Tsutomu Nihei's (BLAME!) Biomega to be released by VIZ in Feb 2010

[jboncha]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomega

I cant wait to own it.

Here's the cover Viz is gonna be using.

http://www.aintitcool.com/images2009/anime/biomega_1.jpg

Sorry I couldnt find a bigger one.

[Inkthinker]

I'm psyched. His storytelling is a lot better in Biomega than it was in BLAME!, although it's still somewhat bizarre and mysterious. He especially does a nice representation of "the frozen moment", those panels where he depicts an instant in time, such as a bullet just leaving the barrel of a gun. It really helps to sell the superhuman speeds at which some characters move.

If you liked BLAME! then I expect you'll love this. And if you found BLAME! to be a little hard to follow, then this one is much easier. Plus: bad-ass motorcycle. Always worth a couple extra points.

[Ghost]

Biomega was one of those stories I read from start to finish completely out of sheer fascination for something I couldn't completely comprehend.

I would like to give my opinion on whether or not it's a good manga, but that would require a level of understanding of the plot that I fear I simply do not possess. :tongue:

And if you found BLAME! to be a little hard to follow, then this one is much easier.

This statement simultaneously intrigues and frightens me.

[jboncha]

I'll agree that the story is easier to follow.
The motorcycle really adds a different feel to it.
There are some really cool characters as well.
I particularly like the character that I refer to as "The Butcher"
The one with the apron and the Leatherface look.

[Aubergine~!]

I read BLAME and still don't understand anything that happened? So this is more understandable?

[Ghost]

I particularly like the character that I refer to as "The Butcher"
The one with the apron and the Leatherface look.

Wasn't there a whole gang of people wearing aprons? I had some trouble telling some characters apart from others.

My favourite character was the talking bear with the hook for a paw.

I read BLAME and still don't understand anything that happened? So this is more understandable?

I wouldn't call it completely incomprehensible, but some chapters made no sense, and in some scenes it was hard to make out what was happening, and there is only a bare minimum of exposition, and everything happens at a really fast pace. So it's still plenty confusing.

I think Biomega was possibly the fastest manga I've ever read in terms of pacing. It felt more like watching an anime, or reading the storyboard for a anime. In fact, they should just make an anime out of it.

[jboncha]

Wasn't there a whole gang of people wearing aprons? I had some trouble telling some characters apart from others.
This guy:
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/8448/biomegav01p062.png

[Nik Hasta]

Excellent! I loved Biomega and BLAME! and generally anything Tsutomu Nihei does.

His expressionistic narrative style and his gorgeous art style make me incredibly happy.

[Ghost]

Excellent! I loved Biomega and BLAME! and generally anything Tsutomu Nihei does.

You! You're the guy who got me to read that crazy thing in the first place. oO

His expressionistic narrative style and his gorgeous art style make me incredibly happy.

Interesting choice of words. There's plenty of ways I could describe that style but "incredibly happy" isn't what comes to mind. :tongue:

[The Xenos]

Nice! I've been waiting for his other works to get picked up there. I actually picked up a couple of volumes of this and one of Abara while in Japan. Pretty much almost half the price of what they are here adn with nice dust jackets. I'd read some scans online. Still of course gonna pick up the Viz edition so I can read the book in my own hands. Actually did that with Blame! too.

[DouglasDanger]

Are you really saying Blame! was too fast? Dude walked to Jupiter.

Walked.

To Jupiter.

Rode an elevator, without an Ipod or cellphone games, or anything, for like 80 years.

Blame! and Biomega are both awesome. I read them both quite a while ago, been meaning to pick up Blame! now that is getting released over here. Will def get Biomega too.

The split second panels showing how fast the protagonist moves are awesome. And his little rail-gun pistol thing was awesome. Outracing a jet and a missile on that superbike. Totally boss.

[Inkthinker]

Did they ever confirm that the Dyson Sphere extended out to Jupiter?

-EDIT-

Whup, never mind... Professor Wiki sez:

It has been suggested by Tsutomu Nihei himself in his artbook Blame! and So On that the scale of The City is beyond that of a Dyson sphere, reaching Jupiter's planetary orbit (32.675 AU, or roughly 4,901,250,000 km); this is also suggested in scenarios such as Blame! vol. 9, where Killy finds himself having to travel through a room roughly the size of Jupiter (roughly 143,000 km.)

I don't know that it moved too fast, exactly, but I would say Blame! was not big on clearly defined explanations.

[Paploo the Ewok]

NOV09 0939 BIOMEGA GN VOL 01 (MR) (C: 1-0-1) 02/10/10 SRP: $12.99 = $

pssst..... it's actually in this month's new Previews

http://previewsworld.com/support/previews_docs/orderforms/NOV09_COF.txt

[The Xenos]

Nice!

I want to say I read a translated interview, or maybe it was just a review, that compared Blame! and BiOmega. While Blame! was about long drawn out moments, long stretches of time passing within its pages, BiOmega would be the opposite with milliseconds passing within the same amount of pages.

And.. whoa.. the whole Previews listing is online? Crap. How did I not find that before?

[Paploo the Ewok]

Nice!

I want to say I read a translated interview, or maybe it was just a review, that compared Blame! and BiOmega. While Blame! was about long drawn out moments, long stretches of time passing within its pages, BiOmega would be the opposite with milliseconds passing within the same amount of pages.

And.. whoa.. the whole Previews listing is online? Crap. How did I not find that before?

What can I say, my Diamond Ninja skills are hardcore. I check early and often so I can figure out what to order. Diamond posts a .txt file and a PDF file online every month, so you can get your order codes.

Product descriptions/covers are only in the print catalogue, but you can look up product information on CBR, publishers websites, amazon, or a gazillion other places.

http://previews.diamondcomics.com/public/default.asp?t=1&m=1&c=6&s=459&ai=0

They also have an order form archive, which is handy to get product codes for older stuff so you can order from the back catalogue. It's how I got all my Basara trades.