July 26, 2010 Johanna Television Reviews 3 comments

Super Friends! Season One, Volume Two

After several other DVD releases from different eras of the show, Super Friends! Season One, Volume Two returns to the earliest days of the cartoon. It’s a minimal set, two discs, eight episodes, from the first season, featuring Wendy, Marvin, and Wonderdog. Along with its companion Volume One, the two sets contain all the hour-long episodes (about 45 minutes here, without commercials) that launched the show in 1973. Modern viewers or those new to the show will likely find these […]

July 25, 2010 Johanna First Second One comment

Brain Camp

I was curious about this summer camp mystery for two reasons: as a former kid genius, I loved the idea of a story set among smart kids, and I very much enjoy the work of artist Faith Erin Hicks (Zombies Calling, The War at Ellsmere). The second, at least, was not disappointing. Perhaps I’d created the wrong impression in my head about Brain Camp, written by Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan, but I was let down. The “creating prodigies” aspect […]

July 25, 2010 Johanna Comic Book Films 6 comments

Scott Pilgrim Rocks!

I am spending the weekend re-reading the Scott Pilgrim books: Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe Links go to my reviews, which looked at now, are shallower than I would like, because it took me years and multiple re-reads to truly appreciate what Bryan Lee O’Malley was doing with the series and characters. He’s created the defining comic series of […]

July 23, 2010 Johanna Manga News Leave a comment

Another Bad Manga Industry Sign: Del Rey Lays Off Ali Kokmen

Not much to the news beyond that, unfortunately. Ali Kokmen, friend of this blog and all-around terrific guy, has been laid off from Del Rey, as revealed in the fourth paragraph of this Publishers Weekly Comic-Con writeup: … there’s another casualty in the manga market downturn. Longtime Del Rey manager marketing manager Ali Kokmen (who is roaming the floor at Comic-Con) has been laid off. Like every other manga publisher, Del Rey has been cutting back on the number of […]

July 22, 2010 Johanna Manga News 2 comments

It’s Fumi Yoshinaga Week!

Melinda Beasi at Manga Bookshelf had the lovely idea of having a Fumi Yoshinaga Week this week. So far she’s written about All My Darling Daughters, provided an overview of Yoshinaga’s boys’ love titles, and written a wonderful appreciation of the Flower of Life series. I’m afraid I’m too swamped to have anything new to add, but I have covered most of Yoshinaga’s work previously in these reviews: All My Darling Daughters Antique Bakery Flower of Life volume 1 Flower […]

July 19, 2010 Johanna Motion Comics One comment

Darn, Motion Comics Aren’t Dead Yet: Buffy Season 8, Black Panther Yanked

I had thought, after not hearing of any new motion comics since last year, that the unholy hybrid of comic panels and limited animation had died out like the fad it was. Unfortunately, this week’s Comic-Con-focused issue of Entertainment Weekly brings the news that Dark Horse is turning their Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight into a motion comic that will cover the first 19 issues. It launches on iTunes this week with a DVD to follow later this year. […]

July 19, 2010 Johanna Comic News 5 comments

DC Creates New Reprint Format With Vertigo Resurrected, DC Comics Presents

Vertigo recently announced Vertigo Resurrected, a 96-page $8 special due in October that promises to finally print “Shoot”, a story by Warren Ellis and Phil Jimenez that was intended to be Hellblazer #141 but was banned by Paul Levitz in the aftermath of the Columbine shootings. Backing it up will be “rarely seen tales exploring the disturbing depths of horror, war, romance, and science fiction by Brian Azzarello, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis and artists Jim Lee, Phil Jimenez, Bernie Wrightson, […]

July 16, 2010 Johanna NBM / Papercutz 5 comments

The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans

It’s summer, which means it’s time for another gloriously grisly entry in Rick Geary’s Treasury of XXth Century Murder series. The previous books covered The Lindbergh Child and director William Desmond Taylor in Famous Players. This time out, we don’t meet celebrities of the twentieth century; instead, the famous victim is one of its best-known cities: New Orleans. The first chapter of The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans functions as travelogue and brochure of historical high points, taking us through […]

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