This was one of my favorite movies of last year. I got my copy over the internet but I later saw it for sale at friggin' Wal-Mart. I hope no one got it for their young child cause this would mess someone up for sure.
Jackson James
Where do you even live? I would love for my Wal-Mart to stock this comic.
Andrew Sullivan
The blu-ray of the film, not the comic.
Tyler Ramirez
Took years for this to get torrents.
Hunter Martinez
If only people cared about foreign Yea Forums shit as much as the weebs care about Yea Forums shit enough to get obscure doujins in English. What is your holy grail?
How much did you pay? I have seen it for as low as $15 here.
Julian Collins
I loved the movie so much I used google translate to read trough the comic, as I don’t understand the language. I think it’s fantastic, but you really aren’t gonna get a lot of traction without translating it yourself.
Oliver Reyes
European Spanish is a pain in the ass to translate even when you are from Latin America. It is hard to get the quirks from their region without making prose sound dry and archaic to the reader. Even Latin Americans have to deal with this in order to make dubs with as little slang as they can in order to appeal to their full group. Only comedies and local dubs from their studios like Mexico, Argentina, and Chile make regional dubs.
Hunter Sanders
At least Corto Maltese continues to be translated.
Thank you for this OP, really appereciate seeing this kind of niche, European stuff on Yea Forums.
My secondary school latin helped me understand just enough to follow the story, The rest was carried by the visuals. Intense and suffocating is the words to describe this comic.
Ethan Clark
I would like to give you another similar comic, but not much else came to mind.
William Brown
I had no idea this existed, it's exactly my kind of thing and it's in my first language. Thank you so much, user.
Elijah Green
No problem. I wish to find more comics like this one in Spanish.
Connor Johnson
Tony Sandoval is the first thing that comes to my mind if you are looking for eerie comics in spanish. I think you should chek his work.
Thank you. I will look into their work as soon as I find scans laying around.
Michael Clark
thanks
Jaxon Peterson
Anyone think there's a chance of this getting a proper English publication since the movie came out?
Christian Watson
I doubt that. The movie was niche even among English speakers when Gkids had the license. The comic is only about 102 pages long. Other than Drawn and Quarterly, I can't think of any US publisher that wants to release black and white comics published in Spain.
Jackson Baker
You are welcome.
Jaxon Bailey
I think this is the most poignant moment in the book, which is especially interesting because it's not present in the movie at all. I think both are excellent, and do a great job of conveying the same themes, but they have slightly different feels.
The book feels more down to earth, and the animal characters can be seen more as personifications of real people. The moody black and white imagery is appropriate. Not to mention a merciless downer ending, one might call it needlessly edgy, except that the story is based on several real people the author knew whose lives were ruined by drug trafficking in Spain.
The movie elevates everything with colorful visuals, and goes straight into horror fantasy territory. With an epic apocalyptic vision, the story feels different, but I don't think the messages, or even the real-life parallels, are lost. The ending is still sad, but it at least has a bittersweet outcome as opposed to a soul-crushing one. I feel like these differences represent the book artist/film director coming to terms with his past. Instead of wallowing in misery, he's able to create something more beautiful and the final message is that the ones we love never really die, and that even in the darkest of places there still exists hope.
The guy's next movie, Unicorn Wars, looks like a juvenile comedy. As if someone made a feature production of the war sequence of Conker's Bad Fur Day. I'm still interested just because of how much the Birdboy comic and movie resonated with me.
