Dear ComiRades,
This Year is the Best Year for Tamil ComiRades as for as Number of Issues are concerned. To Topple that, we Have Yet Another Issue from M/s Prakash Publishers. Yes, Am talking about Lion Comics Issue No 205 - Yemanin Ellayil (எமனின் எல்லையில்), the third and the concluding installment of the Current Tex Willer Series, arrived on 19th Nov 2008 (Which Happens to Be One of My Favourite RJ Ophe's Birthday. So Yours Truly Take this opportunity to Wish Her - Happy Birthday Imsai Arasi). Here is the Cover scan of the latest issue of Lion Comics: Instead of Being a Vertical Cover, This time we Have a Horizontal Cover, something which has not been done since the cover of Nizhal Onru Nijam Onru.
As per the Season In Tamil Nadu, India whereby every one of the Cinema Heroes are Acquiring a Tag Name Themselves (Now our Beloved Hero J.K Ritheesh should be called as "Rising Star JKR"), Our comics editor has also given a Name to Tex Willer (Top Star Tex Willer), although he must be called so because, he is, infact, the Top Star in Tamil Comics. Kindly Have a Look at the first page where the synopsis of the previous part is given. That is Followed by Page No 88 from which the cover art is inspired off. Finally, we have the last page of the story. Subject: Claudio Nizzi e Fabio Civitelli
Script Writer: Claudio Nizzi
Original Artwork:
Fabio Civitelli Cover Illustration:
Claudio Villa Cover Design: Hard Cover, Laminated.
Serial Number: No. 205, Part 3 of Tex Willer's 3 Part Saga.
On Sale: 19th Nov 2008 Onwards
Total No. of Pages: 116 (Story 110 Pages), Black & White.
Price: Priceless for Comic Fans; For others, INR 10/-
Next Issue: Phil Corrigan (Agent X-9) in Maandavan Meendaan (மாண்டவன் மீண்டான்)
Scan Courtesy: Avadi Venkateshwaran
For those who came in Late, here is the complete Review to make sure that you catch up the previous happenings:
Part 1:Lion Comics Issue No 203 Maranathin Munnodi (மரணத்தின் முன்னோடி) Tex Issue No 475 - IL presagio: The vindictive Navajo witch doctor, Yanado, with a false omen, makes the rebel Orso Veloce (Swift Bear) believe that he will kill Aquila della Notte and annihilate the “blue coats”. The rebels thus begin to massacre the farmers and the army goes into action. Tex rushes to Fort Defiance to avert an Indian war but is arrested by Major Wellman, enemy of the Native Americans. An enormous flood of the Puerco River sweeps away the stagecoach that carries Tex to the Holbrook jail and the ranger saves himself by a miracle! Meanwhile, a military column moves towards the central village of the Navajo reservation.
Part 2: Lion Comics Issue No 204 Kaatril Karaindha Kazhagu (காற்றில் கரைந்த கழுகு) Tex Issue No 476 - L'uomo venuto dal fiume: Carson and Kit Willer look for Tex, refusing to believe him to have died in the Puerco River flood. And, in fact, Tex is safe, at the ranch of the widow Sydor, whose husband had been killed a few days earlier by Orso Veloce’s rebels. Having eliminated Sciacallo Danzante, one of the leaders of the revolt who had shown up at the ranch to complete the slaughter, in a duel, Tex learns that it is the merchant, Overend, who arms the Navajos. And while Piccolo Falco and Carson go to Gallup to seize the trafficker, Tex returns to the reservation to punish the infamous witch doctor Yanado.
Part 3: Lion Comics Issue No 205 Yemanin Ellayil (எமனின் எல்லையில்) Tex Issue No 477 - Sfida selvaggia: The arms merchant, Overend, who has stirred up the rebellion of Orso Veloce (Swift Bear)’s Navajos, in order to sell his guns, corrupting the witch doctor, Yanado, tries to reach an agreement with Major Wellman of Fort Defiance who intends to sweep the Indians away from the reservation in order to be able to seize their gold deposits of the Navajo’s. But Carson and Kit Willer intervene, sending their plans up in smoke. Orso Veloce, after having massacred the village of Ala Rossa, guilty of having abandoned the revolt, challenges Aquila della Notte (இரவுக் கழுகு ) to a duel in order to regain prestige. Tex wins the duel and offers a chance for swift Bear & instead of taking that offer; he foolishly tries to attack The Ranger & dies in that process. The rest of the warriors who were involved in the massacre were taken to fort defiance as prisoners. Tex then visits the Vindictive Navajo with Doctor Yanado and burns down his place after narrowly missing from the Hypnotic spell of Yanado.
Finally Tex arrives at the village where the Widow of Sydor and her son are. She wants to say something and finally ends up without saying what she intended to say to Tex. Our Fellow Blogger Ayyampalayam Lakshmanan Venkateshwaran Guessed this even before reading the story. Hats off to Him.
Now that the story review is over, let us do a Poll on the issue as with the previous Muthu Comics Polling: Kindly do the voting in a democratic way & no Cheating's Please (கள்ள வோட்டு வேண்டாமே?).
The Previous Two Issues Maranathin Munnodi (மரணத்தின் முன்னோடி) and the 2nd Part Kaatril Karaindha Kazhagu (காற்றில் கரைந்த கழுகு) cover Art's had a Similarity with the Original Versions from Italy in terms of the cover art. Here are the Original covers of Tex Willer series No 475, 476 & 477.
And here are the covers of the Current series: Lion Comics Issue No 203, 204 & the supposed to be Cover of Issue No 205 which was later changed. The editor, in fact, set a precedence by publishing the next issue;s cover in the back wrapper of the current issue & he kept the same for the 2 issues & when yours truly expected him to follow suit, he just changed the pattern straightaway. However, the Art work By Lion Comics itself looks Good As well
Last, However not the Least, is the issue on the size of the next lion comics issue. In the editorial, Mr S.Vijayan has categorically said that he has 3 options as the increase in the rates of paper left him without any other option other than changing the present pattern:
Option 1: Keep the same Size and Format (100 to 114 Pages, Laminated Thick Cover) & increase the price of the Book to INR 12.00/- from the current Price of 10.00/- (A Price increase of 20% when you consider the fact that the paper cost has increased by 40%). The editor himself says that the increase in price will lead to a issue of Change when purchasing the books from the shop as the shop owner may not have adequate change.
Option 2: Keep the price a Constant thing (i.e Keep it As Rs 10.00/- itself, which is the present rate) and reduce the Number of Pages from 114 to somewhere along 82. Here also the Editor says that Most of the Tex willer stories are off 110 pages length and it will be tough to print them as a single issue.
Option 3: Keep the Price the same (i.e Rs 10.00/- per issue) and change the size to A4 or something like that in a Bigger size with 44 Pages and the cover will not remain thick and Laminated; Instead, the cover will be off Soft GSM Paper and Lamination also may not be there. Here, the editor also suggests that there could be another option to go for still smaller size.
The Editor requested for the inputs of our readers on the same. To help on this cause, yours truly has set up a Poll in which you can go and choose what size you want the next issue to be. Still, the better way of doing will be to Vote on the poll and then comment why you choose a particular option. the results will be sent to the Editor Himself so as to make his job much easier.
As a Pattern, Yours Truly will Be sharing the Happenings of Comics Houses in the cyberspace. Here are they:
(1) Rafiq Raja of Comicology has Re-Designed his Blog Kindly visit this and comment on the efforts made by him to make our reading better. And He also started to Cover Media Articles in his Blog, which is a welcome sign. May Be, he will post more as he has started doing so. Also to be noted is the fact that he is updating the older posts, which many of us are not noticing. Recently he has added a widget for that to make sure we watch what he is updating. The previous one that Rafiq updated was Thorgal post in which he added the coverage of Rani Comics.
(2) Our Beloved Friend From the Union Territory of Pondy, Mr Khaleel has also fallen in Love with the Comics Blogging concept and has started a Blog Called Mudhalai Pattalam (Based on the Evergreen Comic Hero Bruno Brasil). Kindly visit the blog & post your comments by clicking here: முதலை பட்டாளம்
Well, that's all for the time being. As usual, post your comments in the comments section. For those who want to Pen their thoughts in Tamil, Kindly Use the Option Provided in the Widget in the sidebar. The next Old Review Post will be on the 5th issue of James Bond Comics. I Have Planned last week that The Next Actual post will be on a News Paper article about the 60 Years of Comics in Tamil; However as Mr Venkateshwaran Has covered that already, am working on a different story now.
Thanks & Regards,
King Viswa.
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