This is the Thread Where I Reccommend You Some Comics

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I'm guessing all of us don't just buy the weekly comics, so here's a thread for us to share stuff we like that's not current/hot/topical/HoM/Crisis-related. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)

I would like to now enthuse everyone to read these, forthwith:

http://comicsmedia.ign.com/comics/image/article/609/609520/adolf-20050502054616080-000.jpg
http://comicsmedia.ign.com/comics/image/article/609/609520/adolf-20050502054616846-000.jpg

Soap Opera! Action! Nazis! Big Eyes! Jews! Gobsmacking cliffhangers! Three-dimensional characters! Crap Japanese jokes!

This comic has everything and it's blowing me away.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

http://comicsmedia.ign.com/comics/image/article/609/609520/adolf-20050502054616080-000.jpg
http://comicsmedia.ign.com/comics/image/article/609/609520/adolf-20050502054616846-000.jpg

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

what's the deal?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

And here's a picture of Osamu Tezuka wearing a jaunty beret.

http://www.rackham.dk/artikel/billeder/Tezuka/Tezuka-01.gif

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Ooh, Jews!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

IN SPACE.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Well, I don't know that for sure.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

It's about two kids, both called Adolf, who become friends (one a Jewish refugee, the other a Japanese-German son of some Nazi amabassador). Where I'm at right now (it's five books long), the Japanese Adolf has been sent to Berlin to join the Hitler Youth... there's also a Hitchcock-y sub-plot about SECRET DOCUMENTS THAT WILL CAUSE HITLER'S DOWNFALL... although that's not as stupid as it sounds.

The characters are memorable, the art's gorgeous, the storytelling's absolutely epic -- Tezuka's probably the purest comics storyteller I've read outside of Herge. It's just baffling that he's so untranslated(ish) and unknown(ish) over here.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

I read this a couple months ago, and I'd have to say that compared to, say, Buddha or Phoenix, Adolf amounts to bad Tezuka. A lot of it has to do with what I'm chalking up to as a terrible translator (I don't remember who did it, but I have the feeling that s/he wasn't a native English speaker.) Towards the last two or so volumes, the story became cumbersome and unwieldly, especially in the final volume. Easily a distant third in the three Tezuka things I've read.

― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

Have to agree with Leeeeeeee here. Adolf isnt my fave Tezuka by a long shot. Its far to heavy handed with the old morals, and the story suffers due to the over saturation of ironic coincidences.

Buddha/Phoenix/Black Jack are all way better written, and Astro Boy/Metropolis/Lost World are much more fun...

― droid, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

Oh well.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, I'm only on the 3rd book, but I still stand by it as top boy's-own-thriller-action. I'm not sure it's comparable with Phoenix, anyway... and even for bad Tezuka, it's pretty good anyone else.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

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