Comments on: Liveblogging the November 2009 Previews – Part 2

By: Halliday

Halliday — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:28:33 +0000

I, personally, am super excited about UDON’s release of MEGAMAN MEGAMIX… I have a really old tankubon of Hitoshi Ariga’s first REMIX, which I believe is a seperate series from his new MEGAMIX, which is a lot slicker and more polished. As a life-long fan of the Blue Bomber, I can assure anyone else that might be a fan of my favorite side-scrolling shooter about the Little Blue Robot that Could (fight Robot Terrorists and Mechanical Monsters), that Hitoshi Ariga is the best artist/writer to every put pen to paper with anything dealing with Mega Man (or Rock Man, if you want to get culturally accurate). His art is perfectly on model, but with it own flare; loose, gestural, and with perfectly cartooned expression, capturing not only the grim, gritty, and fast paced action associated with the story of a child-like battle Robot, who courageously volunteers to be re-purposed to fight against his abused and manipulated brethren, who have been reprogrammed for evil by the sinister scientist Dr. Wily, but also the childish fun and excitement of an action series with appeal to both the young and young at heart.

Mega Man finds his roots in another popular Robot, with obvious influences coming from my other Mechanical Childhood hero, Astro Boy, but with a more fast paced story filled with action and drama, and less social commentary. Still, that’s not to say that Mega Man is without an intelligent and engaging plot; an allegory for the sacrifices made in the name of peace, and the helplessness of technology in how it is used by humans. Rock is the hero who sacrifices his innocence to become a weapon of peace, while his six robot brothers, construction robots built to help humanity, are helpless to resist their new, destructive programming, the dark influence of Dr. Wily, an insane but brilliant scientist who uses his genius in a bid for world domination.

I’m truly excited about this; Thanks Erik and Jim! I know that getting stuff like this isn’t easy, so thanks for doing the leg work!

By: Torsten Adair

Torsten Adair — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:59:18 +0000

One could argue that the BOOM! hardcover is marketed towards the collectors, but then… BOOM! is restricted to U.S. sales, which means the European fans must purchase these copies on the grey market.

Having read the Ehapa (Egmont’s German division) magazine/catalog for Spring 2009, I can only DREAM that BOOM! follows their publishing model! “Hall of Fame” volumes by creator, deluxe editions… *sabber*

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Comic Book Links For Tuesday December 1st « Comic Book Daily — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:45:04 +0000

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THE BEAT » Blog Archive » Kibbles ‘n’ Bits — 12/1/09 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:06:10 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:46:01 +0000

RAMAYANA looks beautiful… buy lots and sell lots to libraries, hindu groups and me.

that is all

By: Joshua Fialkov

Joshua Fialkov — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:42:26 +0000

Hey Chris,
Just wanted to thank you for the kind words about Tumor. Noel absolutely killed on the book, and I can’t wait for you and your customers to read it!

Drop me a line if you’d like to get an early look at the book!

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Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:11:52 +0000

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Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:05:29 +0000

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By: Jarrett

Jarrett — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:58:08 +0000

What’s funny is while Fantagraphics had a better layout for this Previews (as shown above), the layout for the new Previews I saw out-awfuls all previous ones.

By: Mel Caylo

Mel Caylo — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:19:55 +0000

We know. We had Diamond include it in a Dateline update, and I posted it on the CBIA boards. We are waiting to see what retailer reaction is but so far no one has said anything.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:16:39 +0000

Dude that is a pretty big error.

By: Mel Caylo

Mel Caylo — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:12:11 +0000

Hey, Chris. Thanks for the love! Unfortunately, we erred in the solicitation. TUMOR is actually a black and white book, not full color. Sorry for the confusion.

Mel Caylo
Archaia

By: Bitter Matt

Bitter Matt — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:59:20 +0000

“So as a reward, here’s me talking about all of their new books”

Yeah! Let’s hear it for positive reinforcement being used to promote good layout and design. =)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:18:18 +0000

Great post, as always!
Actually, MEANWHILE is the proper re-release of an older self-published book by Jason Shiga. The original zine was hand-cut and hand-collated.. my first Shiga comic and still my favorite. It’s an incredible read, and definitely exciting for non-comics fans too. It’s a great, holy-shit-check-this-thing-out object, plus the story is actually really recursive and emotional. A+++ “:B