Kate Dacey was the Senior Manga Editor at PopCultureShock through December, 2008. She no longer writes for the site, but can still be found at Good Comics for Kids and as an occasional contributor to Precocious Curmudgeon. She counts Phoenix, The Red Star, and Tokyo Bablyon among her all-time favorite comics.
This just in: Masi Oka reads manga! And loves Monster! And is going to appear on… The View? (Can you imagine Barbara Walters talking Tezuka with him? Now there’s a thought!) Thanks to a widely-circulated USA Today profile, bloggers now have incontrovertible proof that Heroes‘ Hiro is a card-carrying nerd who buys his manga at [...]
Misty Knight and Colleen Wing are back, kicking a$$ and taking names, while Snow White tells tales.
Blame it on Buffy. When I learned that Del Ray had just licensed a new series starring a chainsaw-wielding, tiara-wearing protagonist who dispatched the undead without breaking so much as a fingernail, I felt a twinge of nostalgia for the early seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer–back when Buffy was just a guilty pleasure, and [...]
Hot guys + Victorian costumes + baroque murders = one seriously entertaining manga.
Words of wisdom from one of the best script doctors in the manga biz.
Phoenix plays like The Hidden Fortress, an epic punctuated by moments of battlefield violence, domestic drama, and earthy comedy.
The manga equivalent of a solid B-movie, with plenty of plot twists and visceral jolts, and a dash of social commentary for good measure.
If you like your manhwa with a healthy dose of pow! and splat!, then Banya The Explosive Delivery Man is for you.
Slapstick and silliness abound in this comedy about a teen who sees dead people.
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