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Friday, June 8, 2007

Arts Manga Goes Mainstream for Girls

posted by Will in Seattle on June 8 at 15:14 PM

According to the Wall Street Journal, both DC Comics and Marvel will be publishing many U.S. manga titles aimed at teen girls this year, instead of the usual male-dominated titles they have done in the past.

DC Comics is launching the Minx line of manga, with titles such as Good as Lily, Re-Gifters (Tae Kwon Do girl falls for surfer boy and re-gifts him), and Clubbing (goth city girl into music and lit gets caught using fake ID and is exiled to country club life of grandparents).

Marvel Entertainment is supposedly doing the same, but you can’t find anything not action-figure guy-oriented online there.

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1

Freaky Friday fucking sucks. Let's never do this again. Ever.

Posted by Mr. Poe | June 8, 2007 3:24 PM
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This post (and those prior) work to perpetuate what I have always thought: Will In Seattle does not exist; "he" is a pastiche of a 7th grade diary. Or he's retarded.

Posted by DOUG. | June 8, 2007 3:35 PM
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My 11 yr old sister could write a more interesting post on manga than this. And it would be funny as hell, too.

Posted by Katelyn | June 8, 2007 3:46 PM
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instead of freaky friday, they should just let fnarf slog.

Posted by still dying | June 8, 2007 3:50 PM
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Is it intentional that reading the username "Fnarf" makes me hear this?

Posted by ljg | June 8, 2007 3:55 PM
6

freaky friday sucks almost as much as "Line-Out" does everyday.

Posted by kevin | June 8, 2007 3:55 PM
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Is it intentional that reading the username "Fnarf" makes me hear this?

Posted by ljg | June 8, 2007 3:56 PM
8

Sorry that I posted twice.

Sorry that I posted twice.

Posted by ljg | June 8, 2007 3:58 PM
9

I agree. Fnarf only, or nothing.

Posted by Mr. Poe | June 8, 2007 3:58 PM
10

Will -- toss these kids a box of rattles and ba-ba's.

Posted by Lloyd Clydesdale | June 8, 2007 3:59 PM
11

Whoa, you guys, learn to love.

Posted by Jude Fawley | June 8, 2007 3:59 PM
12

Thanks, Doug. Sorry to wake you and Mr. Poe from your dreamlike states.

Posted by Will in Seattle | June 8, 2007 4:01 PM
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Hey, knock it off. I thought this was a cool post. I love Manga and the idea of girl-focused Manga from DC and Marvel was neat. Thanks, Will!

Posted by Sachi | June 8, 2007 4:19 PM
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I appreciated this (succinct!) post and am going to look for Clubbing.

Posted by Amy Kate Horn | June 8, 2007 4:24 PM
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Marlin Perkins VO: 3:24pm - 3:35pm...the mid-afternoon blood-sugar bottom-out leaves Slog commenters feeling cranky and put-out. They see a post and pounce!

Posted by MvB | June 8, 2007 4:25 PM
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I'd post a link to the main story, but WSJ is a subscription-only pay-out-the-yinyang site.

Posted by Will in Seattle | June 8, 2007 5:17 PM
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Girl commics? How boring.

I want more ripped guys in tights. Capes optional. Various and assorted tights-cad super heroes featured prominently in my adolescent masturbatory fantasies. I confess they still do on occasion.

Posted by SDA in SEA | June 8, 2007 11:10 PM
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sorry, i don't swing that way.

Posted by Will in Seattle | June 10, 2007 12:21 AM
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MSN I NIIPET
MSN

Posted by Bill | June 12, 2007 3:26 PM
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MSN I NIIPET
MSN

Posted by Bill | June 12, 2007 3:27 PM

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