NYCC News: YOTSUBA&! back from Yen; Marvel, DC stuff
In the most awesome news of the show — news that had fans standing up and cheering as if they were at a Kevin Costner movie or something — Yen Press announced that they have the license for YOTSUBA&!, Brigid Alverson reports, and Volume 6 will be out in September, The popular series about a young alien and her gentle yet funny adventures was previously published by ADV.
§ It’s hard to pick up on what actually happened at Marvel and DC panels unless you have a crib sheet, but apparently:
• The whole Ultimate line is going away and there will be a NEW Ultimate line.
§ There will be FINAL CRISIS tie-in books.
Seriously, we’re too knackered to take this all in. Where are our translators?
02/8/09 at 11:30 am
WOOO!!!!! Yotsuba!!!
02/8/09 at 12:25 pm
Wait, Yotsuba’s an alien??
02/8/09 at 12:43 pm
Marvel’s ending the Ultimates line and jumpstarting it again. WHY? Argh! FUCK MARVEL! I’m DONE!
02/8/09 at 6:56 pm
ADV’s edition of Yotsuba&! volume one had “she may not even be from this planet” in the blurb — probably intended as metaphorical, and probably not translated from a Japanese original.
02/9/09 at 7:55 am
I don’t understand. Why is Marvel restarting the Ultimate line? Did they write themselves into a corner or do they just want to have a whole bunch of brand new #1 issues?
02/9/09 at 1:29 pm
The alien comment took me by surprise too, but… NEW YOTSUBA&!!
02/10/09 at 1:11 pm
Yeah, the alien comment bugged me too. I take it more as a joke than that’s what she is.. unless Azuma has some twist in future volumes. Anyway, it is great to hear new volumes are on the way.
02/12/09 at 4:25 am
Yotsuba isn’t an alien.
02/15/09 at 2:16 pm
Marvel restarts the Ultimate line…
At the New York ComiCon, Quesada and company announced that they were ending the current Ultimate line and starting a new one (via The Beat)….