stories in a new trade paperback. This sample of Joker’s 1970’s-era escapades whet my appetite for short story comic collections, and luckily for me, DC Comics has put out... by Beth Rogers | May 22, 2014 |
Welcome to R.I.P.D., the Rest in Peace Department. As members of Heaven’s eternal enforcement division, law enforcement officers who have been killed in action are charged to protect mankind from the ghouls and demons that threaten them. Enter—or rather,... 