Sometimes I’m surprised by the feedback that I’ll get from my classes. We don’t have a very sophisticated assessment program where I work, but we do have an online form that asks the classic couple of questions “What did you learn today?” and “Do you find anything confusing?” I don’t tend to invest this type [...]

Death Note #1 (amazon)
Out of all the recent manga series starting these days Death Note was the series I’ve been looking forward to reading the most and it didn’t disappoint me. This is a Shonen Jump Advanced title, which means that it is geared towards an older teen audience. Death Note begins with the [...]

Yes, you can have some scissors.
Your class isn’t meeting in the library today. I know this, because your instructor e-mailed me yesterday, and I haven’t been able to schedule the class yet. Maybe in a couple weeks, you will be meeting in the library.
Scissors guy needs help blowing up an image on the copier.
My co-worker [...]

Mangablog points us to this article about a library who is going to be spending a $10,000 friends of library grant on manga.
One of the things that really irks me about mainstream news coverage of manga is the assumption that it is filled with sex and violence. This article goes to such great lengths to [...]

When Star Trek met X-Men
Amethyst was a Jewel

Dorian’s 5th favorite monster
Dark But Shining is posting some great Halloween themed posts, and now they have a contest where they’re giving away horror manga. I would enter, except I have no artistic skills.
Nice list of top 10 and 10 great manga from Comics.212.net
eSidekick
I’m not sure if I’ve [...]

Hikaru No Go by by Yumi Hotta and Takeshi Obata (amazon)
I’ve heard good things about Hikaru no Go and I’ve read a couple random chapters in Shonen Jump, but I recently sat down with the first and second volumes and found it very entertaining. The plot of the manga combines spirit possession and the [...]

What I read last month….