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Isn't his name Izuku?

The sleepy Atom is so cute!

OMG, that was great! It combined two of my favorites, AstroBoy and Weird Al Yankovic! I hope your youtube video doesn't get yanked due to their new restrictive copyright police, but Weird Al Yankovic would approve of your parody! (Really, if it gets yanked, try to contact him and ask for his permiss...

A recent post on Facebook inspired this bit of humor. Cobalt dug the runaway fast ball out of the dirt and buried it deep into the pocket of his catcher's mit. He got up from his crouch to his feet, and slowly walked towards the mound. Atlas shrugged his shoulders and his eyes burned an angry stare ...

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Found this posted on Facebook, cover of a Manga comic with the episode with Bem. I'm shocked that Tezuka drew Bem in the buff! https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/54799473_10155920450976560_1428695736865783808_o.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-1.xx&oh=b7bf036d71e1ec8ca4a69610f...

Very weird and dark looking! The last page reminds me of Pluto.

They left out the 'little astro boy' series when they showed Astro's history. Dr. Elefun was also referred to as Dr. Elephant in the descriptions. It looks like Astro won't have the fanny guns and lasers. Not sure if Dr. Blunt is based on Dr. Tenma. Are the Gordskis supposed to be Hyotantsugi? I won...

From what I've read the original manga magazines were printed on very cheap, high acid content paper, which has very poor archival properties. Reprints were done on better paper that could stand the test of time. So unless the originals were put into air tight folders they are probably discolored an...

It was common for the first few pages of a long Manga story to be in color, with the rest of the story in B&W.