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Post by lan on Nov 11, 2005 7:05:28 GMT -5
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Post by Aragon on Nov 11, 2005 14:48:02 GMT -5
This sounds so awsome!
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Isaha78Namso
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Post by Isaha78Namso on Nov 11, 2005 15:48:18 GMT -5
Yeah, This also makes the old format more of a collectors item to.
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Post by Aragon on Nov 11, 2005 17:00:10 GMT -5
Yeah, This also makes the old format more of a collectors item to. Really? |
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Post by Isaha78Namso on Nov 12, 2005 16:54:13 GMT -5
Yeah when you re-intro duce something like a second or third print the value of the original prints go up. That means that the first versions of the graphic novels that did not have the numbers will be worth more then the second prints. The reprinted ones that had that had the release numbers will be worth more then the reversed set that’s coming out next year. So any one else thinking of selling their old set on eBay at this point?
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Post by lan on Jan 19, 2006 15:25:17 GMT -5
The other day I sent an email to Carl Horn regarding a few questions, for those interested here it is.
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I have a few questions regarding the re-releases.
My 1st question is about the use of colour pages at the beginning of chapters.
It’s fantastic that Dark Horse are using them in the new right to left reading versions, but why aren’t there colour pages for the 1st bit of each and every chapter? I really don’t understand why colour is only used on a chapter here and a chapter there?
I really hope you use colour pages on every opportunity you get! Keep up the good work!
My other question is-
Once volumes 1-20 have been re-released, are you likely to re-release volumes 21+? Or should I start buying them now ready for ‘X’ number of year’s time. lol
Seriously though, I have waited 3 years for this version of Ah! My Goddess without reading any previous volumes, and I’m glad to say it was worth it.
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Dear Alan,
Thank you very much for your recent letter. Actually, we are printing
all color pages in OMG! that are available. Mr. Fujishima only painted
a small number of story pages in color. Full-color manga are unusual in
Japan, although they certainly exist; Dark Horse published two last
year, KATSUYA TERADA'S THE MONKEY KING and SPACE PINCHY by Tony
Takezaki.
As you know, the typical manga magazine in Japan is very large,
containing from a dozen to 25 different story chapters per issue.
Almost all of it will be in black-and-white, but some magazines will
have a single all-color story, too—so you will have 400 or 500 pages of
b/w on rough newsprint, and then a slick 22-page color section
somewhere within.
However, most manga, if they use color at all, use it only here and
there as a sort of occasional enhancement. This is the case with OH MY
GODDESS!...In the first five volumes of the manga, Mr. Fujishima would
sometimes start of a chapter with some painted pages, to help interest
new readers in the story. We are printing all these pages in color, but
he only did so many. For example, there are eight pages in Vol. 1, and
there will be twelve pages in Vol. 2. I don't think any volume will
have more than twelve, though.
You may be interested to know that in a few months we will in fact be
publishing a special all-color OMG! book, entitled, imaginatively, OH
MY GODDESS! COLORS. Several years back, the original Japanese publisher
colorized four favorite stories from the series, each one centered on a
different goddess. It was very nicely done (sometimes such coloring
looks artificial) and we are, needless to say, going to publish it in
color ^_^
About the release schedule—we are switching off every two months
between "new" and "old" volumes. We began the unflopped version with
Vol. 21, then Vol. 1, then Vol. 22...we're working on Vol. 2 right now,
and Vol. 23 will come after that, and then Vol. 3, and so forth. We
hope to serve both new and old readers this way.
Sincerely yours,
Carl Gustav Horn
Editor
OH MY GODDESS!
P.S. My favorite British "manga" magazine is VIZ. ^_^
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