Okay. I'm sorry for double-posting and not letting Jeffbert speak, but...
WHO WANTS SCANS? I GOT SCANS! AND A RANT!
This lovely bit features the most of Mr. Pompus I can find, as well as Archie (Shibugaki, kid with cone). I want you to to look at Archibald, and you tell me what he's doing.
Wee bit of a mug, ain't he?
Here's Rebecca. This, IMO, is her best picture in the book.
The boy is "Astor" (Tobio) and the woman is Jean Boynton. Wait, do you remember the first episode of the 80's toon? Remember Tenma's female assistant identified as Ms. Honda? Jean appears only in three panels, but I find she and Honda appear rather similar...
Mr. Skunk, I have bad news. I've scoured my issues, I've trowelled through Google searches for scans, but I cannot find Skunk Kusai anywhere in the comic.
There's a
very thin chance that he may have shown up in #19 or the final #20, which were seperate stories, but don't get your hopes up. If I find those issues I'll give my word on them.
Now my rant...well, according to
this thread that I found in the armpit of the forum, the comic was written for
people much older than me. That means, there was a higher target demographic, one that soars over my head. Take a look at this:
Oy. Boynton gets
really ugly in #8 or so, when he starts hallucinating and thinking that he's about to be "punished for your horrible crime!" and
whips out the artillery. I know Tenma was crazy in the Tezuka works, but this is a huge dramatization. I do
that crazy doctor, and this is very painful to watch.
As well, Astro is very different. He's much more violent in this version, to the point where he bounces between "I'm a widdle kid" and "IT'S RIPPING TIME!!"
Here he is shown throwing Cacciatore/Hamegg around while Hamitore screams in broken english ["HELP-A LUIGI! HE-A DIE!"] But on the second page of the thread, I stumbled upon the most disgusting, morbid image that has ever been conceived by the human mind, transferred into paper and registered on my brain, where the image has now imbedded itself. Do
not click that thumbnail unless you have a stomach harder than Kevlar. Unlike me...
BLOODY HECK. BLOODY, BLOODY HECK. Thankfully it's in B & W or I would have gone into stage four:
That's my doodle. Remember, Fauna does not endorse ralphing humour.
I was so scared I had to share it with my mother [She said "EEW!!"] but I distorted for her ears it to make it that the bloke was shot in the
arm, not the chest. Either way, Astro a-jammin' his hand in some guy's ribs is NOT what I want. What happened to lil'
?
I think NOW! Comics got their name from the phrase "We got the rights to these characters, NOW look at them!!"
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I'll get the final scans later.
But here's the final three pictures:
but I still prefer to drive myself.
