jdwright:

the best train

jdwright:

Skull Fighter Jakio (スカルキラー邪鬼王) by Ken Ishikawa. As far as I can tell this is the first instance of the bio/living mecha concept. I want to read this manga so badly, but it doesn’t seem to exist anywhere.

So I just beat the first episode of Asura’s Wrath and… wow.

this is basically Ken Ishikawa: the video game, isn’t it?

I hate widescreen panels so much. 

I wish people would realise that the way to capture the cinematic power of film through comic books is not to just stretch out the panels so they look like movie screens.

boom

zodar:

yeah i feel pretty confident calling Ishikawa the Jack Kirby of japan comics

(Source: shitdisco)

when people shit on akira toriyama’s art even though he’s one of the best cartoonists out there 

How to handle sound effects, by Frank Quitely.

If you’re not going to integrate them into the art, why have them at all?

I can’t believe it’s finally over. Now English readers get to join the Japanese Getter Robo fanbase, that is, sad and frustrated as hell that we’ll never understand how this epic and promising saga ends.

It was worth it. Here’s to my favourite mecha series of all time.