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These following 10 pages were originally produced during the time when Antarctic Press briefly had the Robotech License from 1996 to 1998. That was around the time when I just completed working on "Robotech: The Movie" comic adaption for Academy Comics. The Robotech License were transferred from Academy to Antarctic right after the book was published, so I paired up with the same writer who did the adaption to submit some material for them. Since Antarctic seemed to be doing a lot of "in-between" stories filling (unnecessary) gaps between the episodes, we crafted a short story featuring the encounter between Roy Fokker & Milia. We worked on it very quick and turned it in to them, but the work never got used or published nor did I ever get paid for it. It sat around in my art drawer all these years and at this point will probably never get any official use in any way what-so-ever. I finally decided to make some decent scans and put it online for viewing. So thanks for reading and enjoy!

Character height comparison chart with some more color tests.

Here is the BLACK SWAN SQUADRON MEMBERS CAPTAIN QUDAMAA - Zentran. Age N/A. Genetically bred commander type Zentradi with greater physicality and intelligence. The Flight Leader of Black Swan Squadron. NEEJAD - Zentran. Age 35. Functions as both Sniper and Wingman on the squadron. Has enhanced vision through cybernetic augmentations. Rank is First Lieutenant. BORAKH - Zentran. Age 23. A skilled fighter and reliable Wingman of the group. Rank is Second Lieutenant. (Mahlie Fung's rank is Sergeant and flies Recon on the team)

Looking good!

Okay, cool! I'll put it into consideration. And here are a couple of color tests for Mahlie Fung.

Thank you, I figured if I am going to spend the time of drawing a comic, I might as well put some effort into making the visuals unique. Plus every time you see a different colony fleet in the Macross series it always have some kind of variation. Have not seen it. Are they creating new songs/music in the comic or using existing ones?

Since the script is not yet fully written, there is still consideration for those 2 elements. But due to it being a comic, getting music or lyrics across would be somewhat difficult, "would it work to enhance the story?" is a major thought for me right now. The story is set to be around 20-25 pages, so I am not sure if there is enough room to put a developing love triangle, if there is it can only be slightly touched upon or hinted at.

Got around to do some character sketches and designs in the last few days. Here are the profiles for the 2 characters seen below. MAHLIE FUNG - Female. Age 24. Father is a human of Chinese descent, mother was full Meltran created through genetic breeding. Currently lives with her father in a military dormitory near the poverty districts of City Aurora. A low-rank, low-pay NUN pilot, She makes a meager living serving as the recon pilot of the Black Swan Squadron. The only female on the team and is often looked down upon by her Zentradi peers due to her being a half-breed and small in stature. JOSH NEWMAN - Male. Age 28. A human war correspondent working for the "Zentradi Beats Magazine". Came aboard Macross Aurora to report on the space battle the colony fleet is currently facing. He is assigned to the Black Swan Squadron by the NUN public relations department, and got sacked with Mahile due to other Zentran's unwillingness to babysit a human reporter.

Thank you, I hope it can turn out to be an interesting story. Well, not sure if I would call my story "grim", probably more along the line of "shin a light on a different aspect of colony ship life". When I originally had the desire to do this short story during the broadcast of Macross Frontier, I had the idea of actually setting it on the Frontier ship (making it a pure fan-doujin). But that show has since ended long ago and the new Delta series takes place on a planet, so it was just easier to place my story in a brand new setting so it won't get tripped up by official continuity.

Thank you, I figure due to the nature of being a comic book, more detail in art tends to look better on the page. Thanks, hope I can get the project done sometimes in the future. Thank you, right now I'm still just running design concepts to help flesh out some more ideas further.

Way back while I was still watching Macross Frontier during it's initial broadcast, I had some loose ideas running in my head of doing a small fan comic. It would be some sort of side-story focusing on a low ranking female pilot and featuring another side of life-style on a long distance space journey. As with most Macross series, the stories and visuals tends to showcase the beautiful, fun, exciting aspects on a colonization ship, but I wanted to go the opposite direction and show the down-side and the unglamorous part of it. But then I got busy starting a comic book company and running a retail store shortly afterwards, so the ideas were just thrown into the basement part of my brain... until I started watching Macross Delta recently. It sparked the interest again and I decided to finally start to try and connect-the-dots on paper to see what would come out of it. This is what I have so far: MACROSS CYGNUS - The story takes place aboard Macross Aurora, a long distance colonization ship that is currently traveling through the Cygnus constellation. A low-rank, low-pay half Zentraid female NUN pilot will be the main character. She makes a meager living serving as the recon pilot of the Black Swan Squadron and lives with her human father in a military dormitory near the poverty districts of City Aurora. Despite taking a different approach to the mainstream Macross stories, there will still be touches of humor and romance as well. Below are concept sketches done in the past few days to flesh out some of these ideas visually. I want to play by the established rules of Macross so I am running with visual design cues found in all previous series. In the end, the hope is that this little fan project will still feel like it could very well happen and fit as a piece of the puzzle in the vast Macross universe.

Hum... after this episode I'm beginning to think Macross Delta is a fairy tale story, with Freyja being a lost princess of the Windermere Kingdom. Red Hood , Apple, winter kingdom are very symbolic of fairy tales. And Hayate's necklaces reminds me of Lone Starr from Spaceballs.

Macross Delta looks like it's going for the current idol pop group anime trend of Love Live! & Idolm@ater- Cinderella Girls.

An hour long video following a step-by-step building of a life-size moving and singing Miku Robot! Fascinating to watch and totally in awe of the fact that all of this is achieved by ONE MAN! From conceptual, design, body sculpt, installation, wiring, sewing clothes, and attaching hair took him 5 years to accomplish. What makes it even more remarkable is that he's done it all before and this is a new and improved UNIT TWO!

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Oh yeah! It's that time again! MMD CUP 10 kicks off TODAY! 8hit Battlefield idol Haruka!

Let me speak from my own personal experience, maybe this can help clear up a few things... My grandfather, who passed away at the age of 91 just a few weeks ago, was a fighter pilot during WW2 and fought the Japanese. His contribution and acts for the Chinese air force is even recorded in history books. He was stationed in Okinawa during the 1960s so he is not unfamiliar with the Japanese culture after WW2. But I grew up with the anti-Japanese sentiment in my family and that was something he passed on from that generation. It's impossible to ask people to remove that kind of understanding because they lived through it and it's going to trickle down no matter how much time has gone by. The anti-Japanese attitude is not only in China but also in many other Asia countries as well with Korean being the other strong opponent. Most westerners also don't know that Japan (unlike Germany) never paid for any of their war crimes (in monetary or attitude) and to this day do not recongize the horror they created in Asia during WW2. The Japanese killings of the Chinese is a piece of history that is only discussed more openly in America during the recent 15 years because of the rise of China (when I was in high school during the early 90's most Americans have never even heard of it before). But it's a chapter still wiped out from Japanese history book and that is a source which still stirs up anger for those countries that were inflicted. Compare to past Chinese rulers who also causes great numbers of death, at least those are recorded in history books and the fact that people know Mao killed millions means it's also recongized. That is the main difference. Now to answer you other question- "Captain China" first came about only as a title. I thought it was catchy name and originally intended to produce it as a spoof comic book to satire American super hero genre. To flip the American ideals on its head and have a Super hero running around telling people that in order to fight for truth and justice you need to go about it the communist way! BUT... after my trip to China in 2008, I realized that if I were to go about it in that fashion, I would be perpetuation a stereotype which no longer applies to the current cultural & social structure of China. That itself would make it an outdated and racist concept. I still wanted to keep the name "Captain China", so I began to think about how to use it and play into what can be done as a comic book with that title. The answer seems obvious - A hero that is a symbol who represents the modern China, his backstory parallel the recent history of China, and use the comic to give westerns a real insight into the what communism has transformed into over there.

Captain China was designed to be an American-styled comic book from day one. And the reason is very simple, there is still a strong anti-Japanese sentiment in China, and using Manga-style comics to sell entertainment to them is the wrong way to go about. Most people do not know this fact, and that is China in the past used to broadcasted American cartoons as children programming, that to me means their culture as a whole is actually more acceptable to American entertainment than Japanese ones. One of the things I generally hate about most Chinese entertainment is the outdated images we tend to present to the rest of the world. Kung Fu, sword fighting, people in flowing robes, jumping around on tree tops - these are things that most people cannot identify or relate-to anymore, but yet that is what we continue to push onto the rest of the world as "Chinese culture or tradition". I am not saying that I dislike Kung Fu films, but that is the only focus when westerners think about Chinese movies, TV shows or comics. We continue to perpetuate that stereotype over and over, and I want to break the cycle with Captain China. I want to present a Modern China that is not so different from the rest of the world nowadays. If China now has KFC, McDonald, Starbucks, youth in T-shirt & jeans talking on an iPhone, why not have an American-styled super hero running around as well? I believe that is something people can relate to more than some Kung Fu hero. And the fact that the entire world reacted to the launch of this no name, no budget, small press comic book tells me that I am probably on the right track. As for the character on the cover of Volume 2- that is just my way of poking fun at all the traditional Chinese stereotypes (or what most people think a Chinese Super hero should look like)! But Cap needs to be written that way, otherwise there is no point and you lose the essence of the character! I'd rather read about a flag-waving Captain America that kicks ass than one that cries and moans about how this country is no longer the same America he knows. Thanks!

Technically I've got 36 issued planned for the entire story. So far artwork for Volume 3 & 4 are already in the can and Volume 5 is currently in production. By the way, here is Captain China's facebook page, I've got some pages from book 2 uploaded there. Just look into album section if you are interested: http://www.facebook.com/capchina

I originally planned to have the second volume of Captain China released by August 2012, but a lot of unforeseen events delayed its production. But it's finally out and here is the cover! Captain China Volume 2: "I am China!" A mysterious man from Captain China's past reappears to challenge him! Two super-powered beings from the Enhanced Soldier Project must now fight for the honor of becoming China's Greatest Super Hero! Captain China is a propaganda-styled comic series aimed at capturing the main-stream consciousness of China. The stories will reflect and give insight into China's current political stance, social environment, and cultural differences by combining complex characters, historical information, geographic locations, comic satire, and over-the-top explosive action! The comic book is presented in full color for Amazon's Kindle Devices. But for those who do not own a Kindle or any other digital readers, you may download either "Kindle Reading App" or "MobiPocket Reader" for FREE to view the book after purchase from Amazon. Captain China volume 2 Purchase Link: http://www.amazon.com/Captain-China-Volume-2-ebook/dp/B00BD2394S/ Kindle Reading App http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771 MobiPocket Reader http://www.mobipocket.com/en/downloadsoft/default.asp?Language=EN

Story sucked! Why bother.

Crappy Bootleg copy with English subtitles can be seen here! http://www.animefave.net/evangelion-3-0-you-can-not-redo/

Thank you! Next time you stop by we should have even more model kits. We're too small at the moment to take any preorders for online. Maybe in 6 months. Thanks!

TFA Grimlock is 29.99 BTW, got more model kits in today!

Thanks. China do have comic books over there but are heavily influence by Japanese Manga. And generally very poor in it's production and entertainment value. I have thought about publishing on Chinese websites but have not found the right/suitable sites yet. I have no problem collecting the book into a Manga format. I think so!