Happy Saturday! How about this ridiculous weather we’re getting here in the U.S.? I don’t know what happened to spring but I want it back! The big topic of the week is news that the U.S. Death Note live action movie is moving from Warner Brothers to Netflix. Must we continue with this whitewashed mess?…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Faith and Five Word Webcomics
For a couple days at the end of last week, a neat trend took over the webcomics hashtag: creators describing their webcomics in five words. Hashtags like these have popped up on Twitter and Tumblr before, and are a fun way to promote webcomics and independent creators, even though boiling a digital epic down to…
Mighty Marvel Monday: The End of March Madness
Hey, friends. It’s been a bad week for me, but it hasn’t been a completely awful week for Marvel, so I suppose that’s something. Let’s start off with something interesting, shall we? Like these pictures of Benedict Cumberbatch and Chiwetel Ejiofor during filming for Doctor Strange that were tweeted out. I still have many reservations…
Shinbun Saturday: Another Classic Manga Jumps on the Kickstarter Bandwagon
Hello readers! Vernieda checking in from the U.S. Mid-Atlantic, where we’re kicking off April with showers. Hopefully, that means we’ll indeed get flowers in May! Over the past couple years, we’ve been seeing lots of Kickstarters to bring over classic manga like Osamu Tezuka’s extensive catalog and more recently, anime like Escaflowne and Skip Beat!…
Mighty Marvel Monday: Wondercon and More
It is the last Mighty Marvel Monday of March, Easter Monday, and also two days before my little sister’s birthday (Happy Birthday Vic!), so let’s get to it. This past weekend was Wondercon, which is basically the dry run for SDCC. We saw the new RFID badges that SDCC will be using this year, and…
Shinbun Saturday: Manga Licenses Galore!
Happy Saturday! Vernieda here, fresh and recharged from a writers retreat. You know what’s even better? Spring has sprung! Goodbye, winter, and good riddance. Kodansha USA has been busy this week, announcing several new manga licenses. Twelve new print titles scheduled for this autumn, in fact! Among the new titles are more properties belonging to…
Shinbun Saturday: TOKYOPOP Hits Hollywood…Again
Happy Saturday, readers! Vernieda and Angel here to bring you up to speed on the week in manga. Planning a trip to Japan this year? You might want to check out the 88-stop anime pilgrimage tour that Kadokawa will be offering for foreign tourists! The tour was announced at a meeting of interest for the…
DC Daily Planet: Can You Kill the Killing Joke?
This week’s DCDP is gonna be a little different. Let’s talk about the Killing Joke. I doubt I need to do much of an introduction for it. It’s arguably one of the most famous Batman stories of all time (for a lot of shitty reasons and some pretty valid ones too.) But just in case…
Shinbun Saturday: Sherlock Gets a Manga Adaptation
Happy Saturday, dear readers! Can you believe February is over? I certainly can’t, but I’m excited about the coming of spring. The manga world lit up this last week with the news that BBC’s Sherlock will be getting a manga adaptation. It’s not the first time we’ve seen this happen. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has…
DC Daily Planet: Woo! Woo! Etta Candy, Super Hero Girls, and Ben Affleck
This week’s DCDP is going to be all about catching up on the news from corners of the DCU that got pushed to the side in the frenzy of keeping up to date with Rebirth. Can you believe it? We’re finally living in a (sort of) post-Rebirth Panic world. We made it, you guys. There’s…
Mighty Marvel Monday: Ms. Marvel Wins the 2016 McDuffie Diversity Award
I picked a good week to talk about Marvel Comics. Yesterday, at the Long Beach Comic Expo, Ms. Marvel won the 2016 Dwayne McDuffie Diversity Award. This is the second year of the award, and my second year attending. Both years, tears were shed, and the atmosphere in the room is one of family, community,…
Shinbun Saturday: In Defense of Fujoshi
Happy Saturday, dear readers! Can you believe we’re already in mid-February? Where is 2016 going? On the other hand, spring is only a month away now. I know I’m glad the sun is no longer setting before 5PM. If you’ve been in the manga and anime fandoms for long enough, chances are you’ve encountered a…