Manga Stack of Intimidation In The News
The
Manga Stack of Intimidation is unstoppable. Unable to be
constrained, it has broken free of this blog and found its way into
other columns, such as Matt Maxwell's
Full
Bleed [not a permalink] and Tony Isabella's
Tony's
Tips (scroll down to the "More Mailbox" section). Please
report any other sightings of the Manga Stack of Intimidation to the
proper authorities.
Even if their columns didn't have such great pictures, I'd still
recommend Matt's and Tony's pieces. Matt discusses some of the
more serious problems plaguing the floppy format. (I'd like to
note that the serials in
Shonen Jump and other manga
anthologies satisfy Matt's request for actual episodic
storytelling: Each chapter is good about developing the storyline
instead of just marking time til the next issue.) And Tony has
some sage advice for both creators and reviewers regarding negative
reviews:
Let it go already.