Comments on: THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (5/19/10 – Three Trilogies & More)

By: Joe McCulloch

Joe McCulloch — Wed, 19 May 2010 23:41:07 +0000

Oh god, that’s great. The dvd for the BLAME! anime actually does something a little bit similar… it’s set up as a discarded item from the series’ world, and you have to sift through error-prone, totally incomprehensible menus to find anything, which is fun for three minutes and then gets pretty annoying, but then gets a little fun again once you memorize where everything is. Except, I was hoping the concept would extend to the anime itself, like it’d be some glitchy transformation of the manga into a broken-down future experience… but it’s really just an ’80s-style this-isn’t-really-a-movie-or-a-story-or-anything-just-a-bunch-of-manga-scenes-animated-as-a-premium-fan-keepsake OVA (although it debuted online, presumably on a reeeealy low budget, ’cause there’s not a lot of, um, animation)…

By: Lastworthy

Lastworthy — Wed, 19 May 2010 09:28:33 +0000

It’s probably not his strongest work, but I had a really intense reaction to biomega 2 the first time I read it. I downloaded a scanlation way back when it first came out, but my ghetto 56k pre-torrent Internet connection garbled up four chapters so that it was all really uneven static but it perserved large areas of white, so every few pages I’d get a text bubble or part of a panel rising up out of the noise, mostly unintelligible. There was just enough structure that I bought it as a creative decision and not a machine error. It blew my mind. I explained it to myself as the main character had taken battle damage and was either a robot or we were seeing the HUD in his helmet. It was just so isolated and chaotic that it fit perfectly, it was my first real ” comics can be anything” moment. I remember thinking about what it must have been like to recieve it serialized in japan, and just turn the page and realize you got 20 pages of noize rock for the third issue in a row. I was heartbroken when I realized that wasn’t how it was supposed to be.

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