A while back I wrote about the human-driven search engine called Mahalo.
Mahalo has a daily vidcast they do, and they’re here at Comic Con. Well, I was looking for Wil Wheaton to ask him about Manga (long story) and when I found him he was being interviewed by Mahalo. When he was done, he instantly told them they needed to interview me, because that’s just how super-awesome Wil is. So Leah D’Emilio, the host, talked to me about Bad Astronomy and Death from the Skies!
Spreading the love, after we were done I sent them to JSto. Push it forward, folks.
July 26th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
I got my pre-order in for DftS. Woot.
July 26th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Where can I pre-order it? Me wants
July 26th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Oh. Amazon. Nevermind, I’m dumb
July 26th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
You can preorder it at Amazon.
July 26th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
It’s ok, Fauxnetiks. Not everyone is as addicted to Amazon.com as some of us are…
July 26th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Nice.
July 26th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Hell yeah, pre-ordered my copy a while back… can’t wait!
July 26th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Snuck it onto my “what do you want for your birthday list?” It worked for my telescope.
July 26th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
hahah…awesome!
July 26th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Phil Plait adding manga to his already excessive repertoire of cool?? That’s almost too much cool for one person to sustain.
July 26th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
So.Cute…..Can’t.Sleep….
You were nice in it too Phil!
July 26th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
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July 27th, 2008 at 1:21 am
So what do you need to know about Manga, BA? I have a growing library of them.
July 27th, 2008 at 3:01 am
Hey Phil, great interview. You delivered the part about DftS really well, giving a great balance between excitement and reassurance.
July 27th, 2008 at 5:10 am
Manga!? Your just went up a whole rank in geekiness
I for one am proud!
July 27th, 2008 at 5:40 am
So Phil, when they make “Bad Astronomy – The Movie”. Who do you want to play YOU? And PS Manga is SO cool
July 27th, 2008 at 5:55 am
Phil, out of curiosity, which manga do you have and currently read?
Myself, I own Battle Angel Alita (and Last Order), Evangelion, Hellsing, Trigun (and Maximum), Blame!, Death Note, Yotsuba&!, Azumanga Daioh, and will soon begin getting Gantz.
Online, I keep up to date with One Piece, Bleach, Naruto and Gantz.
July 27th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Well, the Manga wasn’t for me, it was for someone else. That’s why I needed the advice; I know nothing about it!
But I love “Spirited Away” and other movies like it.
July 27th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
@Phil
I have ALL Miyazaki’s and Studio Ghibli stuff. Talk about i-madge-inative!
They rock.
July 27th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Those are fulllength feature Anime, BA. Which is loosly put…usually the cartoon version of their Manga predecessor. I do believe Miyazaki has Manga versions of his movies. And he does have the Lupin series he did decades back.
@Ryan
My partial collection icludes:
Bleach, Battle Angel Alita (the first series), BLAME!(+ Noise), Deathnote, Claymore, Shadow Star (Naratura), Chobits, Gunslinger Girls, Cronus Crusades, PreTear (very shojo), + Anima, Gakuen Alice, Eureka 7, Venus vs Virus…
…and I could go on and on.
The first book of Gantz (English trans) has been published threw Darkhorse. And is like available at a well rounded local comic book store. I know it is in mine.
July 27th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Ah, man, I guess I will have to check out at least that episode of Mahalo Daily. I had basically stopped watching it (although I am still currently downloading it) because a) I have a backlog of other pod and vodcasts I need to catch up on and b) I’m not sure I really wanted to keep watching it since Veronica Belmont quit the show to go back to focusing on shows that are more tech oriented (hence the move to Tekzilla).
As to manga, I don’t read much manga, I was watching lots of anime then I started having issues with time, money and job. Now that the money and job issues are dealt with, I have to deal with the time issue.
July 27th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
@ utakata:
Yeah, kind of hard pressed for money at the moment, but Gantz vol 1 will be on my rack soon enough. I also have NOiSE, and I wish TokyoPop would pick up Nihei’s “Biomega” and “Net Sphere Engineer”. If you have the first 9 volumes of Battle Angel, you SO need the Last Order series. It picks up at about the half-point of volume 9 of the first series (where the baby doll goes BOOM) and continues from that point. Yukito was sick during that time period and rushed the ending. When he got better back in 2000 I think, he started on Last Order, continuing the story as he had intended.
@ Phil:
Phil, here’s an anime that you would probably find very interesting: Noein
You can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noein
You would probably enjoy Cowboy Bebop, Trigun and Neon Genesis Evangelion as well. All three are great classics and are usually considered benchmarks for other anime. Although quite long, you may enjoy the manga series “Berserk”. One of the titles that utakata mentioned, Eureka seveN, you may greatly enjoy. It also has a 50-episode anime series to go with it.
Though not anime, another great series to check out is, Avatar: The Last Airbender.
July 27th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
OH! OH! OH!
So cool. Mahalo Daily’s great.
And, I almost wish that I hadn’t taken extra classes this summer so that I could’ve skipped to California for Comic Con. Almost. I could’ve totally stalked you for an autograph.
July 27th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Amazon hmmm? Will be be there for Kindle users? I love me my Kindle.
July 27th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Just curious — WHY does it take so long for a completed book to be released? I’ve been hearing about this one for months and it’s still not out yet?
July 28th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
I give you…The HOTTEST BABES of COMIC-CON 2008!
http://maxim.com/Girls/TheHottestGirlsofComicCon2008/slideshow/3985.aspx
July 29th, 2008 at 4:19 am
Since I’ve had a post “awaiting moderation” for 2 days now, I’m just going to re-post it sans a wikipedia link:
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@ utakata:
Yeah, kind of hard pressed for money at the moment, but Gantz vol 1 will be on my rack soon enough. I also have NOiSE, and I wish TokyoPop would pick up Nihei’s “Biomega” and “Net Sphere Engineer”. If you have the first 9 volumes of Battle Angel, you SO need the Last Order series. It picks up at about the half-point of volume 9 of the first series (where the baby doll goes BOOM) and continues from that point. Yukito was sick during that time period and rushed the ending. When he got better back in 2000 I think, he started on Last Order, continuing the story as he had intended.
@ Phil:
Phil, here’s an anime that you would probably find very interesting: Noein
You can read about it *at wikipedia*.
You would probably enjoy Cowboy Bebop, Trigun and Neon Genesis Evangelion as well. All three are great classics and are usually considered benchmarks for other anime. Although quite long, you may enjoy the manga series “Berserk”. One of the titles that utakata mentioned, Eureka seveN, you may greatly enjoy. It also has a 50-episode anime series to go with it.
Though not anime, another great series to check out is, Avatar: The Last Airbender.
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