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vapwaazu
 Posts: 115 Location: Sydney, Australia |
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I still need to get the first volume of this
 . I bought most of the reprint from Book Off a few years ago. It was soooooo strange, I just remember the weird scenes like, what appears to be a total drug freak out and when like 50 students on a stair case fall on top of each other.
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Anime World Order
 Posts: 390 Location: Florida |
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I also have most of the Japanese editions of this manga, though since I can't read any Japanese I can mostly just look at them in somewhat befuddled amazement. Still, now that I know there are 31 chapters that were released in English, I now have new marching orders handed down from up on high:
GET ME PICTURES OF SPIDER-MAN! |
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YoSoyJaponesa
 Posts: 65 Location: Behind my desk, doodling... |
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I found a copy of Vol. 4 in Japanese. I like the realistic art style, but it's definitely not the Spider-Man I'm accustomed to...
Doesn't mean it's not pretty cool though... |
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Zach
 Posts: 16 Location: Seattle, WA. |
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I just checked out Ebay to see how easy this would be to pick up, and it seems pretty easy to find bundles of the individual issues Marvel published.
I remember checking out some of the Marvel issues of this back when it first came out and being befuddled by them at the time. What I find most strange is Marvel hasn't so much made a peep about possibly publishing U.S. editions of the Japanese digests in the U.S. The audience that picked up Bat-Manga! would probably pick them up at least as a curiosity item. Speaking of Batman, he's had a much more expansive transition into manga form a few times. Other than the aforementioned Bat-Manga!, Batman was adapted for the Japanese market by Kia Asamiya in Batman: Child of Dreams, by Katsuhiro Otomo for a short story in the Batman Black and White anthology book, and the less than successful Batman: Death Mask by Yoshinori Natsume. |
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GATSU
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Is that where they got that shitty clone arc in the American series? 
But this is fine? 
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Moomintroll
 Posts: 1600 Location: Nottingham (UK) |
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There's also Junko Mizuno's take on Spider Man from Marvel's Strange Tales anthology:
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Vent
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No, "guy pretends to be Spider-Man" is a pretty traditional storyline that's been around since close to the beginning of the character's appearance. |
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Nephtis
 Posts: 138 Location: Australia |
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Uh-huh. As an Australian, I do very much enjoy things like this, good times.
I wonder if his legs have that crazy kicking power as well. I'm not much of a manga/comic fan but this was a very...unique series that I otherwise would probably have never seen. Great article. |
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prime_pm
 Posts: 2369 Location: Your Mother's Bedroom |
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God, and I thought Tobey Maguire was overly emo in 3.
I think what qualifies as the "most out there" Spiderman adaptation, however, would be the Turkish film 3 Dev Adam. In this one, the evil Spiderman and his Spider Gang causes havoc around Istanbul (not Constantinople). There are scenes where he feeds a man's eyeball to a hamster, shoots a gun, multiplies himself (talk about clones), and shaves a woman's face off with a boat propeller. He even breaks into some unknown woman's house for no reason whatsoever and strangles her in a bathtub with a telephone cord. Coming to save the day? Captain America, his girlfriend Julia, and Mexico's El Santo. Take a moment to process all this. |
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Fronzel
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Alan Moore is angry; Rorshach isn't a cool guy, eh eats cold beans he stole from a friend and doesn't bathe for anything.
That Chris is quite a fellow. |
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jgreen
 Posts: 1325 Location: St. Louis, MO |
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Actually, there was a Marvel supervillain named the Kangaroo that pre-dates the Ikegami one: http://marvel.com/universe/Kangaroo_(Frank_Oliver)
I bought the Marvel US edition of Spider-Man: The Manga and remember it being terrible, but so completely bonkers that I just had to keep buying it. Kind of amazing that the first issue of this sold almost 23,000 copies considering how weird it was. |
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Lord Geo
Posts: 2675 Location: North Brunswick, New Jersey |
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Man, and I thought the tokusatsu show featuring Leopardon the giant mech was an odd one... Though considering how you can actually watch the entire tokusatsu show subbed on Marvel's website now, they should try out the manga one more time.
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The Xenos
 Posts: 1519 Location: Boston |
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Nice. I remember finding a Japanese volume of this randomly in an underground comic shop in Harvard Sqaure years ago. It was volume 2 and just seemed so odd I needed to get it. Later I learned it was Ikegami whose art I had I since really come to like. Now hearing the rest of the story, it's even more amazing. Wow. That is crazy. Then again I missed all of the 1970s. Maybe I should be glad...
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ptolemy18
Manga Reviewer/Creator/Taster
Posts: 357 Location: San Francisco |
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Rorschach is an extreme version of an 'antiheroic superhero', but basically he's modeled on the same archetype as the Punisher and other characters like that. They're both really tough angry sinister dudes who don't have much of a personal life because they are dedicated to fighting evil.... SO MUCH THAT THEY HAVE BECOME EVIL THEMSELVES WOOOO0000! That's what they have in common. -_- Contrarily, in Spider-Man: The Manga, Peter -- I mean Yu -- spends so much time worrying about becoming evil that he tends not to do anything. Instead of "turning to the dark side," he stays a depressed self-doubting person for pretty much the whole story. But in their different ways, both Spider-Man: The Manga and Rorschach in Watchmen are attempts to pick apart superhero comics morality.
Oh yes indeed! He's iconic! -_- |
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KumarSivasubramanian
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I read a few volumes of this and it just got crazier, more feverish, and emotionally intense. The painted covers on the Japanese editions alone are worth the ticket price.
KS |
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