Monday, January 30, 2006
Monday mangallany
There’s a truly ludicrous quantity of good manga arriving at comic shops this week, so just be warned. The second volume of Eden from Dark Horse, the fourth volumes of Genshiken and Nodame Cantabile and the second of Love Roma from Del Rey, and You Higuri’s Gorgeous Carat from Blu are among the offerings. At least now I know who to thank for this kind of ridiculous product dump. Hugs, Diamond! (Seriously, it’s not that I don’t appreciate the opportunity to read entertaining manga. I’d just prefer that it didn’t all show up at once.)
Speaking of entertaining reading, David Taylor takes a very thoughtful look at the recent Tokyopop layoffs and the swirl of conversation they’ve triggered. After quoting some coverage from ICv2, David notes:
Entirely unrelated to that whole brouhaha, I interview Jake Forbes in this week’s Flipped. Once again, a charming and intelligent comics professional was suckered into doing all the heavy lifting while I lobbed nonsensical questions at him. Come for the insight. Stay for the amphibian poetry.
Edited to add: I knew I was forgetting something. Yay! I was wrong! As Johanna Draper Carlson and Greg McElhatton note, there is more Kindaichi Case Files coming from Tokyopop, due in April.
Edited again to add: Rich Johnston has a rumor round-up on the Tokyopop situation in this week's Lying in the Gutters.
Speaking of entertaining reading, David Taylor takes a very thoughtful look at the recent Tokyopop layoffs and the swirl of conversation they’ve triggered. After quoting some coverage from ICv2, David notes:
“…but even they have to add the caveat at the end of the report that this isn’t anything to do with OEL and that the entire OEL scene plays only a very small part in the whole scheme that is Tokyopop (and by the way this is the second time in a Tokyopop report that they have used that paragraph), to me just draws more emphasis to the fact that OEL is a big possibility behind this. It’s like someone telling you to stand in a corner and not think about orange penguins, and that will be all you think about!”I’m still looking for response or follow-up to Heidi MacDonald’s report of rumors about orders to stop work on projects in the OEL line.
Entirely unrelated to that whole brouhaha, I interview Jake Forbes in this week’s Flipped. Once again, a charming and intelligent comics professional was suckered into doing all the heavy lifting while I lobbed nonsensical questions at him. Come for the insight. Stay for the amphibian poetry.
Edited to add: I knew I was forgetting something. Yay! I was wrong! As Johanna Draper Carlson and Greg McElhatton note, there is more Kindaichi Case Files coming from Tokyopop, due in April.
Edited again to add: Rich Johnston has a rumor round-up on the Tokyopop situation in this week's Lying in the Gutters.
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I'm very nervous about this OEL-line rumor. I bought a number of the Tokyopop OEL titles released last year and while I didn't think the creators had found their footing quite yet I think it would be real shame if they weren't given the chance to at least *try* to make it work. (for the record I bought Steady Beat, Off*Beat, Dramacon and the library provided me with others to try out.)
Meanwhile, my comic book shop did not have Cantarella last week (and I suspect they won't have "Gorgeous Carat" this week either.) Which means I have to haunt stupid Waldenbooks until they come in (so far they've been pretty good about carrying Go Comi's line). However, I did pick up the second volume of Nana yesterday at Barnes & Noble, so I can stop feeling too sorry for myself for living in such a small town.
Meanwhile, my comic book shop did not have Cantarella last week (and I suspect they won't have "Gorgeous Carat" this week either.) Which means I have to haunt stupid Waldenbooks until they come in (so far they've been pretty good about carrying Go Comi's line). However, I did pick up the second volume of Nana yesterday at Barnes & Noble, so I can stop feeling too sorry for myself for living in such a small town.
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I feel your pain! I'm guessing that my copy of Gorgeous Carat is likely the only one that will be showing up in my town, and the only way I could be sure was to pre-order it through Diamond. (It's awful in many ways, but useful.)
We have a B&N in town that sticks pretty much to mainstream stuff, though they seem to be getting better about stocking stuff like Digital Manga's yaoi line. I haven't been to the Waldenbooks at the mall in ages, though I heard they were having some kind of 4-for-the-price-of-3 manga sale.
And I think Waldenbooks and Borders are the only places you can get at least one Go! Comi title (Her Majesty's Dog), because there's an exclusive deal. But for all I know, our Waldenbooks could be a Borders Express by now. (Not that it's likely to have made the shop any better. I saw one that had made the switch up in Pittsburgh, and the only difference was that I thought a little bit less of Borders by the time I left.)
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We have a B&N in town that sticks pretty much to mainstream stuff, though they seem to be getting better about stocking stuff like Digital Manga's yaoi line. I haven't been to the Waldenbooks at the mall in ages, though I heard they were having some kind of 4-for-the-price-of-3 manga sale.
And I think Waldenbooks and Borders are the only places you can get at least one Go! Comi title (Her Majesty's Dog), because there's an exclusive deal. But for all I know, our Waldenbooks could be a Borders Express by now. (Not that it's likely to have made the shop any better. I saw one that had made the switch up in Pittsburgh, and the only difference was that I thought a little bit less of Borders by the time I left.)
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