Forum - View topicAnother American comics writer doing OEL manga
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mangaben
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While soccer fans (and the entire world) eagerly await 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany, Chuck Austen, on the other hand, has a different ball game that he’s interested in.
The former writer of Uncanny X-Men, Action Comics (and numerous other comics such as U.S. War Machine, Elektra, Captain America, Avengers, Eternal, Exiles as well as his unfinished creator-owned comic, WorldWatch) returns to comics (or rather OELs, ie TOKYOPOP’s Original English Language manga) with the scheduled release of the first volume of Boys of Summer this summer. The subject is Austen's return to baseball in comic form, which he touched upon previously in his adult comic, Hardball, though Boys of Summer is not an adults-only title. According to Austen, Boys of Summer, illustrated by hentai (adult) manga-ka Hiroki Otsuka, is a romantic/comedy/drama about college, growing up, and learning to be an adult for the first time away from home. “It's the story of a college freshman named Bud who, for reasons we'll get into later in the series, is an incredibly talented pitcher who won't play for the school team no matter how much the coach begs him... http://www.newsarama.com/tokyopop/BoysofSummer/AustenBOS.htm |
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mangaben
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Speaking of OEL, has any of you read any of TOKYOPOP's OEL manga? Van Von Hunter? I Luv Halloween? Peach Fuzz? Etc?
Well, other than these, I know Megatokyo is quite popular with manga readers. And Fred Perry's Gold Digger and Ben Dunn's Ninja High School have been around for around between 10 and 15 years now... |
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deathbringer
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Yeah, cause that's an original idea that needs to be told. |
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GATSU
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The cover makes me think she's really a dick-girl.
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darkhunter
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The title is Boys of Summer, which remind me a lot of the Don Henley song with the same title.
You have to give credit to Austin though, he's a manga fan (of Mitsuru Adachi), so he's not just comic guy working on manga and he got experience as a writer even though he only worked on superhero comic in the past. With art provided by Hiroki Otsuka, it will be interesting. |
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Kagemusha
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This is what Tokyopop calls bringing in established "talent"? Not that I've ever read the guys stuff, but this is the man who had the entire community of Marvel fanboys (who have an amazing tolerance for mediocrity) ready to form a lynch mob because of his run on X-men. I guess this is the only work he can get outside his self-published smut-books.
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Patachu
Past ANN Contributor
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I think it's not so much a tolerance for mediocrity as the fact that Marvel readers' standards are the complete opposite of, let's say, normal people. So they lambasted Austen not because he was bad, but because he was unsuited to working on super-books. It's like if Taiyo Matsumoto tried to do a romantic fanservice comedy to make a few extra bucks. It'd be very innovative, but d'you think the Ken Akamatsu crowd would be impressed? I'm not saying that Austen is on a level with a top comicker like Matsumoto, but his poor reception with Marvel readers was probably more due to a conflict of aesthetics than any lack of talent. Whether or not he gets a good reception with manga and OEL readers, however, only time will tell. DEAR TOKYOPOP PLEASE SIGN KAZU KIBUISHI OR DEREK KIRK KIM IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU. |
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Kagemusha
Posts: 2783 Location: Boston |
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Ah, well that makes more sense. After all, if Marvel fans love crap like House of M, I was currious to see just how bad his run was to warrent such hatred. Perhapse this will turn out halfway decent.
I guess there is a chance since they've signed a couple of people who were in Flight, though those ones had alot more appeal in terms of style than either Kim or Kibuishi. Would be great though. |
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marie-antoinette
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I've read Dramacon and thought that it was the most hilarious manga I've read in quite some time. It has the added advantage of being set in not only my main, North American culture (probably Canadian, seeing as the artist is Canadian), but also the anime sub-culture. |
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darkhunter
Posts: 2992 Location: Los Angelas |
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Just for reference, here are all the OEL manga propertie has. Listed on Love manga
1. @Large by Ahmed Hoke 2. Afterlife by Stormcrow Hayes and Rob Steen 3. A Midnight Opera by Hanzo Steinbach 4. Atomic King Daidogan by Nathan Maurer 5. Bizenghast by Marty LeGrow 6. BLANK by Pop Mhan 7. Boys of Summer by Chuck Austen and Hiroki Otsuka 8. Dark Crystal by ??? 9. Dark Moon Diary by Mike Vega, Diana Sprinkle and Che Gilson (on hold) 10. Dogby Walks Alone by Wes Abbot 11. Dramacon by Svetlana Chmakova 12. East Coast Rising by Becky Cloonan 13. Fool’s Gold by Amy Hadley 14. I Luv Halloween by Benjamin Roman and Keith Giffen 15. Labyrinth by Jake Forbes and ??? 16. Juror 13 by D.J. Milky 17. King City by Brandon Graham 18. Mail Order Ninja by Joshua Elder and Erich Owen 19. Mark of the Succubus by Irene Flores and Ashly Raiti 20. M.B.Q. by Felipe Smith 21. Mirror Mask by ??? 22. My Cat Loki by Bettina M. Kurkoski 23. Off*Beat by Jen Lee Quick 24. Pantheon High by Paul Benjamin and Steven Cummings 25. Peach Fuzz by Lindsay Cibos 26. Poison Candy by David Hine 27. Pop Star by T Campbell and Amy Mebberson 28. Princess Ai by Courtney Love and DJ Milky 29. Psy-Comm by Tony Salvaggio, Jason Henderson and Shane Granger 30. RE: Play by Christy Lijewski’s 31. Roadsong by Allan Gross and Joanna Estep 32. Sea Princess Azuri by Erica Reis 33. Shutterbox by Studio Tavicat 34. Sokora Refugees by Kurt Hassler and Melissa DeJesus 35. Sorcerers and Secretaries by Amy Kim Ganter 36. Steady Beat by Rivkah 37. Sushi Girl by Studio Tavicat 38. The Abandoned by Ross Campbell 39. The Dark Goodbye by Frank Marriffino and Drew Rausch 40. The Dreaming by Queenie Chan 41. Van Von Hunter by Pseudome Studio’s Mike Schwark and Ron Kaulfersch 42. Warcraft by Richard A. Knaak and Kim Jae-Hwan 43. War on Flesh by Justin Boring, Greg Hildebrandt and Tim Smith 3 44. Work Bites by Jess Stoncius 45. World of Hartz by Terrence Walker 46. Yonen Buzz by Christina Plaka 47. Zeroes by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray |
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BoygetsfireD
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I get to see some previews through Tokyopop's free manga magazine, and some of it actually looks pretty good.
Dramacon looked funny, and Mark of the Succubus, Psy-comm and Bizenghast look good as well. Some of them just look downright stupid, though. I wasn't too impressed with I luv halloween or War on Flesh. But then again, I've only read about a chapter of each, from the previews Tokyopop gives us I have another question about the OELs, though: do they get translated into Japanese and sold over there, too? |
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