Ellie Mamahara, Blu, October 2010 I cannot explain my attraction to this book. I do not like baseball. For years, I lived near Wrigley Field in Chicago, an experience I can only describe as somewhat scarring. Indeed, my only interest in sports whatsoever is an admitted and frank enjoyment of David Beckham’s person. I will [...]
Café Latte Rhapsody, Toko Kawai, June, 2010 Meh. Kinukitty does not always pick a winner – sad, but true. Let us try again.
By Halco, 2010, Blu I read this weeks ago and wasn’t thrilled with it, but decided it would do. (Wait a minute, the discerning reader might well be asking; just how low is the bar re. manporn you’re willing to waste our time with, anyway? And the answer, gentle reader, is that you should never [...]
Fusanosuke Inariya, 2010, Digital Manga Publishing and Oakla I’d heard very, very good things about this manga from people who were hoping someone would pick it up from licensing limbo. Now that June has come to the rescue, I decided I could not ignore all the buzz about this title, despite my misgivings. Grave misgivings. [...]
Nimosaku Shimada, 2010, Digital Manga/Oakla Publishing Aaaaarrrrggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! No, really. This is a disaster. It can’t be happening. I cannot go on. I cannot bear the pain. Etc., etc. Because I thought there was a second volume. I don’t know why I thought that – probably confused it with Portrait of a Vampire, which does have [...]
Hiro Madarame, 2010, BLU Pretty! Pretty, pretty, pretty! That is all. No, of course it isn’t. You didn’t believe that, did you? Really. There are a couple of multi-chapter stories in Scarlet, and they are – odd. I honestly don’t even know what I mean when I say a yaoi story is odd – I [...]
Makoto Tateno, Oakla Publishing and Digital Manga Publishing, 2010 I was having a bad day Friday, so I went to Borders, hoping to be soothed by the gentle and expensive caress of European fashion magazines. Which worked out, by the way – German Vogue has a rock theme! I skipped Italian Vogue’s questionable tribute to [...]
Darwyn Cook relegates Wonder Woman to helpmate in Superman’s psychodrama.
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