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Anonymous No.281292191 [Report] >>281292340 >>281292414 >>281292440 >>281298730
BLAME!
I don't understand what all these fags kept saying that it has no story. It has plenty of story, especially in the latter chapters.
Ironically I do not like the latter chapters, they feel like they waste too much time on 1 plot compared to the 1st chapter where he's wandering around like he's Samurai Jack doing episodic shit while constantly failing at his main objective but without it being annoying.

Also the storytelling was not what I was expecting at all which is a breath of fresh air. It isn't wasting time.
I was expecting a lot of filler of him wandering around a town with giant Strider creatures just talking and a lot of talking between characters. I was expecting a lot of talking instead I get met with the equivalent of Samurai Jack.

Ironically there isn't enough wandering around , there's only ever 2-3 pages of background scenery before he goes on with the plot/action at hand.

The only chapter where it actually is full on wandering around for 30+ pages is Chapter 37 where he and Cibo wander around.
Ironically it shows how streamlined linear story can get in the way of other things such as exploration and characters having time to interact with one another.

You ADHD zoomers and gen-alphas really need to appreciate slower paced things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNhUyhy0MjM&ab_channel=1%27AssautD%271mpro

Oh yeah one more thing... despite all the creepy imagery Blame!'s atmosphere is nothing like a horror, it's more like an action silent film and a spaghetti western. I also do not find porcelain dolls and deformed skulls horrorfying, just sad and unsettling.

The artwork is still good, but not as good as the cover implies. There's plenty of plot. The characters do have a lot of fish eye syndrome and a lot of poker faces going on, only in the first few panels does the artist attempt to give them slight grins, smiles, frowns and Cibo's personality completely dissipates after her introduction.
Anonymous No.281292203 [Report] >>281298730
Also Killi/Killy's was questionable in that 1 chapter ... where he takes issue with silicon people being sold as cattle just because he saved that 1 kid silicon... when the guy kills babies both human & silicon. I guess it was just an excuse to have him go trigger happy with the gun because he doesn't face any repercussions.
Also the power balance is just like a spaghetti western and a kung fu movie ... where he kills anyone and anything, that's just like Aku impossible to kill, yet he struggles with nameless mooks and specific henchmen like those 3 guys who threw his bag // or he threw his bag himself? and then that 1 silicon kid kills all 3 elite humans with ease while Killy couldn't despite killing elite silicon people for a living.

Also Killy talks a lot more than he does in the movie. Not even when he's busy scanning people in the latter chapters does he go fully mute. The movie really didn't justify being 1 h 45 min for a 20 minute plot that happened in barely 2 chapters. I really appreciate self contained chapters because they don't waste time stretching out the story. I thought the 1st chapter where he loses the kid was going to span for the entire volume into some wild goose chase with those 2 cenobites I mean silicon people as the main villains only to have them killed in 1 chapter which I appreciate immensely.
The movie again... should have been 2 hours and 30 minutes and contained numerous elements such as exploration like a normal detective movie. Noir/detective/horror requires the extended time and so does this lone wolf wandering a post apocalyptic world.

The 36 minute ONA or what it's called with 5 minute x 7 episodes each had a great ALIEN soundtrack... if only that retarded intermission with the rock music was cut out.

Blame! would have the same problem as The Matrix had if it was adapted ... people would be into it for the explosions & fighting sequences rather than the exploration, just like Samurai Jack.
Anonymous No.281292216 [Report] >>281298730
In the first volume the drawfag Nihei has an unusual way of handling the camera/focus and lazer.
90% of the panel would show the lazer or projectile where impact was fired and the other 10% of the panel from above would be where the source of the projectile came from, normally you're supposed to do the opposite.
I saw some MC Escher influences but they were exceptionally few. Instead there were A LOT of Brutalist architecture influences.
The comic at times can feel like The Matrix and Samurai Jack in that it attracts the 12 year old audience with its wanton destruction, explosions and fighting sequences while still involving sci-fi elements for those less obsessed with explosions & kung fu. There isn't really any kung fu, any attempts at melee combat is very hard to follow in Blame!

The fascination with megastrusctures ironically can be found in most racing games and even more sillier IPs like Sonic, Megaman, Spark the Electric, including TRON, Distance, Nitronic Rush. FLAT Megastructures would be great for racing vehicles and that's exactly what Titmouse's Motorcity did.

Difference is that it does not carry the same atmosphere just like silent exploration and detective movies are 180 from one another. One is enjoying the scenery in peace before a sudden action and the other is talking 90% of the time to people before the sudden action. I was expecting the latter from Blame! thinking it will be 90% talking to corpses to uncover the plot and I was pleasantly surprised it was not a detective story. To quote me yes I think Samurai Jack would ironically fit well in a Brutalish architecture even more-so than any of Blade Runner's characters. I was pleasantly surprised it wasn't a parody like Trigun or a full 100% action fest for 12 year olds like Alucard, instead it was pandering to 2 demographics by accident and I am 1 of 2 of said demographics , just like Samurai Jack. Some slight influences from Lone Wolf & Cub as well, but those are quickly dropped.
Anonymous No.281292238 [Report] >>281292305
tl;dr
op is a fag
blame is great
noise is great
abara is great
biomega is great
sidonia is great
aposimz is great
tower dungeon is great
luv me sum megastructure, simple as
Anonymous No.281292274 [Report]
>Why do I suddenly hear Linkin Park?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H4l9RpkwM&list=RDv2H4l9RpkwM&start_radio=1&ab_channel=LinkinPark
>Why do I suddenly hear Vagabond?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PirRWSoxuYU&list=RDPirRWSoxuYU&start_radio=1&ab_channel=Sloth809
>Why do I suddenly hear ALIEN 1979 ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_d_8oIJMhQ&list=PLKL-wdtP0f22SxXiIyqJZyKu1h-vMX15c&ab_channel=SugoiGhost
Anonymous No.281292305 [Report] >>281297196
>>281292238
READ NIGGER READ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQbBzOvPBpc&ab_channel=Dylan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlKL_EpnSp8&list=RDGlKL_EpnSp8&start_radio=1&ab_channel=BomaniArmah

FEEL NIGGER FEEL, NOT LIKE A NIGGER, BUT A GOTH WHITE MAN KNOWN AS HP LOVECRAFT OR HANS RUEDI GIGER.
Anonymous No.281292340 [Report]
>>281292191 (OP)
> when the guy kills babies both human & silicon.

>I guess it was just an excuse to have him go trigger happy with the gun because he doesn't face any repercussions.
Anonymous No.281292414 [Report]
>>281292191 (OP)
X GON GIVE IT TO YA
Anonymous No.281292440 [Report] >>281294906
>>281292191 (OP)
Cenobite looking bastards. Kill them all, Killy. Give them that lion look and kill them all.
Anonymous No.281292476 [Report] >>281292878
How would Rick fare in Blame!'s world?
Anonymous No.281292878 [Report] >>281293124
>>281292476
Better than the xenomorphs at least.
Anonymous No.281293124 [Report] >>281293628
>>281292878
there's xenomorties in blame?
Anonymous No.281293628 [Report]
>>281293124
There's xenomorphs EVERYWHERE in Blame, they just don't have their signature penishead designs.
Anonymous No.281294492 [Report]
Look at that smug face. Look at it.
YOU BABY KILLING MANIAC
Anonymous No.281294874 [Report]
Every time someone mentions BLAME! I always have to wonder how many people actually realize that the title isn't referring to "blame" as a noun but it's supposed to be BLAM as an onomatopoeia for gunshot in American comics.
Anonymous No.281294906 [Report]
>>281292440
Why is he pricked with needles? Also what happened to that other guys face?
Anonymous No.281295903 [Report]
Wait how many babies did he kill now?
Anonymous No.281297115 [Report]
I haven't finished reading the entire thing. Does Cibo ever recover that tiny portion of her personality she used to have as a cheeky skeleton?
>C'mon man we'd make a great team. What's the matter, don't you believe in female skeletons? Hey hey buddy you won't leave me stranded in the middle of nowhere, right?
Anonymous No.281297196 [Report] >>281298534
>>281292305
>HP LOVECRAFT
didn't he marry a jewess
Anonymous No.281297652 [Report]
*Smirks* Heh nuthing personell kiddo
Anonymous No.281297821 [Report] >>281297881 >>281298730
too mucho texto
Anonymous No.281297881 [Report]
>>281297821
Stupid
Fucking
ZOOmer
Anonymous No.281298534 [Report]
>>281297196
Yeah. It's a self hatred sorta thing. He still was extremely antisemitic and based after he married her.
Anonymous No.281298730 [Report]
>>281297821
>won't read effort posting
Pathetic.
>>281292191 (OP)
>>281292203
>>281292216
I was also pleasantly surprised with the amount of exploration. I wish that was most of it desu. The story felt a little tacked on after a point, like the author got lost in his own weeds. If i recall correctly there was some slight time travel? Wasn't a huge fan of that, but I'm not into time travel in general as I think it's never portrayed well and to use it is sort of a cop out to retroactively fix bad writing decisions.

That said, I loved the atmosphere. Mega structure cities are dope and I loved the feeling of high-tech post apocalypse. The feeling of empty isolation while being immersed in a mega city was awesome, you could almost hear the echo of footsteps as killy slowly progressed up in the first few chapters. There was always an uneasiness about the emptiness too, like a paranoid "no city like this is empty, I'm definitely being watched" and in some cases it was true, some cases it was not. It also had a feeling of a western in that killy spoke little and preferred to dispatch potential threats with his gun over words.

All in all, I really liked Blame!, I just wish it didn't get so convoluted with AI virtual world and time travel. 9/10, probably gonna read again.