I’ve been feeling like my karma is somehow lacking, because many lovely bloggers have sent me comics recently and I’ve done nothing in return. So instead of offering to knit the internet a nice winter scarf or hat, I’m going to see if anyone wants some free manga! All of the titles I’m offering below [...]

Via Fanboy Rampage, the Isotope Comics Museum of Toilet Seat Art
Comics212.net has been featuring some nifty old DC concept art recently from Kill Your Boyfriend, Preacher, and the Invisibles.
ADV releasees promo materials on bittorrent.

Basketball manga covers - Harlem Beat and Slam Dunk
Soccer title Captain Tsubasa

Area 88
20th Century Boys

Saiyuki
Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon
City Hunter
So Bad!
NANA

Appare Jipangu!

From the Shrew Review - they didn’t like this new comic about a librarian. It wasn’t at my comic shop this week for whatever reason, so I haven’t had a chance to read it yet. I’ll still give it a try if I can manage to get ahold of the issue next week.

Tegan invented a meme where we visit 10 blogs listed on Comics Weblog Update and blog about them. I’ve wondered about listing myself on that site, I think I don’t blog about comics often enough to qualify as a true comics blogger.
The Comic Asylum - Front page lists a combination of posts about comics [...]

I have an idea which may be useful or may be totally redundant. So I’d appreciate some feedback on this before I think any more about putting it together. I know a bunch of comics bloggers use Comic Weblog Updates, which seems to be based on a script based on pings to blo.gs. I’m wondering [...]

Hmm, I’ve been tagged by the Well Dressed Librarian.
1. How many books do I own?
I actually tried to figure this out. I’m estimating that I have around 30 books on each shelf in my many bookcases (I tend to buy a lot of paperbacks which don’t take up as much room as hardcovers). I have [...]

Top 5 Bare-Chested Marvel Superheroes
Telophase shares the pain of working in a library systems office.
Dave is giving away 2 graphic novels a day for a week.

I’m feeling a little conflicted, because I was about to prepare another post about the reaction to the list of library blogs, but then I realized that I often find blogging about library related things not very entertaining, and I also think that blogging about library blogging really only appeals to other library bloggers. So [...]

Bizenghast by M. Alice LeGrow (amazon)
I’ve been curious about Tokyopop’s OEL Manga line, so I’m picking up first volumes of a few of the series that look interesting to me. I picked up Bizenghast because the art looked appealing, and I’m always up for a spooky story. LeGrow frames the story with newspaper articles that [...]