Getting pride of place this week (and next as well most likely) are the CMX titles. The last ones that CMX is releasing out of the goodness of their hearts and the realization that they were already back from the printers!
Venus Capriccio is great, and will be ending here with one volume untranslated. Two Flowers for the Dragon is cute, and will ALSO be ending here with one volume left untranslated. Volume 1 of the Flex Comics title Polyphonica Cardinal Crimson is due out… try not to get hooked on it, I guess. And Musashi #9 Volume 17 comes out, with 4 volumes left out in the cold. Buy them all anyway. Because we’re CMX lovers, dammit, and we support them despite being a DC Comics enterprise.
Meanwhile, Bandai is releasing – I’m not making this up – Gundam-00 Season 2 Volume 2. No, that’s not a Funimation DVD release, it’s the actual manga title. Are Sunrise even trying anymore? Gundam-00 Season 2? Why not Gundam-11 then? Or Gundam-OMGLOLWTFBBQ? In any case, I hear it may have mecha in it.
Gantz has a new volume out as well for you folks who like a little bit of the ol’ ultraviolence. Midtown Comics is putting out all the Viz stuff I already recced last week. DMP has some yaoi as well. I recommend How to Control a Sidecar, which features *three* boys snuggling rakishly on the cover, rather than the traditional two.
And, for non-manga fans, IDW is putting out a hardcover volume. Archie: The Best of Dan DeCarlo Volume 1. It’s a $25 hardcover, but really, I want everyone in the entire WORLD to buy this, and then turn towards Mamaroneck, New York and shout as loud as you can, “My favorite artist is Dan DeCarlo!” And then settle back and enjoy this wonderful retrospective of your childhood (or at least of mine). For those wondering what the hell I’m talking about, here: Dan DeCarlo: Unperson.
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