Fanmanga - DB Multiverse

[Marco Polo]

I... huh...I like the first panel with the starry sky, at least

[Kamiccolo9]

That page is canon.

[dbzfan7]

First enjoyable page of DBM in a looooong time. Done by Malik....no shock he had to make something good for these guys.

[Malik_DBNA]

Did Malik of Dragon Ball New Age drawn this page?

Yes. About a year or more ago lol

[DNA]

That was funny and unexpected, great job malik!

[Malik_DBNA]

That was funny and unexpected, great job malik!

Thanks!

[Regarder]

Yeah, I liked it. It's funny... but is 16 kneeling down behind that lion or is he obscured by the planetoid?

[Malik_DBNA]

Yeah, I liked it. It's funny... but is 16 kneeling down behind that lion or is he obscured by the planetoid?

he's supposed to be obscured

[goku1234]

[SSJ God Gogeta]

5 bucks, Bojack breaks the sword.

[dbgtFO]

This special is boring. I think I'll take a hiatus and return in the new year

[Marco Polo]

This special is boring.

Agreed. The last two pages (not counting Malik's mini-comic) literally served no purpose. You could remove them and what follows would still be the same.

[Scarz]

I like the idea behind the chapter, but I'm not a fan of Bojack. So this special isn't really exciting to me. I still have hopes that it will do something interesting like it did in the beginning with the "experimental prisoners" explanation.

[ParkerAL]

This special is boring.

Agreed. The last two pages (not counting Malik's mini-comic) literally served no purpose. You could remove them and what follows would still be the same.

Their purpose is to show a fight taking place, much like the hundreds of Dragon Ball pages Toriyama drew showing nothing but his characters punching, kicking and blasting each other. Of course, he had the advantage of releasing an entire chapter at once, rather than doling pages out over several weeks. The standard manga publishing schedule he worked under made his fights more easily digestible than the ones in Dragon Ball Multiverse, I supposed.

[Marco Polo]

This special is boring.

Agreed. The last two pages (not counting Malik's mini-comic) literally served no purpose. You could remove them and what follows would still be the same.

Their purpose is to show a fight taking place, much like the hundreds of Dragon Ball pages Toriyama drew showing nothing but his characters punching, kicking and blasting each other. Of course, he had the advantage of releasing an entire chapter at once, rather than doling pages out over several weeks. The standard manga publishing schedule he worked under made his fights more easily digestible than the ones in Dragon Ball Multiverse, I supposed.

Yes, and DBM is usually written with that in mind. I described this earlier in the topic, but basically an example of this is that Toriyama usually had one "plot twist" and one cliffhanger per chapter since he was releasing one chapter at once, whereas DBM usually has one mini plot twist or surprise and one mini cliffhanger per page, since it's released one page at a time. Here, however, we got two of the most uneventful pages ever in DBM. When this guy is grabbing his sword at the end of the page no one is holding their breath wandering what will happen next.

[Regarder]

The pacing does tend to get compressed in DB Multiverse. There are lots of moments that Toriyama would spend several pages emphasizing, like people's reactions, and the importance of critical moments like deaths. People complain about single pages not advancing the story enough, and so Salagir tends to pace it in a way that satiates that, but makes the story feel compressed and rushed when you read a whole arc back. Of course, if they saved up 20 pages and just released them in batches, people would go berserk... or die of starvation, because they apparently do nothing except sit at dragonball-multiverse.com hitting refresh.

[SSJ God Gogeta]

[BlazingBarrrager]

Honestly, I find this special chapter to be pointless. I mean why in the hell would we need a history lesson for Bojack and his Galaxy Soliders, especially since they only appeared in one movie (and possibly GT can't remember).

[ParkerAL]

A few pages ago, I said the second Bojack special had managed to capture my interest. Now, I think I'm beginning to feel the fatigue others have displayed. I don't mind extended fight scenes as long as they feature high stakes and dynamic action. But this new page doesn't make me feel anything. How can I invest emotionally in uninspired attacks such as standard gut punches and elbowing a guy's noggin? We've seen these cliched moves innumerable times in both Dragon Ball and other action properties. If they were well executed, I wouldn't make such a fuss, but I can't even give them that.

Most of the panels lack a sense of living motion. I understand how challenging it is to render movement, but the artist has already displayed better attempts in previous pages. Bojack and whatshisname look like action figures posed in the air in the top two shots. Juliansk did pull off a believable sword swipe at least, so I will give him or her props for that (even though I find it a little odd that Bojack didn't even grimace at his chest getting slashed -high pain tolerance can only go so far). I also still hold that Juliansk's character art looks great -particularly when he or she uses thick lines and dark inking. But as a whole, this page lacks both charm and momentum.

I really hope the fight ends in the next page. We've been given no reason to care about what happens to the guy Bojack is pummeling. Let's get his inevitable demise over with already and move onto more world building. The opening pages showed promise, as does the artist, so why throw a special's potential away on a throwaway fight?

[Fionordequester]

A few pages ago, I said the second Bojack special had managed to capture my interest. Now, I think I'm beginning to feel the fatigue others have displayed. I don't mind extended fight scenes as long as they feature high stakes and dynamic action. But this new page doesn't make me feel anything. How can I invest emotionally in uninspired attacks such as standard gut punches and elbowing a guy's noggin? We've seen these cliched moves innumerable times in both Dragon Ball and other action properties. If they were well executed, I wouldn't make such a fuss, but I can't even give them that.

Really? I dunno, I'm pretty entertained so far, fights are almost always interesting to watch (at least for me). I mean, I do feel like we jumped into this big climactic fight a little too quickly, but still.

Most of the panels lack a sense of living motion. I understand how challenging it is to render movement, but the artist has already displayed better attempts in previous pages. Bojack and whatshisname look like action figures posed in the air in the top two shots. Juliansk did pull off a believable sword swipe at least, so I will give him or her props for that (even though I find it a little odd that Bojack didn't even grimace at his chest getting slashed -high pain tolerance can only go so far). I also still hold that Juliansk's character art looks great -particularly when he or she uses thick lines and dark inking. But as a whole, this page lacks both charm and momentum.

Hey, but look on the bright side. At least the choreography isn't that much worse than how Dragon Ball GT could be at times...

I really hope the fight ends in the next page. We've been given no reason to care about what happens to the guy Bojack is pummeling. Let's get his inevitable demise over with already and move onto more world building. The opening pages showed promise, as does the artist, so why throw a special's potential away on a throwaway fight?

What makes you think he'll die? Maybe he'll narrowly survive this fight, try to team up with some other good mutants, and try and manage something. You never know.