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The comics community are given the spotlight this week, as the ACP Slack community (the best one in the game) shout out their highlights of the year in 2023! From great conventions, to collaborations and more it's a really positive look at the year that was in indie comics! We also talk about indie comics shop and the larger industry and there are a LOT of comic recommendations to check out, so get your wishlists ready! Great stuff to check out this week - Tom Curry, The ACP Slack, Mark Millar, Creepy Vol 1, The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Progression, Globalcomix, Bloodrik, Andrew Krahnke, The Hunger and the Dusk 4, G Willow Wilson, Christian Wildgoose, Petrol Head 2, Rob Williams, Bye Parr, Transformers 3, Daniel Warren Johnson, Splat, Matthew Dooley,
On this episode Morgana finally has the long awaited 5th omnibus of The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Darfox checks out Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, and dakazu examines extreme fandom with Sachiko Takeuchi's Okkake!! Then we continue our Retrospective of Dorohedoro as thing really start getting weird!!! Send us emails! mangamachinations@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter! @mangamacpodcast Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com Check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/mangamactv Buy us a Kofi! https://ko-fi.com/mangamac Timestamps: Intro Song: “Zero Gravity” by Dono, Opening, Introductions, Bidets and Porta Potties - 00:00:00 Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: “Funkymania” by The Original Orchestra, Morgana finally understands Melon from BEASTARS - 00:03:29 Omnibus 5 of The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service has finally been released - 00:05:11 Darfox checks out the prologue episode of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury - 00:11:01 Sachiko Takeuchi goes into various hardcore fandom with Okkake! -00:19:47 Next Episode Preview and Rundown: 8 Year Anniversary Guest Gaiden: Horror & Hunter x Hunter with Whimsy, We will be celebrating 8 years of Manga Machinations with guest YouTuber Whimsy by discussing horror movies and manga, along with the 13th Chairman Election arc from Hunter x Hunter - 00:48:56 Main Segment Retrospective: Dorohedoro, Transition Song: “Paranormal” by Jay Ray, We review Q Hayashida's violent fantasy manga about amnesiac reptilian-headed Caiman, who hunts sorcerers in a post-apocalyptic world to search for clues of his origins(covers vols. 13-15) - 00:50:22 Next Week's Topic: Horror & Hunter x Hunter, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “Crazy for Your Love” by Orkas - 01:38:52
We've got a special Seamus selection Twiple Dip this week! We're reading the second volumes of Dai Dark, Even Though We're Adults, and The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service! Also Darfox talks about the new Mamoru Hosoda film Belle, Morgana reads Akiko Higashimura's webtoon A Fake Affair, and dakazu loves learning about manga artists in Mangaka Sainyumon!!! Send us emails! mangamachinations@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter! @mangamacpodcast Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com Check out our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/mangamactv Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “Are You Ready For Me Baby” by Funky Giraffe, Opening, Introductions 00:01:10 - Listener Mail: Our favorite anthropomorphic characters 00:11:01 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: “Funkymania” by The Original Orchestra, Darfox saw Mamoru Hosoda's latest film Belle 00:24:11 - Morgana has predictions about Akiko Higashimura's webtoon A Fake Affair 00:31:17 - Mangaka Sainyumon follows gag manga artist Isami Nakagawa as he interviews Katsuhiro Otomo, Taiyo Matsumomo, Junji Ito, Akiko Higashimura, and other mangaka to learn how to make story manga 00:40:04 - dakazu thought Nana to Kaoru - Kokosei no SM gokko was a fitting end to the series 00:43:11 - dakazu watched Taisho Otome Fairy Tale with his wife and was relieved that the anime did not follow the ending from the manga 00:50:18 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Check our Twitter account for an update on the next episode 00:50:40 - Main Segment Twiple Dip: Even Though We're Adults/The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service/Dai Dark, Transition Song: “It's Over” by Generation Lost, We revisit a previous Triple Dip selection and read the next volume for discussion and to see if we'd continue reading it before picking our favorite of the three, Including: 00:51:17 - Even Though We're Adults by Takako Shimura 01:10:31 - The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service by Eiji Otsuka & Housui Yamazaki 01:30:35 - Dai Dark by Q Hayashida 01:52:21 - We picks our favorite out of the three manga 01:53:39 - Next Week's Topic: TBA, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “Crazy for Your Love” by Orkas
On this episode we discuss localization and dakazu reads about Ichiro Inoue living out of his car in #Rikon shite Shachuuhaku ni narimashita! Then we dive into a new Triple Dip where Seamus has picked all three titles! Enjoy this special Seamus selections on Sunny, The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, and 7 Billion Needles!!! Send us emails! mangamachinations@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter! @mangamacpodcast Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com Check out our tumblr! http://mangamachinations.tumblr.com Join our Discord! https://discord.me/mangamac Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “Lost in Paradise feat. AKLO” by ALI from Jujutsu Kaisen, Opening, Introductions, Changes to our emails 00:03:14 - Listener Email: Our dream team for localization 00:09:20 - Our localization pet peeves 00:27:56 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, dakazu is happy that Ichiro Inoue got to release his twitter manga #Rikon shite Shachuuhaku ni narimashita 00:34:20 - Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibouken - Yuusha Avan to Gokuen no Maou is a prequel to one of dakazu’s favorite childhood manga 00:41:13 - Increasingly melodramatic story arcs have pushed Seamus into dropping Shojo Fight! 00:46:07 - dakazu enjoyed Paru Itagaki’s second serialization of Beast Complex 00:47:32 - News: Graduation projects from JUMP Manga School are being released on Jump+ 00:54:42 - Denpa Books licenses Moto Hagio’s THEY WERE ELEVEN 00:56:32 - New licenses from Kodansha Manga include Bomba!, When Will Ayumu Make His Move?, and Ciguatera 01:01:46 - Live action Yu Yu Hakusho show will be available simultaneously worldwide 01:03:09 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Manga in Motion on On-Gaku: Our Sound, We will be reviewing the award winning anime film by Kenji Iwaisawa based on Hiroyuki Ohashi debut manga 01:05:39 - Main Segment Triple Dip: 7 Billion Needles/The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service/Sunny, Transition Song: “White-Collar Elegy” by Akio Ootsuka from Africa Salaryman, we read the beginning of each Seamus selected manga for discussion and see if we’d continue reading it before picking our favorite of the three, including: 01:07:29 - 7 Billion Needles by Nobuaki Tadano 01:24:26 - The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service by Eiji Otsuka & Housui Yamazaki 01:38:52 - Sunny by Taiyo Matsumoto 01:58:58 - We picks our favorite of the three manga 02:01:45 - Next Week’s Topic: On-Gaku: Our Sound, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster
Horror - das tollste Genre von allen.Und an welchem Tag des Jahres kann man den Schrecken besser feiern als an Halloween? Von daher möchten Kaid und ich dich heute in die Nacht hinein begleiten mit einer Unterhaltung darüber, was Horror zu so einem faszinierenden Genre macht.Außerdem erzählen wir dir, welche Bücher, Filme und Rollenspiele uns besonders begeistert haben.Vielleicht ist ja auch das eine oder andere für dich dabei (die entsprechenden Links, und zwar jede Menge davon, findest du unter dem Podcast). Ich wünsche dir auf jeden Fall viel Spaß bei der neusten Folge von Sandfox plaudert:Sandfox plaudert - Folge 4 - Warum Horror das tollste Genre von allen ist (mit Kaid)Du findest mich im Web unter:http://www.ralf-sandfuchs.de https://sandkastenspiele.blogspot.dehttps://www.facebook.com/Sandfox.infound per E-Mail unter mail@ralf-sandfuchs.de Die Musik aus dem Podcast ist eine gekürzte Fassung des Tracks Funny Horror von Andrey Sitkov, lizensiert unter den Humble Big Music Bundle for Games, Films, and Content Creators - License Terms. Das Titelbild dieses Podcasts stammt von Mojca J auf Pixabay.Unsere Empfehlungen und einiges andere: Fantasyfilmfest: http://www.fantasyfilmfest.com/Filme:AlienBis das Blut gefriert Come to DaddyDas Geisterschloss Das Schweigen der Lämmer DeathgasmCemetery Man - Dellamorte Dellamore Der Omega-Mann Die Mächte des WahnsinnsDraculaEvent HorizonGhostbustersHellraiserHostel I am LegendIch bin Legende (The last man on Earth)MaggieMiseryPitch Black Psycho Saw Shaun of the DeadSiebenSpuk in Hill House (Netflix-Serie)Tanz der Vampire The Eye Train to Busan Twilight Warm bodies - Zombies mit Herz Zombie - Dawn of the Dead 5 Zimmer Küche Sarg Bücher:Dean Koontz - Odd ThomasF. Paul Wilson - Handyman Jack 1 - Die Gruft John Hornor Jacobs - Southern Gods (Englisch) Kim Newman - An English Ghost Story (Englisch) Matt Ruff - Lovecraft Country Neil Gaiman - American GodsNeil Gaiman - NiemalslandRichard Matheson - Ich bin Legende Shirley Jackson - Spuk in Hill HouseStephen King - ChristineStephen King - EsStephen King - ShiningStephen King - Sie (Misery) Gustav Meyrink - Des deutschen Spießers Wunderhorn Das Wassergespenst von Harrowby Hall Die BronzetürDie GeisterkoggeDie Hexenesche Hörspiele:Edgar Allan Poe GruselkabinettF. Paul Wilson - Handyman Jack 1 - Die Gruft Comics:Dylan DogKurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Rollenspiele:Blood CthulhuDread EpochKULT - Divinity LostSeelenfängerTen Candles Unknown Armies
In The Cold Open Mini #31, Matt Reynolds and Kathryn Frank discuss media that is unexpectedly particularly relevant to our present cultural moment, touching on Watchmen, Blockers, RuPaul’s Drag Race, The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, and a variety of other things along the way. The Cold Open Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, so please rate, review, and subscribe!
The supernatural episode! FST is trying to get cursed, Aaron's reading about ghosts and gods in Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service and Godshaper, there's some grousing about Wonder Woman. We are both probably cursed by our own status as perennial malcontents.
Rounding off our My Hero Academia podcast trilogy is this long-awaited Q&A special! We received so many questions for our Manga Fight we couldn't possibly use them all, so we organized this special episode to answer them! Both Jeff Ruberg and Doctor return to give their takes on your questions, and what results is the realization that all podcasters are evil, Stain is best girl, Mineta should make a Spirit Bomb out of sticky balls, and lots of lucrative ideas for ScrewAttack! Before we get to all that we have to cover the news first, but because Colton abandoned the podcast to go to Anime St. Louis to buy cigarettes, I had to find another co-host for the week. Thankfully, that scumbag VLordGTZ just happened to be in the room so I pulled him over, sat him down, and forced him to talk about the latest happenings in the manga industry for fourty-five minutes. We discuss how confusing Yu-Gi-Oh! is now, dance on Fairy Tail's grave, and speculate on the Attack on Titan/Madagascar crossover that is totally definitely going to happen one day. We close off talking about a list of japanese readers' favorite Shonen Jump mangaka. Did MHA's Kohei Horikoshi make the list? Listen and find out! PODCAST BREAKDOWN News w/VlordGTZ: 00:22 - Introductions!! 01:32 - April Bookscan List 08:32 - Detroit Metal City’s Mangaka Launches Rhyming Man Manga 09:10 - Pani Poni Mangaka Launches Manga About Youtubers 09:38 - Kids on the Slope's Mangaka Launches New Series in July 10:18 - Noragami Goes on Hiatus 11:13 - Princess Jellyfish Resumes in June 12:28 - Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service reboots with new arc in June 13:58 - Fate/Zero Manga Gets Extra Chapter 15:03 - 1970s-1980s Sci-fi Omnibus Features Moto Hagio & Keiko Takemiya 16:03 - Mari Yamazaki Draws Manga About Bulgari Founder for Vogue Japan 17:03 - Hunter X Hunter Volume 34 is on the Way 18:58 - Fairy Tail is Finally Ending!! 23:40 - J-Novel Club’s Latest Licenses!! 27:38 - Cross Infinite World’s Latest Licenses!! 29:50 - Kodansha USA’s Latest Licenses!! 32:00 - Seven Seas’ Several Licenses!! 36:50 - Manga Nominated for Eisner Awards!! 38:10 - Manga Publishers Discuss Legal Action Against Scanlation Site Free Books 39:20 - Japanese Netizens Choose the Best Shonen Jump Manga Artists MHA Q&A EXTRAVAGANZA w/Jeff Ruberg & Doctor: 47:18 - Re-introductions!! 48:30 - Give Every Member of Class 1-A in MHA a Partner Pokemon! 52:30 - What if the Traitor was Someone from Class B? 56:48 - Pitch a 4-person Team of Any Four Heroes 1:02:08 - Should Vigilante Crossover with My Hero Academia? 1:08:30 - If All Might Had Never Met Midoriya, Which UA Student Would be Most Deserving of Inheriting All For One, and Why? 1:16:30 - What Would Be Your Quirk? 1:21:18 - What Western Superhero Would it be Most Fun to See Interact with the Characters of the MHA Universe? 1:28:53 - Quirk Free-for-all Between All First Year Students: Who wins? 1:33:03 - Would a Crossover Between One Punch Man and MHA Work Well? 1:41:41 - Would a Time Skip Work in a Series Like This? 1:45:31 - If Todoroki and Bakugo Had Fought for Real in the Sports Festival Who Would Have Won? 1:46:46 - Best Color Page? 1:52:20 - Does Deku Rank Among Your Favorite Superheroes? 1:54:48 - Was Mirio Togata a Better Successor Candidate Than Deku ? 1:57:38 - Who Was the Better Mentor? 2:00:03 - Who Had the Better Ideals for Creating a Symbol of Peace? 2:03:48 - Is Dabi Related to Todoroki? 2:07:20 - How Could An American Hero Society Tie in with Japan's? 2:09:15 - What Moves Could Mineta Learn to Become a Top Hero? 2:11:48 - How Should the Story Transition from School to Work Force Once Class 1A Become Seniors? 2:18:30 - What are the Most Overrated and Underrated Aspects of MHA? 2:27:00 - Wrap-Up Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and now on Youtube! You can also follow the hosts at @lumranmayasha and @sniperking323 and special guests VLordGTZ, Doctor, and Jeff Ruberg at @VLordGTZ, @ssaapodcast and @jeffinitelyjeff! The next Manga Fight will differ from the usual format, instead tackling a genre instead of a specific series. Said genre will be MONSTER GIRL manga!! If you guys want to send questions and topic suggestions for that episode, you may do so on twitter, the Manga Mavericks forum on Animation Revelation, or e-mail us at mangamaverics@gmail.com. Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content! If there are any topics, series or mangaka you would like to see us talk about on the show, drop us a line in the comments below, or e-mail us! Thanks for listening! LINKS: Listen to Doctor’s Podcasts! The SSAA Podcast & Just a Gintama Podcast! Listen to Jeff’s Podcasts! Podigious, NihongoPod, & the official Weekly Shonen Jump Podcast!
Rounding off our My Hero Academia podcast trilogy is this long-awaited Q&A special! We received so many questions for our Manga Fight we couldn't possibly use them all, so we organized this special episode to answer them! Both Jeff Ruberg and Doctor return to give their takes on your questions, and what results is the realization that all podcasters are evil, Stain is best girl, Mineta should make a Spirit Bomb out of sticky balls, and lots of lucrative ideas for ScrewAttack! Before we get to all that we have to cover the news first, but because Colton abandoned the podcast to go to Anime St. Louis to buy cigarettes, I had to find another co-host for the week. Thankfully, that scumbag VLordGTZ just happened to be in the room so I pulled him over, sat him down, and forced him to talk about the latest happenings in the manga industry for fourty-five minutes. We discuss how confusing Yu-Gi-Oh! is now, dance on Fairy Tail's grave, and speculate on the Attack on Titan/Madagascar crossover that is totally definitely going to happen one day. We close off talking about a list of japanese readers' favorite Shonen Jump mangaka. Did MHA's Kohei Horikoshi make the list? Listen and find out! PODCAST BREAKDOWN News w/VlordGTZ: 00:22 - Introductions!! 01:32 - April Bookscan List 08:32 - Detroit Metal City’s Mangaka Launches Rhyming Man Manga 09:10 - Pani Poni Mangaka Launches Manga About Youtubers 09:38 - Kids on the Slope's Mangaka Launches New Series in July 10:18 - Noragami Goes on Hiatus 11:13 - Princess Jellyfish Resumes in June 12:28 - Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service reboots with new arc in June 13:58 - Fate/Zero Manga Gets Extra Chapter 15:03 - 1970s-1980s Sci-fi Omnibus Features Moto Hagio & Keiko Takemiya 16:03 - Mari Yamazaki Draws Manga About Bulgari Founder for Vogue Japan 17:03 - Hunter X Hunter Volume 34 is on the Way 18:58 - Fairy Tail is Finally Ending!! 23:40 - J-Novel Club’s Latest Licenses!! 27:38 - Cross Infinite World’s Latest Licenses!! 29:50 - Kodansha USA’s Latest Licenses!! 32:00 - Seven Seas’ Several Licenses!! 36:50 - Manga Nominated for Eisner Awards!! 38:10 - Manga Publishers Discuss Legal Action Against Scanlation Site Free Books 39:20 - Japanese Netizens Choose the Best Shonen Jump Manga Artists MHA Q&A EXTRAVAGANZA w/Jeff Ruberg & Doctor: 47:18 - Re-introductions!! 48:30 - Give Every Member of Class 1-A in MHA a Partner Pokemon! 52:30 - What if the Traitor was Someone from Class B? 56:48 - Pitch a 4-person Team of Any Four Heroes 1:02:08 - Should Vigilante Crossover with My Hero Academia? 1:08:30 - If All Might Had Never Met Midoriya, Which UA Student Would be Most Deserving of Inheriting All For One, and Why? 1:16:30 - What Would Be Your Quirk? 1:21:18 - What Western Superhero Would it be Most Fun to See Interact with the Characters of the MHA Universe? 1:28:53 - Quirk Free-for-all Between All First Year Students: Who wins? 1:33:03 - Would a Crossover Between One Punch Man and MHA Work Well? 1:41:41 - Would a Time Skip Work in a Series Like This? 1:45:31 - If Todoroki and Bakugo Had Fought for Real in the Sports Festival Who Would Have Won? 1:46:46 - Best Color Page? 1:52:20 - Does Deku Rank Among Your Favorite Superheroes? 1:54:48 - Was Mirio Togata a Better Successor Candidate Than Deku ? 1:57:38 - Who Was the Better Mentor? 2:00:03 - Who Had the Better Ideals for Creating a Symbol of Peace? 2:03:48 - Is Dabi Related to Todoroki? 2:07:20 - How Could An American Hero Society Tie in with Japan's? 2:09:15 - What Moves Could Mineta Learn to Become a Top Hero? 2:11:48 - How Should the Story Transition from School to Work Force Once Class 1A Become Seniors? 2:18:30 - What are the Most Overrated and Underrated Aspects of MHA? 2:27:00 - Wrap-Up Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and now on Youtube! You can also follow the hosts at @lumranmayasha and @sniperking323 and special guests VLordGTZ, Doctor, and Jeff Ruberg at @VLordGTZ, @ssaapodcast and @jeffinitelyjeff! The next Manga Fight will differ from the usual format, instead tackling a genre instead of a specific series. Said genre will be MONSTER GIRL manga!! If you guys want to send questions and topic suggestions for that episode, you may do so on twitter, the Manga Mavericks forum on Animation Revelation, or e-mail us at mangamaverics@gmail.com. Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content! If there are any topics, series or mangaka you would like to see us talk about on the show, drop us a line in the comments below, or e-mail us! Thanks for listening! LINKS: Listen to Doctor’s Podcasts! The SSAA Podcast & Just a Gintama Podcast! Listen to Jeff’s Podcasts! Podigious, NihongoPod, & the official Weekly Shonen Jump Podcast!
**Androgynous Quasar** The big news this week is that Fox have pulled out of Comic-Con over fears of piracy. Meanwhile Marvel have announced that everyone’s “favourite” superhero will be returning and we take a look at the final trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse. Our featured comics and manga are Maga-Tsuki volume 1, C3-PO, Kiss Him Not Me volume 3, Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service: Omnibus volume 1 and Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur #6.
In this episode of Watch.Read.Listen., we discuss our top 5 comics without superheroes. David's List: 5) Chew by John Layman and Rob Guillory; 4) Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson; 3) Locke & Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez; 2) Fear Agent by Rick Remender and Tony Moore; 1) Preacher by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon Duane's List: 5) Gunsmith Cats by Kenichi Sonoda; 4) Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley; 3) Bone by Jeff Smith; 2) Thieves and Kings by Mark Oakley; and 1) Strangers in Paradise by Terry Moore Honorable Mentions Duane: Maus, The Maxx, Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Yotsuba&, Genshiken, Welcome to the NHK David: The Maxx, The Walking Dead, 100 Bullets, Sin City, Ronin, From Hell, V for Vendetta This Week: Duane: The Cure at the Toyota Center; Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers, Driftless Pony Club, Harry and the Potters, Andrew Huang, and Rob Scallon at Super Happy Fun Land; the Canon podcast on Se7en. David: The Hitcher (movie); The Fury (movie); Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes (band); Nails (band)
For the September episode of the manga series, Shea and Derek discuss two very different titles, although both heavily invested in popular genres. They begin with Eiji Otsuka and Housui Yamazaki's The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Ominibus 1 (Dark Horse Books), a different take on both horror and detective narratives. Although the English-language releases of this title began in 2006, Dark Horse has just this month published the first of the omnibus editions, one that collects the first three volumes of the series. The guys begin by describing the premise as a cross between supernatural horror and Scooby-Doo, where you have a bunch of young investigators, each with a particular set of skills informing their unique form of "detecting." (Derek also compares Otsuka's storylines to The Rockford Files, another series featuring an unlikely investigator constantly down on his luck.) Both enjoy the title well enough, although Shea is less impressed than is Derek, feeling that the routine becomes formulaic rather quickly and that the individual characters are never fully realized, at least in the segments featured in this initial omnibus edition. Next, the Two Guys turn to the first two volumes of One-Punch Man, a satiric series by the pseudonymous One with art by Yusuke Murata (VIZ Media). This began as a webcomic by One in 2009, but then Murata helped to remake the series a few years later, and VIZ Media's recent release of volumes 1 and 2 are the first print versions in English (although originally serialized in the digital Weekly Shonen Jump magazine). Both of the guys love One and Murata's humorous spin on the superhero and shonen formulas, although Derek wonders if the premise may soon wear thin (an inverse of what the guys felt about Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service). However, it is Murata's art that solidly captures the guys' attention. As a result, both Shea and Derek are interested in seeing how this series develops, especially if it continues to bring the keen genre-deconstructing insights found in the first two volumes.
Another Previews catalog showed up on their doorsteps, so it's time to gaze into the tomorrow of June 2015 and see what catches Mike and Greg's eyes. Surprise offerings from American Gothic Press & Andrews McMeel! Archie #1! Strange Fruit! Junji Ito! Mike Zeck Artist Edition! Universal War One! Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service! Airboy! 8House! Toth's Bravo for Adventure! Pope Hats! Magnetic Press! Humanoids! DC LOVE! Plus, the lads share cat manga series recommendations (that's right, Greg has a manga recommendation for Mike), pondering about what could fish for children with a lollipop on the end of a line, heartfelt love for a surprisingly large chunk of DC's post-Convergence output, why Adhouse Books is feared among artists having to table across from them at shows, multiple entries for Jeff Lemire & Tom Scioli product, why Secret Wars blew open the doors to Marvel's vault of weirdness, which one of the hosts is really Jaimie Hewlett, and so much more is just a click/tap/swipe/press/whathaveyou away! Robots From Tomorrow is a weekly comics podcast recorded deep beneath the Earth's surface. You can subscribe to it via iTunes or through the RSS feed at RobotsFromTomorrow.com. You can also follow Mike and Greg on Twitter. This episode is brought to you by Third Eye Comics. Enjoy your funny books.
Welcome to February, faithful listeners! And just as day follows night, every new month brings another opportunity for the Two Guys with PhDs (Talking about Comics) to discuss the latest solicits in the Previews catalog. As you might expect, Andy and Derek find a lot to discuss in the new Previews, highlighting upcoming titles from premiere publishers, smaller presses, and a few outlets you may not have even heard of. For example, they discuss future releases from Dark Horse Comics (Brian Wood and Andrea Mutti's Rebels, Gilbert Hernandez's Grip: The Strange World of Men, and the latest volume of Eiji Otsuka and Housui Yamasaki's The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service), DC/Vertigo (their latest anthology, Vertigo Quarterly: SFX #1), IDW Publishing (the second volume in their new Corto Maltese reprint series, as well as IDW's new Disney comics initiative), Image Comics (new series such as Chip Zdarsky and Kagan McLeod's Kaptara, Alexi De Campi and Carla Speed McNeil's No Mercy, and Kurtis J. Wieebe and Johnnie Christmas's Pisces), AdHouse (Sophie Goldstein's The Oven), Alternative Comics (Sam Alden's Haunted, Steve Aylett's Johnny Viable and his Friends, and a new edition of Rich Tommaso's Clover Honey), Amulet Books (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales, Vol. 5: The Underground Abductor), Bergen Street Press (Michel Fiffe's Copra: Round Two), BOOM! Studios/Archaia (James Tynion IV, Noahh J. Yuenkel, and Matt Fox's Ufology #1 as well as the first collected volume of Lumberjanes), Drawn and Quarterly (the latest volume in Seth's Palookaville, Tadao Tsuge's Trash Market, and Jillian Tamaki's Supermutant Magic Academy), Fantagraphics Books (Vaughn Bodē's Cheech Wizard's Big Book of Me, Robert Goodin's The Kurdles, and Bill Schelly's new biography, Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor in America), Goff Books (Johnny Lau's World Water Wars), Microcosm Publishing (Lisa Wilde's Snake Pit Gets Old: Daily Diary Comics 2010-2012), Oni Press (Zander Cannon's Kaijumax #1), SelfMadeHero (Julie Birmant's Pablo and Ilya's Room for Love), Top Shelf Productions (Keith Knight's Knight Takes Queen and a reprint of Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story), and Viz Media's new deluxe edition of Junji Ito's Gyo. As is the case with every Previews episode, there's a lot packed into this week's show -- so get listening, get excited, and get reading!
Unemployable students of a Buddhist university take odd jobs from the dead in a series that's as good as it is sales-challenged.
This is the stuff! It’s BONUSPALOOZA! This time, Basil goes to digitally chill with the intrepid, dashing, and always classy Reverse Thieves on their Speakeasy podcast as we talk about Kekkaishi. You know, the greatest and most awesome shonen series you people still aren’t paying attention to! See, we know this, because we talked about this show on the OSMcast waaaaaay back in show #11. That was back in June of 2008 (holy crap we’ve been doing the OSMcast longer than I thought!), before the anime was licensed and only the manga was coming out under people’s noses. Three years later, it’s been on Hulu, Cartoon Network, and soon to DVD. NOW IS THE BEST TIME TO HOP ON THE KEKKAISHI TRAIN GUYS. JUST SAYIN’. The Reverse Thieves: Fightin' crime and bloggin' about anime and manga. OSMnotes JUST SAYIN’. I meant to get this bonus up sooner, but work intervened. And Infamous 2. And the new Zelda 3DS game. And three volumes of Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. And a volume of 20th Century Boys. … Maybe I was lazy. (Nah!)
In this episode of the Spiraken Manga Review, Xan studies embalming, possession, and alien channeling in the horror comedy mystery manga , "The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service" by Eiji Otsuka Ironic that Xan had to review another manga that was drawn by Housui Yamazaki. But even if it was disturbing and creepy, it was still a good read. Music For Episode: ,Intro Music -Fear Of The Darkby Nightwish (Silent Hill 4 OST),Ending Music -Regenerator (Resident Evil 4 OST), Our Website http://spiraken.podbean.com, Our Forum http://spiraken.rapidboards.com Our Email Spiraken@gmail.com My Email xan.spiraken@gmail.com Our Twitter Spiraken Xboxlive Gamertag Xan Spiraken Our Voicemail 206-426-6665 (monk) Random Question of the Week: Where does the puppet claim to be from?
It's manga month and we've chosen a Dark Horse offering that we've heard good things about. Corpses? Deliveries? This must be interesting. (46:02)
Daryl keeps the manga reviews coming with a review of The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Clarissa gets back her shojo mojo talking about Loveless, and Gerald celebrates its 20th anniversary by reviewing Dirty Pair: Project E.D.E.N. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full notes and supplemental links.