Just for fun

Every once in a while I grab a new book just off the cover art. Here are two I just couldn't pass up. The first I already read awhile back on fan sub torrent. I'm a big fan of free fan subs, but I also realize that the reason the manga is written to begin with is because people actually buy copies of it. Otherwise the Manga Ka would starve to death and there would be no manga. What a frighting thought. Any way, it was really cute so I had to get a physical copy for my library.

The second is a rare sub genre that is one of my faves, cute girls with big weapons. So wen I saw a 12 year old immortal wearing a frilly dress covered in blood wielding a 8 foot long scythe, I couldn't resist.

He Is My Master volume 1

Tetragrammaton Labyrinth volume 1

Bad editing

I had to do something yesterday that I rarely do, return some books to the store. I finally got around to reading Witch Blade the other day and found that somebody did a crappy job editing the book. The comic was originally drawn in color and the editions that I had were converted to black and white. there is also a compendium that is in color which I may get later. It's 50 or 60 bucks so you can see why I opted for the monochrome. The problem is that when they converted it from color to grey scale images, there were a lot of dialog bubbles that were a very light color and the text on top was reversed out in white. In color it works but when you convert a very light yellow the gray, it comes out only one or two percent gray. If you know anything about printing you know that a printing press can't print one and two percent screens very well, if at all. It bleeds in and disappears and you are left with white. so most of the book is filled with dialog bubbles that graduate from a light gray to white back to light gray with white text. the center of the bubble is completely gone, unreadable.
Example:
Mark f..........lip's dog
for sev..........rs today

Who did what to who? You don't know. So if your going to read this story save your self the headache and save your money up and buy it in color other wise don't waste your time.

P.S.
To the people who published and printed this book: You are a disgrace to the art of printing, What are you blind? I've worked in printing for a lot of years and seen my share of minor and major blunders but this takes the cake. Your typesetting department, graphic artists, proof readers, plate room operators, The press operators, bindery operators, did no one notice all the missing text. The publishing house, did you not ask for a proof of the book before printing it or a finished sample before shipping it out? Let me guess You assumed that because it looked good when you printed it the first time in color that nothing would change. Instead of outputting the files in CMYK separations, you just switched to monochrome. BAKA!!!

My-HiME volume 3
Pastel volume 7
School Rumble volume 6
Strawberry 100% volume 1
Strawberry Marshmallow volume 4