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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

Ah, OK.