Sitting out MMF, again

Wow, the last few weeks have been crazy for me. I nearly missed being able to scoop up the money to study Japanese in Japan - right before I got a new job offer which is going to substantially increase my income. In all the excitement, I decided to sit out this month’s Manga Movable Feast, but you may be interested, especially if you’re interested in manhwa (Korean comics).

This month’s MMF features the Eisner-nominated Color trilogy by Kim Dong Hwa. Check out the newly-launched Manhwa Bookshelf for the goods (to the best of my knowledge, there’s no single hub page up yet). Perhaps it’s good that I missed it this month, because from reading some of the reviews up so far, it’s apparently a coming-of-age story that strangles the reader in trite symbolism - it sounds like something I’d really, really, really hate. The same sort of swill they’d make us read and then over-analyze in essays I’d have to pad strenuously to meet the arbitrary and often two-digit minimum page count during the years I was attaining my regrettable BA in English literature. Not happy memories…

…But feel free check out what’s being written and draw your own conclusions.