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I have the impression that so are you.
As a matter of fact, I am. I simply seem to neglect my "duties" in this thread.
Well, so do I at times.
Utterly exquisite. I have loved Gottfredson s strips since I was a kid. I never tire of them.
I treated myself to the 35th Anniversary edition of what is undoubtedly my favourite manga series. Over 2000 pages of cyberpunk fun from the master himself. It's the fourth time I've read the manga, and it never stops to amaze me. The film adaptation only took about half the story, simply because Katsuhiro Otomo hadn't finished writing his epic series yet.
Truly amazing!
The actress is Julia Jones, the daily comic strip (running from 1953- January 1 2000) was titled, The Heart of Juliet Jones. Subtle but distinct difference.
I see. Thanks for the correction. In Norway, she was renamed Julia.
Indeed? You learn something new every day.
Whoa, cool set! I recall hearing how the film had condensed a lot of story into its running time, but I had no idea it was only the manga's first half. I'll have to give it a read at some point.
You must, @Some_Kind_Of_Hero! The box is gradually becoming less expensive, and it certainly is a must-have for any fan of Akira.
The film was released in 1988, but writing and publishing the manga was still happening at the time. A few crucial things that await you if you read the book:
Mild to no spoilers
You wonder why they didn't produce a follow up to Akira '88 once the manga was finished. The film was certainly successful enough.
True. I guess the Japanese are very particular about such things.
I must say, the fact that WB is allegedly planning on making a live action adaptation confuses me. On the one hand, I want that, but only done right i.e. the Peter Jackson treatment. On the other hand, I don't want it. They can screw this up in so many ways...
I think Hollywood has been trying to make a live action adaptation of Akira for ages. I remember there was a project some time back with Leonardo DiCaprio producing! It never got off the ground. I actually enjoyed the live action Ghost in the Shell they made with ScarJo, but I don't have great faith in Akira being pulled off the same way.
I like GITS and Alita very much myself, but even those two are relatively small-scale compared to what an Akira adaptation, done well, would have to be. Without a guaranteed audience, unlike for a Marvel or Disney project, I'm not sure they'd be willing to invest 300 million dollars in such a film. And when I say film, I mean to say film duology, because there's no way one film could cover the complete manga, assuming that's what they'd be willing to adapt. Again, "done well". I'm nervous about this whole thing--can you yell? ;-)
Been reading more vintage Gottfredson.This time from 1933-34. A good way to spend time.
Agreed, @MaxCasino. The comics stick very closely to the original shows. I love them.
Count is a retelling of The Count of Monte-Cristo in a kind of Space Opera world with an aristocratic society, flying ships, energy melee weapons and the like.
It is... ... ...fine.
Because I read it digitally and didn't really check the store page, I was surprised how short it was. And that goes against it massively. Knowing the general gist of the original's story (I read the book many years ago) I was at first pleasently surprised how quickly Moustafa gets the set-up out of the way (although one could very much discuss, whether the prison section in the original is "just" the set-up. To me the interesting part has always been the second part, after Dantès has become the Count) until I realised that I was already about halfway through the book. I don't want to spoil things too much, but where I was looking forward to sections showing how the protagonist worms himself into this interesting high society, we instead get a very straight-forward plot that has to take every turn pretty much exactly as you expect it because there just isn't any place to go somewhere other than the necessary conclusion.
Where I was expecting at least 200 pages, if not 500, I got 120. That is on me, but the story is really not helped by this breakneck pace.
The art is very good and the design of the society is quite interesting, which makes the fact that we really only get to scratch the surface a little bit that much more disappointing to me.
Good pick.
I think I read in an article that he was on their minds when writing and drawing the character. I would have also used Ursula Andress as Talia al Ghul, in this story. Just the Bond fan in me.
The Darkness volume 1 - a celebration of a comic launched 25 years ago, looking forward to the next volume. Top Cow does have some amazing titles.
Excellent work, including the colouring by Brad Simpson.