Green Lantern Emerald Knights Blu-ray cover

March 31, 2011 Johanna DCU Original Animation Leave a comment

Green Lantern: Emerald Knights Box Art, Special Features Announced

Warner Home Video has released the box art, shown here, and information on the special features included in the Blu-ray Combo Pack for Green Lantern: Emerald Knights. Those extras will be: The movie itself, about 75 minutes long, with its six interlocking stories, on both Blu-ray and DVD A digital copy of the movie Audio commentary by Dan DiDio and Geoff Johns (I’m very curious to see how informative/entertaining that is, or how often they make comparisons to the comics) […]

March 30, 2011 Johanna Manga News 2 comments

Kodansha’s Fall Manga List Brings More Classics Back Into Print

Kodansha’s summer lineup consisted of significant carryover from the previous Del Rey line. Then came the Sailor Moon announcement, and fans began to get excited about out-of-print titles returning. Kodansha’s Fall line includes two reprint series, repackaged in omnibus format, and two sequel series that are new to the US. Press release follows: Kodansha USA Publishing is excited to announce the addition of four series to their fall 2011 list. Two are reissues of popular classics, and two are new […]

March 30, 2011 Johanna Dark Horse One comment

Usagi Yojimbo #136

A new three-part storyline pits the samurai rabbit against the Red Scorpion Gang of thieves. The color covers (by Tom Luth) are so pretty that I sometimes wish the interior wasn’t black and white, although it does show off the skill of Stan Sakai’s storytelling. There’s something universally attractive about the story of a lone fighter, always traveling, who stands by his own code of what’s right. An early scene, where Usagi, defeated enemies splayed around him, faces off with […]

March 29, 2011 Johanna Art One comment

Smbitten Gorgeous Webcomic

Melanie Gillman, as part of mini-thesis work at The Center for Cartoon Studies, is creating “a 60-70 page, all colored pencil, hand-stitched minicomic novella, about a certain mythical creature and a certain minority sexuality that I’ve been dropping hints about for the past several weeks.” (Hint: The comic’s tag is “lesbian vampires”.) It’s called Smbitten, and I’m blown away by the gorgeous coloring, as well as the fun historical setting and the joy of the characters when they dance.

March 27, 2011 Johanna Bloomsbury USA 4 comments

Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories About Mental Illness

Darryl Cunningham worked for a time at a psychiatric ward in England, so he knows whereof he speaks when it comes to portraying mental illness and the effect it has on those who suffer with it. Psychiatric Tales is based on the diary he kept during his time as a health care assistant. However, I must quibble with the subtitle — these aren’t stories so much as essays, points about how society treats psychiatric problems punctuated with case studies. That […]

March 22, 2011 Johanna Comic News 2 comments

Change Is Difficult LinkBlogging: Lois Lane Books, Alex Segura Interview, More

Two people I like talk to each other: Tim O’Shea interviews Alex Segura about his role as Executive Director of Publicity and Marketing for Archie Comics. They also cover Alex’s creative work, including a story he’s writing for an upcoming issue of Archie & Friends, about the first-ever Riverdale Comic Con. (Write what you know…) Lois Lane: Girl Reporter: Dean Trippe shares his pitch for a terrific-sounding kids’ book project that wasn’t picked up. It’s always the best-sounding works that […]

March 22, 2011 Johanna Manga News Leave a comment

Digital Manga Has First Batch of Titles for Guild Work But No Specifics Available

Digital Manga has announced that their Digital Manga Guild project, where fans translate manga for free in return for the promise of shared profits, now has some books to work on, although they won’t say what they are or who puts them out yet. Here’s the press release, complete with snazzy graphic: Digital Manga is excited to announce the first acquisition of 487 titles from Japanese publishers for the Digital Manga Guild (DMG). That number is expected to grow exponentially, […]

March 22, 2011 Johanna Comic News One comment

Mangaman Announced

Barry Lyga (The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, Archvillain) and Colleen Doran (Sandman, Orbiter, A Distant Soil) have teamed up for Mangaman, a graphic novel due in November. The plot involves a manga character falling into “our” world and how he copes in an American high school. It’s described as Sci-fi adventure meets love story — and East meets West — in Mangaman, an original graphic novel for teens. When Ryoko falls in love with Marissa Montaigne, the […]

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