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 On The Shelf – May 8, 2013By Lissa Pattillo What a busy week! Free Comic Book Day this past Saturday was as fun as always, and this weekend coming up I’ll be attending the Toronto Comics Art Festival to spend days upon days swooning over how much talent you can fit into one building. On top of that, manga artists Taiyo Matsumoto and Gengoroh Tagame will be there so you can bet I’ll be spending some time in line ensuring I don’... |
 Thermae Romae Manga vol. 1By Danica Davidson Lucius is a down and out architect living in ancient Rome. His ideas on building public baths are seen as too antiquated, and this causes him to lose his job. A friend drags him to a public bath in an attempt to get Lucius to relax and feel better about life. Instead, Lucius is sucked down into the water by a strong and mysterious force. When he surfaces, he’s at a public bath in modern Japan....
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 Knights of Sidonia Manga vol. 2By Joseph Luster We're back once again with more sci-fi action from manga author Tsutomu Nihei ( Blame! , Biomega ). Knights of Sidonia takes place in a world where humanity has achieved photosynthesis, and gender is blurred and split into new categories, leaving protagonist Nagate Tanikaze as the last real example of humans as we know them. Life aboard the titular seed ship becomes hectic, however, when Nagat...
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 Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin Manga vol. 1By Joseph Luster I consider myself a casual Gundam fan at best. I've seen enough series and movies to satisfy myself, but I'm definitely not a maniac for the work of Yoshiyuki Tomino and those who followed. Some of it is pretty good, a few pieces are really good. With that said, I've held the work of Yoshikazu Yasuhiko in high regard from the moment I first nabbed the old Viz release of Mobile Suit Gundam: The... |
 On The Shelf – May 1, 2013By Lissa Pattillo Happy May, everyone! Have you gotten some spring weather yet? I think I saw some sun here this past weekend, and just in time, too. While this week’s manga supply may be a bit sparse, comic readers will still have lots to look forward to as this Saturday is Free Comic Book Day! Viz Media will have a book among the freebies with samplers of Dragon Ball and their new Rurouni Kenshin se... |
 Sunny Manga vol. 1By Danica Davidson Anyone who’s familiar with Taiyo Matsumoto knows he likes to be unusual, gritty and offbeat. And they will certainly get an unusual, gritty and offbeat experience from reading Sunny . There is no easy way of explaining this book. The Sunny of the title is a car, but it’s barely in this volume, yet it seems it must be the focal point of the story if the whole manga is named after it. There is n...
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 Tiger & Bunny Manga vol. 1By Danica Davidson Superhero comics are often thought of as an American thing, but why can’t manga get in on the superhero action? Every superhero story needs its own mythology, and Tiger & Bunny has an explanation for how superheroes exist. Forty-five years ago some sort of mutation happened, resulting in people being born with an assortment of supernatural powers. Not all people have these powers, and the ...
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 Triage X Manga vol. 1By Danica Davidson If you take a look at the cover of Triage X... yeah, it gives you a pretty good idea of what to expect inside the manga. I mean, Triage X does have a plot, and it does have some good, exciting action sequences. It’s not straight fanservice and nothing else. However, there is a lot of fanservice, and it’s all fanservice geared toward men. Case in point: the opening panel is a close-up of a ridi... |
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