Pop Gone Flat

Right as I was getting ready to go in for a weekend of night shifts, I saw news the manga publisher Tokyopop had shut down. To a lot of people, this didn't seem a surprise, but I suppose it was a bit of a shock for me, news of the company laying off most of its regular employees having been followed by news of it at least bothering to redesign its online site. In the time I had to reflect on it before leaving, though, I did have to admit nothing new in its catalogue had managed to grab me and make me buy it for quite a while, and the shock might have faded a bit on that.
( Thinking back, though... )