A quick look at the first volumes of three new manga series for the 16-and-up crowd: Gakuen Prince, Yokai Doctor, and Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei.

This latest primer in the For Beginners series offers a flyover view of art theory with a heaping helping of historical context.

Soichi is a mild-mannered singer-songwriter by day and a death metal god by night in this manga-fied cousin of Metalocalypse.

Reviewer Steve Higgins returns after almost a year with an extensive critique of the book that nearly broke him, a graphic memoir by Alissa Torres on life after the loss of her husband on 9/11.