Moran freeman side by side comparison
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It's a graphic novel.
edited 2nd Mar '11 6:46:50 AM by vanthebaron
Untitled Power Rangers StoryA graphic novel is a comic.
Comics are sequential art to tell a story. That's exactly what Watchmen is.
Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.Graphic novel is a stupid term invented by comic writers who wanted to be novelists but failed and are too embarrassed to be writing "lowly comics", for in their mind comics have no "artistic integrity". Calling the comics "graphic novels" could possibly elevate them to the status of "esteemed author" and "celebrated artist" so they decided to embrace the term. To date this ruse has fooled exactly no one except for other comic writers and only makes the people who use it sound like elitist pricks.
The term was popularized by nerds who were tired of getting wedgies for being nerdy. They decided that if they used the term "graphic novels" bullies would stop picking on them because who beats someone up for reading a novel, right? To date this ruse has fooled exactly no one except for other nerds and only makes the people who use it sound like elitist pricks.
The Colonel.
And yeah, that scene would be interesting, along with Tetsuo hallucinating that his organs are spilling out and suchlike.
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This guy gets it.
Besides, I think I remember hearing that Frank Miller and/or Alan Moore hate the term "graphic novel."
As for the americanization of the film, if they go for american names, what would Tetsuo be? Kaneda would probably be Kenny/Ken/Kenneth/Keith *.
edited 2nd Mar '11 9:24:05 AM by NULLcHiLD27
Tetsuo=Taylor/Tyler (probably Tyler because it's ingrained in everyone's head as evil after Heavy Metal 2000.)
So... it's long, and it ends? That's the distinction. Really?
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You can just use "null", it's what everyone else does.
Based on what some people say in here, * there doesn't seem to be much reason for it to need to be in Japan. It kinda sounds like you could just make a city up, so long as it's a futuristic, cyber-punk distopia, you'd be fine. Is that a wrong assessment?
edited 2nd Mar '11 10:39:56 AM by NULLcHiLD27
OK, sorry to be a dick, I'm just trying to keep YOU from sounding like one as well.
Getting back to the Shinto thing, it's been nearly FOREVER since I've watched Akira. Was the Shinto stuff just faith-based powers or something? You could write that off with mitochondria - it worked for Parasite Eve and Star Wars...
Everybody hated that, though. For good reason.
In the movie, Lady Miyako is basically just a cultist. In the manga she's apparently far more important but I haven't read enough to know, unfortunately.
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Might be good, might not be.
I'm wondering how the hell they're gonna deal with Tetsuo's out of control transformation scene.
That's what it is.
Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.