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Blast from the past...
Oct. 7th, 2007 07:32 pmWell, while I picked up my comics for the past... two months or so, I had a surprise - the owner was selling off a bunch of manga volumes for about a buck each. Not a lot of the newer, tiny volumes, but larger ones, like 'Nadesico' and... well, 'Outlanders'.
Outlanders is one of the really classic manga translated into English. It was translated by Studio Proteus, and I could swear it was originally published by Eclipse... or maybe Dark Horse. (It was Dark Horse who published the collections.) It's one of the first ones I collected, issue by issue, back when you bought manga as if it were comics, flipped and translated to read like everything else. It's a fun story, about a photographer, a reporter he knows, a space princess, and a returning alien army wanting to cleanse their motherland of the lowlifes that are inhabiting it - ie, Earth. The gentleman who drew and wrote it, Johji Manabe, was a guest at AnimeCon back in '91, and I got a sketch and his signature from him during a special breakfast I lucked into attending.
Anyway, I've got a lot of strong and positive memories of the series. I'd had to get rid of the series a while back when I was severely paring back my comic book collection, so being able to pick up what's probably the entire series for about six bucks was really a happy find. ^_^
Outlanders is one of the really classic manga translated into English. It was translated by Studio Proteus, and I could swear it was originally published by Eclipse... or maybe Dark Horse. (It was Dark Horse who published the collections.) It's one of the first ones I collected, issue by issue, back when you bought manga as if it were comics, flipped and translated to read like everything else. It's a fun story, about a photographer, a reporter he knows, a space princess, and a returning alien army wanting to cleanse their motherland of the lowlifes that are inhabiting it - ie, Earth. The gentleman who drew and wrote it, Johji Manabe, was a guest at AnimeCon back in '91, and I got a sketch and his signature from him during a special breakfast I lucked into attending.
Anyway, I've got a lot of strong and positive memories of the series. I'd had to get rid of the series a while back when I was severely paring back my comic book collection, so being able to pick up what's probably the entire series for about six bucks was really a happy find. ^_^
