par Chauve-Souris » 16 Avr 2006, 06:35
garooob a écrit:Hey, CS! Can you give us a summary of what Yoko Tsuno is about?
Crikey, I'm not up on the whole situation yet myself. It is a French comics series, by a guy named Roger Leloup, from before the days of manga (my #1 copy is copyrighted 1972). It reads left to right (as God intended) and the heroine actually looks Japanese, and not like the big/round eyed girls of manga. She is actually a young woman, beautiful but of no extraordinary appearance, but nevertheless very recognizable, largely because of her attractive, unchanging hairstyle.
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The stories, to my surprise, are actually fairly serious science-fiction, probably suited to early teens -- certainly not for little kids. The one I have read is about a subterranean adventure with an advanced race, and there is heavy emphasis in the artwork on colossal, complex vehicles and machinery, fairly plausibly drawn in detail. There is a little humor, between Yoko and a sidekick, but he's not an inept or scaredy type of sidekick. She, herself, is very competent and resourceful -- a real take-charge gal. To my delight, she doesn't have "superpowers" -- just wits.
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I guess there are dozens of issues, each not extremely long, and not in any kind of cliffhanger connection with each other. I'll know more after I read the other two issues that I have. The français is NOT elementary, so they're not a "quick read", and I'm reading other stuff inbetween, so I'm not in a rush to get through them.
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More later, perhaps....
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Incidentally, she's a heck of a lot better looking than in my bat-signature. I had to compress the graphic, once I got it assembled, to within the yumi'04 maximum length of 580 pixels, and the text, especially, got mangled. Later I'll probably post scans of those beautiful line drawings that come after the comic pages in each book.
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[quote="garooob"]Hey, CS! Can you give us a summary of what Yoko Tsuno is about?[/quote]
Crikey, I'm not up on the whole situation yet myself. It is a French comics series, by a guy named Roger Leloup, from before the days of manga (my #1 copy is copyrighted 1972). It reads left to right (as God intended) and the heroine actually looks Japanese, and not like the big/round eyed girls of manga. She is actually a young woman, beautiful but of no extraordinary appearance, but nevertheless very recognizable, largely because of her attractive, unchanging hairstyle.
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The stories, to my surprise, are actually fairly serious science-fiction, probably suited to early teens -- certainly not for little kids. The one I have read is about a subterranean adventure with an advanced race, and there is heavy emphasis in the artwork on colossal, complex vehicles and machinery, fairly plausibly drawn in detail. There is a little humor, between Yoko and a sidekick, but he's not an inept or scaredy type of sidekick. She, herself, is very competent and resourceful -- a real take-charge gal. To my delight, she doesn't have "superpowers" -- just wits.
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I guess there are dozens of issues, each not extremely long, and not in any kind of cliffhanger connection with each other. I'll know more after I read the other two issues that I have. The français is NOT elementary, so they're not a "quick read", and I'm reading other stuff inbetween, so I'm not in a rush to get through them.
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More later, perhaps....[img]http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/1996/GnDotTop--FtrnSt.gif[/img]
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Incidentally, she's a heck of a lot better looking than in my bat-signature. I had to compress the graphic, once I got it assembled, to within the yumi'04 maximum length of 580 pixels, and the text, especially, got mangled. Later I'll probably post scans of those beautiful line drawings that come after the comic pages in each book.
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