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Sunday Silence
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I'd figure outside of maybe a couple titles (Tenjo Tenge and Megatokyo), the rest of the lot are collectors items. |
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enurtsol
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Tamaria
 Posts: 1512 Location: De Achterhoek |
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With stuff like Asterix and the Falling Sky around, I don't think it's weird to take the message ('manga is a threat') seriously. Or, hey, how about this: 
"Help! Comics are in danger of disappearing as an artform. Many comics and comic shops have already disappeared. Thirty or forty years ago comics were still extremely popular. There were weeklies such as TinTin, Spirou and Eppo. But what a shame. In the mid ninties kids discovered games and prefered to sit in front of the tv to watch Nickelodeon and Jetix... Ask a kid what comics he knows and he'll only be able to answer Donald Duck and Tintin. They only know Superman and Batman from the movies. Who knows Lucky Luck or Captain Rob anymore? A modern child thinks Captain Rob is boring. They want fast paced comics. And they enjoy the violence in Japanse manga." "Here, go buy yourself a manga with this." |
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tasogarenootome
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Hey "A Comic Shop", you had me at Steampunk Palin. You should have advertised that instead.
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mgosdin
 Posts: 1302 Location: Kissimmee, Florida, USA |
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I'm not surprised that the shop owner did not anticipate just exactly how the flyer would be received.
Wanting publicity, and stirring the waters to get it, may result in something unanticipated. For myself, I didn't do business with them before and I'm even less likely to do so now. Mark Gosdin |
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rinmackie
 Posts: 1040 Location: in a van! down by the river! |
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I admit I was a bit upset at first, but after reading the store owner's response, I felt better. It was only a joke, just chill out, folks!
Also, Steampunk Palin, Robama?! If only real life politics was this interesting! 
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Surrender Artist
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I think it was once. I'd swear that I once read something about how William Howard Taft won in 1908 because he was filled with thousands of tiny homunculi that he could unleash upon his foes, or at least to stuff ballot boxes. The only reason that he lost in 1912 was because Woodrow Wilson was an 18th level Grand Wizard of fearsome arcane power... and racism. |
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factual_error
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Why would we buy American when we all know that the Japanese model is always superior?
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Shenl742
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Okay, so it was all a joke...not a good joke, but a joke nonetheless.
Now can we all get back to our regular lives? At least until another oppurtunity for elitist Japanophiles to crap all over western media pops up.... |
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Blood-
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I'm interested and would like to know more about Steampunk Palin. |
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mdo7
 Posts: 6259 Location: Katy, Texas, USA |
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Wow glad to see this was all a joke, but not a good idea to pull off a joke like this. There's already a huge reaction over this with people saying nasty and flaming comment about American comic.
I would prefer the term pro-Asian/Japanese supremacist to describe these people. |
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vashthekaizoku
 Posts: 261 Location: The House of Rat |
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I can't get into American comics, with the exception of Star Wars and the Vertigo series Fables. At least manga storylines are self contained, unlike Marvel and DC, where everything is so linked that they have to retcon their entire universes every decade or so. Crossovers are rare in the manga world (Toriyama and Oda's DBZ/One Piece story being the rare exception). Well, that or fan fiction.
That and the fact that 1) regular comics are so much harder to store and save without some kind of special box and 2) you generally don't have to bag and board manga, unless it's those Evangelion ones from the 90s that were published in pulp comic fashion. |
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oblivious247
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Because it isn't. Both have their merits. You probably haven't even ever read American comics. Anyways, this is proof that manga/anime fans get too easily butthurt. |
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jsieczkar
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All Marvel, DC and most inde comics are now sold in Hard Cover and TPB format as well as digital so storing an American/European book is no harder then a Japanese one. |
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penguintruth
 Posts: 8461 Location: Penguinopolis |
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It's a misunderstanding just because they said so? Convenient.
What, exactly, was misunderstood here? They still intend to trade manga for American comics. Why manga specifically? Why not other American comics? |
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