Author Archives: Alexander Case

New York Times adds best-seller lists for Graphic Novels, Manga

The New York Times has introduced three new Top 10 Best-Seller Lists, Graphic Novels (Hardcover), Graphic Novels (Paperback), and Manga. The first installments of the list can be found here.

Unsurprisingly, Watchmen is on top of the Graphic Novels (Paperback) list, and Naruto is on top of the Manga list (and has appeared to have used Shadow-clone jitsu to take over much of the rest of the list save two spots). On top of the hardcover list is Starman Omnibus Volume 2, featuring the first and second incarnations of the character. The Hardcover edition of Watchmen is at #3.

Nebula Award Nominees List Up

Sci-Fi Wire has the final ballot for the SFWA’s Nebula Awards. Notable nominees include Making Money by Terry Prachett, Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin, and Little Brother from Cory Doctrow. Not surprisingly, The Dark Knight and Wall-E got nominations Best Script – though Battlestar Galactica didn’t get any nominations for that category.

Weekend Review – Akira

This coming week, Akira finally comes out on Blu-Ray. As Akira (the film) has not been reviewed here at the Bureau, now is the perfect time to correct this oversight, with a review of the film (as well as a few quick notes comparing the special features from the upcoming Blu-Ray release and the Pioneer DVD release from 2001).

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Star Trek Movie Blu-Rays to release in April, May

TrekMovie.com is reporting that we will finally get a Blu-Ray release of the first 6 Trek movies, as well as the high-def version of the first season of the original series in May and April of this year. The article includes a list of the special features from the Blu-Ray releases. I’ve got a comparison of some of the features for the movies below the cut. UPDATED: Fiziko adds comments about the TV releases at the end of the article.
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Funimation Licenses Tower of Druaga, others…

AnimeNewsNetwork.com is reporting that Funimation has licensed 5, well, 4 more series – both seasons of Tower of Druaga (Sword of Uruk and Aegis of Uruk) which is based off the Namco game series, Blassreiter (about a demon hunter with demonic powers), Dragonaut – The Resonance (about Humans breeding dragons to fight off an alien menace), and Bamboo Blade (a sports anime about a Women’s Kendo team).
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Rumiko Takahashi starts new manga, Viz licenses it.

Now that Rumiko Takahashi, creator of Ranma 1/2, Maison Ikkoku, Urusei Yatsura & InuYasha has finally finished up the InuYasha manga, AnimeNewsNetwork is reporting she’s working on a new manga, which will be serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday this spring, the same magazine that ran InuYasha. The manga has already been licensed by Viz.

As yet, there is no information available on the manga whatsoever. The first volume will be available in English by the end of the year.

Ten Most Expensive Comic Books at Comic Con

chad writes, Here’s a list of the 10 most expensive comics available for sale at the 2009 New York Comic Con. No surprises as to which comic is #1, but it was one that I didn’t expect to be up for sale.

There’s some pretty impressive stuff on that list, some of which, DC & Marvel, if you haven’t already made them available in Showcase Presents or Essential collections, needs to be made available. I want to read them!