{"id":278,"date":"2006-07-21T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=278"},"modified":"2006-07-21T12:29:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T16:29:00","slug":"jareth-the-ultimate-bishounen-cover-of-return-to-labyrinth-manga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2006\/07\/21\/jareth-the-ultimate-bishounen-cover-of-return-to-labyrinth-manga\/","title":{"rendered":"Jareth, the ultimate bishounen &#8212; cover of Return to Labyrinth manga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoo hoo! Here&#8217;s some Laby news for y&#8217;all &#8230;The Labyrinth sequel manga, officially titled Return to Labyrinth [first volume of three], comes out on August 8th. Here&#8217;s the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1598167251\/ref=pd_kar_gw_1\/002-9034715-0717655?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;v=glance&amp;n=283155\"> Amazon information.<\/a>&nbsp;Here&#8217;s the back text, as taken from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyopop.com\/S-1712\/1.html\">Tokyopop Web site:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Goblin King has kept a watchful eye on Toby: His minions secretly guiding and protecting the child&#8230; Legions of goblins work behind the scenes to ensure that Toby has whatever his heart desires&#8230; Preparing him for the day when he will return to the Labyrinth and take his rightful place beside Jareth as the heir to the Goblin Kingdom&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That day has come&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But no one has told Toby.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some information from the writer himself, Jake Forbes, as posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/messageboard.tokyopop.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=1609&amp;page=2&amp;highlight=return+labyrinth\">Tokyopop forums,<\/a> in response to people who were disappointed that Toby, rather than Sarah, was the focus:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">&#8220;I&#8217;m the writer of the upcoming manga. While I don&#8217;t want to give too much away too early, you can rest assured that there are several girls in the manga of various shapes and sizes&#8211;one of whom is a lead. Sarah, the main character from the movie, shows up too, but she&#8217;s not the lead this time. In any case, it&#8217;s not a boys-only adventure by any measure, even if Toby is our protagonist.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Annnnnd&#8230;check out images of the cover below the cut. Manga Jareth! The first is a colored version and the second uncolored version shows you all the nifty detail.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ljcut\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/laby\/returntolabyrinth.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/laby\/returntolabyrinthuncolored.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoo hoo! Here&#8217;s some Laby news for y&#8217;all &#8230;The Labyrinth sequel manga, officially titled Return to Labyrinth [first volume of three], comes out on August 8th. Here&#8217;s the Amazon information.&nbsp;Here&#8217;s the back text, as taken from the Tokyopop Web site: &#8220;The Goblin King has kept a watchful eye on Toby: His minions secretly guiding and&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2006\/07\/21\/jareth-the-ultimate-bishounen-cover-of-return-to-labyrinth-manga\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jareth, the ultimate bishounen &#8212; cover of Return to Labyrinth manga<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}