elise

August 30, 2008 6:31 pm

@TheNextChampion: A Cockney accident? Did he slip on some jellied eel?

 

@Marbles: Forever People may have gone, but you've still got to trek all the way up Park Street if you want to find some decent comics. ...If that is the hill you're talking about. This is Bristol after all: leave a tyre on the ground anywhere in the city, it'll roll.

June 24, 2008 4:19 pm One manga leaps to mind: Yotsuba&! may be a series, but reading just the first volume is absolutely fine. It's not like there's any real over-arching plot line to follow through, and it's meant to be read oneshot by oneshot. Also, it's the most ludicrously heartwarming, happy manga I've ever read, featuring a little girl with green hair essentially just wandering around and learning about day-to-day stuff in modern Japan (every chapter title runs something along the lines of: Yotsuba and Rain, or Yotsuba and Souvenirs, and the best one: Yotsuba and Revenge). Sounds rubbish, is fantastic.