MICHELLE: Hello, and thanks for joining us for the second installment of The CMX Project, in which we turn our attention to Cipher! (Please kindly overlook the fact that this column was promised for February; life has a nasty habit of upending one's plans.) This month we'll also have a special guest, but before the big reveal, how about another of your fabulous summaries, … [Read more...] about The CMX Project: Cipher
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The CMX Project: Land of the Blindfolded
MICHELLE: Welcome to the first installment of a new feature called The CMX Project. Back in October, Karen Peck and I talked about the CMX series Canon for that month's Manga Moveable Feast, and had such fun that we decided to start a recurring feature focusing on some of the other series they released during their all-too-brief time with us. For the most part these will be … [Read more...] about The CMX Project: Land of the Blindfolded
Chatting About Canon
The following discussion contains spoilers. MICHELLE: As we did for the CLAMP Manga Moveable Feast, special guest Karen Peck and I decided to collaborate on a contribution. This month's MMF theme is vampires, so we opted (actually, this was totally Karen's brainwave) to talk about Canon, the four-volume Chika Shiomi shoujo series published by CMX. I really didn't know what … [Read more...] about Chatting About Canon
Let’s Get Visual: Celebrating the Pretty
MICHELLE: The long-awaited return of Sailor Moon has inspired us to devote this month's column to classic shoujo art, focusing on a celebration of its sheer prettiness. Normally, we try to be astute in these columns—their whole purpose is to provide experience in seriously considering the artistic merits of manga—but it's possible that this time we'll be reduced to just sighing … [Read more...] about Let’s Get Visual: Celebrating the Pretty
March on Earth 1-2 by Mikase Hayashi
Man, I miss CMX. They had an awful lot of cute, short shoujo series, most of which were thankfully published in their entirety before the company’s tragic demise. One of these is the two-volume March on Earth by Mikase Hayashi. It’s a quiet little story and worth checking out, especially if you’ve burnt out on action or angst and just want to read about people being kind and … [Read more...] about March on Earth 1-2 by Mikase Hayashi