Forum - View topicNEWS: Stan Lee, Shaman King's Takei Unveil Ultimo Manga Pic
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v1cious
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wow... generic much? it looks like something you'd see on deviant art. on the other hand, Stan Lee's involved, so at least we know it won't be your typical shounen manga.
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Patachu
Past ANN Contributor
 Posts: 1325 Location: San Diego |
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Yeah, instead it'll be your typical superhero comic. 
I realize that 97% of all manga plots are dumb as hell, but somehow, everything to come out of Stan Lee's head these days isn't much better. |
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prime_pm
 Posts: 2378 Location: Your Mother's Bedroom |
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On the right, it looks like what they tried to turn Bugs Bunny into on that damn Looney Tunes ripoff a year or two ago.
 What was the name of that crap?
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v1cious
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Loonatics
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prime_pm
Posts: 2378 Location: Your Mother's Bedroom |
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Yeah, seems that way for Stan
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britannicamoore
 Posts: 2618 Location: Out. |
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I actually like the pics....hm. I can't say I love Stan lee, but I like a lot of his stories.
I can't wait to see more of what they made up. |
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Dargonxtc
 Posts: 4463 Location: Nc5xd7+ スターダストの海洋 |
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ugh... I guess I was hoping for something a little more mature.
I don't know why I was thinking that.
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Andrew Cunningham
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Takei can write circles around Stan Lee. This is just baffling. Lee hasn't written anything but pain in ages. I'm hoping he just sketched out a concept and let Takei run with it, but the interview suggests otherwise...
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Hi no Neko
 Posts: 204 Location: Austin, TX |
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Yeah . . . I gotta say, those character designs aren't really doing it for me. They look pretty cool, but really, they seem more like something you'd see connected to a video- or trading-card-game than a manga.
Eh, maybe the story will make up for it . . . but right now I just can't say I'm very interested, aside from the "Holy cow, American comic legend and Japanese comic hotshot are working together on something." factor. |
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GATSU
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Whatever you think of the concept, you gotta admire Lee choosing to continue working in the industry at his age, rather than retire.
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teh*darkness
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I hope this pans out. I love Takei's artwork and was really diappointed to find out his last series was cancelled after only 10 chapters, since I'd read the first one raw, and I thought it looked really good. Hopefully having Stan Lee involved will keep this from getting the axe too quickly, and it sounds like Viz may be planning on near simultaneous release, which I would totally support, even if it means 6-8 months between releases.
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Jump Guru
 Posts: 71 Location: United States |
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Maybe so, it only says Takei's name on the website. he could have just done the sketch...... actually that makes perfect sense, the sketch on the old Jump SQ. II (Second) website doesn't even look nearly like Takei's art style (another user described that on the other thread). |
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Tomibiki
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Thumbs up.
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Axle911
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wow a completely unbiased shot at a living legend, bravo sir bravo. Stan Lee > Tezuka There I just love ticking off the "ZOMG EVERYTHING FROM JAPAN IS BETTER" crowd. |
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Andrew Cunningham
Posts: 527 Location: Seattle |
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Indeed it was. What a man did in his prime has no reflection on what he can do now or has done recently. Unless you truly believe Stripperella was a work of blinding art. Takei ran into problems late in Shaman King, which he is now fixing with 380 additional pages for the Perfect Edition. His follow up series was damn good, and it being one of the few books Jump didn't give a chance to find an audience is a damn shame. (Personally, I think it jumped right into the plot with both feet, and was immediately impossible to follow unless you'd been reading from the beginning. That made it hard to gain new readers without a trade.) Even his failures are fascinating - and Stan Lee's recent failures have been distinctly forgettable. I don't mean to knock Lee's legacy, but at the moment, I am far more interested in see what Takei comes up with on his own. |
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