Michelle and Connie on Sgt. Frog, Slam Dunk, and more!

The PCS crew on REAL, Clover, and more!

Five reviewers, five titles, including Slam Dunk and We Were There.

Featuring a pair of boys’ love reviews plus REAL and Eyeshield 21!

A veritable cornucopia of minis for your reading pleasure!

The PCS crew takes a look at REAL, NANA, Yggdrasil and more!

Yes, everyone and his other brother have reviewed Takehiko Inoue’s two basketball manga, justly praising his draftsmanship and storytelling. But no one has done a better job of describing Slam Dunk’s hapless hero than David Welsh:
It’s about a red pompadour that has parasitically affixed itself to the head of a first-year high-school student named Hanamichi [...]

Editor Rob McCarthy recently posted an interesting comment on the VIZBlog, praising Takehiko Inoue for the accuracy of Real’s wheelchair basketball games:
As a wheelchair user myself I noticed something in Real volume 2 that I more than likely should have noticed in volume 1. Inoue Takehiko may be the only cartoonist who has ever drawn [...]

Lori Henderson, Editor-in-Chief of Comics Village and contributor to Good Comics for Kids, just posted her thoughts on the 2009 Shonen Jump line-up. (FYI: Tegami Bachi, a sci-fi/fantasy series, will replace Slam Dunk beginning in March.) As Lori points out, Slam Dunk filled a gaping hole in the Shonen Jump line-up:
Slam Dunk is the first [...]

Ken dodges the spray while reading Birthday and Goth; Kate catches Vagabond fever.