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This is a busy hectic deadline week for me, so the Art Post this week is going to be one of my freebie weeks when I get around to posting.
In between projects and nervous breakdowns I've been reading the manga One Piece, this is partially out of curiosity and partially out of peer pressure and word of mouth. Yea Yea, I am STUPIDLY late to the party on this one, I just kept intending to check it out and kept forgetting. I got busy, and side tracked, and distracted, there was that rather beautiful year or so when Lacy and I were reading little known manga through interlibrary loans and then I got caught up in researchingpirate puppies for The Project.
Anyways, One Piece. I so far have enjoyed it, its a nice fairly light hearted break from Deadline Hell. I might even break down and do fan art for it.
For those of you who have never heard of it, its a ridiculously popular manga series about a kid who has rubber-stretchy abilities who sets out to be King of the Pirates. In this series, being stretchy and bouncy is actually the least weird ability someone can have so character concepts in this series gets trippy. You've got the human/reindeer Doctor Chopper (who is actually quite awesome), Sanji the Pirate Chef who fights only with kicks so his hands are saved for cooking, and villains with abilities like shape shifting or turning into sand, or turning their bodies into blades.
So the main character Luffy and his buddies sail around fighting, righting wrongs, getting in trouble and doing insane insane things. Like punch giant sea monsters out of their way. This series feels kinda like someone made a series about pirates in the world of Yellow Submarine, but with a bit more logic involved.
The series like most manga for teen audiences preaches about the power of friendship, and like most shounen (boy) titles theres lots of fighting and fight scenes that take multiple chapters. The miracle is that unlike most other series of this type I've read, One Piece manages to do both acts without getting on my nerves doing it. For ene the characters while they are crazy have fairly well fleshed out characters, I end up actually getting caught up and caring about these guys but they don't get too bogged down in angst (I'm looking at you Naruto). Also the fight scenes while they do end up being long are at least fairly interesting. I mean how often do you get to see a rubber man (who actually uses his abilities creatively) fight a man whose bodies parts can seperate and fly from his body?
So yea, One Piece is beyond my ability to explain (I've just reached a section where they rode a geyser into the sky and are currently exploring an island on a sea of clouds, there are honestly no words for this.) But I'm enjoying this ridiculously so, and manages to do the whole pirate thing in a fairly new way.And there are bits where I get the feeling that the guy actually did some research and knows his stuff even if he chose to channel it into pure epic crack.
Anyways, back to work for me.
In between projects and nervous breakdowns I've been reading the manga One Piece, this is partially out of curiosity and partially out of peer pressure and word of mouth. Yea Yea, I am STUPIDLY late to the party on this one, I just kept intending to check it out and kept forgetting. I got busy, and side tracked, and distracted, there was that rather beautiful year or so when Lacy and I were reading little known manga through interlibrary loans and then I got caught up in researching
Anyways, One Piece. I so far have enjoyed it, its a nice fairly light hearted break from Deadline Hell. I might even break down and do fan art for it.
For those of you who have never heard of it, its a ridiculously popular manga series about a kid who has rubber-stretchy abilities who sets out to be King of the Pirates. In this series, being stretchy and bouncy is actually the least weird ability someone can have so character concepts in this series gets trippy. You've got the human/reindeer Doctor Chopper (who is actually quite awesome), Sanji the Pirate Chef who fights only with kicks so his hands are saved for cooking, and villains with abilities like shape shifting or turning into sand, or turning their bodies into blades.
So the main character Luffy and his buddies sail around fighting, righting wrongs, getting in trouble and doing insane insane things. Like punch giant sea monsters out of their way. This series feels kinda like someone made a series about pirates in the world of Yellow Submarine, but with a bit more logic involved.
The series like most manga for teen audiences preaches about the power of friendship, and like most shounen (boy) titles theres lots of fighting and fight scenes that take multiple chapters. The miracle is that unlike most other series of this type I've read, One Piece manages to do both acts without getting on my nerves doing it. For ene the characters while they are crazy have fairly well fleshed out characters, I end up actually getting caught up and caring about these guys but they don't get too bogged down in angst (I'm looking at you Naruto). Also the fight scenes while they do end up being long are at least fairly interesting. I mean how often do you get to see a rubber man (who actually uses his abilities creatively) fight a man whose bodies parts can seperate and fly from his body?
So yea, One Piece is beyond my ability to explain (I've just reached a section where they rode a geyser into the sky and are currently exploring an island on a sea of clouds, there are honestly no words for this.) But I'm enjoying this ridiculously so, and manages to do the whole pirate thing in a fairly new way.And there are bits where I get the feeling that the guy actually did some research and knows his stuff even if he chose to channel it into pure epic crack.
Anyways, back to work for me.
