NYAF07: Del Rey and Marvel Make Manga Love
KuronoK owns my soul by attending the Del Rey/Marvel announcement panel while I’m here in Bandai Entertainment, and he says Del Rey will be making both an X-men and a Wolverine manga for ‘09. The X-men artist is Anzu, and both are written by Americans, and….X-men will be a shoujo?
…Yeah, I’m texting him back.
He says yes, and Wolverine will be more shounen-ish and written by “the wasteland guy.” Uh, T.S. Eliot? No, probably not. Maybe one of the guys who made the computer game? Hmmm.
Nope, D.C. graphic novel– it’s Anthony Johnston. Raina Telemeier and Dave Roman are writing the X-men manga. Each manga will be two volumes long.
Looks like that’s about it for the news there. Thanks Kuro!
Edited to add: here is the official description of the X-Men manga:
It’s the X-Men as you’ve never seen them before, with the storyline fashioned as a private school shôjo comedy. (Shôjo manga is aimed at girls and often covers popular subjects such as comedy, romance, and drama.) As the only girl in the all-boys School for Gifted Youngsters, Kitty Pryde, a mutant with phasing abilities, is torn between the popular Hellfire Club, led by flame-throwing mutant Pyro–and the school misfits, whom she eventually bands together as the X-Men.