The Oh My Goddess! omnibus series continues this week with the release of Book Five, collecting chapters 73 through 89. As with Books One through Four, the omnibus edition presents the legendary Oh My Goddess! at its best ever, with a larger page size than the regular graphic novels, bonus color, and higher-quality paper that brings out even more details in creator Kosuke Fujishima’s fine line work. Not to mention they’re a bargain! ^_^ You’ll note we say what chapters omnibus Book Five collects, instead of what volumes. That’s because whereas the first four omnibus books each collected three volumes of the regular graphic novels (so, for example, Book Four collected volumes 10-12), starting with Book Five, the...
[more]
Defying gravity, the rules of Heaven, and good sense, the divine Urd graces the cover of Oh My Goddess! omnibus Book Two—available right now at your local comics shop, and coming next week to your book store and online retailer. Book Two, which collects volumes four through six of the regular series (chapters 24 through 42) actually introduces Belldandy’s younger sibling, Skuld, as well—but it’s big sister Urd without a doubt who drives events in Book Two, as she goes from trying to spike her Valentine’s Day chocolate with a love potion, to trying to destroy the Universe as the Great Lord of Terror prophesied by Nostradamus. Well, that escalated quickly. As you know, Oh My Goddess! was the...
[more]
Oh My Goddess! didn’t become the longest-running English-language manga in the history of—well, English-language manga, simply because Dark Horse has published it for over two decades. Dark Horse couldn’t have published it for over two decades if you, the readers, hadn’t supported it all that time. That might seem obvious, but how about if we make it even more obvious? How about if we put every single Oh My Goddess! release we’ve ever published on a conference table, and show all the things that you made possible? As you can see by the way items are stacked and fanned in the back, the table wasn’t quite big enough ^_^ And this is just everything with Oh My Goddess! in the actual title. Philip...
[more]
Dark Horse has been publishing Oh My Goddess! for 21 years, but it’s been a whole decade since we last introduced a new publishing format for it; in 2005, when we began to release it in its current tankobon-size, Japanese-reading edition. In two months that edition will be complete with the final volume of the story, Oh My Goddess! vol. 48. But that isn’t the end of Oh My Goddess! from Dark Horse; in fact we’re starting anew, just as we did ten years ago, to introduce this classic manga love comedy to the next generation of readers. And that new start begins this week, as Book One of the Oh My Goddess! omnibus hits stores. In the image above, you see Book One standing on the left-hand side…appropriately...
[more]
Oh My Goddess! began publication from Dark Horse in 1994, and it will end this year in 2015; as Dark Horse series go, only Hellboy has been published continuously for longer. This week the second-to-last volume of Oh My Goddess!, vol. 47, hits the stores. Oddly enough, the hero (together with the heroine) of Oh My Goddess! has also spent much time recently in Hell, battling its infernal forces. But, if I may be so bold as to compare, Belldandy’s ultimate confrontation is the inverse of Hellboy’s, for she is not a child of Hell that has sought to defy her origin and live as a friend and protector among humans, but a child of Heaven that has done the same. In the end, therefore, she and her human companion, Keiichi, must...
[more]
OVER 500 PAGES FOR $20! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MILWAUKIE, OR—Get ready to go back to the beginning of one of manga’s most adored love stories of all time, because the first Oh My Goddess! omnibus is set to hit stores in July from Dark Horse Comics. College student Keiichi Morisato thought it was a prank when a strange, beautiful young woman appeared in his dorm room one night. But his unexpected visitor is literally a goddess from heaven, Belldandy, come to grant him any single wish of his choosing. When Keiichi wishes for Belldandy to stay with him forever, it’s the beginning of a complicated, cosmic saga of comedy and romance that makes for one of manga’s greatest love stories! Spanning 48 volumes, Kosuke...
[more]
You know those variant covers comic books are known for? Even though the cover to Oh My Goddess! vol. 46, out this week from Dark Horse, isn’t a variant (it’s the same cover art as the Japanese vol. 46) I almost feel we should have promoted it that way. Think about it—how often do you see the main character of Oh My Goddess! on the cover? In fact he hasn’t shown up since vol. 8, and even then it was in chibi form. To put things into perspective, vol. 8 of Oh My Goddess! came out in Japan in 1993, whereas vol. 46 came out there in 2013. A little subtraction (addition’s tricky pal) will tell us Keiichi Morisato hasn’t been on the cover of his own manga in twenty years. Well, admittedly, it is...
[more]
Manga Mondays: In stores this week—the return of Berserk, Old Boy, and Oh My Goddess! There’s little doubt that Kentaro Miura’s Berserk is among the most gut-wrenching, blood-drenched, mind-scrambling fantasy/horror sagas ever imagined. I can still remember when Berserk was first brought to Dark Horse, and the very first volume had my jaw hanging agape from page one! The sensory assault was positively relentless, as though the iron hand of Guts, the Black Swordsman, was reaching out of the book, grabbing me by the throat, and smacking my head repeatedly against a wet dungeon wall. I’d never seen anything like it. But over time—once I was able to look away from the abyssal horror pouring from the...
[more]
