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August 14, 2011 Johanna Manga News One comment

Online Manga: A Digital News Roundup — JManga.Com, VizManga.Com, Guild’s First Release

The Digital Manga Guild Releases Its First Title The Digital Manga Guild, a publishing effort that asks fans to translate and edit books for free in return for a profit percentage, is ready to release its first title. Going live tomorrow evening at emanga.com will be Tired of Waiting for Love, a yazuka yaoi by Saki Aida and Yugi Yamada. Although the DMG is set up to work with three-person teams — translator, editor, and letterer — all the work […]

July 23, 2011 Johanna Television Reviews 5 comments

Young Justice Season 1 Volume 1

As with many of the Warner animation releases aimed directly at kids, this is a bare-bones, one-disc package to keep the price low. (With discounts, the DVD can be found under $10.) In addition to the four half-hour episodes, the only other items are trailers for Thundercats, The Looney Tunes Show, and as the disc starts, a couple of Scooby-Doo projects. (What, no Green Lantern?) That’s a shame, because there’s a lot that can be said about the show, from […]

June 8, 2011 Johanna Comic News 4 comments

DC Completely Reinvents Their Universe, Goes to Same-Day Digital Release

I know, you’ve already read about this everywhere on the internet, but I wanted to 1) mark it here for posterity and 2) share my thoughts. DC Wins Publicity The news first broke last Tuesday, May 31, in USA Today, followed by a DC blog post. There were two major parts to the announcement: 1. Starting in September, the entire line of DC universe superhero comics will restart with new #1s, featuring revamped versions of the classic characters. The first […]

May 7, 2011 Johanna TV News One comment

Young Justice Comes to DVD in Limited Form

From my perspective, the poor Young Justice cartoon can’t do anything right. I wasn’t impressed at the “all boys together” approach, and I gave up after being put off by the way the creator responded. Now that it’s coming out on DVD, I thought I might give it another try, but the one-disc release is so limited that I’m not sure it’s worth it. Season 1 Volume 1 is due out July 19, containing four episodes (two of which make […]

April 9, 2011 Johanna Movie Reviews One comment

Tron: Legacy

I was lucky to get to sample the five-disc (!) combo pack version of Tron: Legacy (list price: $80), even though I’m not able to evaluate the 3-D capabilities. There are four discs for the new movie — one each Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3-D, DVD, and digital copy — plus a Blu-ray for the original Tron. Personally, I would have rather had Tron on DVD also instead of the digital copy of Legacy, but I don’t have much reason to watch […]

January 7, 2011 Johanna Movie News 3 comments

Studios Announce UltraViolet, New Shared DRM Scheme

As announced yesterday: Six of Hollywood’s largest studios including Lionsgate Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. today announced their support for the UltraViolet service and format created by the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE). So what is UltraViolet? It’s a shared digital rights management scheme (first announced last year). The plan is that you buy a TV show or movie once, and you can watch it on multiple UV-enabled platforms, […]

December 22, 2010 Johanna TV News Leave a comment

Young Justice Creator Responds to Criticism — Boys Are Tradition

Via DC Women Kicking Ass comes a link to Greg Weisman’s response to fans who criticized Young Justice‘s premiere for being so boy-heavy. A fan wrote in: I expect that the women will have a lot more to do in the episodes to come, but I still find it profoundly problematic to introduce the characters in such an unequal manner. I believe there are too many men in the world as it is who see women as mere supporting players […]

December 9, 2010 Johanna Movie Reviews 6 comments

Fantasia / Fantasia 2000

Fantasia, in my experience, has been more talked about than seen. I was eager to experience it for myself, since I had the impression of it as almost pure animation, art for its own sake. This new Disney release is available as a four-disc special edition — two Blu-rays, one each for Fantasia and Fantasia 2000, plus the two movies each on DVD — or a two-disc DVD package. I’m talking about the Blu-ray versions here, since that seems the […]

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