I keep reading that James Cameron is doing the movie ‘real soon now’ along with Speilburg, Then I read he has Battle Angel Alita ready to go into production ‘real soon now’.
BTA was another great one. Limited, but great comcept.
I love comics. I got out when Marvel and DC went full tilt PC. After Age of Apocalypse that was it for me. And what those fools at Marvel did to Rachel summers will never be forgiven ;) Never could find any manga/Graphic Novels outside Naruto locally and for some reason, dispute my GITS fanboyness, never ordered any of the GNs for GITS.
Might need to do that.
The last mainstream comic I was into from Marvel was Havok and Woverine from epic, the ‘graphic arm’ of Marvel. It had two artists, one doing wolverine, the other Havok, both doing fully painted art. Late 80’s. wiki doesn’t have a page I can find, they should.
http://www.amazon.com/Havok-Wolverine-Meltdown-Walter-Simonson/dp/B000721DBQ
After that great writing and art, I couldn’t hack DC or Marvel anymore, I was on to Cerebus, Akira, Appleseed, and Nausicaa.
Akira and Nausicaa are two comics you should read, if you ever have the chance. I mean they are classics of the type. Greatly expanded story and scope in both cases as far as anime vs comic. You are probably getting 50% or more story in both cases maybe vs the anime. AND the writers are drawing it all like friggen masters.
I remember seeing battle angel alita anime back in the day, never read the comics to compare, although I have seen them in shops. I dug the anime.
Another anime that I thought had a lot of heart was this weird thing called ‘fooly cooley’. Completely wacky, but it had some really cool story parts too. I think I only saw it on cartoon network though so it might have been all cut up as far as I know.
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