Comments on: Rod’s musings – Manga as metaphor http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2008/rods-musings-manga-as-metaphor/ The Best In Sci-Fi & Fantasy, News, Reviews, Graphic Novels, comics and more! Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:06:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=8825 By: Rod http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2008/rods-musings-manga-as-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-157714 Rod Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:35:43 +0000 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=8169#comment-157714 Yeah, I hear that, Colonylaser. I'm a fan of very few superhero comics today for some of the same reasons you mention. I do like a lot of Image's characters though, and I have been enjoying Batman: Death Mask, but then the Mangaka behind Toguri, Yoshinori Natsume, is responsible for it. Funnily enough I was looking through a box of my comics today and I can see how certain titles or catoonists or writers drew me back in; Bill Sienkiewicz's run on Moonknight, and then a gap and then Sandman and Hellblazer. I'm also a big L&R fan. I'd love to do a blog on it (say he, hoping the boss is looking in). Yeah, I hear that, Colonylaser. I’m a fan of very few superhero comics today for some of the same reasons you mention.

I do like a lot of Image’s characters though, and I have been enjoying Batman: Death Mask, but then the Mangaka behind Toguri, Yoshinori Natsume, is responsible for it.

Funnily enough I was looking through a box of my comics today and I can see how certain titles or catoonists or writers drew me back in; Bill Sienkiewicz’s run on Moonknight, and then a gap and then Sandman and Hellblazer.

I’m also a big L&R fan. I’d love to do a blog on it (say he, hoping the boss is looking in).

]]> By: Colonylaser http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2008/rods-musings-manga-as-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-157389 Colonylaser Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:23:46 +0000 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=8169#comment-157389 I suppose I'm the reverse of that, in that I say I don't get/like American comics, but love Love and Rockets and Bones and Robert Crumb and Pride of Bagdad, etc..... wait, let me rephrase that, what I don't get/like is American "costumed superheroes" comics. But unlike manga and all its diverse genre and target, I think I can actually say I don't like American "costumed superheroes" comics because it is exactly not diverse, targets the same audience, and follows the same motif regardless how much more "angsts" (crybabies) the heroes get nowadays. I suppose I’m the reverse of that, in that I say I don’t get/like American comics, but love Love and Rockets and Bones and Robert Crumb and Pride of Bagdad, etc….. wait, let me rephrase that, what I don’t get/like is American “costumed superheroes” comics. But unlike manga and all its diverse genre and target, I think I can actually say I don’t like American “costumed superheroes” comics because it is exactly not diverse, targets the same audience, and follows the same motif regardless how much more “angsts” (crybabies) the heroes get nowadays.

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