GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class Volume 5

Normally, starting a manga title with the fifth book in the series would be a recipe for disaster, but GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class is easy to jump into, since it’s a collection of four-panel (4-koma) strips. It’s also very approachable, with a cast consisting of art school students. Although I had no idea who the individual girls were, the situations and gags were still funny and touching. The jokes resolve around two main subjects: making art and summer. At […]

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Kodansha Goes Digital, Ignores ComiXology

Earlier this month, Kodansha Comics announced that they were launching an ebook program. (In spite of their name, Kodansha publishes manga, including such well-known titles as Akira, The Ghost in the Shell, Fairy Tail, and Sailor Moon.) They announced the debut on “multiple platforms, including Apple’s iBookstore, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, and Google Play”… but not the best-known comic site, comiXology. But then, their American partner is Random House, so they’re focused on the bookstore market and book […]

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Happy Marriage?! Volume 1

I wasn’t going to talk about Happy Marriage?! volume 1 by Maki Enjoji, because it’s slow, boring, and repetitive, but then I saw this review. Now, certainly, everyone is entitled to her opinion, but I couldn’t let the sentence, “Happy Marriage?! won’t disappoint josei fans looking for a new series to follow” stand without providing a counterpoint. I very much would like more josei manga available here, but not titles like this, and I certainly wouldn’t recommend it to any […]

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Plugged In: Comics Professionals Working in the Video Game Industry

Review by KC Carlson Plugged In: Comics Professionals Working in the Video Game Industry is exactly what it says it is. Writer Keith Veronese has interviewed almost two dozen comic book artists and writers about their experiences working on video games. They cover the gamut of video game history, going way back to Elliott S! Maggin freelancing at Atari in the early 80s, as well as Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway working on Atari Force and Swordquest in conjunction with […]

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RASL

Jeff Smith, author of Bone, returns with another adventure epic, this one aimed at adults. This full-color hardcover omnibus contains the complete story of RASL, edited and expanded from the serialized version, giving us the best way to follow all the twists and turns. I intended to sample just some of it last night, but I had to keep going, riding the adrenaline as Rasl jumps from one parallel universe to another. His scientific discovery, aided by Nikola Tesla’s lost […]

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Buzz!

Buzz! shows how comics can make any competition exciting, including a spelling bee. Webster is off to his first day of high school when he stumbles into a back-alley spell-off. The Outlaw King, who’s been kicked out of the official spelling circuit, and the Black Queen are only two of the extreme personalities involved in the field. Webster gets manipulated into competing in the regionals in order to take down the Spelluminati, those trying to control the show. The visuals […]

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Stan Lee’s How to Draw Superheroes

Following Stan Lee’s How to Draw Comics and Stan Lee’s How to Write Comics comes the more specialized Stan Lee’s How to Draw Superheroes. I suspect, as in the previous volumes, Stan didn’t really write this. A small line on the indicia page credits Danny Fingeroth, Keith Dallas, and Robert Sodaro. It’s packaged by Dynamite Entertainment, which explains the use of their covers. The book might more properly have been called “How to Create Superheroes”, since there’s more of that […]

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Iron Man Coming to DVD September 24 With Agent Carter Marvel One-Shot

Iron Man 3 will be coming to home video on September 24, with a variety of package options. There’s the Blu-ray combo pack, with a DVD and a list price of $40. For $5 more, you can get the same pack with digital copy. For $5 over that, add the 3-D Blu-ray (list price $50). Or for $30, there’s the simple DVD and digital copy. Bonus features are going to include a commentary with director/co-writer Shane Black and co-writer Drew […]

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