Last week we talked about Hideki Ishikawa’s W. Waltz, and how she appears in one panel of the Dreamwave Mega Man comic. Well, it’s brought to our attention that we were wrong about one thing: She’s actually in 2 panels!
Consider us corrected.
X8: Off The Charts
Your pic this friday hails from the X8 Prototype Gallery! A rough size scale chart comparing X with the main boss characters of X8.
Read more if you feel like reviewing my ramblings about this particular image.
Who Puts the “Rock” in Rock’n Game Boy
If you subscribed to the new Archie Mega Man comic, it should be in your mailbox today! I’m still eagerly awaiting its arrival myself. While we wait on the mail to arrive, let’s kill time by looking at some Rockman manga from the early 90’s.
Shigeto Ikehara was the artist behind the very first Rockman serialized mangas to appear in Japan’s Bon Bon Comics. His steady stream of Rockman books between 1992 and 1996 firmly established his legacy as the premier mainstream Rockman manga artist, though he’s probably not quite as famous in the West as some of his contemporaries like Hitoshi Ariga. But before he was handed the reigns of the Rockman franchise, his very first professional experience with Rockman wasn’t a “Rockman” manga at all!
The Friday Special
It’s Friday! Friday!!
The Famicom Hisshoubon Friday Special #64, to be precise!
I promised something older, and this is about as old as it gets for Rockman books. The Rockman Kanzen Hisshou Bon (that I call the Rockman Total Winning Handbook) was drawn up in 1987 and officially released on January 17, 1988, exactly one month after the first Rockman game. It is one of the very earliest, if not the first video game guidebook to be devoted entirely to a Rockman game. Let’s take a look!
Fresh Graffiti