Incoming Iron Man show

Looks pretty neat, doesn't it? I wonder who that villain is.

Ahem.

But the show most definitely looks awesome.

Whoops, my memory isn'y what it us ed to be.

That link doesn't work.

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I like how you bumped an old thread to mention that a link to an even older thread doesn't work.

I guess we can talk about the Iron Man anime here, but until we get more information there isn't really much to say beyond "I want/don't want to watch it".

This looks very expensive, more so than any other Japanese series currently airing. There is considerable financial clout behind, so I'm guessing there is American money invested in this.

Other than that, it reminds me of Guyver, somewhat.

edited 9th Jan '10 9:43:42 AM by zeroplusalpha

Well apparently the point of these shows is to try and get Japanese people interested in Marvel Comics, so I'd imagine Marvel would be putting some serious cash into it.

Their efforts arec doomed. Comix VS Manga = Curb-Stomp Battle. Mostly for continuity and characterization reasons.

I recall being vaguely interested in this when The Movie came out.

Am I the only one who gets a bit of an 80s vibe from the animation? Particularly all the work that went into make the armor all shiny.

If you had to pick a work to get the Japanese interested in Western comic books, the Humongous Mecha series is a good way to go.

There's no reason to believe that the end result will actually look like that. Those sort of teaser trailers tend to be produced before they've even assembled the crew, nevermind begin animating it.

Duke Nukem Forever comes to mind.

@Raw Power: Please elaborate. If some Americans can like weird Japanese comics, then presumably some Japanese people can like weird American comics.

Wolverine is pretty beast but a lot of Butt Hurt is showing up.

@Ronin - You're the first to mention Wolverine in this thread. Did you confuse it for the one that got lost?

edited 9th Jan '10 11:28:04 PM by Hylarn

Simple: Manga usually have one writer and one artist, whe they aren't the same person. Thus Depending on the Writer doesn't happen. There are no Continuity Snarls, no Dork Age, no Retcon: you either accept all of the work for what it is, or you reject it. There are no crossovers, especially no Crisis Crossovers.

AND the art is in black and white, naked for all to see: it's not draped in digital shiny dégadés and bright colors that hide the low quality of the art.

And the characters are a lot more believable, because the author constructs coherently and not with Enforced Tropes, like it happens in Comics.

My first contact with comic books outside of Frank Miller and Alan Moore (I liked some of the former's works, but then he went insane, and I like all of the latter's, who was already insane, but whom I think is a bit too pedantic and pretentious, especially in Promethea), and the Comic Book Movies (and the DCAU) was with a Cable And Deadpool tome (the one in which Nick Fury is sent after Cable) and a Crisis On Infinte Earths book (the one in which Superboy Prime goes insane).

It was disgusting. The famed Deadpool was a dissappointment. The art was horribly uneven in quality, and they gorgeously colored even the most hideous drawings. And the mass of Crisis characters was driving me INSANE. Who ARE all those guys? Why are there more than three people with The Flash's speed? Are the Green Lanterns Breathing In Space???? Who is that girl and why does he care she's dead?

And this is me, who thanks to the movies and animated series has some knowledge of those universes. Now imagine an Otaku who has already spent hundreds of dollars in toys and Long Runner series. Do you really expect him to go through the effort of updating seventy years worth of comic book history just to have a vague idea of what in the fuck is happening now? And do you expect him to keep reading three or four series at once just to not be Left Behind at the next crisis? Do you think he'll want to witness the three-way war between fans, writers and executives?

I say NO.

I'll have a look at movies, series, stuff that has a beginning and an end, that makes some sort of sense. But I have vowed never to read the regular series. Period.

(Sorry, comic book fan tropers, but I needed to vent this. After my proclamation of indifference to Cowboy Bebop, I am delving more and more into Fan Heresy. I might as well confess I don't like Myazaki's movies... NOT!!!).

edited 10th Jan '10 7:44:20 AM by RawPower

Are you sure you're not James S Pratt?

Who's that?

Try some stuff from DC's Vertigo imprint, like Y The Last Man or Fables. Or go outside the Big Two altogether — I recommend Bone.

And of course, there are some titles that manage to dodge the Continuity Snarl problems, like Ultimate Spider Man, All Star Superman, and early Runaways.

The main problem, I think, is that so little of DC and Marvel's business comes from comics. So much of it is milking decades-old properties for movies, TV shows, toys, and other merchandise. Now, if copyright terms could be shortened, they might not be able to rely on that anymore — cut them even to 70 years, and nobody has to pay DC to be allowed to use their two biggest properties anymore. 50 years and Marvel's lost most of its biggest properties by 2013. Suddenly, there's a lot more pressure to actually create something new.

FIRST EPISODE IS OUT, AND IT IS BEAUTIFUL. It is also very Madhouse-ish

Okay, no Character Derailment for Tony Start at all... He's clearly himlsef.

That girl just asked Tony Stark to be humble. Is she exactly aware of who he is?

He called the mass-produced iron men "Dio"? The Dio Brand?

edited 2nd Oct '10 1:16:02 PM by RawPower

Great, tow threads. Which one stays?

And the characters are a lot more believable, because the author constructs coherently and not with Enforced Tropes, like it happens in Comics.

You... You are saying anime and manga characters ARE NOT generally built around Tropes as much or more as American characters?

• Guffaw* *Guffaw*

Hee hee heee hee, haaa haaa...

Sorry, but No. Just... No.