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[amae]

Some more sample art for the X-men manga project

I...still don't understand the pure vitriol I'm seeing for this. D: Especially after now seeing the art for the Wolverine comic...I think it looks good lol. At least they don't seem to be going the shoujo route for Wolverine anymore (this does seem to suit him more any how). As far as the shoujo thing goes...the art is really not that bad guys, WTF are you talking about? Yeah it looks typical shoujo, but er, wasn't that the point? Or maybe I'm missing something here. And looking at the people writing it, they seem to have gotten people (okay, I really only know of the people writing the shoujo version, so I'm not saying anything about the Wolverine comic) who know what they're doing.

I just kind of feel confused about how a project that looks at the very least okay is getting shat on from all directions lol. I do think it might have been a better idea if the wanted to do something manga-esque to just...make up a new story, but this is Marvel so I'm not too surprised that they didn't stray too far from what they normally do. I think the key here is not in the art (which again, IS NOT THAT BAD) but in the writing. I guess we'll see how things go.

In other news I have decided that that hot boy from my club who is actually a megane danshi and an adorkable bundle of wonderfulness is also possibly the most moe boy I've ever met. The only thing that's left is for him to dress like a butler and then I'll literally explode. slkjdfs WHY MUST YOU HAVE A GIRLFRIEND D: *throws chairs in a fit of RAGE*

...Anyway. Tomorrow is my last trip to Takarazuka. :( What will I do without androgynous women only one and a half hours away from me now? I can't return to a world without that!

Comments

[notrafficlights.livejournal.com]

No, it's really not, because this decade they have girls asking why the fuck do they have to be insultingly appealed to with this patronising shit ("Boys like comics! Girls like manga!"), why can't they play in the main sandpit with the boys?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Eh. Either way, everyone ends up fixated on the surface and seems to miss that what makes most manga manga is the storytelling techniques, not the art style.

[notrafficlights.livejournal.com]

From what I've read, they're trying to emulate those as well. The Kitty Pryde one is a watered-down shoujo reverse-harem storyline, or something.

The Wolverine one looks slightly less nauseating, but it's still retarded that Marvel would rather pump money into this instead of, I dunno, keeping New X-men going.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Are they just emulating the genre attributes, or are they emulating the panel layout, the flow of speech balloons, integrating the art and the text in a way that pushes the reader's eye along*, and using various artistic techniques to focus on the emotional aspects of the story? That's what I'm referring to by "storytelling techniques," not the shoujo/shounen stuff.



* I've only ever seen this attempted to an extent similar to manga in an issue of Transmetropolitan in American comics, although I admit I haven't read any in a long time and I haven't read everything out there. But I've never seen it in Marvel comics. They tend to rely heavily on context within the dialogue and on the reading convention "left to right, top to bottom" to push the eye along, whereas most manga I've read tends to position the balloons to make the eye drag across the emotional centers of the panels, and to use objects in the art along with the balloons to describe a path on the page.

[notrafficlights.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't know, and knowing Marvel and their previous attempts (Spider Man Loves Mary Jane a notable title), probably not. All we've seen so far are character sketches from some dodgy dA artist. You're probably right that they won't go that far in emulation, which just annoys me more.

[elae.livejournal.com]

it's still retarded that Marvel would rather pump money into this instead of, I dunno, keeping New X-men going.

--sorry to butt in, but from what I've heard, Del Rey basically "licensed" the property from Marvel, much like how the movie-makers do. Marvel isn't playing any part in the creation of the manga series, they just sold that right to Del Rey. So... they're not really pumping -any- money into it.

[notrafficlights.livejournal.com]

Fair enough.