From marauding giants to magical girls, manga has some of the best stories in comics, but it can be a bit intimidating to the newcomer. The books run “backwards,” and the conventions and visual “language” are different from American and European comics (although more and more non-Japanese creators are picking up on manga’s storytelling techniques). […]
We closed out March with a piece of great news: Dark Horse has licensed Makoto Yukimura’s hard sci-fi manga Planetes, the story of celestial junkmen who travel through space picking up debris. They will begin releasing it in omnibus format in December. While we wait, here’s a look at the pick of the April releases, […]
From marauding giants to magical girls, manga has some of the best stories in comics, but it can be a bit intimidating to the newcomer. The books run “backwards,” and the conventions and visual “language” are different from American and European comics (although more and more non-Japanese creators are picking up on manga’s storytelling techniques). […]