Comments on: Actually, ’solanin’ is really good and you should get it.

By: *Solanin — Recommended » Comics Worth Reading

*Solanin — Recommended » Comics Worth Reading — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:53:42 +0000

[...] “like Scott Pilgrim but without the video game realism, and twice as much of the drama” — Christopher Butcher [...]

By: Dan Coyle

Dan Coyle — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:22:29 +0000

Hey, whatever gets Pluto and 20CB published in the US, I’ll pay it. There are plenty of American comics priced more than that that aren’t worth the price.

By: Blog@Newsarama » Blog Archive » The Lightning Round

Blog@Newsarama » Blog Archive » The Lightning Round — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:25:51 +0000

[...] – Everyone and their uncle seems to be talking about Inio Asano’s Solanin, now in stores courtesy of Viz. [...]

By: Off-topic Man

Off-topic Man — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:07:01 +0000

Oh, I see I was too quick to cry foul. I’m all for better and larger formats! Thanks for the explanation.

By: Halliday

Halliday — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:19:48 +0000

For me, $12.99 isn’t asking much, as I’m quite happy with how REAL looks and feels as I’m reading it. If that’s the format you’re talking about, it’s pretty close to how they printed the PLUTO special editions in Japan, which is FUCKING SWEET.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:53:49 +0000

Off-Topic Man: Yeah, it’s just you.

Seriously though, 20cb and Pluto are going to show up in the new format, larger size with french flaps. It’s a little bit more for a stronger format, and a little bit more for higher quality material that will sell fewer copies, and a little bit more because they were likely quite expensive to license.

- Chris

By: Off-topic Man

Off-topic Man — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:44:34 +0000

Hey, am I the only one dumbfounded by the fact that 20TH CENTURY BOYS and PLUTO are going to cost 13 bucks, that is, 3 more than Monster??? What gives? Not that I’ll change my plans of buying them, but Jesus fuck!

By: I’m in the “Liked it” column « Precocious Curmudgeon

I’m in the “Liked it” column « Precocious Curmudgeon — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:06:33 +0000

[...] I’m in the “Liked it” column Filed under: Flipped, Viz — davidpwelsh @ 2:06 pm Well, really, after Jog and Chris Butcher have discussed it, what else is there to say? In my defense, I did not yet know that they’d both already gone over Solanin (Viz) when I wrote this week’s column. [...]

By: bananahead

bananahead — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:40:54 +0000

any comic that has jog and c butcher disagree about it is more interesting to me to look into then a comic that had universal acclaim. can’t wait to check it out.

By: Dan Coyle

Dan Coyle — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:31:45 +0000

I also agree Solanin is quite good. Especially if you liked Tekkon Kinkreet or Blue Spring.

By: Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » Oct. 27, 2008: Of course he’s a total geek

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:43:10 +0000

[...] The first English-language release by Inio Asano, a scanlation of whose Nijigahara Holograph prompted me to declare it one of the ten best comics I’d read in 2007. Related: Christopher Butcher disagrees with McCulloch. [...]

By: Jog

Jog — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:06:27 +0000

Hmmm, I'm pretty sure solanin wasn't his first published work, though... It's a Wonderful World! started up about two years prior, at least, and I think he fit in another project (Hikari no machi) after that... I wasn't going totally off liking his later work more, it's that even some of his earlier work had a more interesting feel... I should also clarify that I don't think a technique used in the interests of speed can't be effective or strong or altogether fitting... I was only commenting there that the technique seemed like something that'd shave some time off, although that aspect alone wouldn't really hurt my reading or anything...

By: Halliday

Halliday — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:35:59 +0000

Well… you know where I stand on SOLANIN. Having read some of Asano’s other works, which are indeed accomplished, and perhaps more conceptually and intellectually challenging, I definitely feel like SOLANIN had more genuine passion… being his first published manga work and coming from a very personal place, I definitely have more of an emotional attachment to this work than his others, though he’s pretty masterful at all times.

I think that thing that impresses me more about his actual art is his use of special effects like soft focus and certain lighting effects, which add a great amount of depth and reality to the world his expressive character art inhabits, and the fairly unprecedented level of detail in his layouts… you don’t see many manga that have a background drawing in almost every panel.