Showing posts with label Chuck Dixon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chuck Dixon. Show all posts

Monday, July 14, 2025

Monday Madness RADIO BOY by Chuck Dixon & Jim Engel

In the 1980s, manga finally gained a foothold in the US...
...and American creators began doing their own manga-style material.
Some, like this never-reprinted one-shot title from Eclipse Comics (the first major American company to publish translated manga), were parodies.
This particular spoof was loosely-based on Osamo Tesuka's Astro Boy, which had achieved success in as a translated anime in the early 1960s and opened the door for a flood of Japanese cartoons on American TV that continues to this day.
Note: Though Astro Boy is best-known in the US as a tv cartoon series, it began as a wildly-successful manga in 1954.
The premise of Radio Boy is that the creator himself did the translations for this edition, resulting in a mish-mash of syntax and tenses as well as some literal translations of Japanese phrases.
As a collector of foreign videos (including Japanese and Chinese DVDs and BluRays), I can attest that the English subtitles on them often do read like the captions and copy in this spoof.
BTW, if you don't have a multi-region DVD/BluRay player, get one.
Much of the Asian material released by Dimension (especially their Jackie Chan catalog), Buena Vista, and other mass-market companies is butchered beyond belief, and seeing the originals (even with bad sub-titling) is eye-opening!
I suspect writers Chuck Dixon (yes, that Chuck Dixon) and Jim Engel had also seen some mis-translated films/videos, and wanted to re-create the experience on the printed page.
You'll have the chance to judge for yourself...HERE and HERE!
Next Week
Yep!
They're Back!

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder INVASION '55 "Underground Battle"

As several groups of stereotypical 1950s Americans in an arid SouthWestern town work towards defeating a horde of extraterrestrial invaders whose weakness is water!
Nobody said it would be easy...












Writer Chuck Dixon and artist Lito Fernandez pull off a retro-kool finale and remind us all to...
Watch the Skies!
Next Week, a New World of Wonder!

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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder INVASION '55 "Fog"


...and things are looking pretty desperate for an...eclectic....group of "typical" 1950s Americans as they band together against a maurading band of actual aliens...extraterrestrials, to be exact!
To Be Concluded Next Wednesday!

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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder INVASION '55 "Something Hidden Underground"

We Have Already Seen...

...aliens are kidnapping, and sometimes killing humans in this small Southwestern town!
However, everyone seems aware of the situation!
But being aware and being able to deal with it are two different things!












To Be Continued Next Wednesday!
Things are getting out of control in the second half of Apple Press' Invasion '55 #2 (1990)!
Can anyone or anything save mankind?

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Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder INVASION '55 "An Eventful Flight"

When Last We Left Several Disparate Groups of 1950s Stereotypes...

...they have discovered (or are about to discover) there's an ongoing extraterrestrial invasion of their Southwestern locale!












To Be Continued Next Wednesday!
This opening half of Apple Press' Invasion '55 #2 (1991) by writer Chuck Dixon and illustrator Lito Fernandez amps up the action as almost everybody's aware of the ETs, and is now fighting back when possible!

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