Archive for the 'Romance' Category

Planetes | Volume 1

Monday, September 11th, 2006

First off I’ll say that I’m generally not a massive fan of anything that Tokyopop comes out with. It seriously lacks most of the class that other companies that manga publishers have. Specifically I’m comparing manga fare brought as from the likes of Dark Horse and Viz. Two companies whom I put a lot of [...]

Spirit of Wonder

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

Few things can make me smile from ear to ear and make me feel good about life in general. I get this feeling whenever I watch a Miyazaki movie. However before I discovered Miyazaki, I was reading ‘Spirit of Wonder’.
This is arguably one of the most beautiful manga’s ever created. This work is far and [...]

Celebrating the artform of sequential storytelling with a spine!