For the month of April, Tokyopop is making a number of its first volumes free to read digitally. I took the opportunity to read Still Sick by Akashi and Don’t Call Me Daddy by Gorou Kanbe. These two manga fascinated me, particularly in conjunction with each other, as depictions of homophobia and queer desire in…
Blue Flag Studies Relationship Geometry
Ao no Flag is a monthly manga by KAITO serialized in Jump+ and simulpublished in English on Mangaplus, a high school slice of life romance comic that goes above and beyond the boundaries that classification may imply. Blue Flag’s premise is simple: two boys, popular baseball star Touma and average nobody Taichi, are best friends….
What Fence! Didn’t Learn from Sports Manga
So, Fence!. This limited series about high school fencing, written by CS Pacat, drawn by Johanna the Mad, and published by Boom! Studios is getting a prose novel tie-in by Sarah Rees Brennan in September 2020, bringing new life to a series that ended in November 2018. But why aren’t more critics talking about it?…
What’s a Homestuck Fandom After the Epilogues?
Let me tell you about Homestuck. Homestuck is a webcomic, first published by Andrew Hussie in April 2009. The comic consists of static captioned images, animated GIFs, Flash pages with music and animation, and interactive “walk-around Flashes” recalling early-2000s video games. The story follows a group of internet friends who play a beta version of…