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| I’ve got a few books and haven’t seen any here was curious if it’s only US comics that everyone collects do people put them in a category of their own? Any who I’ll post what I have when I’m off work | ||
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| I have a few. Some spider-man, some masamune shirow. Trying to find original, un-translated content has been difficult to say the least. | ||
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| Does jujutsu Kaisen count? | ||
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| I would post but this thread would be locked immediately. | ||
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@HAmistoso Pray Tell…Nevermind  @Stonecollector I have not picked up any for a while now, especially since we can just wait for the trades. For individual manga, I have a mishmash of Dirty Pair, Alita, Akira, Robotech (Macross, Southern Cross, and Shadow Chronicles)…and a couple niche ones. For trades, Lone Wolf and Cub, Crying Freeman, Gon, and a couple of others. My kids are into Splatoon, but I stopped buying them since they can easily be checked out from the library. |
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| @jake I remember watching them macross anime as a kid I even had a couple of toys never read the manga though. The only manga I’ve collected is beastars, I got the whole series though  I also have some signed artwork by the English voice actors  And a signed aggretsuko piece but that’s it.  |
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| @multi007 I don’t see why not | ||
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In high school drafting class, my classmates and I would place comics and manga on a table, and just read, discuss, argue, and draw comics! I discovered manga (Appleseed, Akira), anime (Akira, Robotech, Gundam, Fists of the Northstar), and indie comics (TMNT, Grendel, Love and Rockets). We read mainstream comics as well (but I think that is covered in a lot of other threads). There were so much good stuff coming out at the time. Here are some manga trades:           At Otakon, Kotha Hirano signed the DVD jacket of my copy of Hellsing. |
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@Stonecollector Nice! Richard Epcar [voice of Raiden (Mortal Kombat games), Joker (Injustice games), Batou, Ben Dixon] signed one of my copies of Robotech. John Harris Staton (Hammer of the Gods, Liberty Meadows) and Frank Cho collaborated on this poster of Bubblegum Crisis. |
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 I like bean sprouts.
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| I appreciate manga as an art form, but don't really read or collect it. Closest thing would probably be my Scott Pilgrim collection. I really think western comics could learn a lot from manga; both are formulaic and rely heavily on tropes, but manga in many ways stays fresher than western books by not relying too heavily on specific characters. Giant robots and oversize swords, but they aren't all the same giant robots and oversize swords. Each is differentiated from a base concept to reflect a specific story the creator wants to tell. But in western comics, fans are fixated on characters; even worse, specific versions of characters. Hal Jordan and Peter Parker are two great examples; no matter what, neither one of these characters is allowed to grow or change for very long. They always get pushed back to some imagined "ideal" version that ends up more and more formulaic. Manga is also incredibly broad in scope; western comics would do well to move beyond the superhero archetype. I think part of the reason manga is so popular (more popular than traditional western comics, AFAIK) is because there is something to appeal to almost any taste. Hard-boiled crime drama? Sure. Romance? Easy. Adventure? Gotcha. Horror? All day long. While there are small press companies working with these things in western media, there isn't a lot compared to the Marvel/DC capes and spandex output. And let's not even get into the value equation. Marvel wants ten bucks for the first issue of G.O.D.S. 64 pages, and given the crap paper Marvel uses these days, it might survive three readings. Or you can buy the first volume of One Punch Man. Same price. 200 pages. Square bound, and you can probably read it daily for years without it coming apart in your hands. |
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 Staple topics, nice.
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| A few... | ||
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 Ima gonna steal this and look for some occasion to use it!
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I do not. Not my flavor of brandy. Weird eyes, pointy chins, everyone needs a decent hair cut  However - I credit magna with being the first BIG thing that began drawing women into what was formerly an almost entirely boys club hobby. So for that I appreciate the artform and stories. In the early 90's I would occasionally set up at some nearby comic book shows as a dealer. I would pay my oldest daughter (then around 13) to come with me and help with the tables. After about three shows she refused to do more. "the guys are all weird and they stare at me" she said. They stared at her because she was often only one of handful of women at the show. Fast forward about a dozen years. I'm talked into doing a few shows as a dealer here locally and I bring my youngest daughter to help with my tables. She wants to be paid of course, but she enjoyed it. The guys are not particularly weird and they don't stare at her because there are LOTS OF FEMALES at the shows. Magna and cosplay have evolved this hobby - and for the better. |
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