Nakaji, Yuki: Venus in Love, vol. 5

My review of vol. 5 of Venus in Love is now up at Manga Life.

Kusakawa, Nari: Two Flowers for the Dragon, vol. 3

My review of vol. 3 of Two Flowers for the Dragon is now up at Manga Life.

Link roundup 2008-10-16

Don’t mind me–I’m just clearing out my library-related RSS feeds:

Library Journal has published its 2008 Placements & Salary Survey.
On a not unrelated note, my alma mater (University of Michigan School of Information) has just released its 2007 MSI Employment Report. I think the breakdown provided here by industry does put some of the comments about [...]

CLAMP: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, vol. 16-18

My review of vols. 16-18 of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle is now up at Manga Life. An excerpt:
CLAMP kicks the plot of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle into high gear in volumes 16-18 of this ongoing series. Readers of the first fifteen volumes would have been somewhat justified in wondering if the story’s determined group of travelers–Sakura, Syaoran, [...]

Manga worth re-reading

John Jakala at Sporadic Sequential has recently shared his list of re-readable manga. David Welsh at Precocious Curmudgeon has also chimed in with a post on why he re-reads. Since I’m always re-reading books I love, I thought this would be a great subject for a Friday Five!
In general, I’ll re-read a manga series [...]

Farewell to Minx

The big news in the comics world last week–sorry, I’m a little behind on my RSS feeds–was the demise of Minx, DC’s imprint aimed at teen girls. Many wonderful comics bloggers have written thoughtfully on this situation, so here are some links:
Over at Precocious Curmudgeon, David Welsh wrote in Half measures:
My strongest impression of the [...]