February 20, 2012 Johanna Toon Books 6 comments

Catching Up With Toon Books: A Year’s Worth of Releases

I’ve been remiss in getting behind on the wonderful Toon Books comics for young and beginning readers. Before these most recent releases, I’ve covered all their previous books; you can find links here. Spring 2011 Silly Lilly in What Will I Be Today? by Agnes Rosenstiehl I didn’t care much for the previous Silly Lilly book, but this one is much more focused. Each four-page sequence, with two panels per page, shows Lilly engaged in some new activity, from cooking […]

February 19, 2012 Johanna Television Reviews Leave a comment

Young Justice Season 1 Volume 3

The newest Young Justice DVD, Season One Volume Three, contains four episodes, continuing from where the previous release left off. “Bereft” gives me what I’d been waiting for since the start of the series: a significant role for Artemis (Stephanie Lemelin) with the team. Unfortunately, the group is all split up, with no one remembering the last six months, and Superboy’s (Nolan North) kind of Hulk-like here, nothing but rage and power without his memories. I’ve seen amnesia episodes before […]

February 17, 2012 Johanna Art One comment

The Secret World of Arrietty Clips

The Secret World of Arrietty, the newest Studio Ghibli movie, is out today, and I’m bummed that I’m too sick to go. To whet my appetite for it (and yours), here’s a series of promo clips provided by Disney (the U.S. distributor). Arrietty (Bridgit Mendler) and her parents (Amy Poehler and Will Arnett) discuss the addition of a new member to the “human bean” household, a boy: The change doesn’t stop Arrietty and her father from going after a sugar […]

Possessions: The Better House Trap cover

February 17, 2012 Johanna Oni Press / Lion Forge One comment

Possessions Volume 3: The Better House Trap

Green (book one), blue (book two), and now pink. But not a baby pink, more like Pepto-Bismol, suitable for treating the feelings Gurgazon the Unclean Pit Demon might raise in the weak-stomached. I was thrilled to see that the book opened with a sketch showing us how one of the other inhabitants of Ms. Llewellyn-Vane’s mansion for captured spirits and ghostly curiosities came to be part of the living museum. We haven’t seen enough of their histories for my taste, […]

February 12, 2012 Johanna Manga News 3 comments

Shonen Jump Alpha Launches; Print Magazine Goes Digital

Here’s an important signifier of changing times, especially when it comes to the print/digital divide. Viz’s monthly manga anthology magazine Shonen Jump has been discontinued in favor of the digital Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha. The online version launched two weeks ago, while the issue cover-dated April 2012 (on sale next month) will be the last in print. The digital magazine is only available in the U.S. and Canada for now, and it requires a Flash-enabled browser or a Viz Manga […]

February 12, 2012 Johanna Viz Manga Reviews Leave a comment

The Bed of My Dear King

I was given a chance to sample some of the first SuBLime Manga titles. I don’t read much yaoi, but I enjoyed The Bed of My Dear King by Sakae Kusama. I tried a couple of the others, but they seemed to be just about getting two men to have explicit sex with each other. (Sometimes so much so that I stopped to verify that SuBLime has an over-18 rule.) Dear King, though, was compared to Future Lovers by one […]

February 11, 2012 Johanna Comic News 5 comments

Diamond Digital Update: They Built an App

Diamond Digital, the program to allow comic shops to sell digital comics through Diamond Comic Distribution, was supposed to launch last September. It still hasn’t rolled out. However, ICv2 has a small update from the recent ComicPro retailer meeting. There they announced that iVerse has built a “Digital Comic Reader App”. Comic stores will sell digital comics either in-store or online using the app, which does not connect to iVerse’s existing store. The quote from iVerse CEO Michael Murphey indicates […]

February 10, 2012 Johanna TV News Leave a comment

DC Nation Animation Block Premieres March 3

Warner Bros. Animation has announced that the DC Nation animation block will be debuting on Cartoon Network on Saturday, March 3, at 10 AM. (That’s a month before Marvel’s similar project.) This hour is being promoted as “exclusive kids’ television programming and shorts based on DC Comics characters … full of action and humor”. The anchor series are the CG-animated Green Lantern: The Animated Series and the continuing Young Justice. Green Lantern launched with an hour-long movie last November, but […]

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