New articles up in the writing section of this site…

Since my latest column (the 5th in a series) for Septagon Studios just went live at http://news.septagonstudios.com/?p=404 , I decided to add my 3rd installment of said column over here in honor of the occasion. Barb, on the other hand, has added a couple of new DVD reviews, namely the rock-snob delight GRACE OF MY HEART and the classic film ROBIN HOOD starring Errol Flynn.

We’re also kind of proud this week that a manga we adapt for VIZ, entitled NORA, sold in the top 10 graphic novel sales for the month of October. Sure, manga beat all American-type comics in this regard (except for WATCHMEN, at the top in expectation of the new movie), that’s not news, but it means Nora also beat everything put out by manga publishers too, except for eight other things (two of which were Naruto volumes, so you could count that as seven instead of eight if you wanted). And it (Nora) was only previewed for one little chapter in one issue of Shonen Jump! Just goes to show that if you show 216,000 readers some attractively-drawn boys, some supernatural hijinks, and some amusing dog jokes (Nora sort of turns into a giant scary dog when the chips are down), darned if manga-loving young people (and otherwise) might not pay to give the whole thing a try. And the reviews are just what we expected, too: if you average them all together you get “I thought this would be just a Naruto/Inu-Yasha rip-off, but I was pleasantly surprised to actually find that on top of having very nice art, it’s funny.” So yayz.

I turned out to be exactly right about how the announcement about the next GSG story and exactly how it will become available to your computing device would not be ready today. But I have strong hopes that it will be by this time next week… except that I will probably be away next Wednesday in preparation for American Thanskgiving. So either you’ll get lucky right before Thanksgiving, or after it’s over.

But it is coming… certain files were sent to someone mysterious earlier today…

(P.S.: It won’t involve Platinum.)

Okay, so anyway, finally, I will mention that the wife and I have decided to actually try to do this Twitter thing, so come on over if you want and follow along and observe the daily work of two manga adapters and editors and writers. http://twitter.com/parkcooper

-P

Tags: American Thanksgiving, denise, dog jokes, dvd, errol flynn, review, sherwood forest, shonen jump, waverly

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