Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Why Battle Angel Alita: Last Order is the worst best a comic I read

at 1:20 PM Posted by Joe Iglesias
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  1. Joe IglesiasJanuary 6, 2009 at 1:53 PM

    Incidentally, I think this post sums up why I don't read scanlations... having to scroll up and down and all around the page instead of being able to take it all in as one visual whole damn near destroys my appreciation of the work. At blown up size, my eye turns that that panel of Ultimate Platonic Warrior striding into the sunset across a path of blazing bones into just a bunch of unconnected design elements instead of a unified image. It's like sitting in the front row at IMAX.

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  2. Andrew CunninghamJanuary 6, 2009 at 6:46 PM

    It loses a lot in the Viz version to begin with - not because of anything they're doing, but they simply aren't set up to produce anything as ludicrously wanky as the Japanese edition, printed on the finest paper mankind can produce and hand assembled by virgins that consume only pudding.

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  3. Derek GuderJanuary 6, 2009 at 8:32 PM

    You can get around the problem with some display settings - I've found a few full-screen readers (hell, Apple's QuickLook does a pretty job itself).

    With a laptop, you can even turn it sideways to read like a book.

    Not really elegant, though, which is why I could never keep up with scanlations.

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  4. Joe IglesiasJanuary 6, 2009 at 8:45 PM

    Man, I have this Kodansha English-language printing of Ghost in the Shell that damn near gave me a papergasm first time I touched it.

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