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For those who would like a preview of the first 4 pages of issue #89, follow the link below:

http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/ ... firsts.htm

Enjoy!

Sweeeet stuff, man.

Looks pretty cool, we still won't know definitively if Noriko is alive until we get to read the whole issue...although from the issue description seems like she might??

We'll all find out soon enough on Nov 30th!

those CRUSH! and CRUNCH! sound effects sure went a long ways to convince me that Noriko is a goner.

If she isn't dead, she sure is going to be in a bad bad mood.....
Abayo

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That date can't come soon enough!!! Thanks for the preview. To think that Noriko is still alive...maybe. Judging from the paragraph preceding the preview pages, looks like it may be true...perhaps she is the one who is trapped??

Steve Hubbell wrote:those CRUSH! and CRUNCH! sound effects sure went a long ways to convince me that Noriko is a goner.

If she isn't dead, she sure is going to be in a bad bad mood.....

I think Noriko can't be dead yet. There are more stories of revenge to be told.

Peace,

maka

Unless you can see the dead body, I wouldn't count her as dead. But then I watch far too many horror films..

JediFraz wrote:Unless you can see the dead body, I wouldn't count her as dead. But then I watch far too many horror films..

That is pretty much the biggest axiom in comic books too..."If there is no body, that means he or she can and no doubt will come back..."

The Norik-ster will return...and thank goodness...I just love the nutter ladies.

Imagine Noriko squaring off against Inazuma....both would be closely matched. It's obvious that Noriko can best Tomoe, or at least equal her skill. And we both know Tomoe and Usagi are equals, at least according to Tomoe's Story. And according to Stan, Inazuma can best Usagi....a great match up indeed...maybe one day??

Todd Shogun wrote:Imagine Noriko squaring off against Inazuma....both would be closely matched. It's obvious that Noriko can best Tomoe, or at least equal her skill. And we both know Tomoe and Usagi are equals, at least according to Tomoe's Story. And according to Stan, Inazuma can best Usagi....a great match up indeed...maybe one day??

They would probably end up joining forces. Now THAT would be scary.

It's very unconventional for such a great deal of time (and story) to be given over to an antagonist. My guess is Stan wanted to portray Noriko's sheer, overwhelming need to simply survive, and how her desire for survival goes hand-in-hand with her psychotic hatred of Tomoe. Also, to be trapped alongside with Noriko in the mines allows the reader to experience what Noriko is experiencing - to make her a more personable character, despite of how thoroughly loathsome she might be. When there's no one within a sequence except the reader and a single character, a comic almost becomes interactive - to a degree, we become Noriko. (Come to think of it, we're actually more Tomoe than Noriko in this scene, since we're "dreaming" Noriko's escape along with Tomoe, and we're both unsure as to whether or not Noriko is truly dead.)

Noriko rocks...we need a Noriko mini-series..."Young" Noriko...that kind of thing.

estee wrote:Noriko rocks...we need a Noriko mini-series..."Young" Noriko...that kind of thing.

That would be interesting to see maybe we'd be allowed an insight into her mother's feelings and such, and the prejudice she had to endure almost all of her life...yeah...