Star Wars - Comics VS Manga. Guess who wins...
Here is a recent and interesting article from the Star Wars homepage, Checklist: Turning Star Wars Japanese.
Obviously I wouldn't be writing about it if the manga got slammed, but their reasoning makes sense beyond the "manga is cooler" logic that is sadly becoming the standard way of thinking.
Starting with the Episode IV adaptation from Hisao Tamaki, the manga edition definitely benefits from the cantina being a much better researched environment. Offering up a whole page for Luke and the reader to explore the darkened corners of the bar lets the artist populate it with many more familiar faces. The devil-faced Labria is there, as is the band, the side-burn sporting rockabilly spacer BoShek, the snooty looking smoker Dannik Jerriko, and a rather fetching rendering of the Tonnika twins.
posted by John T at
3/02/2008 09:44:00 PM
3 Comments:
Oh John, you've given me another reason to hate you. I don't need any more manga, but those Star Wars volumes look so cool!
Even though the manga did have the advantage of coming after the movies were out, I don't think American comics would have used some of the conventions that make the manga better, such as the Han Solo scene. The manga just captures the essence of that (one of my favorites from the original).
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Lori Henderson, at Friday, March 07, 2008
As one that grew up on the movies and the (very cool large size) comics I have to admit that this column sells the manga version in spades.
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John T, at Saturday, March 08, 2008
Hehehe...I had the Giant Size comic too. That was pretty cool too. Do you think it's because of comparisons like this that comic fans hate manga so much? I really am having a hard time understanding the animosity.
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Lori, at Monday, March 10, 2008
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