Comments on: I Am a Bad Fan Customer: Love and Capes Misprint

By: DanielBT

DanielBT — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:52:30 +0000

… to the essay posted here:
http://www.tcj.com/hoodedutilitarian/2010/06/visual-languages-of-manga-and-comics/

Sorry, I forgot to post the link before clicking Submit.

By: DanielBT

DanielBT — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:51:08 +0000

I just remembered another comic that had two pages where the pages were on the wrong pages, JUST like the problem in the Love & Capes reprint. It was the 3rd issue of Dark Horse’s Domu, during the press conference between the police & the reporters.

When I saw the Dark Horse version, there were some pages where, I prefered the French version due to how your eyes flowed over the panels. It was similar to

Someone should really relicense that Otomo Manga again.

By: Kurt Busiek

Kurt Busiek — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:16:50 +0000

>> There’s no extra material that I’m aware of, so I wouldn’t be upgrading. >>

Depends on what you consider extra material. Ann and I wrote an introduction, and Thom designed it up all gorgeous. So there’s that, for whatever it’s worth.

Oddly, I saw the announcement and what I reacted to was that the pages reversed are on the same spread. If it had been pages 121 and 122, that would be annoying, because you’d have to flip back and forth to read it right, but f both pages are visible on the same spread it doesn’t bother me as much.

kdb

By: DanielBT

DanielBT — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:06:27 +0000

I’m something of a perfectionist myself. If a page of a comic is out of proportion to the rest, it ruins my enjoyment for the comic overall. I still have a Dirty Pair collection that had about 10 pages of the second issue accidently moved to the 3rd issue. It wasn’t until I did some self-homework that I figured out why I had trouble understanding what was going on.

It’s why I haven’t bought Super Spy and Stagger Lee. There was a page where the Nazi swastikas were facing the wrong way in Super Spy, and there was a page of a shootout in Stagger Lee where a piece of furniture was shouting.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:07:07 +0000

Tim, you should definitely go ahead, especially if you haven’t read those stories yet. I probably should go ahead, too. There’s enough junk out there that I do want to reward the good stuff.

By: Tim Rifenburg

Tim Rifenburg — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:04:22 +0000

I picked up this years Free Comic Day issue and loved it. I had planned on checking the series out based on your reviews. Once I read the FCD edition I was kicking myself for not picking up with the series earlier. I bought the 1st trade and I planned on getting the 2nd one. I don’t think the mistake will stop me from getting the 2nd trade. I want to see all the events leading up to the weding and see the wedding as well. Fun and sweet series.

By: Joshua Macy

Joshua Macy — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:35:41 +0000

If it’s just two pages out-of-order, I’m buying it. Misprints are a fact of life in publishing, so unless it’s going to ruin my enjoyment I’m not going to make a big deal of it.