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http://purgetheory.blogspot.com/2010/07/ww-manga-blah-blah.html
dc just mentioned (not for the first time) that their kids comics are "loss leaders" that never turn a profit. since i doubt very much that every single one of those comics is bad, i think dc might be overlooking the importance of factors like, say, NO KID BUYS PERIODICAL COMICS, AND NOT IN A DIRECT MARKET COMICS SHOP. just, you know, throwing that out there.

Too right.

Anyway, yet another ww manga pitch. I have a suspicion that the very mention of the word "manga" in connexion with one the DC trademarks is triggering in the halls of DC Comics. That manga is the enemy, & mangafication is surrender.

Evs.

This pitch, at which I have just glanced, looks further from classic Wondy than Tintin Pantoja's.

My advice? FILE OFF THE SERIAL NUMBERS. Cut Bats, reinvent the Wondy into your own character, & sell it to Yen Press or somebody.

not a normal review but it gets the tag anyway - Yotsuba&! v1

This has got to be a put-on.

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Earlier this week I was up all night, due to giving Penguin Revolution v2 a close rereading; arguably not worth it.

Then I decided to go ahead & water the plants, & sleep some in the morning. Then, instead of going to sleep, I read the entire first volume of Yotsuba&!

Now that I'm not so sleep-deprived, I may be backing off from saying this really is The Greatest Thing Ever. But man, I hope this stays in print for a long time to come. It's that good.

I think this series benefits from the digest-sized pages. If it were in the comic-book format used for manga imports when I was a kid, some of the pages would be a little spare. Not all of them, certainly, or even most--but I think this one looks good statted down.

Later, I was walking the dog, & thinking she's a bit Yotsuba-like, but then, the dog is three. Yotsuba is probably about three.

I like how Yotsuba calls the neighbor "Mom" (or whatever the Japanese idiom is here) as if it's her name, & is completely oblivious to others' concerns about her not having a mom.

http://koiwai.biz/eng/v1/ch06/06_23120x180_jpg.htm
http://koiwai.biz/eng/v1/ch07/07_18120x174_jpg.htm