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I use Google Chrome here at home, and about 50% of my bookmarks bar is Web comics that I read (followed by blogs, followed by a few links for my freelance work). So it's amazing that I forget about MySpace Dark Horse Presents -- which is currently featuring not only a Buffy-verse comic by the fabulous Jackie Kessler, but is also featuring part 2 of a new series by Mark Crilley, who you might remember I raved about back when I reviewed Miki Falls for School Library Journal. The story, Brody's Ghost, which appeared in the last issue of MySpace Dark Horse Presents with part one is Crilley's new project, and is scheduled to be a six-volume Dark Horse series. Sign me up!

I feel like I've been getting by mostly on links lately -- in part that's because I've been so busy with the whole work/other work/pregnancy classes & appointments schedule that I don't have much brain for blogging. As it is, I think we are officially done with our pre-baby purchases as of today -- everything we don't already have can wait until later (except maybe some minor, medicine-chest type things we have on a list in a folder somewhere that's surely in the house, but is not where I looked for it before our shopping trip). Bug is growing so big that I have no idea where she's got left to expand -- the doctor at my appointment last week guestimated she's already at seven pounds five ounces, and she's still supposedly got three and a half weeks left before she's due.

I know I posted about my grandmother's rainbows here. I don't remember if I posted that I did get two prisms from Twostripe for Christmas, and they've been giving me rainbows nearly every morning. Lately, I've been making sure that Bug gets in on the rainbow action:



And that's life around here lately. There have been a few great mythic D&D games (featuring one in which I made a character Originally Participate, Barfieldians -- so. much. fun! in the evil DM sort of way), and I'll try to write a little bit more about those in the future.
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In an effort to export my livejournal blog over to Tokyopop, I'm posting this phrase: f5304fcb062e17e4fe64525c228b670f. Why Tokyopop, the leaders of the "Manga Revolutions"? In part because, I suppose, it's there and asking me to put a blog on my profile, and as long as I blog one place, I might as well have that same blog pop up pretty much everywhere. (This blog exports automatically to my facebook account as well. If only I could get it to export to MySpace...)

The other part is that I pretty much love Tokyopop as a publisher. They're doing great things in Original English Language Manga, bringing new authors like Amy Kim Ganter (whose fabulous Reman Mythology is currently not posted at her Web site, but her blog is) into the printed world. There are a lot of other manga publishers I like. (HarperCollins is putting out Mark Crilley's new series! And I got to review it for School Library Journal! It was entirely too tempting to squee like a fan girl--Mark Crilley is not only a great writer, but also, by all reports from my old coworkers who know him first hand, a pretty great guy.) Tokyopop, however, seems to be the dominating force in American Manga right now, and the put out a great free comic preview, which helps me keep up with what's going on in the industry without having to read the first volume of everything. I used to attempt that when I worked at the bookstore in West Bloomfield, MI, but that was back before the Manga Explosion, or right on the edge of it, so I actually had a hope and a prayer of keeping up.

At any rate, that's my manga post of the day, again, with the purpose of getting the crossposting to work.

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If anyone knows how to get this journal to export to either MySpace of Friendster--could you let me know?

Also, I'm always looking for manga recommendations that I might not hear about in Tokyopop's news. Not working at a bookstore has dropped me out of the loop a little, so any help I can get is much appreciated.

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