Follow-ups on Nymphet, H4H cover; Broccoli coverage at Fanime

Well, at least one person from Marvel was willing to stand up for the artist behind the Heroes For Hire cover, instead of playing dumb or outright denial… it’s CB Cebulski, on this week’s LITG.

Of course, from the very beginning I felt this was a lapse in judgment on the part of editorial, and this doesn’t change it.

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As spotted by LordShade in the comments section a couple posts below, Seven Seas has since removed all pages and references to Nymphet.  Meanwhile, ANN finally picks up on the story, resulting in a forum discussion of… um… widely varying degrees of intellectuality.

If Seven Seas does end up not releasing this title, I hope they won’t be doing it because of fear of prosecution, but because they’re re-evaluating whether the hardcore otaku audience they hope to appeal to is actually a commercially viable audience in the U.S..  Yet their obvious fannish licensing proclivities is exactly why I respect and appreciate the people at Seven Seas as the kind of specialized manga publisher we need more of.

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On a semi-related note, here’s why Doraemon hasn’t been distributed in the US either…

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Perhaps it’s because of all the bad news that I completely missed a couple of items on Broccoli Books coming out of Fanime Con.  Broccoli’s own blog chronicles their three days at the con; MangaCast sits down with Inui Sekihiko, the artist behind BroBook’s Murder Princess, plus the latest PR; animeOnline has a brief but interesting summary of Broccoli’s panel at Fanime, particularly the difficulty the company faces in bringing their first BL title to bookstores that is similar to the headache Seven Seas currently has, except in scale.  (Link via ComiPress.)

Broccoli also teased con goers with hints of a new type of book based on the Disgaea property.  Hmmm… it’s text-heavy, and based on an RPG… is it a “choose your own adventure” style book?