Forum - View topicX-Men!! The Manga!?
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Andrue
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have any of you guys read the x men manga?
i found a few issues at the local comic store and i think its very interesting. the japanese take on western superheros is pretty cool. its all over the top fighting. but i like it. |
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BrothersElric
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Yeah, I've heard somewhere before that there was a manga adaptation of X-Men somewhere out there, I just haven't seen it anywhere I've been to. I'd definitely love to read it though. It'd definitely be interesting to see how they're version of it would be.
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Brand
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I know there is a Spider-man manga (Though the article has bad info the artist is not Ryoichi Ikegami) being published currently in Spider-man Family from marvel.
There is a Hulk manga. which I know nothing about. And I know of a Batman manga. While the trade cover of this shows a very Michael Keaton looking Batman, the art inside is nothing like that, and at some point Batman gets in a mech suit. |
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Kagemusha
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Spider-man by Ikegami sounds pretty sweet (I can't really recall the issue I read a while ago) and Asamiya's take on Batman is very good, but Koike doing Hulk?!?! Could a more manly comic even be possible?
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Brand
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But the artist isn't Ikegami, when I go to work tomorrow I'll take a look but it is most diffidently a different artist who has a very cartoony style. I don't know who on wikipedia was on crack enough to list Ikegami as the artist but it isn't him. If it was that would be cool, but from what I saw of the Spider-man manga it's more cute and silly then serious and bad ass. I wish Marvel's was actually useful, but it's not really a big help when looking for, well almost anything. Hmmm this Spider-man fan site lists the writer and artist as Yamanaka Akira, which if I remember is correct. 
As you can see sadly not Ikegami art. Ok edit, there seems to be one done by Ikegami and one done by the other guy. This is confusing. |
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Andrue
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what i like is the more simplified x men.
the manga draws the characters much softer and the backgrounds and what not are less gritty. i love the x men, but the manga is stellar as well. |
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jgreen
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Hey guys, time to stop all the misinformation and spell out just what's available out there....
Spider-Man: The Manga -- Originally published in Japan in the 1970s, this is the version by Ryoichi Ikegami. It was translated into English by Marvel from 1997-1999, lasting 31 issues with no trade paperback collections. They only translated about 3 of the series' original 5 volumes before the series was cancelled due to low sales (surprisingly, the first issue actually made it into the top 30 or so comics for that month, but sales tanked after that). Spider-Man J -- Yamanaka Akira's new manga-esque Spider-Man tale, Spider-Man J first appeared in Spider-Man Family #1 (released by Marvel in February of '07 -- preview here). There have been, to my knowledge, only 3 Spider-Man J stories published in English, all within the pages of the Spider-Man Family anthology title. There has been no collection so far. X-Men: The Manga -- Debuting the same month as Spider-Man: The Manga in the US, the X-Men manga (unlike Spidey) is NOT an original story set in Japan but is, rather, a literal adaptation of the X-Men cartoon of the 1990s. As such, it's pretty boring and predictable if you've seen the episodes in question, and the fact that there's a new writer/artist after every 2 issues makes it, quite frankly, a bit of a mess. There are a few artists that are better than others, but the whole thing was so inconsistent that it's hard to recommend. It only lasted 26 issues before being cancelled, though it ran much longer in Japan. |
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