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By: Mark H.

Mark H. — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:26:46 +0000

Hopefully they won’t be solicited all at the same time like the last Naruto batch was. 10 at once was tough but I can do four or five a month.

By: preston

preston — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:37:43 +0000

“Publishing | Taking a page from its “Naruto Nation” initiative, Viz Media will publish volumes 21-53 of Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece between January and June at a rate of five books a month. Announced Friday at Anime Expo, the accelerated schedule is an effort to move the North American release dates closer to those in Japan, where Vol. 53 shipped in March. Viz’s Shonen Jump magazine also will publish the latest One Piece chapters from Japan beginning this fall. Lori Henderson provides commentary. [Anime News Network]”

Oh f*** yes! I was following this news and the last I heard was that it was delayed because of something to do with the anime streaming. Oh man, I’m so stoked because One Piece is my favorite manga and there’s a reason it’s the number one selling manga in Japan (even surpassing Dragon Ball at this point).

By: Scavenger

Scavenger — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:33:42 +0000

So, not only are they going to not get the Life and Times of Scrooge back into print until next year, they’re going with a hardcover that’s quite a bit more than the tpb was.

By: Sijo

Sijo — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:02:44 +0000

-”artist Kevin O’Neill: “Never ask the readers what they want in this business because they always ask for the same things — superheroes and future war: they want what they’ve had. But what they really want is what they’ve not been given.”

There is *some* truth to that, but it’s not absolute. True, people tend to stick to the tried-and-true out of fear of the new, the unknown. It’s also true that familiarity leads to boredom. The trick is finding WHAT is going to be the next big fad, when even the public itself doesn’t know- and the creators don’t, either; most of the times, “Don’t listen to the fans” is just an excuse for a writer to do things HIS way and not really because he’s figured out what will make a series sell. The wisest thing to do then, is to *continue* publishing what the public expects, while also experimenting on the side, and *if* those experiments work, then give them more room.