I really like the Pratt and Moebius panels! Is the Pratt panel from Corto Maltese? I agree, don´t think there is the one Arzach, the guy seems to exist in a lot of timelines/universes. As always reading your commentary on the images was a pleasure.
I´m sorry to hear that and hope he will pay on time. Maybe he has mental issues that keep him from doing it?
I enjoyed reading it, appreciated the weird humor and the ugliness.
Chirox
Did you just imply the existence of ... thinking machines?!?!
Haha, that was a bit of a wacky post above.
I liked it!
Yesterday I finished off a huge job on Calvin’s apartment
I am happy you made it on time, well done!
treated myself to some of his fine booze Oh, my head…
lol
Anyway, yeah, I think you have the spirit of scanlation. Other definitions you’ll find online. It’s a bit of a touchy subject, as we don’t want to take away proper royalties to the creators, you know? Part of why we say ‘extracts are fine, but no pirated links!’ in the sidebar.
Im am undecided in the matter, I want artists to get every penny they deserve for their work. On the other hand, I think most people who pirate graphic novels do it because otherwise they simply could not afford reading them. At the same time people who can afford buying graphic novels will often pirate and then buy the stuff they like, so pirating can even increase sales.
Anyway, I’m not sure if I’m fully “back” yet, but we’ll see.
No pressure mate, take your time.
I really appreciate your focus on Jodo’s Dune series lately
Thank you, happy that you like it!
and in any case, there’s a HUGE archive of posts here for anyone wanting more EGN+ content! :D
Exactly! Just think of our first few months streak for example. I think I have to go back sometime and look at all those cool posts! :D
The mechanical training dummy in Dune always fascinated me. When I read Dune as a kid, the scene on Caladan in which Paul´s training dummy is described, very much defined Paul as a character for me. It made clear that he did not grow up like a normal child but instead lived under constant threat of being assassinated, always preparing to be ready and fight for his live to his best ability. Not much later, shortly after their arrival on Dune, the scene with the hunter seeker happens and confirms this impression.
I found these three designs for the dummy on https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Dune_Wiki
The left and middle image are pretty close to the design described in the book if I remember correctly. While the left image shows the dummy in action, with lots of different rotating, hacking and stabbing blades, the middle image shows the dummy in standby, with retracted blades. Both designs were made for the movie adaption by Lynch.
The right image is an alternative approach, deviating from the design described in the book but in a way that fits canon well in my opinion. Suspensors are common tech in the Dune universe, just think of the omnipresent glowglobes that light so many scenes in the story. Therefore, sticking a suspensorglobe into a traing dummy seems like a pretty obvious thing to do. The person standing next to the "Suspensor Drone" is Gurney Halleck. The art is by Mark Zug, created for the Dune Collectible Card Game by Last Unicorn Games.
Das erste Buch ist ausreichend, mehr geht immer wenn du dann möchtest :)
Oh, sehr interessant! Das ist sogar noch eine andere Version des Bildes, der Blickwinkel ist ca. 45° nach vorne gedreht. Das Bild aus dem Script ist hingegen eine Seitenansicht aus dem 90° Winkel. Beim Betrachten wird mir mal wieder klar wie virtuos Giger organische und technische Strukturen verschmelzen lässt!
Great to have you back!
I also never heard the term scanlation before, so here is what I could find out just now. Scanlation is well known in the manga community, meaning fans making translations using a scanner and the results getting distributed digitally, usually with permission of the artist. However, there seems to have developed a practice of not just translating but also modifying the content to a degree, just look at page 2 of the third link you posted: https://web.yongsai.net/comics/gaston-lagaffe/gaffes-and-gadgets/2
Ja, genau diese Ausgabe! Bis auf den ersten Teil, den ich leider mal jemand geliehen habe, ist sie vollständig :) Falls du Dune bisher nicht auf englisch gelesen hast, ich empfehle es dir, Herbert schreibt richtig gut und einiges davon ist bei der Übersetzung verloren gegangen.
I have the same edition!
H.R. Giger, the famous creator of the Xenomorph in the science fiction classic ALIEN, was also part of the all star team that worked on Jodo's Dune. The enclosed design of the castle fits perfectly with the description of Harko City in the books, which is probably just a happy coincidence. The elongated back of the head is an obvious resemblance to the aforementioned Xenomorph.
As you might have guessed, the unnamed character in the middle is Thufir Hawatt. Open in new tab for bigger image.
Since the thread got upvotes by the majority but only comments from a few party poopers who were obviously not appreciating me sharing this great find with you all, I decided to lock it. I just don´t have the nerve for that kind of shit today.
Hej hej, fellow comic art enthusiasts! I am quite excited to show to you what I just found. While searching for a good digital copy of Jodorowsky´s legendary Dune script, I stumbled upon this incredible analysis of the script, made by the fine people of www.duneinfo.com. It seems to contain the full or at least a big part of the script (in varying image quality) and does a great job at summarizing Jodo´s version of the story en détail. The article presents an insight into this mystical project, which I and probably many of you, have never had before, enjoy! www.duneinfo.com/unseen/jodorowskys-dune-uncovered
I will keep posting selected images from the script, in the future. Here´s an example:
Nice use of historical design elements imo, they also both look like hippies, lol. I wonder why he made Gurney so short though. As far as I remember he was never called short in the books, right?
Absolutely, I reread Dune every few years and Frank Herberts´s style and ideas impress me every time again.
I was never really interested in SW but I have been watching ST from an early age. ST ist the perfect stuff to run when I just want to chill, it almost became a kind of screensaver for me.