Archived news and information from the world of the new Ginyu Force to you! Read on for all my old updates.
Friday, September 27,
2002: Well, it's that time once again. Here is your weekly dose of action in
the form of "Tato's Adventure Part Seven: On the Road Again," now available in
the Volume
Eleven area. I was just reading it myself, admiring some of the cheesy (pun
intended?) dialogue, so I hope you will too.
Also, I just watched Char's
Counterattack tonight, and for anyone who cares, I have but one question:
What the heck?!? What kind of ending was that? At least in American cinema,
ambiguous endings give you an idea of what you should be thinking about,
but my gosh! I can live with a little confusion over a conclusion (hey, a
rhyme!), but I have absolutely no idea what happened. I think that with
Gundam, as with certain other animes, there's a lot of backstory that doesn't
make it into the shows, but they assume you've read about it somewhere else.
Anyway, that was just a rant in which I didn't want to spoil the (so-called)
ending, so I couldn't be specific. But if anyone reading this sees the film, I
hope you'll agree with me.
Until next week!
Friday, September
20, 2002: I'm in a bit of a hurry this week, so here's "Tato's Adventure
Part Seven: On the Road Again," in the Volume
Eleven area.
There's also now a Volume
Eleven Images Page, and on it is a picture of Mozzarella's parents, who we
met briefly in the previous chapter. Check it out!
That's all I've got, so
I'll see you next week!
Friday, September 13, 2002: I'm over
my illness (more or less), so here's this week's installment in the adventures
of the Ginyu Force! It's chapter 102, which I've called "Tato's Adventure Part
Six: A Brief Layover," and it's available in the Volume
Eleven area.
Also, as promised, I've put up another Character
Profile, this one of Melonia's human friends, and it's available near the
bottom of the page.
I have to work tomorrow, so I may come on here in my
boredom and add more... we'll see. And oh yeah... It's Friday the Thirteenth, so
be careful!!!
Friday, September 6, 2002: I don't feel
too well today, so this'll be a short one. I have added the first chapter of Volume
Eleven, titled "Tato's Adventure Part Five: Enter Romano."
I also have a
new character profile, but don't feel very much up to the task of posting it,
though I may do so this weekend.
Anyway, see you later!
Friday, August 30, 2002: Well, it's the second-to-last day of
August, 2002. A date which will not be remembered for a baseball strike,
thank goodness... because that means it can instead be remembered for the
monumental Chapter 100 in the adventures of the new Ginyu Force! Yes, head over
to the Volume
Ten area for "Tato's Adventure Part Four: Interludes." It's a
milestone!
Then, once you've read that chapter, head over to the Volume
Ten Images Page for pictures of a couple of miscreants that appear in
it.
No new character profiles this week, but I may try for one next week. Oh,
and how about that Transformers: Armada? Not quite so good as we all
hoped, eh? Don't get me wrong, I thought the Transformers looked great, and I
love Garry Chalk and David Kaye as Prime and Megatron (though I prefer Peter
Cullen and Frank Welker from the original), but overall it was somewhat...
lacking. I'll give it another chance to impress me this week, though. And even
if it doesn't, at least there's a new episode of the spectacular Masters of
the Universe on tonight!
Anyway, see you on the flipside!
Friday, August 23, 2002: Another week, another update, eh?
This time I've got the penultimate chapter of Volume
Ten, which I have named "Tato's Adventure Part Three: The Legend Explained."
Please go give it a read, won't you?
Also, to show off my newfound PDF-making
skills, and to give you all something a little extra, I've added a new item to
the Text
Manga section (I really hate calling it a text manga; it sounds so odd...
but what else can I do?). It's a 192-page PDF covering every chapter of every
saga through Captain Ginyu Reborn, and it's the original unedited version. Also,
as a special bonus, I painstakingly read through the entire thing, eliminating
any grammar errors I found, so it should be mostly error-free! As you'll note
when you get there, parental discretion is advised.
Also, I have added one
more Character
Profile, this one of the Saiyan twins, Bembu
and Oysta, so have a look if you want to know about 'em!
And of course,
we mustn't forget that Transformers: Armada premieres on Toonami today at
4:00. I haven't seen much about this show yet, but from the bits I have beheld,
it looks amazing, and I urge everyone to check it out!
Until next time...
Transform and roll out!
Friday, August 16, 2002: Okay,
this'll be a good one: First up, I've got the new chapter of Volume
Ten, "The Cheezy Princess." Yes, at last it can be told--Tato's Adventure is
my foray into a Dungeons and Dragons/Lord of the Rings/Legend of Zelda style
epic. I don't know if it all turned out as well as I might have hoped, but I'll
leave that up to you to decide as you read it.
Anyway, once you've finished
the new chapter, head over to the Volume
Ten Images Page to see some artwork showcasing Tato and the cast of
characters he meets in this chapter.
But that's not all! No, I've got
something extra this week, something I whipped up on Tuesday during a dreadfully
boring day at work. In the Miscellanea
section, at the top of the page, you'll find something called "Little-Known
Facts." This contains, as you might surmise, some little-known facts about my
cast of characters, so check it out if you want to learn something new.
Oh,
and don't forget that the new Masters of the Universe cartoon premieres
today at 4pm on Toonami! If you don't watch it, I may have to personally hunt
you down and teach you a lesson. I saw a preview of this show at Comicon, and it
looks amazing!
Until next time... I have the power!
Monday, August 12, 2002: Well, I might have known it was too
easy... As I suspected in the previous update, the bios I've updated don't have
pictures when I look at them on Internet Explorer 5.5 here at work. I can only
imagine how messed up they must be on Netscape... So, I guess it comes down to
this: If you have IE 6.0+, you'll be able to see pictures in the character bios.
If you don't, you won't. A little benefit for being technologically advanced, I
guess. Until Friday, my friends...!
Friday, August 9, 2002:
Here I am again, with several items of note for you this week. First off,
naturally, is the new chapter of Volume
Ten. Titled "Tato's Adventure Part One: Now For Something Completely
Different," it's a little foray into a realm I don't usually visit, so I hope
you'll like it.
Also, I've made some changes to the Character
Bios pages. To start, I went in and changed the pictures from pretty much
everyone there, so they're now all updated with more modern-looking art and
bettwe colors. Then, I went ahead and updated bios for certain characters, and
even added several new ones! Yes, there are now biographies for the Been Team,
Dr. Stool and his Coliflur clone, Captain Ginyu and Majin Kazam, the new Ginyu
Force support crew (Gong, Ding, Ring, Mesa, and Melakka), and Yamu! That's a lot
of info, but I urge you to check them out--you may learn some things you didn't
know. In fact, I guarantee you will, so go for it!(note: I made them in MS Word,
because otherwise I don't how to use HTML to make the pitures left-aligned with
text right-aligned next to them. Hopefully they'll look all right on most
browsers. I know they're fine on my Internet Explorer 6.0, but I haven't been
able to check them on anything else)
And as for that trip to San Diego I
took... Well, it was a barrel of fun. My days were filled with geeky Comicon
wackiness, including the purchase of several issues of Silver Surfer from
years back, which led up to the Infinity Gauntlet, a nifty bendy figure
of Chun-Li from Street Fighter, the new Beast Man, Man-at-Arms, and
Stratos figures from Masters of the Universe (making its debut on Toonami
next Friday, so don't miss it!), a Transformers mini-bust of Prowl that I got
for about $20 less than retail, a Comicion exclusive He-Man figure limited to
1,000 pieces, some DC Heroclix that aren't supposed to be released for a month
and a half, an appearance by Mark Hamill and several of my favorite voice actors
(Jim Cummings, Rob Paulsen, Maurice LaMarche, Jess Harnell, and Billy West to
name a few--if anyone even knows who they are), and of course, the autograph of
the actor who played Grimlock on Transformers, Gregg Berger! And then the
nights--I don't think I was sober for a single evening, so that right there led
to even more fun (in spite of the fact that the things I was doing might not
have even been fun--that's how liquor works). All in all, it was the best
Comicon trip so far out of the three I've taken.
But now I'm back to the
humdrum drudgery of everyday life and looking for a "real job." Nonetheless,
I'll keep on plugging away here, so go have a look at the things I mentioned
above, and I'll be back next week with another chapter and some pictures of
Tato's adventure!
Wednesday, August 7, 2002: Well, I got back
from Comicon on Monday night, worked yesterday, and now here I am at work again
today! I'll be back later this week with a regular update, but for now, I need
to fix something... I just realized that when I updated before I left for San
Diego, I incorrectly linked the newest chapter from the Volume
Ten page. You may have figured out you could still get to the correct
chapter by typing its number into your address bar, or you may not have.
Regardless, I have now repaired the problem so you can see the end of the
Captain Ginyu Reborn saga if you previously missed it. And as I said, I'll be
back Friday with the regular update--and maybe I'll talk about my trip to San
Diego, since it was too fun not to mention.
Thursday, July 27,
2002: I'm back for a few days before I depart for the San Diego Comicon, so
here's the newest chapter of Volume
Ten, as well as the last chapter of the Captain Ginyu Reborn Saga --
"The Restoration." I'll be back after my trip with the start of a new, different
sort of mini-saga. It'll be a good show.
To commemmorate the end of the
Captain Ginyu Reborn Saga, I've updated the Power Level chart on the Miscellanea
page with powers for everyone through the end of the saga.
Finally, I've
added some new Images
to that section -- I've changed the images of Mesa and Melakka and of Rocket
Warrior in the Other Characters section, I've changed the picture of Raditz's
hidden power in the Volume Two section, I've colorized the group power up image
in the Volume 8 area, and I've added a picture of Dr. Stool and his sinister
team to the Volume 6 page. Go check 'em out, and I'll see you
later!
Thursday, July 18, 2002: Two weeks since the last
update, eh? You may think I forgot about the site or something, but nothing
could be further from the truth. Last Friday I tried to do the deed like usual,
but found, much to my dismay, that Angelfire suddenly thought I had exceeded my
allotted disk space. I don't know it happened, but it seems all my uploading
caught up with me. I was at work that day, and couldn't spend the time I'd need
to to remove enough files to continue updating. Then the next day (Saturday) was
a friend's birthday, then I didn't get back home till Sunday evening, then
Monday I worked, then Tuesday I went to see my favorite band, They Might Be
Giants, perform in San Francisco, then Wednesday I drove back up here again,
which brings us to today. Excuses? You better believe it! But now, I'm finally
back in action... For a moment.
So here's this week's chapter (though it
should have been last week's) of Volume
Ten, titled "The Ultimate Showdown." This is the big finale to the last
battle with Ginyu, and let me be the first to say that, while I like what
happens to the villain, I don't feel this is my best work. It gets the job done
though, so go have a look and see what you think for yourselves.
No new
pictures or anything this week, because I'm just barely below my allotted disk
space. What that means is that very soon I'll be removing some things from the
site. Mainly old, non-colored images and textual content I never update (like
the RPG stats and Cast List, which have already been removed from the Miscellanea
page.
And one last peice of business: I'll be gone from this Saturday till
the following Saturday on a family trip, so I might not be updating (though who
knows; I did it from Tahoe last year, I could do it from L. A. too). Then, the
following week I'll be down at the San Diego Comicon, so there may be no more
updates till August. If that's the case, take care, and we'll speak again upon
my return.
Addendum (later that day): As
promised, I've now trimmed down the Images
section by removing some pictures and making others smaller. That should keep
Angelfire's ravenous appetite satiated for now!
Friday, July 5,
2002: Well, another holiday has passed, and it was free of terror. I guess
we put the fear of the ol' U. S. A. into the bad guys, eh? Anyway, I hope
everyone had a fun Independance Day, and to ensure your freedom from a boring
day, I've arrived with a veritable cornucopia of Ginyu goodies.
First off, as
you might expect, is the newest chapter of Volume
Ten, called "Android Coliflur." As you might infer from the title,
Coliflur's mechanical body is finished, and she's ready to use it against Ginyu!
To commemorate this event, I've put up a picture
of the body in the Volume
Ten area.
Also in the Volume
Five Images section is a trip down memory lane: A picture of the Been Team,
drawn and colored last week, so you might call it my modern-day interpretation
of them. It's amazing to me to compare this new one with the first pic I drew of
them, in the Volume
Four area.
And finally, there are two new additions to the Other
Characters page... A picture of Kiwi's brother Pinapo, who appears in the Forgotten
Z-Fighters, and something that took me weeks to complete: A picture of
everyone (minus one or two very minor characters) who's appeared in the
New Ginyu Force stories to date! Some people are seen for the first time ever
here; others are colored for the first time ever. I think it's pretty nice
looking, and I hope you will too! And oh yeah, there are a few pictures of
characters from Dragonball... some drawn by me and others taken from
various Manga and anime sources.
And remember... when next we meet it shall
be as enemies.
Monday, July 1, 2002: I must start off with an
apology for not updating last week. I was in the midst of important preparations
for something, and forgot. So here's last Friday's update today. Anyway, the new
chapter of Volume
Ten is titled "Yamcha to the Rescue?". Yes, the desert bandit strikes out
with intentions to deal a crippling blow to Ginyu's plan. Will he succeed? Only
one way to find out, and you know what that way is. I'll be back later this week
with another update.
