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[meganbmoore]

 rightstuf.com's current sale is 33% of CMX comics, 40% off if you're in their club thingie.  I highly approve of this, as I've been waiting for that and a Go!Comi sale (which I don't think they'll ever have...another few weeks and i'll have to concede defeat and pay a bit more for a few things at Amazon...)

Has anyone read The Empty Empire, From Eroica With Love (I'm positive someone recced it to me...smillaraaq?) Key to the Kingdom, or Musashi Number Nine?

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[musouka-manga.livejournal.com]

Is Klaus the (as described to me) homophobic ultra-manly one Our Hero is in love with?

I'm not sure I'd really term him "homophobic", since he reacts to the idea of sex with women with equal disgust. (Unless you want to term him misogynistic on top of homophobic, which might not be too far off the mark) What Klaus is, is an absolute asshole. What redeems him is that he hates everyone and everything equally--well, maybe Eroica a liiiiittle bit more. He's a great character, but totally not your type. Then again, Eroica is pretty assholish himself, so he can give as good as he gets.

As far as their relationship goes, Dorian has pretty much found his ideal because he's the sort of jerk that lives for the chase and when the object of his affections gives in, he'll drop the poor lovestruck fool like a sack of potatoes. Whereas Klaus will never, ever, eeeeever give in, so Eroica can chase after him until they both die of old age, battering one another in wheelchairs and canes, no doubt.

Hmm...I'm reminded now that I was curious about Apothecariusc Argentum a while back

I buy almost everything CMX puts out. That one was pretty good, but a touch generic. Empty Empire is sort of a mixed bag--I liked it, but, again, I knew the author from other series, so I was used to her style of storytelling, but I've seen complaints about the mimalist artwork and plotting, so...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Fair enough with Klaus. CMX titles don't show up on the shelves a lot here, so I'm just going by how I remember him being described. In all honesty, I really only react badly (I think) to characters like that when I don't think it's deserved, or they seem to be like that to make them stand out, instead of being a foil for an equal character. It sounds like, in those terms, there's a greater sense of equality on those terms.

CMX, unfortunately, doesn't seem to show up much here. It's a pity. I generally tend to think that it and Del Rey have pretty good, well chosen selections, even if alltheir titles aren't to my taste. But while almost every Del Rey book shows up on the shelves here, and most has been scanslated and is easy to find if I want to read a few chapters to make sure I want to buy it, CMX titles both don't always have scans, and rarely show up on the shelves here.

[musouka-manga.livejournal.com]

CMX gets mostly "B-list" titles. Not bad titles--most of them are quite good--but the ones that tend to appear in "sister magazines" or unknown-to-the-US mags. A lot of what they get is from BetsuHana, my favorite shoujo magazine, so that's in part why they're so near and dear to my heart. On the other hand, no one's ever heard of BetsuHana titles...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've only ever really heard of BetsuHana in passing. On the flipside, most of the incredibly popular shoujo and I don't get along.