The incident started with her! Cover! A giant man-eating shark challenges humans!! Right side: The deadly battle continues underwater… Left side: Table of contents It’s common in the southern seas The ship is sinking…I’m holding onto the buoy Swimming…suddenly disappearing for no apparent reason It’s a man-eating shark!! Not a...

The Naked Girl Who Disappeared Into the Sea This scene replaces the one on the ferry where the mayor and coroner come up with their excuses. Brody is outnumbered by them and other citizens protesting the beach closing. Continue to Chapter 2 Back to main article

Tragic!! Horrified Witnesses Annoyed by all the amateurs running around, Quint insists he will go out alone, but from the look on the faces of Brody and Hooper, he knows they’ll insist on going along despite any argument. Brody says he hates the sea and Quint asks why he came....

18 Hours of Fierce Fighting! Brody: “It’s too small…this boat is far too small.” Hooper: “It’s 6 meters long!!” Quint: “8 meters to be precise. 3 tons!!” Quint recounts the Indianapolis incident without naming what ship he was on (though he does admit it was sunk by a Japanese submarine)....

Movie story synopsis “A Deep Bow to Mr. Shark.” Appreciation for the movie by writer Tadao Takashima Profile of Steven Spielberg, “A Wonderful 27-Year Old.” Movie cast profiles Right side: movie merch to be ordered by phone Message from the publisher. Jaws was Herald’s first gekiga book. Right side: publishing...

The photos shown here were originally posted on TwiComi by Tatsuya Kishimoto. See them here. Back to main article

First up is a company named R.C. Berg, which released five different part sets that can be used to modify their 1/20 Scopedog “21C” model into variations seen in Merowlink. TK-01 1/20 Bounty Dog See more photos here and here TK-02 1/20 Fox Special See more photos here and here...

“You bitch!” Octova charged forward. It didn’t have any wheels for locomotion. After a few steps, blue sparks flew from its crotch. The red machine briefly lifted off the ground and began moving at high speed. It thrust both hands forward and charged. Ronni closed her hatch. Octova grappled with...

Let’s start with the 1/6 action figures, shall we? Next up, Deckard’s super-sexy blaster. Like Deckard himself, they had to be sold under “assumed names.” The Police Spinner was a no-brainer, an ideal subject for resin garage kits… In later years, a company called Fujimi released a series of model...

The city of Bow was located at the end of a main road that stretched straight from the western entrance of Arg. We arrived there three hours after escaping Arg. According to Ronni, this town was a satellite city that handled distribution for the industrial city of Arg. Therefore, anyone...

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Bruce Lewis and I collaborated on this portion of the special issue, creating our images and writing our captions separately after agreeing on which scenes we would cover. Bruce’s work is in black and white. I colored my own pieces. Back to main article

Minutes later, Covarn’s A.T., the “Clever Camel,” appeared with heavy, dull footsteps. It was an old-model A.T., rusted in places. Its massive, flat legs thudded as it approached. Covarn sat cramped in the open cockpit. The headrest must have been set far back, because he slumped into the seat. I...

Hi-Metal R action figures In March 2024, Bandai released a preassembled Scopedog figure with all the option parts for the classic Red Shoulder custom. They followed up with a Turbo Custom later in 2024 and kept going with more in 2025. See all of them here. 1/24 Scopedog models, Wave...

“It seems you’ve recovered, Blue Knight.” The door slid open with a dull thud, and Mima Sencutter appeared. His slicked-back hair was messy and tossed in all directions. “You’re almost like an overman with your recovery ability.” “An overman? How do you know what Sha Bak said?” Mima hesitated for...

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“Well, you’ll just have to stay there and be quiet.” Covarn gently laid me down in the corner of a cramped, dingy room. Only a single, bright lightbulb hung from the ceiling, and the air around me was murky. “Where is this?” I asked in a hoarse voice. “Geographically, it’s...

A conversation between Masanori Hama, author of Blue Knight Berserga Story, and Ryosuke Takahashi, the original author and general director of Armored Trooper Votoms, was held at Takadanobaba, Tokyo. We asked Hama, an up-and-coming novelist, and Takahashi, a veteran director, to share their thoughts on both works from their respective...

These are Bruce’s layouts for each page in issue 9. Here, he indicated the composition of each panel on the page and where text should go. I added numbers that corresponded with lines in his script. I also added codes of my own to reference design art found on certain...