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John Angelo
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Anyone know where I can buy BotI 18 and Showcase Presents Enemy Ace together? Amazon is my best bet with prices, but darnnit, BotI is still on pre-order status!!! Grrrr. It's available elsewhere, but I like the prices and free S&H Amazon offers.
Thanks.
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***Felicity Walker
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| Posted: 14 February 2008 at 3:45pm | IP Logged | 2
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To answer the question at the top of this thread, manga are very popular here in Vancouver, Canada.
I don’t happen to like the art style or pacing of most manga, but I have to admit that most manga are quite well-drawn. I just don’t like that big-eye, small-chin, pointy-haired, long-limbed style, or decompression. I like it even less when North American comics artists try to copy it, and even less than that when almost all fan artists adopt it as their default style.
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Kirk Melton III
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| Posted: 14 February 2008 at 5:46pm | IP Logged | 3
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Errr..the Americanized version of Astro Boy is kid friendly. The original Japanese version is a bit...stranger.
Astro Boy has little machine guns in his butt cheeks(I guess for when his laser is on the fritz) and even more oddly he takes nourishment(power) through a plug in his bottom via a big device that looks a lot like a giant old fasioned enema tube. Look! They went and made a little diorama of it! |
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Thank you Mr. Calame. That diorama and your intro to it is a friggin' scream!
I'm STILL laughin!
Edited by Kirk Melton III on 14 February 2008 at 5:47pm
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Kirk Melton III
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| Posted: 14 February 2008 at 5:50pm | IP Logged | 4
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I like a little Manga here and again. I really liked Akira and Otomo's art in general..I enjoyed Crying Freeman from Viz and I have a one shot Manga GN which is all pulp...(a assassin hires an assassin to kill him before his enemies do) The art contained in that book was heavily Manga influenced (camera angles, action scenes) except for the eyes..the eyes looked normal. I THINK that still qualifies it as MANGA, yes?
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Greg Scarborough
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My girlfriend's 12-year old daughter loves manga and anime. I haven't really felt compelled to check it out.
Seems like there are snobs on both sides of the fence in the "manga vs. traditional comics" argument.
Reminds me of all the goth kids that would read Gaiman's "Sandman" and then sneer at me for reading Byrne's "Next Men"
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Steve Horton
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| Posted: 15 February 2008 at 5:42pm | IP Logged | 6
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I think it's astonishing and wonderful that there's a comic book artform that 12 year old girls love.
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Flavio Sapha
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| Posted: 15 February 2008 at 9:42pm | IP Logged | 7
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Manga conquered America! sez WIRED mag.
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Ron Chevrier
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In general, Manga is not my thing. However, I do like Masamune Shiro's work on Ghost in the Shell and Appleseed. I do think they work better in the animated versions, though. I also like the work of Yoshitaka Amano (Sandman, Final Fantasy) As far as anime goes, I've only seen a bit, but I really like Full Metal Alchemist.
I have to mention that I'm generally more interested in the artwork than the storylines when it comes to this material. I like the highly detailed renderings for vehicles, machinery and architecture, as well as some innovative costume designs.
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Philippe Negrin
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| Posted: 16 February 2008 at 3:27am | IP Logged | 9
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Maybe another reason why Manga has indeed conquered the world and I don't think it's been said in this thread yet.
A 100 page black'n'white pocket friendly book = 7 euros.
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Brian Floyd
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Yeah, manga tends to be cheaper than regular comics, so you get more value for your money. You can get a black and white manga book that's about 200 to 225 pages for around $9.99 U.S.
Some are more pricey than others; I'm reading one series that is $9.99 per book with about 225 pages, but another one I'm reading is $10.99 with about 210 pages.
I'm currently reading Negima, Yotsuba, Princess Resurrection (that's the $10.99 one), and one called Destiny's Hand that's technically not manga because its written by two Americans with art by an artist from the Phillipines but is done like and market as manga. (Highly recommend checking it out, by the way)
Yotsuba is surprisingly good, despite being a fairly mundane manga (the title character is a screwy 5 or 6 year old kid with green hair).
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Taavi Suhonen
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| Posted: 16 February 2008 at 6:31am | IP Logged | 11
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Brian, if haven't yet read Kiyohiko Azuma's previous work, Azumanga Daioh, you should definitely check it out.
Here in Finland, a volume of manga costs about 6 euros and most series
come out monthly. The comic shelves in grocery stores are pretty much
half manga if not more. Superhero comics are down to a handful of
regular titles (Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Phantom) and the occasional
special issue (sadly, no plans for a Superman 70th Anniversary comic).
It's not manga's fault though, the superhero comics have been dying
here for a long time despite being avalaible everywhere.
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Brian Floyd
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| Posted: 16 February 2008 at 4:45pm | IP Logged | 12
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Brian, if haven't yet read Kiyohiko Azuma's previous work, Azumanga Daioh, you should definitely check it out.
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Oh, I definitely plan to. The bookstore I get my manga from has a collected volume for $24.99, which I'll probably pick up in a few weeks. I'm unemployed at the moment (have been for several months, in fact), so I've got limited finances right now and am trying to catch up on series I'm reading first, and Yotsuba vol 6 comes out the 25th.
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