So for the longest time, the IDW TMNT run has been near and dear to me.
There’s a humble bundle going and I thought I’d mention it here: Humble Comics Bundle: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Feat. The Last Ronin (pay what you want and help charity)
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There is also a BPRD bundle on right now and I really enjoyed what I read of it years ago:
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I picked up the first volume of Berserk at the airport the other week because I was excited that they had a surprisingly well stocked bookstore and it was the little paperback version and not that giant ass leatherette hardcover that I wasn’t sure if I’d even like.
Page one, panel one is a hell of a way to kick things off. All I know about this series is the giant sword, the Phantom of the Paradise guy, and the Souls games are supposed to draw some inspiration.
The art is neat. Someone already got cut in half. There was some sort of Eraserhead baby dream sequence (maybe that had something to do with the first panel). I might stick with this?
Manga seems cool. It’s wild that the pages are left to right though even though the book itself is “backward.” Are these flipped from the original art or what?
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they might actually not be… some localizers will do this but (speaking as someone who does not read a lot of manga) I can’t always tell at first if I’m reading something with nonlinear storytelling or not a lot of dialog whether they’ve flipped the panels as well
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Right! It wasn’t until someone got an arrow to their face that I was sure of what the panel reading order was. Needed that direct cause and effect.
Yeah, Dark Horse always flips their art, which sucks imo. If the book is formatted to be read right to left but with pages on the inside being read left to right, it sounds like they just reprinted their already-flipped pages in reverse order.
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A desperate attempt to please a mainstream audience by flipping it, then a desperate attempt to please weebs by flipping it back (except they couldn’t flip back the pages themselves without expensively redoing the whole text layout)?
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Exactly. Layout and redraws is one of the most expensive parts of localization, and I don’t think they have the original unflipped scans anymore
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This brought up so many memories I’ve been trying to repress (a couple of unfortunately named characters/comics but you get the idea).
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That’s such a weird move! I remember all the old comic format ones being flipped back when but those also read with the binding on the left.
The Black Swordsman’s (I don’t know if we’ve gotten a name yet) bad eye is on his right and his metal hand or fancy gauntlet is on his left in my version.
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i bet that i could tell a parody Heathcliff edit from a legit one because it would make more sense
edit: this post was in retrospect unfair to Heathcliff there is clearly an internal logic at work here i just can’t comprehend most of it. i get that Heathcliff loves MEAT and sometimes the Garbage Ape comes to town the rest is basically Comic Sanskrit
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One of my friends has managed to get into the cat corner in the Healthcliff Sundays twice. Has anyone here tried? Seems to be pretty easy…
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Through the power of my local library I’ve been going through some comics.
Invincible- I had been aware of it for a long time and picked up some trades and read some of it but never enough to see the real twist before watching the animated adaption. I’ve been reading the Ultimate Collection hardbacks and I’m up to around vol 9 of 12 so close to closing it out. It’s mostly a toy box of comic book weirdos so the messiness can be excused for trying to get to the good parts quickly. I’m starting to run into the marvel problem where there are some details or splintering plot lines bleeding over to other books so now I have to consult other readers reading lists to see which ones I want to follow up on. Otherwise solid cape melodrama that keeps me reading.
Atomic Robo- I remember reading a free issue at a shop one time and thought it was hilarious. It involved a crazy dinosaur beguiling the titular robot in a near looney tunes fashion. I read a collection of vol 1-3 and while enjoyable I can’t help but feel like its an exercise of creating serial adventures. Characters dont have very strong identities except for a few stand outs due to the shifting timeline view which does come into play near the end of volume 3. Solid comic bookery but a little hard to find a real grip to it outside of enjoying a near immortal science adventurer being a little tired of it all.
Kamen Rider- A big omnibus of Shotaro’s manga run. Very light on plot outside of the basics with very little build up for developments and just going for it in that old school manga way. Really beautiful spreads for black and white with strong contrasts.
Oh I remember this because it was the passion project of the guy who made 8bittheater, one of the most successful sprite webcomics (this one starting from FF1 sprites)
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That may explain why it feels like its hitting the ground running and expecting to use the pure volume of issues to back fill in other stuff.
Damn I haven’t thought about that comic in years
