Great interview!! I have been obsessed with manga ever since I first read Shigeru Mizuki ten years ago, and it was so wonderful to learn that Zack Davisson helped to make it happen. Reading Showa: A History of Japan truly changed the course of my life. Ever since the question of "literary manga" came up the other week, I have been wracking my brain to think of the mangaka who I find to be the best at writing from a literary angle (as opposed to a populist one.) So I'll hijack this comment section to recommend some interesting mangaka and some of their most literary work (Even if its already represented on the CBH 500!!) Shigeru Mizuki - Showa: A History of Japan, Hitler (Both Zack Davisson translations!) Late-period Osamu Tezuka - Phoenix, Buddha, Ayako, Ode to Kirihito, MW Hayao Miyazaki - Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Shuna's Journey (The Nausicaa manga is much longer and thematically dense than the film) Takehiko Inoue - REAL, Vagabond, Slam Dunk (REAL is about wheelchair basketball and the politics of disability in Japan, and probably pound for pound the single best manga ever written) Naoki Urasawa - 20th Century Boys, Pluto, Monster, Billy Bat Kaoru Mori - A Bride's Story Inio Asano - Good Night Punpun, Nijigahara Holograph, Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction Taiyou Matsumoto - Ping Pong, Sunny, Tekkonkinkreet Haruko Ichikawa - Land of the Lustrous Hitoshi Ashinano - Yokohama Shopping Trip Mayoco Anno - In Clothes Called Fat Kyoko Okazaki - Helter Skelter Akiko Higashimura - Blank Canvas: My So-called Artist's Journey Satoshi Kon - Opus (Unfinished for decades, but with a rough ending discovered after Kon's tragic passing. A Davisson TL!) Kazuo Koike - Lone Wolf and Cub (most of his other work is unfortunately very schlocky) Buronsen - Sanctuary (A political thriller from the Fist of the North Star author) Kenji Tsuruta - Memories of Emanon Makoto Yukimura - Planetes, Vinlandsaga Mohiro Kitoh - Bokurano Tatsuki Fujimoto - Look Back, Goodbye Eri, Fire Punch (A far more difficult and alienating work than its successor, Chainsawman) Shuuzou Oshimi - Blood on the Tracks Yoshihiro Togashi - Hunter x Hunter (a rare Shounen Jump manga that has mutated into something far more bizarre, deconstructive and novelistic over its long serialization)
I can't even comprehend how this comic was made. To not even do your research on the property you are supposedly doing a take on, is just...not even professional. I don't buy an X-men comic for the X--men to be "irrelevant" to the book. If she wants to do a "peach Momoko book" she should just do that and not bait and switch customers and leech off a known property just for more underserved eyeballs. Even taking out the aspect that this was billed as an X-men book and an Ultimate Universe book even though it has nothing to do with either, even completely on its own, it's one of the worst books I've ever read. The plot is nonsensical and all over the place. We're seven issues in and I don't feel like I know any of the characters. And the art, sorry, but it's not good. I don't get why people fall all over themselves because the art is run-of-the-mill watercolor and mediocre magna style. I guess is a sea of Western-Style comic art, anything that's not that gets people to "ooh" and "ahh" over just because it stands out.
Brilliant.
This has made my day. I have learned so much. I am a huge fan of Ultimate X-Men. Bravo Dave. Great interview with Zack Davisson.👏
Me too. I love the education of how peach operated her works. And it makes me glad peach will stay with uxm and continues to be it's own thing.
Zack and Peach have made something really special; as someone who's moved towards manga exclusively over the years, this series really drew me back in
Welcome back!
Genuinely one of the most insightful interviews. Thanks Dave and Zack! Also love all the manga talk and recommendations
Ultimate x-men it's so good! I personally love the pacing, the time that it takes to build up the history. I wish more super-hero comics did that
EXACTLY INFINITY TIMES INFINITY AGREE. 😊
Great interview!! I have been obsessed with manga ever since I first read Shigeru Mizuki ten years ago, and it was so wonderful to learn that Zack Davisson helped to make it happen. Reading Showa: A History of Japan truly changed the course of my life. Ever since the question of "literary manga" came up the other week, I have been wracking my brain to think of the mangaka who I find to be the best at writing from a literary angle (as opposed to a populist one.) So I'll hijack this comment section to recommend some interesting mangaka and some of their most literary work (Even if its already represented on the CBH 500!!)
Shigeru Mizuki - Showa: A History of Japan, Hitler (Both Zack Davisson translations!)
Late-period Osamu Tezuka - Phoenix, Buddha, Ayako, Ode to Kirihito, MW
Hayao Miyazaki - Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Shuna's Journey (The Nausicaa manga is much longer and thematically dense than the film)
Takehiko Inoue - REAL, Vagabond, Slam Dunk (REAL is about wheelchair basketball and the politics of disability in Japan, and probably pound for pound the single best manga ever written)
Naoki Urasawa - 20th Century Boys, Pluto, Monster, Billy Bat
Kaoru Mori - A Bride's Story
Inio Asano - Good Night Punpun, Nijigahara Holograph, Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction
Taiyou Matsumoto - Ping Pong, Sunny, Tekkonkinkreet
Haruko Ichikawa - Land of the Lustrous
Hitoshi Ashinano - Yokohama Shopping Trip
Mayoco Anno - In Clothes Called Fat
Kyoko Okazaki - Helter Skelter
Akiko Higashimura - Blank Canvas: My So-called Artist's Journey
Satoshi Kon - Opus (Unfinished for decades, but with a rough ending discovered after Kon's tragic passing. A Davisson TL!)
Kazuo Koike - Lone Wolf and Cub (most of his other work is unfortunately very schlocky)
Buronsen - Sanctuary (A political thriller from the Fist of the North Star author)
Kenji Tsuruta - Memories of Emanon
Makoto Yukimura - Planetes, Vinlandsaga
Mohiro Kitoh - Bokurano
Tatsuki Fujimoto - Look Back, Goodbye Eri, Fire Punch (A far more difficult and alienating work than its successor, Chainsawman)
Shuuzou Oshimi - Blood on the Tracks
Yoshihiro Togashi - Hunter x Hunter (a rare Shounen Jump manga that has mutated into something far more bizarre, deconstructive and novelistic over its long serialization)
Great conversation!
Great interview! Love hearing about all the work that goes into these issues. Ultimate x-men has been an incredible joy to read!
Great convo read Dandadan! And sakamoto days
Cant get into ultimate X-Men but this is a great watch.
Zacks right, it's this X-Men too but can we also get THAT Ultimate X-Men aswell 😅😅
I can't even comprehend how this comic was made. To not even do your research on the property you are supposedly doing a take on, is just...not even professional. I don't buy an X-men comic for the X--men to be "irrelevant" to the book. If she wants to do a "peach Momoko book" she should just do that and not bait and switch customers and leech off a known property just for more underserved eyeballs.
Even taking out the aspect that this was billed as an X-men book and an Ultimate Universe book even though it has nothing to do with either, even completely on its own, it's one of the worst books I've ever read. The plot is nonsensical and all over the place. We're seven issues in and I don't feel like I know any of the characters. And the art, sorry, but it's not good. I don't get why people fall all over themselves because the art is run-of-the-mill watercolor and mediocre magna style. I guess is a sea of Western-Style comic art, anything that's not that gets people to "ooh" and "ahh" over just because it stands out.