MICHELLE: The wait is over.. a new Let's Get Visual is here! We examined intensely emotional moments in our last column, so this time we're going in the opposite direction by highlighting pages that make us laugh. I've got to say, finding a couple of pages that genuinely made me giggle was much harder than finding ones that made me sniffle. Did you have a similar … [Read more...] about Let’s Get Visual: Funny Pages
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Please Save My Earth at The Hooded Utilitarian
For our second joint venture at The Hooded Utilitarian, MJ and I take a look at the sci-fi shoujo classic, Please Save My Earth. Summarizing a series this long is a daunting undertaking, but MJ does an admirable job: "Please Save My Earth is a 21-volume soft sci-fi epic about seven Japanese children (six teenagers and one elementary school student) who discover that they are … [Read more...] about Please Save My Earth at The Hooded Utilitarian
Breaking Down Banana Fish 14-16
The seventh installment of the Breaking Down Banana Fish roundtable has been posted at Manga Bookshelf, featuring disussion of volumes fourteen through sixteen of the series. There is a ton of action in these three volumes, as Ash's friends rescue him from Papa Dino and must then contend with retribution both from the Chinese forces of Yut-Lung and a band of mercenaries … [Read more...] about Breaking Down Banana Fish 14-16
A Further Dose of Squee
Today, I joined the crew from Manga Bookshelf in discussing yesterday's world-shaking (GET IT? I MADE A SAILOR MOON JOKE!) news that the Sailor Moon manga will return to print in September of this year. Join us as we discuss the appeal of Sailor Moon, its gender politics, its relation to other "magical girl" series, its sales potential, the skimpy outfits, and more! And if … [Read more...] about A Further Dose of Squee
NANA Project #9
MJ, Danielle Leigh, and I have completed our penultimate (for now!) edition of the NANA Project over at Comics Should Be Good. You can find that post here. Volumes seventeen and eighteen are full of drama, most notably when a tabloid prints a story about Nana's long-lost mother and when Shin, lost after the end of his relationship with Reira, makes a real mess of things and … [Read more...] about NANA Project #9