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1. H. Faust (hfaust@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 13:39:46 JST H. Faust
   Send me your copies of Great Teacher Onizuka and Zatch Bell and I'll professionally graded them, then you can contact my twin brother Heinrich on his bid site to sell that graded manga! All (somehow) legal!
   • H. Faust (hfaust@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 13:39:45 JST H. Faust

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     Well, someone beat me to it.
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   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 13:39:45 JST Moon

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     @hfaust hm i have both of those. btw the dirty pair comic is by adam warren, an american doing a dirty pair comic should suck but it's really great
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 13:40:52 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @Moon @hfaust if the art is anything like the cover, it doesn't look half bad. A bit of 90s? faux anime, but that has its own charm
   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 13:46:49 JST Moon

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     @coolboymew @hfaust the old art tried harder to really look like anime, over time his art got more cartoony but also more fluid and weighty. some people will hate it but i found it tolerable and his writing is just delightful.
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 13:50:53 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @Moon @hfaust Looking at the newer ones, this is actually very 2000s faux anime
     
     https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/99-034/The-Dirty-Pair-Start-the-Violence-Adam-Warren-cover?PageSpeed=noscript
     
     Looks a lot like that dude that did faux anime art for a playstation magazine. I also remember around that time buying French (France) N64 magazines that had ads for other magazines, one being a manga one, which cover had an artstyle really resembling this
   • Moon Cricket (crushbead@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 14:07:25 JST Moon Cricket

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     @Moon @coolboymew @hfaust I have my old Marvel Mangaverse volume back from like 2000 and the art is really really try hard at point, but there are some artists who made splash pages that were as good or better than the style they were trying to ape. It was a really weird time in American comics when they were just coming off of the peak of their popularity and selling more than they ever had before, but recognizes the superiority of even middling Japanese mangaka over American comic artists and felt threatened by it. I think a lot of them dove so hard into the insanity that would come specifically because they doubted their own talents and needed and ideological edge to pull more in.
     
     The old Avalanche comics like Warrior Nun and Goldigger were bottom of the barrel and that is why they were so quick to jump on the right think train, but some of the most talented artists like Joe Mad just took a break and focused on other things to legitimize themselves and avoided the worst excesses of social signaling.
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   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jan-2023 00:03:17 JST Moon

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     @CrushBead @coolboymew @hfaust ben dunn (warrior nun and ninja high school) I have never liked that guy's stuff. but he did found antarctic press which translated and published a ton of original doujin manga and for that i am eternally grateful. i didn't know anything about adam warren succumbing to "those people"
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