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New Comic Company on the Block
« on: February 16, 2005, 11:35:20 AM »
AK Comics features heroes from and stories set in the Middle East. It's published in Cairo, but they've taken the DC Comics approach and have made up cities that are analogs to regional cities. It looks interesting.
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Re: New Comic Company on the Block
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2005, 11:52:32 AM »
The fact that it's called AK Comics is hilarious. If it were published anywhere other than the Middle East, I'd call it racial stereotyping.
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Re: New Comic Company on the Block
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2005, 01:19:17 PM »
Wow, that looks intersting. Unfortunately, the translations aren't so good. Course, that could be half the fun.
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Re: New Comic Company on the Block
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2005, 01:21:55 PM »
actually, int he sample comic I looked at, the translation was pretty decent. THe site translation is pretty bad though.
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Re: New Comic Company on the Block
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2005, 11:08:18 PM »
What's the humor or stereotype in "AK"?
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Re: New Comic Company on the Block
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2005, 11:17:10 PM »
AK47, used by tin pot dictatorships and self proclaimed freedom fighters worldwide. But especially in the arab strip.
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Re: New Comic Company on the Block
« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2005, 01:52:53 AM »
A to tha K, bizzle-nizzle!
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Re: New Comic Company on the Block
« Reply #7 on: February 17, 2005, 11:46:50 AM »
The AK is the gun of choice for virtually every terrorist cell and dictatorship in the world, because it's incredibly cheap and reliable. We westerners always tend to stereotype the middle east as a land of terrorists and dictators, so I thought the name was an odd choice.
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Re: New Comic Company on the Block
« Reply #8 on: February 17, 2005, 12:09:47 PM »
I can't find anything on the site about where the name come from. I wonder if there's some Arabic wordplay we're missing out on.
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Re: New Comic Company on the Block
« Reply #9 on: February 17, 2005, 01:02:48 PM »
I imagine there must be.
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Re: New Comic Company on the Block
« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2005, 01:36:10 PM »
It fits perfectly with the idea that lots of the big-moneyed arabs are wahabi militants.  I wouldn't be surprised if the comics turned out to be propoganda tools designed to produce more recruits for the Radical Islamic snuff-terrorists.
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Re: New Comic Company on the Block
« Reply #11 on: February 17, 2005, 01:47:06 PM »
I would, what with there being female leads, the channeling of pagan magical force, and the occassional typical comic scantily clad female. That doesn't sound very Arab extremist to me.
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Re: New Comic Company on the Block
« Reply #12 on: February 17, 2005, 01:49:03 PM »
Which seems basically like a reasonable response.

You read the one preview they have it goes from guy following kid theif, kid theif leading him to secret theives den, big guy who seems like the hero-sorts says something along lines of "OOhhh, pretty city. I wanna be a part of this." That's all you're given, so who knows. Fell/SE get a review copy and check it out, huh? =P
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Re: New Comic Company on the Block
« Reply #13 on: February 17, 2005, 01:53:32 PM »
don't think I'm not working on that. Phone calls to Egypt are terribly expensive though. I might as well BUY a comic for that price.
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Re: New Comic Company on the Block
« Reply #14 on: February 17, 2005, 02:02:07 PM »
Even if you contact them, overseas places almost never send anything. We got an RPG from Finland once, though, so that's cool.
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