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News Credits: 2024 · by **Hotrod** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:30 pm

IDW has update their New Releases Section with the releases that will be available on March 14, 2007. Include with the March 14th release is the Transformers Beast Wars: The Gathering Manga TPB. You can check out a five page preview of Beast Wars: The Gathering Manga TPB in IDW's New Releases Section.

News Credits: 10 · by **Lapse Of Reason** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:49 pm

Correct me if I'm wrong, but basically it is the same story and art except it is in black and white and I assume read from back to front?

News Credits: 487 · by **Darth Bombshell** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:02 pm

Lapse Of Reason wrote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but basically it is the same story and art except it is in black and white and I assume read from back to front?

Yes, it is.

And what happened to Escalation #5?

News Credits: 49 · by **Scaleface** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:40 pm

I'll pass. I do hope they make some NEW material. I'de love those MTMTE books.

News Credits: 1 · by **Blozor** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:12 pm

Doesn't even Photoshop have filters that would render the pictures to more of a lineart quality? I'm sure a graphics publishing company like IDW would have better equipment at their disposal than simply Photoshop.

It doesn't look so much like a manga as it does just a black & white version of the original comic book. If I wanted that, I could just grayscale filter the pages on my computer.

An even better idea would be to save copies of the inked pages and reprint a lineart version of the comic as a manga. Surely by now, they should know enough to expect to have a manga printed of the comics.

News Credits: 21 · by **dragons** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:45 pm

dont know why they would do this i see nothing differnt about it from teh color version.

News Credits: 2 · by **Autobobby1** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:59 pm

Well, I didn't catch the originals, and I love Manga, so I'll probably get that.

Of course, it isn't true manga, since the text bubbles are still left-to-right.