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J LHLS Archives: June 2008
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Yaoi Jamboree, Glendale AZ, Day 2
Relaxing in the lobby. [more]
Posted by Ginger Mayerson @ 08:06 PM PST [Link]
Friday, June 20, 2008
Yaoi Jamboree, Glendale AZ, Day 1
Rachel Livingston let me hitch a ride with her to Glendale Arizona for Yaoi Jamboree. She picked me up at 2AM (my neighbors must be scandalized; they never see me up that late) and we drove into the desert. I don't have any pictures of this, sorry, it was just dark and empty. [more]
Posted by Ginger Mayerson @ 10:07 PM PST [Link]
Ring My Bell
Written by BA Tortuga
Published by Torquere Press
ISBN-10: 1-60370-227-X
ISBN-13: 978-1-60370-227-0Review by Linda Yau
In Colin's opinion, ringing a bell for charity is a horrible way to spend the holiday. Three hours on the job, his fingers are numb, his ears are ringing and if he has to listen to other people wish him happy holidays, he's going to be pissed off.
It is this setting that set him up to rescue the naked and muddy Gaz (Gazardiel) from the side of the road. What made this situation strange though were the white loose feathers when Colin found Gaz and the bloodied stubs on his back. [more]
Posted by Linda Yau @ 06:38 PM PST [Link]
Thursday, June 19, 2008
The Clouds Above
Story and Art: Jordan Crane
Published by Fantagraphics Books
ISBN-10: 1-56097-909-7
ISBN-13: 978-1-56097-909-8Review by Kris
Simon has the tendency to be late. He's late so often his teacher Missus Poe has threatened him with a beating with a phone book. Oh, No! The door into the school is locked and the only way in is removing the vent on the door. Simon's cat Jack has joined him at school today. Once he gets in, one of Simon's classmates tattles to Missus Poe. Simon and Jack decide hide on the roof instead of enduring the wrath of Missus Poe. That is where the adventure truly begins. [more]
Posted by Kris @ 06:54 PM PST [Link]
Magical JxR vol. 2
Story and Art: Lee Sun-Young
Published by UDON Entertainment
ISBN-10: 1-897376-62-6
ISBN-13: 978-1-897376-62-1Review by Kris
Cho-Ah has finally started high school. She was expecting to be able to start fresh and have everyone think that she's a girly girl and snag herself a ultra hot boyfriend. Thinking that her contract had been fulfilled with Jay and Aru she truly thought that there was nothing to surprise her. Boy was she in for a surprise. It turns out that her contract hadn't been fulfilled after all. Cho-Ah is required to spend the next year together doing good deeds. Cards have been left all over town. Jay, Aru, and Cho-Ah have to find the cards and help whoever holds the card. [more]
Posted by Kris @ 06:01 PM PST [Link]
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Voices of Love
Story and Art by Kanae Hazuki
Published by Luv Luv Press
ISBN-10: 1934496081
ISBN-13: 978-1934496084Review by Linda Yau
Voices of Love is a heterosexual graphic novel that has five short stories. The targeted audience for this book is for josei, which is Japanese for adult woman that is different from shoujo (teen girls). This is the first translated release from Luv Luv Press, and they have from that time have released other novels for the adult female. [more]
Posted by Linda Yau @ 03:35 PM PST [Link]
Pillage
Written by Obert Skye
Published by Shadow Mountain
ISBN-10: 1590389220
ISBN-13: 9781590389225Review by Jilly Gee
Beck Phillips wasn't exactly living a normal life before he was sent to live with his Uncle Aeron in Kingsplot; his father had left when he was a baby and he and his mother moved from location to location, his mother never able to hold a steady job because of her worsening mental health. Still, he went to school like a normal teenage boy, got into trouble like a normal teenage boy, and flirted with girls way out of his league like a normal teenage boy. It is when he is sent to his uncle's house in Kingsplot that things take a turn for the downright strange.
Despite Aeron's supposed wealth, there are but four workers in the entire manor, all of whom tell him not to go poking his nose where he shouldn't. Not that they are unkind; they kindly tell him to leave locked doors locked. Of course, saying that to a curious, young man has the same effect as just shoving him headlong into the unknown; he explores a basement that he was told does not exist by the staff and a conservatory with no entrance. How did he get into said conservatory? Why, he asked the ivy to grow for him so he could climb it. [more]
Posted by Jilly Gee @ 01:55 AM PST [Link]
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Dancing on the Head of a Pin
by Kiernan Kelly
Printed in the USA by Torquere Press, Copyright 2007Review by Ida Vega-Landow
Would you give up your immortal soul for eternal love? How about just a piece of it? That's what happens when Malak meets Cael, one fine morning in the infamous city of Sodom. Malak is a beautiful, black-haired angel, one of the seraphim sent to punish the ungodly people of that wicked city, and Cael is a handsome blond demon who enjoys sneaking out of hell to revel in the pleasures of the flesh, which is what Sodom and her sister city Gomorrah specialized in. [more]
Posted by Ida Vega Landow @ 07:46 PM PST [Link]
Magical JxR vol. 1
Story and Art: Lee Sun-Young
Published by UDON Entertainment
ISBN-10: 1-897376-61-8
ISBN-13: 978-1-897376-61-4Review by Kris
Magical JxR by Lee Sun-Young is a four volume manwha (Korean manga) series. It's the tale of two wizards in the human world.
Aru and Jay are wizard apprentices and study partners in magic school. Aru uses fire based magic. He's not the best student and is kind of an airhead but he's cheerful and sincere. Jay uses water based magic. He's the exact opposite of Aru. He's an excellent student, thoughtful, but a tad cool and aloof. At their magic school when study partners are assigned it's the teachers who pair them up. They also assign them based on the source of magic. In Jay and Aru's case, however, they chose each other to be partners.
Cho-Ah Nam is your typical 16-year-old, with a few exceptions. She's always loved fairy tales, especially Alice in Wonderland. She imagines her world as though it's a shojo manga and she really wants to be seen as a feminine girly girl. There is one thing standing in her way. Her dad is a national Taekwondo champion and has a famous high kick. It seems as though Cho-Ah inherited her father's genes and has a killer high kick as well. Since she has the reputation of being able to kick butt and take names she strikes fear into the hearts of many. But Cho-Ah just wants to be seen as a cute sweet girl that she can sometimes be. [more]
Posted by Kris @ 06:49 PM PST [Link]
Yakuza in Love (volume 2)
Story and art: Shiuko Kano
Publisher: Deux Press
ISBN-10: 1934496200
ISBN-13: 978-1934496206Review by Cat
I cannot deny that I was absolutely thrilled to get my paws on the second volume of Yakuza in Love. I was a little concerned that, as with many trilogies, it might fall victim to the dreaded "saggy middle" syndrome. Well, has it? [more]
Posted by Cat @ 06:22 PM PST [Link]
Monday, June 16, 2008
Christmas with Gary
Written by Vic Winter
Published by Torquere Press
ISBN-10: 1-60370-229-6
ISBN-13: 978-1-60370-229-4Review by Linda Yau
Gary is stuck spending his Christmas holidays with his grandmother. Thinking that this would be a boring holiday, he was pleasantly surprised when the errands turned out to be amusing. Errant running also had him meeting Troy the hunky neighborhood gym trainer who is interested in him - an exercise deficient teacher. [more]
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