BlazBlue Comic Cover Is Tempting… Very Tempting

By Ishaan . March 7, 2010 . 11:50am

BlazBlue Comic Cover Is Tempting... Very Tempting
First the artbook, now the comic collection…Aksys sure know how to get our attention with this cover art.

 

Sadly, one comic has 25 pages and seems to cost $15, which is quite a bit of money in my personal opinion. I mean, I paid a little over double of that for the 200-page Okami artbook. If you’re still interested, you can pick it up here.

 

A huge thanks to everyone in the comments that helped figure out this wasn’t the Daisuke Ishiwatari back cover mentioned on Aksys’s site!


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  • Tim N

    …I want to know more about this 200 page Okami art book. :o

  • http://www.siliconera.com Ishaan
  • Jaxx-Leviathan

    *drool* excellent… must acquire when rich and famous – or just rich. And yes, I will keep dreaming that I'll ever spend money on this and not everything else sligtly more important to live.

  • http://honorless.net honorless

    Whoa, whoa. I gotta point out that this drawing is not by Daisuke Ishiwatari.

    I wish he was BlazBlue's artist—because his work is leaps and bounds ahead of the dude who's responsible for all the BB art I've seen so far. (I'm gonna be a superjerk here and admit that I don't care about him enough to remember his name.)

  • http://www.siliconera.com Ishaan

    You sure? They're saying that the back cover is by him on the Aksys site.

  • http://honorless.net honorless

    Yeah, I'm sure. But you don't have to take my word for it — Belisarius's post about the comic ( http://www.aksysgames.com/2010/03/05/blazblue-c… ) says that the back cover is a picture of Jin and Ragna.

  • http://www.youtube.com/matman125 matty

    Yeah, Ishiwatari's style is very different. Here's a a cropped image of the back cover
    http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c7/matman125/…

    I've never seen this comic (other than auction listings going for about a hundred bucks), but the Guilty Gear comics were pretty funny, which I think were done by the same people here.

  • http://www.siliconera.com Ishaan

    You guys probably know better than I do, since I'm not very familiar with Iwatari's art style, but that post you linked to is the same one I sourced mine from. There's a line that says, “Plus, it has a totally sweet drawing of Jin and Ragna on the back cover, done by Daisuke Ishiwatari of Guilty Gear fame.”

  • http://www.youtube.com/matman125 matty

    It's just a misunderstand then. When I read your comments and honorless' I had to do a double take and say “huh?”.
    Don't worry, I always feel bad then Spencer has to bring out the big pointer finger when I read something and think way off :P

  • http://www.siliconera.com Ishaan

    Haha, well if you guys are that concerned, we could always shoot Aksys a mail and ask them to confirm. It's a valid concern to have. I'll check back on this in a few hours…need to get my tired ass to bed now. :)

  • http://honorless.net honorless

    derp derp genius me, I should have realized that just because I'm familiar with the characters doesn't mean everyone knows who they are… -_-

    The two girls in that image are Rachel and Noel. (Jin and Ragna are male.) So that image is most likely the front cover, not the back.

  • TheCleaningGuy

    That pic is AWESOME.

  • TheCleaningGuy

    That front cover is certainly… interesting.
    But $15 is a bit too much for a 25-page comic.

    Edit: Also, the fact that Noel doesn't seem to be wearing underwear is a bit curious…

  • Tim N

    Awesome! I'll have to pick this up sometime off amazon.ca.

  • http://www.benspants.com imperator_librarius

    Honorless is right. The image you've posted is the front cover, which doesn't have Daisuke's art on it. I BELIEVE the front cover art is from Mori, who did the art for BlazBlue itself. I can check when I get back into work on Monday, if you'd like.

  • ElTopo

    They pulled the same shenanigans with the blazblue artbook. 15$ for a 25 page artbook + shipping made it almost 20$. Not worth it. Aksys's shop crap is all way overpriced.

  • http://www.siliconera.com Ishaan

    Fixed! Thanks to everyone that helped figure this out! :)

  • thebanditking

    The Aksys Blaz blue promotion artbook was quite terrible (I hope thats not the one they are selling) I bought the official Japanese works which is fantastic. Also if you like art then the Okami book is a must, its absolutely gorgeous (Udon rocks). Also $15 is way over priced for a comic (how many pages is it?) because I buy most of my collected issue comics (mostly Batman) for 14.99 and I get 80+ pages of full color and B&W Mangas usually sell for 9.99 and your getting alot of pages per book.

  • masuto

    Well, I'd buy it.

  • Ujn Hunter

    Not sure if the price is still the same… but I grabbed the Okami artbook this weekend for $14.99 on Amazon! (Also: Hardcover editions of The Walking Dead were also $14.99) I would not pay that much for a 25 page comic book however.

  • thebanditking

    The Aksys Blaz blue promotion artbook was quite terrible (I hope thats not the one they are selling) I bought the official Japanese works which is fantastic. Also if you like art then the Okami book is a must, its absolutely gorgeous (Udon rocks). Also $15 is way over priced for a comic (how many pages is it?) because I buy most of my collected issue comics (mostly Batman) for 14.99 and I get 80+ pages of full color and B&W Mangas usually sell for 9.99 and your getting alot of pages per book.

  • masuto

    Well, I'd buy it.

  • Ujn Hunter

    Not sure if the price is still the same… but I grabbed the Okami artbook this weekend for $14.99 on Amazon! (Also: Hardcover editions of The Walking Dead were also $14.99) I would not pay that much for a 25 page comic book however.

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