Bakuman is awesome -- talk about it here.

(Calling out Bolgoni goo goo, I know youu like this).

I finally got around to starting to read this, quite certain that I would like it. It's by my favorite manga creative team (that's #1), and it's about producing a manga (which would be my most fascinating subject -- I feel the same way about American comics). On top of that, I feel a real mental connection to this writer -- he also wrote Death Note, one of my other favorites.

I confess that I've read the whole series. It is online for free here: http://www.mangareader.net/219/bakuman.html

I want to read this badly. Wonder if it's on an app?

It's on the Viz Manga app, the whole setup of which I think is superior to Comixology.

How much per volume?

$4.95. Half the price of print. http://www.vizmanga.com/home/
They seem to get it.

Bakuman gives a fascinating look at the manga business from the point of view of the artists. It is quite inspiring, too - while reading that I kept trying to come up with my own manga-style ideas. And I really enjoyed the heated competition between the protagonists and their chief rival. The romance/soap opera elements were a little too high school for me, but I guess that would be the target audience for the book.

I may try this out. I have yet to read a Manga that grabbed me - maybe this will do it. I want to like this stuff, but just....well, I just don't.

I know what you mean. I've found some that I did like, but they tend to be few and far between. More commonly I see something that looks really interesting, and then it turns out that there's something about it that breaks the deal for me. It's just as well, I guess, given my limited funds. I go more for anime than for manga.

So far, I've only really "hit" three times with manga.

I've enjoyed a bunch of manga. My top two are Sanctuary (a great political/organized crime epic) and Hajime No Ippo (a bullied schoolboy becomes a championship level boxer). Both are online for free at http://www.mangareader.net/alphabetical. BTW, there's a manga reader app for iPad that will allow you to read anything from this and a few similar sites on your tablet.

IIRC you also liked "Hikaru no go." What's the third one?

Death Note

This was correct, by the way.

Reading about the popularity of this "Attack on Titan" manga. Anybody read it?

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/20 ... worldwide/

I have watched the anime. I hear the manga is very similar, but I don't think it's on Comixology, so it's difficult for me to read it.

This is on Comixology and I have read the first volume. It's brilliant.

Say that again?

Steve . . . . was right.