RavenHawk

Bought a Beta and a Shadow Alpha abou a month ago. One of my kids or cats, take your pick, because no one will admit to it, knocked the Alpha over and broke off a piece. Just got a Blue Alpha and Shadow Alpha off of eBay ($170, not too bad)... opened them, look great... opened the landing gear on the Shadow, and the panel covering the front one broke right off! Grrr... very frustrating...

More of a Ray Charles than a Stevie Wonder... but I'm actually asking what this means. What is Nadesico, and how is this possibly copyrighted 1998?

Just wrote this in another thread, but it belongs here: Ok, just watched episode 1 of Rideback, with subtitles. Wow. MUCH better than I was expecting. Really really well done, nice animation, and great music. I would say, while being different from the manga, it is very true to the spirit and of the manga, as well as the character designs. Where it differs, in my opinion, is really just setting up more background information, and more character depth and development. Man, I have to say... I REALLY WANT A RIDEBACK!

Ok, just watched episode 1 of Rideback, with subtitles. Wow. MUCH better than I was expecting. Really really well done, nice animation, and great music. I would say, while being different from the manga, it is very true to the spirit and of the manga, as well as the character designs. Where it differs, in my opinion, is really just setting up more background information, and more character depth and development. Man, I have to say... I REALLY WANT A RIDEBACK!

And, to add to my own previous post, if they want to do like Toynami did with the Jack Archer Masterpiece from Battlecry, they could hit Invasion for Locke, Guppy, Arturo, and others.

I haven't found any subtitled episode of Viper's Creed yet, so I've been just watching it in Japanese and trying to guess at what's going on. I really really WANT to like this anime, but it's just not drawing me in, from what I can see anyway, yet...

Read volume 1 of the manga. Just downloaded the subtitled version of episode 1, but haven't had a chance to watch it. Looks to be very true to the manga though.

I did include the Paladins from Blassreiter, but do you think Joseph's bike should be included too? I guess it should, considering some of the other stuff that I'm including.

You're talking about the three vehicles that form "Perceptor" from Armada.

Here's hoping for a Beagle Motoslave...

1998 NADESICO?

There's also the possibility, since they're partnered up with Toynami, at least on this particular project, that they may stretch out the MOSPEADA franchise by having, to use Robotech names (since that is what Toynami sells under) Scott, Rand, Lancer, Rook, Sue Graham, and then Shadow Chronicles variants, like Vince Grant (since Toynami is doing Shadow Chronicles Alphas), plus other variants I may not be thinking of right now. I'd love to see more variable bikes, like the Bubblegum Crisis Hurricanes and Typhoons... Megazone 23 Garland, Proto-Garland, Garland E=X, Harguns (I think I'm remembering that one right)... All to the same scale.

No kidding. When I first saw it written that it comes with two heads, I got hopeful that they meant the Toynami one also comes with the Beagle head... then I realized they meant the helmeted head.

Bittorrents

And more: - Robotech - Warriors: Have to say that I really enjoyed the artwork in this series. Had a very European feel to it, like the artists who used to work for 2000AD in England. Nice change of pace from a lot of the other Robotech material. Very nice layouts too. Ships designs are gorgeous as well. The story... well, it's interesting, and well written... but just wasn't really interesting to me, despite how much I like Breetai. The Voice in the Void backup story a little be like adding a touch of Lovecraft to the Zentraedi, though the artwork was surprisingly straightforward (I liked it a good bit, just don't think it fit the intended sense of doom of the story). This feels like the setup for something, which likely never came about. - Robotech - Metal Swarm: Art shows potential, but everything about this feels rushed. The story... frankly, is just silly scifi. Basic concept, and then not much execution. Seems like there was supposed to be a second issue, but I see no signs of it every coming out. -Robotech - Warriors - Terror Maker: Just a compilation of Warriors and the backup feature, not even separated into the two separate storylines, but grouped like the original. These are all really part of the Warriors stories, which just feel to me like 2 or 3 ideas which were dragged out over limited series, but really should've each been a one-shot at best, maybe a backup feature.

Latest reads: - Robotech - Mechangel: Pretty disappointing. I've enjoyed Spangler's work before, but it felt very fan-fic-ish here. The artwork, while not bad, wasn't good either. Felt rushed in the #0 issue, and then there was essentially NOTHING for background in the rest of the series. Of course, the fact that this story was apparently supposed to bridge Malcontents with Southern Cross did nothing for me, as Malcontents was MUCH better than this all around, and Southern Cross just does nothing for me. Overall, just felt like a fanboyish initial concept, though it did start heading into more interesting territory, but just didn't do anything for me. - Robotech - Vermillion: Not a fan of the art. It isn't bad, just not to my personal tastes. Plus, even in the first couple pages of issue one, the pilot goes back and forth, panel to panel, looking like Roy, then Rick, then Max. The lettering is very amateurish, which makes the whole thing look worse than it deserves. The writing seems decent, though I'm not sure what to make of it. Layouts are VERY manga-ish. Some sort of alternate reality type of story? The MOSPEADA Diary, on the other hand, is a very pleasant surprise. Had no idea that was in here. Yes, it's just a brief summary, but somehow it really captured the feel very nicely. Would've preferred a little more original art and fewer cells from the show, but that's ok. What was there worked nicely. The Robotech: Unsung Heroes backup is the serialized black & white version of the story I mentioned early from the Robotech Annual, about a group of freedom fighters concurrent with Scott Bernard's group. Again, I liked this story and artwork a lot, and would have loved to have seen a regular series like this, with various resistance groups.

Makes sense. Thanks again for the insight into what went on. What are you working on these days? Any Robotech or related stuff in the foreseeable future?

Greg, Ok, I just read it, and I have to say I actually really enjoyed it. I especially liked the new design for Aaron James' Cyclone. New, but similar enough to other ones to be a believable model. I think my only gripe, and this is a minor one, is that I tend to prefer to see more shading and line weight variety in the artwork. This looks like pencils and inks that were meant to be colored over afterwards, as opposed to your Malcontent Uprisings shading, which I preferred. Again, this is really minor, since I actually like your artwork better here than in Malcontents overall, and I liked it there a good bit. Little question: Why did one of the Shock Troopers say "Nick" on it? Too bad we never got to see the return of Aaron later on, with some nice Invid modifications. I like these sort of in between stories, like the one in the New Gen short story in the Antarctic Robotech Annual, as well as these sort of views into what other resistance fighters were doing, like in the Antarctic Robotech Megastorm graphic novel.

Haven't read any of these yet (I've been putting off Covert Ops just because I'm more of a MOSPEADA/New Gen fan than Macross, so I've been starting with New Gen related stuff, even though I'm sure I should be reading more chronologically). I did read Malcontent Uprisings and enjoyed it thoroughly. As I mentioned a few posts up, I liked that one, though parts of it felt rushed to me. I did like the new mecha in it a lot though. I'll try to track down Class Reunion and then post about it here shortly. Thanks for giving us some insight here.

It looks like a fairly complete even mix of a Suzuki B-King and a Yamaha V-Max... Which is perfect for my tastes. I love it.

I haven't watched practically any Gundam at all, but in the anime that I have watched I think you get a fair amount of religious names or, MUCH more prevalent in the anime that I have watched, you get a lot of religious symbolism (most notably angels and demons) because I think that offers a very rich background from which to draw story and character ideas and motivations.

I was hoping for new mecha, not just new ships. The Haydonite designs really didn't do anything for me.

I plan on reading those. Glad to hear there's some potential there. I also just read an (I think Academy) Robotech annual, which had a short story in it about another group of freedome fighters, like Scott's, but who meet a rougher end... Real potential there. I also enjoyed the use of preproduction designs in Invasion, though it really drove home the fact that they did NO NEW DESIGNS for Shadow Chronicles at all, just other people's lesser known designs.

You're right, my mistake. Ok, Eternity was good... Academy started off good, then got weaker... And Antarctic was weird and VERY liberal with their interpretations...

Keep in mind, you have to PAY to ship it back to them, to then get your refund... (I'm probably just bitter because when I ordered my Beta I ordered the two Mars Base coffee mugs with it, and when one of them arrived broken, Robotech.com insisted I mail it back to them before they would send me a new one... UPS wanted $12 to ship back a $7.50 mug...)