I don't normally drink coffee because I can't comprehend why anyone finds the taste appealing. Now I have another reason to not bother.

The idea that freedom of speech means you get to be a jerk is something I expect to encounter on really immature online forums. Sure you have the legal right to do it, but you're still being a jerk.

Derek Kirk Kim did the writing but not the art for Good As Lily, though regardless I can't recommend his work highly enough. I especially liked Same Difference.

The first Minx book I bought was Confessions of a Blabbermouth, mainly because the art is by Aaron Alexovich (creator of Serenity Rose), but I literally wound up buying two more (Good As Lily and Re-Gifters) later the same day.

@anthropomorphictoast:
The funny thing is, I do think that with Minx DC is trying to further open up/enter into the market for selling comics to girls that translated shoujo manga largely created. Of course, anything that expands the market for comics beyond the stereotypical consumers of superhero comics is a good thing in my book.

Wow. Apparently in the future robots are going to be jerks. Another example of the future turning out like Futurama in unexpected ways.

"But producing a written-in-English manga in that form isn't "preserving an esthetic". It's just pretentious."

Maybe, but at this point I'm so used to right-to-left comics that I'll occasionally catch myself trying to start with the rightmost panel of a Dilbert comic strip, so seeing that in, say, Aoi House, doesn't faze me at all.

You know, having played some of the other MMOs where they restrict character gender to player gender (like Ragnarok Online and Maple Story), (1) people fake it anyway, and (2) the end result is that female characters get harassed that much more because people are reasonably sure there's a girl at the other end.

Why it would be considered a problem is beyond me. To me it's like a guy playing chess insisting that the queen be called a chancellor or some such.