Chapter 291: Parasitic Beast
The ending in the "Magical Girl Sakura" manga is very pure, Sakura, who entered junior high school, rushed out of the house again one morning, and then saw a handsome figure holding a bear cub standing in front of him, and the last picture was frozen in the hug of the two!
Well, according to comic book fans, this is Zhao Chen's rare healing comics, at least better than the endings of the already finished "Rebellious Lelouch" and "Death Note", because the final ending of both of them is the death of the protagonist, but whether Lelouch dies or not has become a suspense. But no matter what, the ending of the two comics used to compare is maddening.
Zhao Chen did not immediately serialize the new manga, mainly to see if the sales of the "Angelwings" girl's semi-monthly magazine would decrease greatly without "Magical Girl Sakura". If there is really a sharp drop in sales, Zhao Chen will have to continue to serialize a new shoujo comic.
The reason for such a decision is that the sales of each issue of the "Angelwings" girl's semi-monthly magazine have basically reached one million, which is basically in a saturated state, and it is at least much more difficult to continue to grow in sales.
Half a month later, when the sales of the new issue of "Angelwings" girl's semi-monthly magazine were counted again, Zhao Chen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. After the absence of "Magical Girl Sakura", although the overall sales of "Angelwings" girl's semi-monthly magazine declined, the decline was not large, and the reason is very simple, "Angelwings" girl's semi-monthly magazine still has five girl's manga artists who are enough to use it for the town magazine.
The five manga artists are Yudie, Miki Miura, Chie Shinohara, Chie Saito and Reiko Shimizu, among which Yudie created the comic "Gorgeous Challenge" that depicts the entertainment industry, and Miki Miura is the famous "Cherry Maruko", and the last three current manga are not much worse than the first two, and there are few well-known girl manga artists in the future.
With these five town magazines, the sales of the "Angelwings" girl's semi-monthly magazine will not drop too much in the short term. Because the five shoujo manga artists have a lot of manga fans.
In this way, Zhao Chen's eyes were not on the "angelwings" girl's semi-monthly magazine, nor on the "Young SORA" and "Young Gallop" semi-monthly magazines, the former currently sells five million per issue, and is a veritable No. 1 comic weekly, while the latter is due to "Ghost Eyes and Crazy Knife". Although the sales volume is not as good as the "Angelwings" girl's semi-monthly magazine, the gap between them is actually not big, and if it is serialized in these three mature comic publications, it can only be regarded as the icing on the cake!
Therefore, Zhao Chen plans to create a new comic publication again, which is also a semi-monthly magazine for teenagers, but in this comic publication, a comic type is fixedly serialized, of course, it is not a sex type, but another eighteen forbidden comic genre - horror comics!
The reason why Zhao Chen wanted to draw horror comics. In addition to mastering more styles, the most important thing is to let Heung Kong Comics gain a firm foothold in the island country!
Compared with island comics, the style of Xiangjiang comics is relatively rough, and most of them are consistent kung fu comics! Even because of Zhao Chen's relationship, the style of Xiangjiang comics has been delicate in recent years, and the style has begun to become diverse, but looking at these diverse style comics, Zhao Chen has an urge to beat people. Because most of these comics are imitations of his comics!
In other words, Xiangjiang's comics are a little more delicate. But there is still a big gap with the island country, and it is almost impossible to make all Xiangjiang cartoonists progress in a short period of time.
In addition to most of the Xiangjiang comics, there are actually several small categories of kung fu martial arts comics, and there are three main probabilities, which are nothing more than funny
, selling meat and horror! Among them, the funny and selling meat were directly vetoed by Zhao Chen. These two types are naturally incomparable with the island country, mainly because of the relationship between the style of painting and popularity, there are many cartoonists in the island country who draw these two types of comics, how to compete with them!
In this way, Zhao Chen can only focus on the horror comics that are still relatively obscure. At least there are very few horror cartoons in the current island countries, and readers don't have high requirements for the style of foreign horror cartoons, as long as they are scary enough.
You must know that in the early years, Xiangjiang's kung fu comics and horror comics reached the highest level in the mainland, and the level of horror comics can be seen, and now Xiangjiang's Tianxia Comics Co., Ltd. has several cartoonists who specialize in horror comics. Although these local cartoonists in Xiangjiang are not as good as the cartoonists of the island country in terms of painting style, it is difficult to say in terms of plot, you must know that there are many ghost movies in Xiangjiang at present, and it is difficult to say which is higher and which is lower.
Among these local cartoonists in Xiangjiang, one of them is Shangguan Xiaobao's younger brother Shangguan Xiaowei, Shangguan Xiaowei originally created a comic club by himself, but was eventually acquired by Tianxia Comics Company due to Shangguan Xiaobao's relationship and became a full-time cartoonist of Tianxia Comics Company. Shangguan Xiaowei can be said to be not only a rare thriller cartoonist in Xiangjiang, but also the most famous thriller cartoonist in Xiangjiang at present.
can become a leader in the comic category in Xiangjiang, even if the cartoonists in this category are far inferior to kung fu comics, the strength is also visible, and Shangguan Xiaowei relies on creepy plots.
It can be said that Zhao Chen wants to create a special horror comic publication, there is basically no shortage of cartoonists, even if there is a lack of manuscripts, they can also receive manuscripts, judging from the current prosperity of the Tianxia Society, there must be a bunch of cartoonists who will fight for their heads and come in.
Of course, if you want this horror comic publication to become an instant hit, you naturally need one or two town magazine works. In addition to planning to serialize one by himself, Zhao Chen also set his sights on his own exclusive assistant group.
This time, the assistant he took a fancy to was named Iwa Mingjun, and many people may not know him, but his famous work must be known to all true comic fans, and that is - "Parasitic Beast"!
Of course, the current Yan Mingjun does not have this idea, so he can only cooperate with Zhao Chen, so as to start creating "Parasitic Beast"!
"Parasite" can be said to be on the list of horror comics, of course, it is classified as 18 banned because of some bloody scenes, and it is often included in the top ten horror comics.
Of course, the most important thing for Zhao Chen is the sales of this comic, this horror comic with only ten volumes of single books has sold tens of millions of single books in history, which doesn't seem to be much, but you must know that the average sales of a horror comic book are more than one million, which shows that this "Parasitic Beast" is enough to become a town-published horror comic.
The most important thing about "Parasite" is undoubtedly his creativity, and even after twenty or thirty years, there are few horror comics that can compare with it.
Of course, the plot of this comic is also relatively simple, one day many spores appear above the earth, and the larvae born in them invade the body, aiming at parasitic brains, and after parasitism is completed, they assimilates with brain cells to manage this "dead body". They can transform at will, and their food is the same species as the parasite. Due to the appearance of parasites, there are frequent cases of brutal murders, but humans indifferently ignore such cases, which are still a minority, and parasites gradually understand the human world, and the society begins to plan and organize and use the power of politics and ‖ to plunge the world into panic.
The male protagonist Izumi Shinichi is one of the humans parasitized by parasites, but due to some accident, the creatures parasitic in his body did not eat his brain, but only replaced his right hand. Izumi Shinichi, who is kind and upright by nature, was not struck down by this sudden and cruel fate, and for the sake of his relatives and friends killed by parasites and the future of all humans, he was determined to fight to the death against other fully parasitic beasts.
Although the plot is relatively simple, the concept and concept of this comic are indeed unique, especially in the 80s, which makes people feel a sense of panic in the end of the world, and this is what Zhao Chen admires most about Yan Mingjun.
Yan Mingjun's comic works can be said to be both entertaining and ideological, and neither side affects the other. As a cartoonist, it is quite commendable to be able to convey your thoughts while captivating readers with stories, after all, it is obviously better to be applauded and applauded than not to be applauded. This is the case with his famous work "Parasite", which has a beautiful opening in the first episode, and has all kinds of commercial elements such as alien creatures, horror, bloody scenes and fight plots, and the foreshadowing is quite exciting. It can hold the reader's heart tightly and make us worry about the fate of the protagonist, the human and even the parasitic beast.
For Zhao Chen's invitation, it can be said that the current Yan Mingjun is quite surprised, in his own opinion, not only has he not been Zhao Chen's assistant for a long time, but he is also relatively mediocre among many assistants. And it was Yan Mingjun's self-evaluation that made him feel extremely surprised. (To be continued......)