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Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

SpazmasterX posted:

Demons? In my girlfriend?

Wouldn't one of Casca with "Demons? In my vagina?" be more fitting?

Yes the joke is old, but I like it

# ¿ Aug 30, 2007 05:15

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 22:20

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Xali posted:

Imagine this: It is year 2035 and Berserk has just been finished. A couple of weeks pass and a dude pops in this thread saying something along the lines of "Well, I just marathoned this over the weekend, pretty good stuff eh?" wouldn't you just wanna punch his face in?

This is probably how people felt about Dave Sim's Cerebus which took from 1977-2004. 100 Bullets is nearing the end with its 100th and final issue. I've been reading that one since around #60 thankfully though.

I'm sort of afraid to think about how long ago I started reading scans of Berserk though.

# ¿ Jun 17, 2008 04:42

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Edge Zero posted:

The best decision I've ever made was not reading further than Wolves of The Calla.

I've heard nothing but bad stories about everything past Wizards and Glass.

Wolves of the Calla had a short side-story in a McSweeny's quarterly a few years back. The premise had me cringing the entire time. Someday I'll read Wasteland, it's been on my bookshelf for around 12 years.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2008 02:39

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

yook posted:

You are contributing to the problem.

And so am I. SUFFER!

I wonder what the bottleneck is. A few years is usually enough to write a sizable chunk of story, and I assume he's got a couple assistants to off-set his stiff art requirements.

It's his magnum opus. He probably has hundreds of trashed pages lying around on his floor that weren't good enough--story and art.

I can't help but think of Hellsing now. I've only read 1 or 3 tanko-whatevers, but I remember some wild claim that the author was too busy whacking off to finish it. Then someone said the author came like 90% close to confirming this statement.

Was Hellsing ever finished? Again, I only scratched at a few volumes.

# ¿ Sep 20, 2008 03:45

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Leonard Leroy posted:

3 responses, I thought a new chapter came out.

I thought there was a press release where he admitted he had brain cancer or Alzheimer's or any disorder where his brain was going to be stuck in pure dementia by the end of the month.

It's good news that there's no news (like this.)

# ¿ Sep 28, 2008 10:29

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Algid posted:

Sadly, that's one of the many side effect of the fairy dust addiction.

And the development of giant muscles and a lack of any sensation, whether it be pleasure or pain.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2008 03:08

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Twitch posted:

I won't have to explain Berserk to my family, because I fully intend on reading Berserk to my children. Before anyone argues with my choice, I just have to say that my local library keeps multiple copies of every volume of Berserk, so it's legally educational.

Mine doesn't, but they do have Blade of the Immortal next to Snowblind, Dark Victory, and Archie.

# ¿ Oct 3, 2008 02:41

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Captain Controversy posted:

You should also show them A Clockwork Orange regularly from the of four onward.

I see we plan to parent children in the same way.

Might as well give them Equus and Fight Club as coming of age presents when they're 9 too.

# ¿ Oct 9, 2008 02:21

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

NaturalLow posted:

Before the Eclipse, when Griffith was lying in that covered wagon thing, Caska came in to change his bandages or something and he threw himself on top of her, pinning her to the ground (well as much as he could pin her considering he was a human skeleton). Nothing came of it since he was too weak to overpower her, but it was pretty obvious what he was trying to do.

This is also assuming the king let him keep the physical parts required for said rape. Seeing as the guy was super-jealous over what happened, I could see him putting in the request for their removal.

If it's shown that he's still true-blue, then I blame fact that I read all that material several years ago.

# ¿ Oct 10, 2008 01:46

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Gvaz posted:

I'm pretty sure when the egg-dude granted him a new body that he got his penis back. That is, if it was cut off, although with the torturer thing going on I'm pretty sure it was the first thing to get cut off.

What I'm saying is that the penis was very probably removed pre-rebirth. And he'd have a hard time getting his rape w/insemination on without a penis and testicles to rape with.

# ¿ Oct 10, 2008 02:28

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Elentor posted:

Watching you guys discuss the possible future of Berserk makes me realize how no matter what happens, Guts will suffer, the whole series will still be depressive and there won't be a happy ending. Although I'm sure any ending at this point would suffice.

Well, they've already had lots of rape and a near-sample of incest. They killed off 99% of Guts' friends, had his best friend betray him, then he was maimed just in case he didn't get the message.

This comic is almost like torture porn where the main character just suffers for two decades.

Yea, a "happy" ending at this point could be him saying "gently caress this" and going to live in a cave for the rest of his life. As long as wine and meat existed nearby, he wound be ahead of the curve.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2008 21:58

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Gvaz posted:

Oh poo poo. I just got that now. I guess I haven't been keeping up on that one lately

Sindai posted:

To be fair, he should have said "silver-eyed woman." That would have made it way more obvious.

OK, that's it. Unless you guys are animu-nerding it up with cross-references, I'm gonna have to re-read the first 32, or whatever, volumes. I've forgotten most of what's gone on in this comic now.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2008 07:10

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Mr. Deathy posted:

The new chapter will just be 18 page-rectangles that foldout 1 by 1 into a massive panoramic shot of the battlefield.

Then we'll get the next "page" this time next year woot.

Oh, so Mark Millar and Miura are good friends?

# ¿ Oct 21, 2008 01:15

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

OG17 posted:

Is that just a comment on schedules or did Millar do a poster issue? I imagine it'd veer more towards "wall of explosion" than "end of Promethea."

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My mistake, the artist was Bryan Hitch for The Ultimates, Millar wrote it. He drew an 8-page panel for The Ultimates V2#13. The ultimate fold-out page really.

# ¿ Oct 24, 2008 04:07

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Mr. Deathy posted:

I'm not usually the type of guy who has trouble figuring out what's going on in manga but the sheer volume of DEMON WAR in this chapter confuses the hell out of me trying to see who's killing what and picking out one monster from the others. For the first bunch of pages anyway.

I don't think it matters yet. What seems more important is how impotent all people are.

# ¿ Nov 17, 2008 02:41

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

hog wizard posted:

Faked out. Just like me.

Ditto. With so many posts I thought I'd missed at least two updates.

# ¿ Dec 13, 2008 10:14

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Hey, story is starting to happen. Not just splash panels of people preparing to tell a story.

:toot:

# ¿ Dec 14, 2008 11:31

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

lyricaldanichan posted:

I guess this is the reason for another break... really kentaro, really??

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2008/12/11/kentaro-miura-quits-berserk-to-play-idol-master/

Hopefully he takes another break somewhere between May 18-28, 2009.

E:F;B by a whole week

There, fixed it for you.

# ¿ Dec 17, 2008 03:18

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

GoldenNugget posted:

the special effects were pretty decent I thought (neat bleeding brand effect). The camera work was was a little iffy (I agree the sword cam was pretty awful). Pretty good for fan made stuff.

Yea, it seemed more like a demo reel for an amateur SFX group.

Only major complaints are the odd SFX timings and how the actor swung the sword as if his arms were weak and stubby. Maybe the prop couldn't handle being tossed about.

# ¿ Feb 8, 2009 03:07

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Fuzzy Pipe Wrench posted:

This is how all manga and anime should end. Like Bleach, randomly, just as the plot actually moves at a good pace, bam!, planet dead, story over.

How is this a big departure from Toyko blowing up and everyone gathering together to rebuild from the ashes?

# ¿ Feb 21, 2009 11:16

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Goons posted:

"Hawk!"
"Falcon!"
"Hawk!"

Apart from hawk being a sterner sounding word (nothing to do with what it rhymes with,) they're both birds of prey. And don't forget that some of the other armies are sheep and rhinos. Purple even I think--well, it was a royal color to some after all.

More importantly I'm glad to hear it's over half-way done. Epic as it is, the 20-year mark is telling me it needs to find its answer and start moving to the final machinations. Even those will probably take a few years to be released. Sort of like 100 Bullets which will probably have spent nearly two years on the last 12 issues.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2009 04:05

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Leonard Leroy posted:

That's from the removed chapter right?

Yup. But does anyone recall why it was removed? You guys seem to enjoy it, but is it no longer part of the story? (aka, canon I suppose.)

# ¿ Apr 3, 2009 23:21

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Zorak posted:

That's less the thing, he wasn't openly malicious like that, at the point he tried it, he was so broken down that he didn't care. He was... amoral more then immoral.

Don't forget that she also gave up her several year pursuit of his affection to go get boned by someone who both defeated him and was seen as another directionless subordinate. He really hated being beneath anyone in any way.

Mmmmm, well thought out character development.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2009 10:05

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

tsob posted:

I think Griffith's big problem was that he was starting to like Guts as a friend, something he didn't want to have because it would mean someone was his equal and could disrupt his ambitions.

Also he basically harped on about beating Guts when they were just barely teenagers. Then it all went to poo poo when he couldn't recreate the scenario as an adult and Guts found his independence outside of Griffith's dream.

tsob posted:

I think Griffith's big problem was that he was starting to like Guts as a friend, something he didn't want to have because it would mean someone was his equal and could disrupt his ambitions.

Been too long since I read or watched it to remember clearly. If new chapters were on the way I'd re-read the first 30-whatever volumes... :toughguy:

# ¿ Apr 6, 2009 01:44

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Strabo4 posted:

Each page will have a glorious spread of Griffith-san

This manga will never finish

What, you don't trust the fan community to make at least one continuation project that horribly ends the comic with crappy art and worse dialogue?

The internet likes to correct the "mistakes" of creators.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2009 01:34

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

tsob posted:

The only noteworthy thing about any of the last 2 years or so of chapters has been the release date of the next one from what I can gather reading this thread.

No, there's another noteworthy element: we all think he's going to die of something before he's done, or even gets the finale really started.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2009 10:29

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Beautiful as it is, that was 22 pages dedicated to him flying onto someone's back.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2009 07:39

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Considering the clothing, it doesn't even look like a spoiler. It looks like something that happened over 10 volumes ago.

# ¿ May 1, 2009 23:36

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Ghost of Babyhead posted:

Check out the background; they're on top of Ganishka's head

I know that, but I'm saying that if you just wandered by like I did, you'd think everyone was gettin' all pissy for nothing.

No matter, only a week or so until it shows up on the interwebs. Which reminds me, how far behind is Dark Horse? Eventually they'll probably start getting really mad about these scans running around.

# ¿ May 3, 2009 23:45

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Elentor posted:

3D Realms just closed its doors before releasing Duke Nukem Forever.

I have a bad feeling about this

Hey now, cross your fingers that some other publisher will pick it up and set a hard date for them to suck it up and finish by. In fact, it was just yesterday that I relinked the Jace Hall (some internet guy who talks a lot) premiere ep to someone as proof that a year ago the game was functionally playable--it has video evidence of him playing the game.

Nate RFB posted:

Overall it's infinitely better quality than the Band of the Hawks scans. I don't think people remember how bad those scans were for the early volumes.

I remember when all scans were like that. I never could figure out how the image quality could go from decent to giant blocky poo poo on the same image. Hell, around the same time all TV/anime was encoded in RM too... what a horrible dark period of bad scanning/capping that was.

# ¿ May 8, 2009 02:03

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Leonard Leroy posted:

I can't believe something actually happened. What the gently caress.

Don't worry, he'll be sure that doesn't happen again for at least 6 months.

# ¿ May 12, 2009 10:39

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

tsob posted:

That's only like 1 issue, there'll be nothing for at least 2 years you mean.

Don't make me look 6 months back and find plot. I bet it could be done, minuscule as it is.

# ¿ May 12, 2009 21:25

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Solice Kirsk posted:

The only logical ending would be:

Once they make it to Elfhelm the rest of Guts' party is going to die or get trapped in a painting. Guts will then make his way to the Elfhelm castle. Just as Guts opens the door it will suck him in and he will think to himself "How many times have I made this journey?". Once he awakens we'll see a 15 year old Guts reach to his neck and touch the Egg of the King. Thinking to himself "I've always had this," he will then step forward and challenge Bazuso.

Can't think of a better way to end something that I have poured so many years of my time into...

I can think of something just to piss off everyone:

Remember that little happy song and war scene with the rape and murder? Yea, the Elves do that to the entire crew and now they can't stop Griffith's onslaught. Which they never see since, hell, let's have the Skull Knight kill him too, ending the two greatest egos on earth whose little argument about Caska's rape is causing untold amounts of death as they both kill everything that stands in their ways.

# ¿ May 14, 2009 06:58

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

OnimaruXLR posted:

You guys make it sound as if im@s is all bad. At least it's better than tohou.

For a second there I thought you meant the bullet hell vertical shooters. Those are rad.

# ¿ May 20, 2009 01:05

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Demtor posted:

Oh, and I finally bought a Dreamcast just last week... for the Berserk game of course.

I still can't recall if I ever beat that game. One of the later levels is this horrific sequence of running towards the camera while instant kill chases you down. It's miserable. It might be that I never beat it higher than normal if there are multiple difficulties though.

narfanator posted:

Burn the hydra stumps my rear end. This is Guts. He will, upon finding that chopping off the heads isn't working, chop off the body

So he's turned into Chuck Norris? I like this.

# ¿ Jun 11, 2009 08:58

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Cbouncerrun posted:

Does he poop?

He poops tortured souls.

It's been some years since I read the previous volumes now--good pacing, you perfectionist bastard--, but I don't recall him having a super-badass sword made of behelits previously. Anyway, he found a use for those, so what's left for him to poop?

# ¿ Jun 15, 2009 09:09

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

I really want to play the PS2 game, but I can't justify the crazy cost and high shipping for a game that got a luke-warm reception like it did.

Oh well, at least Guts is showing up as a character again. I sort of got tired of the crazy pope guy looking brainwashed, and Griffith posing for all the sunflares.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2009 01:37

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

A different debate. Does Miura consider the mythical force of "fate" to be the same as he did 20 years ago when the comic started? Has Gutts' path of revenge changed due to this?

Basically I'm saying people change over months and years. But decades? Unless he had one hell of a detailed bible he's never strayed from, a lot's going to have changed compared to how the comic looked to be heading several years ago.

# ¿ Jun 20, 2009 10:19

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Fiannaiocht posted:

He's already part of the real world. I guess now Guts can really hurt them since they're real.

He did say, probably a decade ago now, that he wanted Guts' revenge to not involve changing him from a human into any sort of god-like creature--or anything else for that matter. That brickwork has finally been laid

# ¿ Jun 26, 2009 05:31

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 22:20

Andrigaar: Dec 12, 2003; Saint of Killers

Mr. Deathy posted:

Like it's pretty obvious he's never gonna start another huge epic and try to "outdo" Berserk.

So yeah I think the ending could be 15-20 years away.

Please shut up and die. No offense or anything.

Man, in 10 years I'll be nitpicking story elements just so I can make myself believe it isn't worth it so I can stop wishing for more.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2009 01:15

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