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The Manga Guides to Calculus and Electricity

The Manga Guide to Calculus written by Hiroyuki Kojima; art by Shin Togami As I’ve read more of this series, I’ve come to appreciate better what they’re doing. I’ve found most of them fun ways to brush up on technical subjects. And the more imaginative and developed the framing story is, the more interested I am. A book that says “Girl student needs to study and here’s what she learns” isn’t as involving as, for example, “Princess needs to save […]

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Phoebe and Her Unicorn in Unicorn Theater

The eighth book in the imaginative series by Dana Simpson about a girl and her unicorn best friend is also the second original graphic novel (after Phoebe and Her Unicorn in the Magic Storm; the others reprint comic strips), making it a never-before-seen longer story. In Unicorn Theater, Phoebe is headed to drama camp. The unicorn Marigold accompanies her but is distracted by a visit from her sister, making Phoebe jealous and a little lonely. All of her other friends […]

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Black Lightning: The Complete First Season

Black Lightning is the superhero show for adults, those who are concerned with more than battles against cartoon bad guys. The 13-episode first season, out on Blu-ray and DVD on Tuesday, is tightly told and full of intriguing ideas. (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the Blu-ray I reviewed here. The opinions I share are my own.) Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams) has retired from being Black Lightning to concentrate on being the principal of a […]

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Catching Up With Phoebe and Her Unicorn

It’s much too easy to take good entertainment in a continuing series for granted. I talked about how much I liked the first two books, Phoebe and Her Unicorn and Unicorn on a Roll, and then it seems like I blinked and there were five more. But it’s been four years now that these volumes have been collecting the charming comic strip about an imaginative little girl and her magical friend. Here’s the catch-up run-down, all of which are recommended […]

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Static Shock: The Complete Third Season

Now available from Warner Archive is the third season of Static Shock, the cartoon about the electrically powered teen superhero. These 13 episodes, each 21 minutes, originally aired in 2003 and appear on two discs in this set, as follows: Disc One Disc Two Hard As Nails Gear Static in Africa Shebang The Usual Suspect A League of Their Own, Part 1 A League of Their Own, Part 2 Showtime Romeo in the Mix Toys in the Hood The Parent […]

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Top Shelf to Publish Carolyn Nowak, Ignatz Winner

Leigh Walton, Marketing Director for Top Shelf, tweeted the following, captured from Publishers Weekly: Goooood morning pic.twitter.com/bAzOGlKG1a — Leigh Walton (@leighwalton) September 23, 2017 Which says Top Shelf will be publishing Carolyn Nowak‘s debut comics collection Girl Town in fall 2018. Nowak won the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Story this year with her “Diana’s Electric Tongue”. Last year she won the Outstanding Minicomic Ignatz for “Radishes”, which will be reprinted in the collection. (Both “Radishes” and “Girl Town” can be […]

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Good Books to Order for October 2017

The latest Diamond Previews catalog lists a lot of books worth checking out. You can order them now through your local comic shop for delivery in October or later. Phoebe and Her Unicorn in the Magic Storm AMP! Comics for Kids, $9.99, AUG17 1149, due out October 18 There have been five collections of this charming comic strip, beginning with Phoebe and Her Unicorn, and they’re all great. Now, Dana Simpson has created an original graphic novel with the characters: […]

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Black Lightning Gets a TV Show With a Different Approach

In our Golden Age of superhero movies and TV, there are now plenty of choices for those who like watching live-action comic adaptations. (So many, in fact, that I’ve stopped watching many of them, focusing only on the ones I find most enjoyable: iZombie, Lucifer, Legends of Tomorrow, and soapy guilty pleasure Riverdale.) Most of them have one big thing in common: they’re produced by Greg Berlanti, who helms the interrelated The Flash, Arrow, Supergirl, and Legends. Berlanti has another […]

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