Less worldbuilding, more action would make for a sharper “Flat Earth.”

This week’s column features short takes on Beauty Pop, Kamisama Kazoku, and more.

Reviews of Bogle, Claymore, Crayon Shinchan, Shinobi Life and more…

A quick look at CMX’s March 2009 releases. (Psst… it includes volume eight of Emma!)

A coming-of-age sci-fi series worth making time for.

Holy guacamole, Batman–you’ve been mangafied!

Quick-n-dirty reviews of Astral Project, Mister Mistress and Ral Ω Grad.

Over at the School Library Journal’s Good Comics for Kids website, I posted a review of SUIHELIBE!, an all-ages title that CMX will publish on November 5th. N.B. Our own Sam Kusek reviewed an advanced copy this summer; click here for his review.

Over at The Comics Reporter, David Welsh took a slightly different tact when Minx’s demise was announced. Rather than analyze What Went Wrong, he decided to talk about the shojo manga that he felt embodied the Minx concept: stories about “real girls in the real world.” (OK, David did engage in a little armchair quarterbacking [...]

The Manga Recon crew looks at the best (and worst) of the CMX catalog.