Ten Count Volume 1

Ten Count, by Rihito Takarai and published by SuBLime, is the kind of yaoi manga I like — the kind with a plot beyond “let’s watch two cute guys make out”. In this case, it’s even based on a topic I’m immensely curious about. Shirotani is the assistant to a company president. He’s germ-phobic, to the extent of wearing gloves in daily life, and a compulsive hand-washer. He meets Kurose by accident. That’s fortuitous, because Kurose is a psychiatric counselor [...]
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Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League: Gotham City Breakout

The latest in the line of cute, goofy comedy superhero adventures was perfect viewing for a lazy Sunday afternoon. Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League: Gotham City Breakout splits up the teams in a creative way. To celebrate Batman’s anniversary of becoming a hero, Nightwing and Batgirl take him on a vacation to see a former mentor, Madame Mantis. Of course, they stumble on a secret plot with a number of battles with other criminals involved. Meanwhile, back in [...]
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Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma Volume 13

I was about to give up on this series — I only read it for the food, and there are only so many times I can watch a cook-off — when this volume did something different that reignited my interest. But first, Food Wars volume 13 has to finish off the competition from the previous book, in which we find out whether Soma’s everyday cooking will make him the final champion of a tournament that began seven books ago. After [...]
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Hoopla Brings Digital Borrowing to Libraries

This is a sponsored post. I have received compensation and a review account for this post. I was recently introduced to hoopla, a digital media service available through a number of libraries in North America that allows you to instantly “borrow” digital movies, music, books, audiobooks, and comics using your library card. My local library system unfortunately doesn’t participate, but after getting a chance to try the service, I will definitely encourage them to. They have apps for iOS and [...]
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Justice League Action Cartoon Planned for Cartoon Network

Warner Bros. Animation is creating Justice League Action for Cartoon Network. Kevin Conroy will be the voice of Batman, as he should be, with Mark Hamill playing the Joker, James Woods as Lex Luthor, and Diedrich Bader (who played Batman in The Brave and the Bold, a similar team-up series) as Booster Gold. Here’s a highlight reel promoting the show: Episodes will be 11 minutes each, with two running together in a half-hour slot. Based on that trailer, the series [...]
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DCU Animated Films Announced for 2017

ICv2.com reports that, at San Diego Comic-Con, it was announced that DC Entertainment will be releasing the following three as their next original animated direct-to-video movies. Justice League Dark, due this fall, is now being promoted in a sneak peek on the Batman: The Killing Joke release. It assembles the supernatural characters Black Orchid, Etrigan, Zatanna, Deadman, Swamp Thing, and John Constantine (who is voiced by Matt Ryan, who played the role on TV) to fight demons. Until Warner takes [...]
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IDW Adds Kickstarter Imprint “It’s Alive!”

Drew Ford, most recently acquisitions editor with Dover Publications rescuing forgotten comic graphic novels (such as Wandering Star and Private Beach), has now created a new imprint at IDW for similar reprint efforts. It’s Alive! was announced with “plans to publish 5-6 titles in 2017 with each title raising its money for publication via Kickstarter.” Which brings up the now-perennial question “if it’s not providing funds, what does a publisher do?” In this case, IDW will provide premier space in [...]
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Comix: Beyond the Comic Book Pages

Comix: Beyond the Comic Book Pages is a documentary on DVD that feels as though it fell through a time warp. From the Comic Sans lettering used on the menu to coverage of topics just about anyone the least bit interested in the medium is already aware of, I was surprised to learn the DVD was released this month, because it feels as though the movie was made at least a decade ago. (Probably both of those statements are true. [...]
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DC Releases Sneak Peaks for Upcoming TV Show Seasons

DC has released promo footage, as shown at the San Diego Comic-Con just past, for almost all their comic-book-inspired TV shows. (Supergirl doesn’t have one.) Check out these highlight reel videos for reminders of what’s happening with each and what’s coming up. First, my favorites: Lucifer (starring Tom Ellis), which is launching its second season in September on Fox, and iZombie (starring Rose McIver), going on a third (but we have to wait until midseason for it). Before we get [...]
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Google Play Books Launches Bubble Zoom

One of the reasons ComiXology took off the way it did in the field of digital comics was its Guided View approach (trademarked and patent pending). Turning on Guided View allowed a comic to be shown panel-by-panel instead of a page at a time, which would be too hard to read on smaller screens. Now, Google Play Books has announced a competing technology: Bubble Zoom. Instead of focusing on the panel, it uses machine learning to zoom into speech balloons [...]
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Scholastic Seeks New Graphic Novelists Through Contest

Scholastic, the well-known children’s book publisher and distributor, is the parent of Graphix, which puts out acclaimed graphic novels, including the perpetual best-selling Smile, Sunny Side Up, and the color edition of Bone: Out from Boneville. They describe the imprint as focusing on “creator-driven books that bring exceptional art, rich content, and strong storytelling to realistic fiction, memoir, fantasy, and more.” Now, they want to find new talent, so they’ve launched a contest. If you are unpublished, a U.S. resident, [...]
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Aftershock Reminds Me of Something…

Aftershock Comics launched in April 2015 and shipped their first comic (Replica) in December of that year. They’ve currently put out 17 series and miniseries, and their strong point is how many of their creators and staff have long-running comic industry careers, with names like Mike Marts, Joe Pruett, Brian Azzarello, Paul Jenkins, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Amanda Conner. Their logo looks like this: It’s eye-catching and nicely symbolic, but every time I see it, I remember this: I know, that [...]
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Wynonna Earp Gets Second Season

Wynonna Earp, the TV show about a demon-fighting gunslinger, has been renewed for a shorter second season by Syfy. The first season’s 13 episodes began airing in April 2016. The second season, scheduled to debut in 2017, will have 10. The supernatural western show stars Melanie Scrofano as Wyatt Earp’s demon-fighting great-granddaughter. Congrats to friend of this site Beau Smith, the writer of the comic the show was based on! It’s now published by IDW. The show was developed by [...]
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Death on the Sapphire

Death on the Sapphire introduces Lady Frances Ffolkes, a proto-feminist and suffragette in 1906. It’s the first in a new series by R.J. Koreto. I liked the heroine more than the mystery. She struggles with the constraints on a “proper” lady in her time, but she still does what she wants — moving out of her brother’s house to live independently (accompanied by her ladies’ maid, Miss Mallow), handling her own finances (mostly an inheritance), and exploiting expectations of what [...]
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Keith Knight Has 2 New Books

I’m impressed by how Keith Knight has managed to continue three ongoing comic strips: The domestic Knight Life, formatted like a newspaper strip The original K Chronicles, a rougher, more indy-weekly-paper styled commentary on cultural issues The explicitly editorial (th)ink Those last two each have new books out for the summer convention season. They premiered at the just-past San Diego Comic-Con and are now available for sale at Knight’s website. Go East, Young Fam! is the seventh K Chronicles collection, [...]
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Saucer Country Returns as Saucer State

Saucer Country ended in 2013. It was a Vertigo series by Paul Cornell (Wolverine, Captain Britain and MI:13) and Ryan Kelly (Survivors’ Club, Local) that ran 14 issues. It combined alien invasion conspiracy, political intrigue, and points of cultural concern. The lead character was a governor, running for president, who may have been abducted by aliens. At the end of the series, she’d just been elected. Now comes news that the series will return as Saucer State from IDW next [...]
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Webcomic Pioneer Still at It: Steve Conley Launches “The Middle Age”

Steve Conley has been making webcomics since 1998, when he launched Astounding Space Thrills. That makes him one of the early guys, out there on the digital frontier. (He’s also responsible, it turns out, for getting webcomics on the Eisner ballot in 2005.) But he’s still at it, having just launched his newest project. The Middle Age looks to be a blend of medieval fantasy with age jokes. It’s hard to tell yet, having only one strip available, but I [...]
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Wizard World First Quarter Financial Results

At ICv2, I wrote about Wizard World’s first quarter financial filings. They turned a profit, a change from last year, but did so by eliminating events. Find out more at the link.
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Animation Allows for Never-Aging Group in Music Video

The second single from the new Monkees album, Good Times!, is “You Bring the Summer”. The first video used comic book art; this second one takes a limited animation approach. It made me happy. Particularly in the way they made a virtue of reusing certain action loops. Each time the band plays, they’re in another famous set of costumes, alluding to how the visuals of the TV show changed over its short run. They start in the red 8-button shirts, [...]
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The Short History of Archie’s Dark Circle Comics

The recent mention by Diamond Comics that Archie’s The Hangman and The Shield comics were “cancelled by publisher” (with issue #4 and #3, respectively) made me wonder about the history and short life of Dark Circle Comics, the most recent take on an Archie Comics superhero imprint. Two years ago, in July 2014, USA Today had the news that the imprint was planned to launch in 2015, edited by Alex Segura (Archie’s senior vice president for marketing and publicity). The [...]
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iZombie Season 3 Teaser

As we’re all rewatching iZombie season 2 (right?), here’s a quick teaser of star Rose McIver talking about what she’s looking forward to in the upcoming season 3. I’d forgotten about the change in the character dynamics after the season finale, and she’s right, it should make things more interesting. And I’m glad to hear that more zombies will be reflecting the characteristics of the brains they eat, since those “transformations” are fun. (On a cultural note, it’s weird to [...]
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iZombie Gets Blu-ray Release, Season 2 Out Today

When iZombie (a wonderfully fun and suspenseful TV show) came out on DVD last fall, unlike the superhero DC TV shows, it didn’t get a Blu-ray release. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has now remedied that through its Warner Archive direct-to-consumer line. Which is a way for dedicated fans, either of the show or the format, to demonstrate their desire for the product without the company having to commit to up-front print runs or distribution. You can order through the WBShop [...]
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Anime Expo Manga Announcement Round-Up

I wrote my first post for ICv2.com, the comic business news site, last week, covering manga announcements made at the recent Anime Expo. Find out more about what Dark Horse, Kodansha, Yen Press, and Seven Seas will be putting out over the next year. I’m most looking forward to Ichi-F: A Worker’s Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, coming from Kodansha in March 2017.
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Don’t Be Childish About the End of a Publishing Relationship

Digital Manga seems to be having trouble, relying on Kickstarters to fund the publication of many of their books recently. Libre Publishing is the biggest Japanese publisher of boys’ love titles and a partner with Viz in the SuBLime yaoi English-language manga line. Previously, Digital Manga was bringing a number of Libre titles to English, but they are no longer working together as of the end of June. In letting fans know about this, Digital Manga’s press release about this [...]
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Hipster! Comic-Strip Dispatches From Brooklyn, NY

Greg Farrell, author of On the Books: A Graphic Tale of Working Woes at NYC’s Strand Bookstore, is back with Hipster! Comic-Strip Dispatches From Brooklyn, NY. It’s a collection of autobio comics covering life as described by the title. I found it horrid. Not because of the style or author, but because of the subject matter. If you want to be convinced of why you should never live in New York City, or if you’ve left and want confirmation you [...]
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