Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts

Thursday, November 25, 2021

Publication's List: Help me make it accurate for all of us!

I've been needing to update the info and works that are still missing from the publication's section of the site. Problem is: there's a lot to add. So I'm making albums on flickr to more quickly organize the information. I'm also doing this so it's easier for all of you to help me figure out this mass of information. These will contain everything I know about:

Good news is that Mases of Zelda dungeon is doing most of the work on the guides. He's making scans of his whole collection and is working on at least adding covers and info until he can get to everything that massive task entails. 

So what can I use help with? Any one of you can probably help with something here:
  • The thing I need the most help with is, if you know Japanese, help me make sure I have the correct titles, author's and illustrator's names, publishers, etc, in both Japanese and English characters.
  • Double check my info against what's written in the volumes (I'm dyslexic, I make a lot of type-based mistakes)
  • Help me find links to the best scans and info online*
  • Help me find auction links to things I'm missing. If it's guides or merch I can get them to my friends who collect that and will get us scans. If it's manga, Japanese books, or artbooks, I'll probably buy them.
  • (More to come, I'm out of time today to keep writing)
*An FYI: I'm not going to publicly post links to free downloads of anything still in print, (just links to sales pages.) If you can't afford to purchase the volumes, etc, I totally understand, this isn't judgement on that. But, the way I use this platform, is for promoting purchasing any still available & only the scans for things that are not. Especially for manga; I really want a BotW series and good sales make that more likely.

I'm doing this, in large part, because my end goal is to try to have every piece of official and semi-official Zelda art online. But it's too hard to do if you don't check things off a list as you go and if you're dealing with bad scans only to get good scans after you've already done a ton of editing work. So this is the leg work to creating an awesome gallery. The added benefit is, obviously, we should have a great resource and merchandise catalog when we're done that also helps up properly credit the people behind the series we love.

Monday, November 22, 2021

Indie Zelda and Louisa's Comics!

Blast from the past: If you use to visit History of Hyrule back in the day you probably remember IndieZelda.com, or Independent Zelda, the fan comic site run by one of my best Zelda & artist friends, Louisa Roy. You may know her as SomeGirl or Om Nom Berries too. She is an awesome fanartist and person, and ran an incredible forum where a bunch of Zelda webmasters hid out... hung out? ..probably both. She fuled a lot of our creativity and humor and helped keep me sane. I've known her for about as long as I've known anyone on the internet. We met on one of the first forums I ever joined.

Anyway, I adore her, she's still around doing her thing, making comics, and she sent me these Zelda doujinshi she created back then so I could preserve them on the web! I am so excited about this! So I got 4 series of hers, of vastly varying length, posted on archive.org last night. 

Be sure to check out her new stuff. She has a lot of other incredible Zelda comics and is doing Star Wars and other original comics as well. That link goes to her link tree.


The Legend of Zelda: The Dark Mirror is a 5 part comic for Ocarina of Time



A Space for Us Among the Clouds is a roughly 36 page comic for Skyward Sword


Her Twilight Princess Series is 5 parts, just under 130 pages, and features the stories: Beautiful Midnight, Hello Time Bomb, Symbolistic White Walls, and Alert Status Red



And this volume was made for the 25th anniversary of the series, it features stories for A Legend of Zelda fan comic for The Legend of Zelda, A Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess.



Love ya, Louisa!


Tuesday, September 28, 2021

German Ocarina of Time Comics and the Scanlations



This is nothing new but apparently it became difficult to find on the internet so I was asked to upload it. Sure enough I couldn't find the originals with a reverse image search, either on Google or TinEye. (But I'm sure it's out there somewhere still. Someone probably has full copies of the whole magazines posted.) The original-language scans I have were downloaded from ZeldaEurope.de, which no longer has them online, but is a site I traded art with a lot back-in-the-day so I hope they don't mind me reposting them. For English translations of part 1-2 you can head to this page on zeldalegends.net and for English translations of part 3-4 you can find them on Miloscat's Flickr album. A reverse image search will lead you to translations for several other languages though. Like Spanish, French, and Italian. 

A little more information on this comic can be found near the bottom of the page, here, but basically it's Copyright: 1998 by Nintendo of Europe GmbH and Nintendo Co. Ltd, Published in Club Nintendo OoT Special. Comic Art: Work House Co. Ltd., Tokyo


Sunday, August 29, 2021

8 Out of Print Volumes of Zelda Manga are Going to be Re-published! (Updates)

Update 2022-04-17: Yes, they are taking a while but the publisher is still releasing issues every month as promised. 


There's so much info below but first: I want everyone to make a really big push to see all of these localized in other languages by the publishers. I led that same kind of push for years, from History of Hyrule back in the early 2000's, to make that happen with Akira Himekawa's manga, and then over a decade later, when we got word Nintendo was finally going to be doing a real artbook, I worked so hard, and led an even bigger fan effort, to get the hype and interest going to get that localized in the US and other languages as well. They did and it ended up topping the best selling charts on Amazon and the New York Times. (It even beat out Twilight for a while.) Job well done, everyone!


And here's the reason: if these do well then other companies that produced a lot of old Zelda manga, like Enix, will hopefully be encouraged to do ebook releases of their out of print content too. We need to make that happen! If these do well publishers might even pay more artists to do more Zelda works. So let's get hyped about it again guys and when these drop let's hit the ground running.


To do this let's do what my friends and I did for the Himekawa manga and Hyrule Historia. Let's get some translations done so we can all read along with the books when they come out, then write all the companies like Nintendo, Viz, and Darkhorse about getting the rights, start campaigns, and when those Japanese ebook sales jump up because we pound that "buy it" button: I will bet you they'll do it.


This also means I need help finding translators. I have 600dpi scans made specifically for translation, they are not for distribution though and are not posted publicly right now. I have generally only hosted pages on the site that are large enough to comprehend but not big enough to discourage people from wanting actual copies if they become available for sale. More on that needed translation help below.

Example of the scans for translations


Now, back to the meat of it: One Pack Comics, also known as "Wanpakku Comics" or わんぱっくコミック, was a serialized monthly manga magazine that I believe ran from 1985 to 1989. As far as I know, in it's history, it produced 3 different Zelda series for Hyrule Fantasy, (the original Legend of Zelda,) and the Adventure of Link. I'll post info on them below. They were collected into 7 volumes, with the 8th and last volume of Ran Maru's Adventure of Link manga never officially being turned into a book because the publisher closed right after the artist finished. Those last 7 issues, that would have been the final volume, can only be found online because someone Xeroxed the pages from the final year of the magazine to make extra copies. And thank goodness they did even though they're not great. Someone else later scanned them. If you've seen the popular GTV Japan YouTube video, it's using those same scanned Xeroxs that I've had on my site for around a decade. (By the way, I love his videos. I do technically disagree with how he interpreted the ending though, we had a nice conversation about it, but you know how fans will have different takes: I just think SPOILER it's clear Zelda comes back to life at the end and that it's part of the main story, not tacked on. The Salamander that dies in the same place her body falls into, comes back at the end, with the same flute that fell in too, and then we see a female with Zelda's stature come out of that same lake .Link threw the Triforces into it as well. It seems very clear to me what happens)


I have been trying to track down those 7 magazine issues for around a decade now. Here's the covers and info on them. (I do still want them.) The ever-awesome Zelda collector, Ikhana, was helping me find them, (she actually found April's issue for me and I was able to buy it, it's being shipped as we speak. She's so good at this!) but in the process she found a press release from August 12, 2021 that stated Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd. (株式会社徳間書店, Kabushiki gaisha Tokuma Shoten), One Pack's parent company, was going to be re-release all of the manga at a rate of roughly 5 issues a month (mid month) starting on August 16th. Which was just a few days ago. You will be able to purchase these ebook volumes on these platforms:

  • Kindleストア(Amazon)
  • 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア
  • BOOK☆WALKER
  • honto
  • ブックライブ
  • コミックシーモア
  • ebookjapan
  • Renta!(パピレス)
  • DMMブックス

The first 5 volumes have been released, as promised, but they are not for the Legend of Zelda, they're just some of the many other works One Pack supported. But I am happy to see it's really happening. I'm not sure when they'll get to the Zelda ones, but it's promising to see that they're already rapidly releasing things. Again, they will release 5 volumes in the middle of every month.

Out of those stores I'm only familiar with Amazon.jp. To find the ebook releases you'll want the keyword わんぱっくコミック (One Pack's name in Japanese) or just use this link.

Now, what are the 3 Legend of Zelda series to expect, the 8 volumes:


My all-time-favorite Zelda manga is in this batch. A total of 4 volumes it was created by Ran Maru and ran from 1986 to 1988. It starts with one volume for Hyrule Fantasy/The Original Legend of Zelda and continues on with 3 volumes for the Adventure of Link. (The last one was the one I was talking about that was not collected into a book though.) One of the reasons I love it is for how the personalities of Link and Zelda are portrayed. They remind me of what I actually want from the games. The 2nd reasons is for all the firsts in this series: It's the first time we see things that appear in later games. A few small examples would be: Link with hot pink hair, Link riding into battle on a giant bird, his spin attack, and we even see Zelda using magic to transform into a male character in the intent to fool Ganon's minions to buy time while Link is missing in action. And the series is dark. It's actually very very dark.



The 1st chapter is in English.

UPDATE: FULLY TRANSLATED!!



The first chapter is in English! But we need to have the rest finished

UPDATE: FULLY TRANSLATED
but being revised, I do not have it yet





FULLY TRANSLATED!!


Now for the other 4 volumes:


The Adventure of Link, Volume 1, by Daisuke Shigoto

This is a pretty amazing work. While it has some original elements it's acts as a game guide for the Adventure of Link. It's really worth checking out.

WE NEED A TRANSLATOR FOR THIS
Someone was translating this with my scans for another site but it looks like they're MIA 



This is a continuation of volume one, it was just taken over by a different artist.

WE NEED A TRANSLATOR FOR THIS




The Legend of Zelda by Kobayashi Susumu
This is one volume that covers the whole first game and even acts as a complete game guide. The art in this is actually really good, this artist also did work that appeared in official Nintendo publications. 

WE NEED A TRANSLATOR FOR THIS

Again, I would like to try to find a translator for each volume if possible, to get these done quickly. I do have 600dpi scans to help you read them and we just need to make a script so people can read along with the eventual ebooks. Contact me if you have actual experience translating from Japanese to English.
melorasworld@gmail.com

And after this: We have around 35 other volumes of Zelda manga, 4koma, and novels that still need to be translated! I'm not kidding! There's so many no one has ever done.

Follow me on Twitter @historyofhyrule if you want the most current news and updates.
And I'll be on a backpacking trip on Monday-Wednesday so forgive me if I can't respond until then.





Saturday, August 28, 2021

New English Translation: LttP Manga-short: Quark and the Fairy Queen by Toshihiro Ono


 A while back I posted about this super rare one-shot Link to the Past manga that @miloscat found and got online. I cleaned it up a little and with the help of Horseypope they've now translated it into English and gotten the full translation online. So check out their site and find out about it here!


In the meantime, I know it looks like I haven't been doing much but I promise I've been working hard, I can't wait to post more!

Saturday, August 14, 2021

UPDATED 2022-06-06. The 60+ Out-of-Print Zelda Publications I'll be Scanning to Preserve


Hey everyone! I'm still looking for people who would be willing to help translate the old Zelda manga and maybe even the Japanese novels. The truth is that it's harder than it looks so, if you're not advanced, it's going to wear on you. But it's tragic some of this hasn't been translated for 35 years now so, if you think you can help, please contact me at melorasworld@gmail.com

So, anyway, I know it looks like I haven't been doing much since the tail end of May 2021 but that's only partially true. In the summer I do take off from civilization to backpack in the wilderness but, in the downtime, I've been connecting with other fans and helping get material to people who need it for their own projects and connecting with people who are helping with some of History of Hyrule's. There are so many amazing people out there that we have a lot to thank for and I can't wait to share more about. I also did a guest spot on Sacred Realms Podcast where we talked about Zelda art, it was so much fun, be sure to check them out. I've also started making more archival scans of all the old Japanese publications.

Here's a list of what I'll be scanning that I'll keep updated! This is DONE!

Manga:

  1. manga_loz_en DONE! 1/60 (Uploaded) Re-scanned at 1200dpi
  2. manga_aol_1 DONE! 2/60 (Uploaded) Redo?
  3. manga_aol_2 DONE! 3/ 60 (Uploaded) Redo?
  4. manga_aol_3 WANTED! (UploadedI do not have this, it's so rare! It can only be found in the February through August, 1988, One Pack magazine issues. I'm told they went out of business right after this so it was never collected in a volume like the others. I'd pay around $400 for each issue. Contact me if you think you can help me, the internet in general, find and preserve this rare piece of history. I currently have February and April's issues but need the other 5.
  5. manga_loz_wan DONE! 9/60 (Uploaded)
  6. manga_lttp1 DONE! 14/60 (Uploaded)
  7. manga_lttp2 DONE! 15/60 (Uploaded)
  8. manga_lttp3 DONE! 16/60 (Uploaded)
  9. manga_la1 DONE! 10/60 (Uploaded)
  10. manga_la2 DONE! 12/60 (Uploaded)
  11. manga_old_loz_trans DONE! 44/60 (Uploaded)
  12. manga_old_aol DONE! 45/60 (Uploaded)
  13. manga_aol_wan1_en DONE! 4/60 (Uploaded) Redo?
  14. manga_aol_wan2 DONE! 5/60 (Uploaded) Redo?
  15. manga_aol_wan3 DONE! 6/60 (Uploaded) Redo?
  16. guide_manga_multi (this is a guide, I will do it later)
  17. manga_lttp_zalda DONE! 46/60 (Uploaded) 
  18. manga_loz_13 DONE! 31/60 (Uploaded)
  19. manga_lttp_dbz1 DONE! 17/60 (Uploaded)
  20. manga_lttp_dbz2 DONE! 19/60 (Uploaded)
  21. manga_lttp_dbz3 DONE! 18/60 (Uploaded)
  22. manga_lttp_dbz4 DONE! 20/60 (Uploaded)
I'm not doing the Himekawa manga because it's all still in print so please support them like I have always asked people to do. Like I really want a Breath of the Wild manga by them so sales need to be strong!

4Koma
  1. 4koma1 DONE! 7/60 (Uploaded)
  2. 4koma2 DONE! 8/60 (Uploaded)
  3. 4koma3 DONE! 22/60 (Uploaded)
  4. 4koma4 DONE! 23/60 (Uploaded)
  5. 4koma5 DONE! 24/60 (Uploaded)
  6. 4koma6 DONE! 25/60 (Uploaded)
  7. 4koma7 DONE! 26/60 (Uploaded)
  8. 4koma8 DONE! 27/60 (Uploaded)
  9. 4koma_la_kei DONE! 38/60 (Uploaded)
  10. 4koma_la_kou DONE! 39/60 (Uploaded)
  11. 4koma_action1 DONE! 36/60 (Uploaded)
  12. 4koma_action2 DONE! --/-- (UploadedI have this now but didn't know if I would find it so I have someone else's 300dpi scans uploaded
  13. 4koma_action3 DONE! 37/60 (Uploaded)
  14. 4koma_lttp_kou DONE! 35/60 (Uploaded)
  15. 4koma_mm_enix DONE! 28/60 (Uploaded)
  16. 4koma_mm_kou DONE! 29/60 (Uploaded)
  17. 4koma_ooa_kou  DONE! 40/60 (Uploaded)
  18. 4koma_oos_kou  DONE! 41/60 (Uploaded)
  19. 4koma_oracle_kou  DONE! 42/60 (Uploaded)
  20. 4koma_oot1 DONE! 32/60 (Uploaded)
  21. 4koma_oot2 DONE! 30/60 (Uploaded)
  22. 4koma_oot_bou DONE! 21/60 (Uploaded)
  23. 4koma_oot_fut DONE! 33/60 (Uploaded)
  24. 4koma_oot_kou DONE! 13/60 (Uploaded)
  25. 4koma_oot_tan DONE! 34/60 (Uploaded)
  26. 4koma_ww_jp  DONE! 43/60 (Uploaded)
Novels and Other Books:
  1. book_blacktriforce DONE! 47/60 (Uploaded)
  2. book_novel_aol DONE! 49/60 (Uploaded)
  3. book_novel_loz DONE! 50/60 (Uploaded)
  4. book_novel_lttp DONE! 51/60 (Uploaded)
  5. book_novel_lttp2 DONE! 52/60 (Uploaded)
  6. book_novel_lttp3 DONE! 48/60 (Uploaded)
  7. book_adventure10 DONE! 11/ 60 (Uploaded)
  8. artbook_terada
  9. guide_zeldabox
  10. guide_lttp_np -Done (Uploaded) but redo it with a book with better color
  11. guide_lttp_de
  12. guide_la_np
  13. guide_la_de
  14. guide_beno DONE! by Annon (Uploaded) 300dpi, not 600
  15. artbook_z_collection DONE! 53/60 (Uploaded)
  16. artbook_z_collection (2)
  17. artbook_z_collection (3)

Other Scans I've made:

Other Guides: I have more than a few I'll be fully scanning but they're last on the list because, besides the art, it's usually just game help information in them. But it would be nice to have them preserved regardless!


This is an example of what I'll be doing when I say archival scan project:

An old 600dpi scan from the site:


New 600dpi scan with pages removed from the binding and a dark backing to prevent image bleed-through:
The binding glue on many of the old books is falling apart, so this isn't particularly painful to do, but the deeper tears near the binding are where it has turned into a concrete resin and absorbed the paper into itself so there's a little bit of patching that needs to be done.


Repaired image:


Further cleaned and almost complete:



Saturday, May 29, 2021

UPDATE. Archival Scanning Project: Zelda Manga, Novels, and Guides

Over the next year or so my goal is to make high resolution, archival quality, scans of all of these no-longer published Zelda publications so they're never lost. Most (if not all?) have been out of print for 35-20 years, many of the publishers aren't even in business any more. I don't really know what to do about it after that though. Right now manga publishers are going after some scan sites: mainly because people were making major ad and subscription money on thousands of works STILL being published; which is pretty messed up. I want to state, in the 20 years I've been doing this, I've never had a single ad or sold a single thing to make money on anything from my site. I've never even so much as linked to my personal online art stores. I busted my ass and pushed for years to see the Himekawa manga officially localized outside of Japan and to get Hyrule Historia released outside of Japan too. Like, let's pay publishers and artists to do the work so we can get more works made. I absolutely get that not everything gets localized in every language and that not everyone can access and afford things though. I mean, I grew up really poor and literally started this site because my favorite childhood Zelda art book/game guide was stolen from me and I couldn't find it again to see the art I had been so inspired by again. I looked for a decade before I found it and had to spend $100 to buy it at auction. Money that also did not go back to the original creators. ...Which is also why I wish publishers could find ways to work on that issue too. Like offering free online libraries of work that there isn't much of a market for any more. Or, if they don't want to bear the costs, would even okay fans to do it under certain circumstances. Anyway...

My old hard rule was to remove them if we heard they were going to get picked up officially, to only do works that had been out of print for years, and for all of that: to make the available manga scans just barely big enough to visually understand what was going on, so people could see what they were about but would still be encouraged to buy them when they could because the small size really isn't incredibly enjoyable. It's pretty clear none of these volumes are ever going to officially see the light of day again. You can't even find them on auctions sites any more even if you have the sometimes hundreds of dollars needed to buy each one. In an ideal world I would want a new publisher to pick up the rights and produce them, give money back to the original artists or their families if they have passed, or use it to fund artists to do new works. Sadly the chances of that happening are probably close to Zero if they haven't happened by now (or maybe I should start writing companies like an insane person and beg them to get the rights and re-publish them, ...who knows.) Unfortunately, originally, copyright law only covered around the first 14 years of a work. Which means every single one of these could be reproduced without a sometimes insane and over cumbersome process.... but then Disney fought to change that to nearly a life time, with the ability to be extended... So... 2056-2066ish is the earliest...? That's just cruel to fans who simply want to be able to experience a part of the history of their favorite series. Anyway, just know I will preserve them and that I will be trying to figure out how to handle this in the most ethical way possible. 

This is just a picture of my Zelda manga and novels, I don't even know how many more guides and artbooks I have. 


A long time ago some of my 4koma suffered water damage and I forgot about it until now. If you have any of the remaining volumes below, and are willing to sell them, please contact me.

Edit August 2, 2021: I located 2 at auction, Piney/dat_pinez located 2 others and is sending them to me, and Edit 2: now Ikhana and Piney have helped me find the other missing ones.



I also need another German Link's Awakening guide because mine came with a missing page that has art on it. Thank you!



Thursday, April 15, 2021

Super Rare Link to the Past Manga: Never Posted Online Before

 Ah, AH! I am so in love with how this happens. So if you saw the last post you'd know MiloScat wrote me about 3 old school Zelda mangas that have never even been online before. I really love them all but, what I am so incredibly in love with, is the fact that people are still finding and getting this stuff online exactly so it's never lost.

 
He sent me this LttP one
from scans he made from the volume he located and is allowing me to host them on the site. (I'll get them added to the site-proper soon, right now they're in the flickr gallery.) He may even translate them eventually. I cleaned them up a bit and am so happy to be able share them here. It's a 39 page Link to the Past manga by Toshihiro Ono that he believes is a stand-alone work. That can seem a little confusing because it introduces itself in the middle of the game, and appears to have established characters, but the context of the text in the rest of the magazine implies it. Apparently, according to an interview, this was this guy's first published manga too! I think Link looks great in it and would have been very excited if he had done more Zelda stuff. The fairies, and especially the wide shot of the dungeon, are pretty awesome in my opinion.


So anyway, thank you Milo, for allowing all of us to enjoy this. After 30 years I'm surprised anyone still had a copy of this magazine. Thank you for locating it, importing it, and scanning it!


Thursday, May 2, 2013

Newly Translated, Never-Before-Seen, Hyrule Fantasy Manga

This one is a beautiful 8 page Hyrule Fantasy comic from a rare, art filled, guide. I spent so much time cleaning and editing it simply because I wanted to do it credit, I even "hand"-painted over the watercolor so that the backgrounds were clear of the old text. Thank you to everyone who made it possible: Mases of Zelda Dungeon for finding this gem, buying it, and importing it. Kevin and Jacob for helping me translate it, and Duke Serkol of the BS Zelda Homepage for helping me find the help I needed to finish it.




If you notice any errors, please let me know! Right now I'm cropping up the art from the guide so it can be added to the gallery. I'll make an update about that when it's done.



Tuesday, April 30, 2013

More 4Koma in English!

JoeSteve1914 was kind enough to take on the difficult task of adding the English to these 4 Koma pages last year, but as you may have noticed~ I haven't been around much. Sorry it took so long, I'm so happy to finally add them! Enjoy, and thanks Joe! It was wonderful to finally be able to read these like they were meant to be read. (Click to enlarge)

And, if you notice that a few parts aren't in English, it's just because the text was missed by the translator.
--When you work on stuff like this, you start to realize how easy it is to accidentally skip lines.

If you want to read a few more unfinished pages, or have trouble reading any of the small type (it's difficult to get it to fit on the page size we need,) then just head over to this 4 Koma thread.








Friday, October 12, 2012

Amazing Conceptual Thinking & Making Sense of the Zelda Series

There's not enough that I could possibly say about this concept turned comic. I haven't loved something "Zelda" this much in a long time. Not only is it an extremely wonderful short story exercise, it concisely helps everything in the series make sense. Read it and think about that. It's also a wonderful concept for a new game: A way to do something different in the series but keep it the same. And, as an illustration exercise: it does what all great illustrators preach and teach: Illustrates what the soul of story is about but uses the pictures to give it a more thoughtful depth. It makes it more than what you might see based on the words alone.

Nintendo, give these 2 guys some money and then make this game. This is what I want the next time I play  Zelda. And, to the creators of this, thank you for giving us this! You're freakn' awesome.


Via Reddit
Writing and Concept: LacksMass
Illustrations: OhCrapADinosaur












The text reads:

I want to play Zelda backwards. You start with your hook shot, fire arrows, slingshot, the whole stack of crap. The world is at peace but the fear of something horribly coming is looming in the back of your mind. You don't know how much time you have left and there is no one for you to pass your hero status to. So you begin to travel. Giving your treasures to old friends to guard and hide. Leaving your weapons at the bottom of forsaken temples and setting traps to keep them safe. Giving the keys and hints to those who will keep the legends alive.

At last you retreat into a cave with nothing but your sword. As a gift from the gods the power from the master sword extends your life as it slowly fades. And there you wait until the day the new hero finds you. And with a smile and hope for a brighter day you can pass along the sword, now devoid of most of it's power to a young man dressed in green with your words of wisdom. "It's dangerous to go alone. Take this."

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

"It's Good to be the King." Yup! It's a LoZ Valiant Comic You've Never Heard of Before!

So, this was on History of Hyrule when we launched, but it's still not on any Zelda Wiki or site that I can find (other than mentions on old-school comic book sites,) so... I'll just go all hyperbolic and say "NEVER BEFORE SEEN!"

If you didn't know, there are different versions of each issue of the Valiant Comics. When old friends-of-the-site, Chechi and Kitty, got a couple of issues of the comics off ebay; they wanted to send me the high-res scans so better images could be online. Little did we know the versions they got were the original versions, and the comics contained within were a bit different than the ones already on Zelda sites. And this one? From Volume 4 version 1? 22 years after its release? It seems it has never been online at all. So check it out, marvel at some of the "new" awesomely ridiculous images, and remember: It's Good to be the King