encyclopedia fakemangaica part 23
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davemerrillIt's back to the well of Americans making comics totally ripping off Japanese cartoons over at Mister Kitty's Stupid Comics.
The first thing you'll notice is that it's by the same guys who made "Mecharider", and as such shares the artist's peculiar orientation to move the action in a right-to-left direction, rather than a left-to-right movement most familiar to Western thought. The second thing you'll notice is that the parts that aren't painfully unoriginal are painfully tedious. Fully half of this 17 page story is taken up with a convoluted setup involving space aliens invading Earth and using a device to turn people into monsters, being opposed by a secret organization run by people who talk like and dress like Elvis. And of course it's a continued story because you know people will be rushing back to the newsstands to see how this one turns out!
There is another fake Dirty Pair comic out there, titled TEAM ABUNDI. I would love love love to have a copy of this. I will pay cash money.
The rest of the comic features the continuation of the "Mecharider" story previously featured on Stupid Comics - where better to continue it than unadvertised in the back of another comic book? -and a short story starring "Kimber, Prince Of The Feylons", which was actually an original concept and actually lasted more than one issue. Be original, kids.
The first thing you'll notice is that it's by the same guys who made "Mecharider", and as such shares the artist's peculiar orientation to move the action in a right-to-left direction, rather than a left-to-right movement most familiar to Western thought. The second thing you'll notice is that the parts that aren't painfully unoriginal are painfully tedious. Fully half of this 17 page story is taken up with a convoluted setup involving space aliens invading Earth and using a device to turn people into monsters, being opposed by a secret organization run by people who talk like and dress like Elvis. And of course it's a continued story because you know people will be rushing back to the newsstands to see how this one turns out!
There is another fake Dirty Pair comic out there, titled TEAM ABUNDI. I would love love love to have a copy of this. I will pay cash money.
The rest of the comic features the continuation of the "Mecharider" story previously featured on Stupid Comics - where better to continue it than unadvertised in the back of another comic book? -and a short story starring "Kimber, Prince Of The Feylons", which was actually an original concept and actually lasted more than one issue. Be original, kids.
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Date: 2012-11-16 09:56 pm (UTC)I ought to look up 501 Stone Road in Knoxville to see if anything is there now...Nah.
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Date: 2012-11-16 10:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-16 11:25 pm (UTC)Still, I'm glad I didn't really get to know him till after I was done with trying to make comics myself. Even if I got him to draw my art, my stories were just as lame at that time of my life.
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Date: 2012-11-17 01:39 am (UTC)Though I imagine the mistake is made by artists working in just about every style, I guess.
Steve Krueger had submitted a cover for some Malibu/Eternity mecha book Eldred was pencilling back in the 90s that was a perfect example - the editors had turned it down and he didn't know why. I don't know why the editors turned it down either, but I DO know that the illustration was of a combat mecha charging at the reader in a right-to-left movement, when it should have been left-to-right. I held it up to a mirror to show him what I was talking about, and it's like night and day.