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5 Page Preview of Transformers Beast Wars: The Gathering Manga TPB Online

PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:30 pm
by Hotrod
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.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:49 pm
by Lapse Of Reason
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?

PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:02 pm
by Darth Bombshell
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?

PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:40 pm
by Scaleface
I'll pass. I do hope they make some NEW material. I'de love those MTMTE books.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:12 pm
by Blozor
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.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:45 pm
by dragons
dont know why they would do this i see nothing differnt about it from teh color version.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:59 pm
by Autobobby1
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.

PostPosted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:59 pm
by jgilkinson
whats the diff from the old one?

PostPosted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 6:12 pm
by Denyer
Darth Bombshell wrote:what happened to Escalation #5?

Still due on the 28th. Just an early preview (probably to go with the review that Fractal Matter had.)

Autobobby1 wrote:Of course, it isn't true manga, since the text bubbles are still left-to-right.

Considering some manga originating in Japan is published in Western print order and even in English, this seems a particularly odd criteria.

PostPosted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:51 pm
by Liege Evilmus
I*m watching season2 right now. So I gotta tell ya, Im digging this cover!!!

PostPosted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:34 am
by Darth Bombshell
Denyer wrote:Still due on the 28th. Just an early preview (probably to go with the review that Fractal Matter had.)


Ah, OK.