A Post! Gasp!

[swanjun]

Firstly, I am alive and doing well. For those who care. :)

Secondly, I stopped doing the 'Month in Reviews' posts after October 'cos they were kind of annoying to assemble, and now the backlog is just so vast that it's a daunting process to resume them. Did anybody actually like them?

I'm thinking mostly of salimbol and gwyneira here, since I don't think they'd

Comments

[swanjun]

Hooray, I got glomped!

[meganbmoore]

I liked the month in review posts.

[swanjun]

Thanks for the feedback! Even if just one person likes them, that makes me want to catch up on the months I missed. :)

[julieandrews]

I like any posts on lj! Because my lj flist is what I primarily read.

[salimbol]

I liked the month in reviews posts :-). Especially because I'm trying to cut down on time spent on the internet, and you conveniently give us this one portal to all your various reviews. But this *is* just my laziness speaking... ;-)
PS: Glad you're alive and doing well! I keep meaning to do a catchup on LJ myself (well, when it's working properly, anyway; it's taken me three tries to get on tonight) and finish off some reviews I've been sitting on for ages. It feels like more work than it used to, though.

[swanjun]

Reviewing sometimes feels like work to me, but oddly, novels don't. Perhaps because I haven't received review copies for those. So that feels a little bit more freeing, somehow. :)

[salimbol]

Maybe because there's no element of obligation there? Makes sense, if so. And I've just caught up with everything you've posted so far - it made very interesting reading, so bravo! Especially because I haven't been reading much manga at all recently (I, er, hadn't even realised that Code Breaker was out in English release - bad Kamijyo fan!), so it was cool to see where things were at. I liked that analysis of shoujo artwork you and Melinda did, too (did the book you were using as reference for shoujo art tehniques say anything about the two-page spread, I wonder? I find that can be one of the most impressive techniques in manga, and I can remember a few scenes in Tokyo Babylon that were just masterful in that respect). I was also interested in your Buffy Season 8 comic reviews; I read it myself in January, and was increasingly unimpressed with it, I have to say. Though I suppose it wasn't that different from later seasons of Buffy in many respects (but I still don't think of it as canon).

[swanjun]

1) I think obligation is the key!
2) Thank you!
3) Alas, only two volumes of C0de:Breaker were released before Kodansha took over Del Rey's catalog. So far, no announcements have been made regarding its continuation.
4) I can't remember whether it did or not. It possibly told you *how* to draw them, at least.
5) Yeah, I kind of got bogged down after volume 6. I have 7 sitting here next to me but that's where things really start to get lame and I haven't mustered the courage yet to tackle it.