As my wife and family knows, I’m a huge sucker for Manga.  It’s what got me into Megatokyo so long ago, it’s what I loved about my friend Lawrence Kwan’s short-lived comic, and it’s what caught my eye with the following two new additions to my webcomic blogroll.  I found both of these on The Webcomic List.  They had paid to have their image appear on the top part of the website and they did a good job of catching my eye. Magago is about a bunch of workers at a sushi restaurant.  The art style looks pretty slick and from the comic I saw today, I was hooked.  On the plus side, he believes (as do I) in the Creative Commons.

And there’s Black as White, which seems to be making fun of stories similar to Final Fantasy or Slayers.  Check ‘em out!

I was reading through Masago and I came across this strip.  (Or click on the image to see it full size)

The funny thing is that this happened to me one time.   I was a supervisor and this guy kept begging me to let him off early because there wasn’t enough work to be done.  It was true, so I went ahead and let him off early.  About half an hour later he comes back dressed up as though he’s going to have a fun night out on the town.  Only he hangs around until the end of the shift.  Why?  He was bored – it was too early to go do whatever it was he had planned to do.

So you find a new webcomic and start reading and reading…and, if it’s a good one you get hooked and you keep reading every chance you get.  Then, the inevitable happens…you reach the end.  But, unlike a book, you’re just at the end of what’s been created so far.  There will be more content and, of course, the last page you happened to read was in the middle of a story arc so now you’re on a cliff hanger.  That’s what happened to me with Megatokyo.  I haven’t read it for past two to three years because Piro’s ridiculous inability to post updates on time frustrated the heck out of me.  I wanted to find out what was going on and I was sucked into his story.  Eventually I gave up.  And now I’ll have to start reading again from the beginning because there’s no way I’m going to remember all the subplots that were going on at the time.

And now it just happened to me with Masago.  At least he has been pretty consistent with his updating (even if he has tamped it down to two times a week).  His posts have been mentioning more and more of “real life” taking him away from being able to do the comic.  That’s really a shame because he has so many unresolved plots going on right now.  (At least two or three) so I hope he keeps it up.  And I hope he publishes some more compilation books because I’ll be picking them up to help support him.

I got to this part of Masago where he’s adapted my favorite scene from Resevoir Dogs.  Here’s the first strip.  Click on it to get to his site and finish off the series.

Some quick updates on some of my favorite updates:

Masago finally has a new strip posted!  It’s a shame that Dave Kwan is so busy, because I was really into the unique story – I mean, how many webcomics are about restaurants?  Let’s hope he can get some strips out on a more regular schedule now!

Jackie over at Between Failures has a post on the Boobquake movement.  Apparently, some guy in Iran believes that all the recent earthquakes are caused by women dressing provocatively.  Of course, this is pretty ridiculous, but we have stuff like that in this country – some religious fanatics who think gay rights are the reason for 11 Sept.

The husband and wife team over at Geeks Next Door recently released a book with their first year’s worth of strips.  If you aren’t already reading GND, and you’re into D&D, Cosplay, and other topics of geekery, be sure to check them out.

Finally, a little update on this site – with things really picking up here on I’m Not Mad, I’ve been going through the website and fixing things up in preparation for an ad blitz.  So, if you visit the site instead of reading via RSS, you might see some changes over the next few weeks as I tweak things on the website in an effort to get it just the way I want it.  I’ll be messing about with the CSS so there might be tiny glitches, but I’ll probably notice it right away, so if you see something weird, it probably won’t last too long.