February 21, 2014 Johanna PR: What Not to Do Leave a comment

PR: What Not to Do: Share Too Much of Your Business

A company whose works I’ve recommended in the past sent out this press release recently. ACTION LAB’S ZOMBIE TRAMP GOES IN HOUSE! The popular Danger Zone series becomes Action Lab Entertainment’s first company funded series. Dan Mendoza’s grindhouse revenge series, Zombie Tramp, started it’s undead rise as a critically acclaimed independent title that recently saw new life at Action Lab Entertainment’s mature readers Danger Zone imprint. The Story follows Janey Bell, Hollywood’s most popular high-priced call girl, who through the […]

February 20, 2014 Johanna Comic News Leave a comment

Diamond Digital Calls It Quits

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Diamond Digital program, announced three years ago, is ending. This isn’t a surprise. It took them longer than expected to get off the ground, and with ComiXology’s early lead in digital distribution, including its own retailer offering, there was a lot of competition. One of the big issues was that DC and Marvel had contracts with ComiXology and weren’t available for Diamond to offer. Those publishers are the two biggest reasons customers think of […]

February 20, 2014 Johanna Manga News Leave a comment

Manga Dogs Coming From Kodansha This Fall

Kodansha Comics has announced an upcoming title I’m excited by, Manga Dogs. That’s their English title for GDGD-DOGS by Ema Toyama. Her previous works I Am Here! and Missions of Love have already been released in English. Manga Dogs is the story of three wannabe manga artists (all pretty boys) with “ridiculous delusions” about the craft. Their classmate Kanna is already published, so they fixate on her to teach them in their school’s drawing class. Kodansha calls it a “sharp-witted […]

February 20, 2014 Johanna Comic News Leave a comment

Top Shelf Adds DRM-Free Graphic Novel Purchases to Website

Following in the footsteps of Image Comics, Top Shelf has announced that they will be selling DRM-free digital graphic novels direct from their website. They will continue selling through various partners, as well, but setting up their own digital store (with choices of PDF, ePub, or CBZ) allows them to sell bundles — if you buy print direct from them, the digital version is also available for a small add-on price. The first titles in the program (which seem to […]

No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! volume 1

February 18, 2014 Johanna Yen Press Manga Reviews 3 comments

No Matter How I Look at It, It’s You Guys’ Fault I’m Not Popular! Volumes 1-2

That great, excessively long title No Matter How I Look at It, It’s You Guys’ Fault I’m Not Popular! has little to do with the content of the book — although the premise is even more out-there than the title suggests — and is thankfully abbreviated “WataMote” (after the first two major words in the Japanese title). It’s the story of Tomoko, who’s entering high school dreaming of being popular. She’s terrific at dating sim video games, you see, and […]

February 17, 2014 Johanna Other Publishers Leave a comment

Strange Nation

Strange Nation, written by Paul Allor and drawn by Juan Romera, is a Monkeybrain digital comic with more potential than I yet see on the page. The premise has been done before — all those legends turn out to be true, from secret Bigfoot armies to Elvis still being alive. The part of the series I most appreciated was the lead, investigative reporter Norma Park. She was a serious journalist until she saw aliens and monsters and tried to report […]

February 17, 2014 Johanna Viz Manga Reviews One comment

Sweet Rein Volume 2

I explained the premise — Kurumi finds out she’s fated to be a Santa, accompanied by a boy who can change into a reindeer — in my review of the first book, so it shouldn’t surprise anyone to see that the second volume by Sakura Tsukuba continues the holiday-themed approach to stories. Reading Sweet Rein in the spring may be odd, but here, at least, there’s still plenty of snow on the ground, enjoy to enjoy the reminders of the […]

February 17, 2014 Johanna Oni Press / Lion Forge 2 comments

Archer Coe and the Thousand Natural Shocks

Retro-styled pulp adventure has become something of a trend these days. With its hero being a stage hypnotist, Archer Coe and the Thousand Natural Shocks falls into this category, but the story is a modern one in its telling, and highly enjoyable. We meet Archer hypnotizing cats, so he can communicate with them. He explains, “The truth about hypnotism is not that you convince people or creatures to do what they already can do…. The reality of hypnotism is that […]

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