Are there any western comics with QUALITY car chase scenes?
That's one thing that anime and manga do REALLY well, yet I've never really seen western media that gets the "car driving action sequences" quite right, or at least not at high enough level of execution that they're worth watching/reading for those scenes alone.
>misuse of QUALITY >tumblr >rec thread Lurk for two years before posting.
Ethan Bailey
It feels like Batman should have something with the batmobile but I can't think of any.
Nolan Phillips
All New Ghost Rider
Nicholas Wright
literally none, i don't know any western animator that can draw and animate cars accurately
Joseph Clark
When the original artist was drawing it that was just really nice looking in general, but I don't recall off the top of my head there being all THAT many car chase scenes.
Aiden Phillips
There's gotta be fucking SOMETHING. A comic or two at the very least. I can understand the lack of cartoons, since westerners STILL don't take animation seriously except as a way to make kids' movies, but you'd expect there's be some comics at least.
John Howard
That's not what QUALITY means here user.
Unless you're referring to how the street lamps keep changing colors like they're stoplights.
Oliver Lopez
No one fucking cares about memes, kid.
Go back to
Jose Bell
For cartoons, this one is pretty great. The car physics here feel like an arcade game. Loose and cartoony, but still with a sense of weight and momentum. The foley for the car sound effects was great, too. Different sounds for different engines and everything. youtube.com/watch?v=U-4l6Jan1uo
As far as comic chase scenes, Sean Murphy fucking loves cars, and is one of the best car artists around. He did some lovely chase/race scenes in Chrononauts and Tokyo Ghost.
Jason Brown
From Chrononauts
Nathaniel Williams
And Tokyo Ghost.
Angel Gutierrez
Steven Universe has several, one even had euro beat just like Initial D!
Jaxon Phillips
Can't think of any comics, but the cartoon "Motorcity" has quite a few going on. As it should, since crazy-fast cars are part of what it's about. Lots of ridiculous stunts, kickass animation, and weapons involved.
Can't find any specific clips of chases, but here's a trailer that shows the cars and a small sample of the action you see.
Never saw the cartoon before. The clip you post is OK even if it does look like it was animated in flash lol.
Liam Brown
Yes. Yes it was.
Dystopian future Detroit literally built overtop the older, decrepit Detroit, the man who runs it being voiced by none other than Mark Hamill himself. Well-rounded characters that actually get (and keep!) their character development going. Alas, Disney fucked it over and let it rot away, not renewing it for another season.
And we also get Dee Snider (from Twisted "We Ain't Gonna Take It Anymore" Sister) as the most fun villain I've seen in about a decade: The Duke of Detroit. I'll let this little clip of him do the talking.
Chrononauts had nothing to do with cars/driving/racing though. Any car scenes were minimal.
Aiden Adams
This had a ton of potential, but the writing was weak and the plot was RETARDED.
Jack Watson
18+ Board user.
To bed with you.
Carter Martinez
>all that grinding >not fucking up the bottom of your car
Sebastian Sanders
He rebuilt the car with alien technology. And besides, that's an early-80s Cadillac Coupe. Full steel frame. It's probably pretty sturdy.
Kevin Sanchez
Yeah, I dropped it after the first issue. Not even Murphy's art could keep me on.
Chrononauts, on the other hand, was pretty damn fun.
Zachary Ortiz
corny but good
Bentley Watson
>posts all the Gunsmith Cats and Riding Bean as if Japan has made anything like it in 20 years
I miss it. Back during the bubble when they were so sure they were gonna take over the world economically, when good things still happened. When it wasn't a country of betas worshipping fake teenage lesbians from afar. When protagonists could be something other than "lazy but impossibly talented and smart middle/high school boy who has at least one girl who already has a crush on him, and more will follow"
Evan Sanders
>all those missing frames I mean, it still looks nice, but it seems like it's only half finished. Also, Japan doesn't even make stuff like this anymore. All things vehicle related in animation are done with 3D models now, regardless of what country it came from. Cars mean moving backgrounds and shifting perspectives, and nobody wants to front the cash for something like that when they can just rig up a model and do some quick cel shading over it.
Thomas Evans
This is why you have dropped frames, then. Unless you're working on a hollywood budget, you couldn't do a proper car chase at this quality. I'm not the biggest anime fan at all, but even I have to admit that those scenes are impressive. Dropped frames and all.
Jacob Wood
Manga has such a long history of incredibly well drawn and paced car scenes, arguably still to this day.
Surely there has to be some western comics that at least approach that level?
Liam Gonzalez
I think it's funny how different, yet similar manga/anime and comics/cartoons are in some ways.
Manga tends to spend a lot of its layout on action and portraying fluent motions. Sometimes several pages will be dedicated to conveying a couple of actions with minimal dialogue, while anime is anything but. They jam a ton of stagnant scenes into a show that might have maybe 3 minutes of solid action, with everything else being slow pans with dialogue, or easy animation cycles.
Meanwhile, most western animation focuses more on constant movement and emoting, but western comics tend to favor bolder static frames in their layouts, with a lot of text.
Jacob Ross
The better question is if there are any comics or cartoons about racing and rallying.
Nathan Hill
Does Ghost Racers count?
Jayden Butler
>Are there any western comics with QUALITY car chase scenes? Yes.
It's called Rush City. It's basically Transporter in the DCU. Slight crossover with Black Canary back when they were pushing her.
Lucas Reed
>Surely there has to be some western comics that at least approach that level? the big difference is in distribution it doesn't cost as much money to put out manga because a single artist can do it, send it in, and it gets published in a thick compilation book (imagine if every image comic that came out in a week came out in one book, instead of hwoever many individual comics)
the paper quality's worse, there's less made on the whole, they're not sent as far
in america you have a whole comic instead, different artist for covers (to attract attention) and insides
we have things like 2000AD (probably closest to what japan has) and Heavy Metal but they're not huge companies because publishing this shit is expensive as hell in the west
Gabriel Kelly
>because a single artist can do it, they CAN doesn't mean they do, obviously there's often a group but, stil, they get shit pay compared to western writers/artists (providing you're comparing them to successful or non-indie ones)
Anime never was really great medium. Oh and have you read Gunsmith Cats Burst? Because if you havent dont it is shit
Eli Moore
>No one cares about memes >Uses meme
Lucas Sullivan
I don't know about animation, but for comics, that chase scene with the muscle car and the mini coopers in Matt Fraction's Hawkeye jumps into my head.
Not because it's the greatest thing ever -- it's just what I think of when I try to connect cars to cape comics in my head.
>That's one thing that anime and manga do REALLY well, yet I've never really seen western media that gets the "car driving action sequences" quite right Like... never? You've never seen *anything* in all the media out of the west that focused on cars????
Didn't like Bullitt. The car chase itself was cool, but it was only a few minute of an entire feature film, one that was actually pretty boring. I get that it was the first movie to have a real high action car chase in it, but other than that it was pretty meh. As far as classic car movies go, my favorite has always been Vanishing Point.
Jordan Mitchell
It's an "I watched 5-10 classic anime from the 80s and 90s and have not seen anything more recent than 1998, now let me tell you all about how modern anime sucks based on third hand accounts I've read on the Internet" episode.
There are production limitations in animation, and drawing car chases is particularly demanding. 24 FPS animation is also not the only true official approved way of doing animation just because that's how Disney did it.
Oliver Powell
>Anime never was great, said the guy who has probably watched like two anime and decided he knows the entire medium.
Adam Nguyen
Alex Toth's Hot Wheels. He might have done some other comics too, I dunno.
Matthew Cox
>they get paid shit But isnt that with every job in japan?
Isaac Hall
Actually i have been watching anime since yearly 90s thanks to my dad. Truth is manga is much better
Hunter Green
Manga lacks animation, color, voice acting, sound effects and music.
Joshua Foster
But it is still better
Joseph Jones
No it isn't.
Jace Phillips
Initial D.
Fuck you it's not western, fucking Initial D you cuntnigger
Lincoln Rodriguez
CORDS ARE COOL AS FUCK
TELL ME MORE
Wyatt Martinez
>they pass the same store named "Mark's" twice >quality
Evan Cruz
But user. Dorifto is what got me into all this shit in the first place and it got kinda shit after Season 2 or 3.
I just want another comfy racing show or comic but maybe with professionals.
Tyler James
It got pretty shit after Stage 3.
Landon Ross
They just took it way too seriously and autismal after the whole Projecto D shit.
The stupid slice of life shit got lost and the opponents weren't all that memorable anymore. Nevermind the teleporting cars.
But can't have everything I suppose.
But I assume that means you dont have another show to suggest?
Matthew Morris
This shit actually looks pretty cool.
Nolan Jackson
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Mason Butler
I mean LOOK AT THIS ART!
Grayson Wright
>Also, Japan doesn't even make stuff like this anymore. All things vehicle related in animation are done with 3D models now Incorrect
Nolan Watson
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Ryder Anderson
What about Redline?
Jace James
I guess that's Lupin, but which one?
Logan Parker
can anyone remind me of that car racing show that came on some kids channel quite some time ago.
All I remember is every episode they'd race in some new area. Also some evil dudes also race and try to win or stop them from winning, blah blah. Evil dudes were green I think.
Near the opening every episode it'd show a sign of the route 66, that is the most I remember from that show. they'd all race into some teleporter and the show starts.
Its honestly been so long. If anyone could remind me I'd love you fova.
Noah Jones
Wolverine/Deathblow #1, you weeb.
Joshua Gray
5th series (or related movie) judging by the backgrounds
Benjamin Gutierrez
Thanks.
Where do i start with that show? I remember a few 70s-80s seasons and then some 2000s stuff after a break?
Nathan Cooper
It really doesnt matter Lupin is mostly episodic but i guess go with original from 71.
This show was fucking awesome. Too bad about the new comic.
Oliver Jones
It's the "Jigen's Gravestone" movie, which is a continuation from the moody "The Woman Named Fujiko Mine" series from 2012 (there'll be another movie about Goemon next year).
He's wearing a blue jacket but it's unrelated to the new show from last year that was set in Italy. Basically they chose an odd point to give Lupin a blue jacket. >1st series: green jacket >2nd series: red jacket >3rd series: pink jacket (because 80s) >4th series: blue jacket
In the Fujiko show he had a green jacket but then in the Jigen movie had had a blue jacket.
David Morales
>that chase scene with the muscle car and the mini coopers in Matt Fraction's Hawkeye
nigga straight up ripped that off of alex toth
Jeremiah Price
2nd series. Sub or dub is fine, but dub is a lot of fun.
Then the 3rd series and movies.
Mine Fujiko series if you are somewhere that ecchi is acceptable to watch.
Car Warriors didn't have much focus on chase scenes, but it did have a ton of Death Race 2000 style car combat and was just a general clusterfuck of over-the-top awesome crazy shit.
Aaron Bailey
>Redline
pretty much the most stylish and best thing ever
William Carter
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Nathaniel Long
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Xavier Nguyen
Adam Warren did an unpublished pitch for a Rush City spin-off that DC ended up rejecting for whatever reason.
Brayden Anderson
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Nathaniel Hill
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Nicholas Stewart
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Daniel Sanchez
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Luis Young
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Gavin White
Why is this stuff so popular in Japan?
William Foster
What stuff? Cars...?
The automobile and electronics industries are what revitalised Japan after they got rekt in World War II to become the 1st World powerhouse they are today. They probably have a sense of pride in their cars.
Blake Torres
And they kinda invented drifting with is pretty cool
Ryan Allen
That looks pretty neat.
Why not? Cars are cool. That said it's not like the west doesn't have a lot of car culture either, just not in comics and cartoons it seems.
Nolan Reed
Misfile. aka Initial D with transgender magical transformation and angel-demon war. Despite the bad art and wtf pitch, it's surprisingly good and reasonably deep.
www.misfile.com
Jaxson Kelly
>transgender magical transformation and angel-demon war Why?
Hudson Peterson
Attention.
Benjamin Thomas
>Gunsmith Cats Burst? Because if you havent dont it is shit Gunsmith Cats went to shit halfway through the original run when Sonoda started jerking it to his femdom mindbreak fetish
Gabriel Jones
Lots of anime lack animation, anime music is by and large shit and I don't know japanese so voice acting is basically irrelevant to me
Nicholas Ortiz
Yeah, but why though? Initial D doesn't exactly fit into the stereotype for this kind of readerbase.
Ethan Long
>recommending skipping first series >posting first series
Luke Turner
Scoop scanlan in action comics #1
Cooper Gutierrez
>recomending beach city drift >for any reason No quality car chase is worth watching that piece of shit episode.
Nolan Gutierrez
what in the actual fuck
Josiah Mitchell
To be fair it's three people adapting to new lives (A boy transformed into a girl, a girl that lost two years of her life, and the angel that made the clerical error resulting in that mess and was banished to earth as a result), and the racing part is used as a link between his former life and his new one. It's not just rallyes with a magical frosting, even if the races are a big part of the whole.
Luis Adams
It's Markdonalds, there's one on every corner.
Evan Hall
Well I got that from how far I skimmed it. But the art and premise are offputting bigtime over just reading Overrev or someshit for animu behaviour, boobs and cars.
James Davis
That story really does not get the recognition it deserves.
Noah Hall
I think that was fine in original but then Burst came and jesus christ that ending
Alexander Hall
>anime music is by and large shit Are you talking about openings and endings or whole soundtrack? I do agree there is alot anime soundtracks with are shit but there is alot good ones too
Carter Barnes
Truly the artists' artist We need this reprint.
Sebastian Cooper
Both your opinions are bad and wrong.
Cooper King
Mostly OPs and EDs. I don't really pay attention to most in episode music unless it's really bad (or rarely, really good) since it's often made as background noise.
Obviously there is some great music in anime but I dislike most of what I've heard so it's hard to consider it a universal positive for the medium.
John Ortiz
Misfile is old as fuck for a webcomic and predates the more recent trend of sexuality/gender politicking on the internet.
It was just a weird webcomic like a million others at the time. And, as far as I can remember, transgender is the wrong word for it. The guy got mistakenly turned into a girl due to a clerical error in heaven and was very put out by it. The only reason they gave up on turning back, last I heard, was because it would have meant their new girlfriend dying (And maybe not being into him/her because she was a lesbian?)