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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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. from Comics Worth Reading http://ift.tt/2a6TYcI Sourced by "The typist writer". The place where writers, bloggers, and...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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