I first started reading this comic in 2008, (you can find my posts from back then on some of the early pages,) and for 17 years I have checked in weekly to see this story progress. The amount of dedication Salagir has shown to this project, and the perseverance to keep going despite countless pressures; artists moving on, the lack of money a fancomic raises, the commitment to releasing multiple pages per week for almost two decades, is astounding. Thank you Salagir for everything you have accomplished, and thank you the wider DBM team.
I wonder if the genius of this comic is fully recognised. Salagir would have had to have known from the start the end fight would be Goku vs Xxi, the semi-finals Goku vs Vegeta, the quarter-finals Goku vs Uub. He then had to design the whole tournament to ask essentially every What-If scenario and every X vs Y question the DBZ fandom has had for decades. Was Nail stronger than Recuum? What would a fifth form Freeza look like? Why were the future Androids weaker than the main timeline Androids? Could Cell beat Dabra? Does Krillin's keinzan beat Salza's salza blade? What if Goku never turned good, what if all of the Namekians fused? Salagir even used Dr Raichi's ghosts, Tapion, and now Xxi to pose additional questions with regards to Broly, the Saiyans, Hildegarn and Janemba. The Janemba one in particular sits with me - Salagir said 17 years ago that Janemba couldn't reasonably be at this tournament due to being uncontrollable, but he must have known that Janemba was going to exist towards the finale. He spent nearly 20 years keeping that secret.
This comic is a love letter not just to DBZ, but to the DBZ fandom, and could only have been written by someone with a deep, fundamental understanding of what makes DBZ great, of what makes people keep coming back to this story year after year. I do not think I have ever seen a fan-led project have anywhere near as much earnest heart as this.
Now - it might be that the conclusion still takes some years - but as we are reaching the conclusion I want to put on record the years of absolute joy this project has brought me. I reread it in its entirety every year or two. I think it will stand the testiment of time. And I cannot wait to see how it ends.
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I first started reading this comic in 2008, (you can find my posts from back then on some of the early pages,) and for 17 years I have checked in weekly to see this story progress. The amount of dedication Salagir has shown to this project, and the perseverance to keep going despite countless pressures; artists moving on, the lack of money a fancomic raises, the commitment to releasing multiple pages per week for almost two decades, is astounding. Thank you Salagir for everything you have accomplished, and thank you the wider DBM team.
I wonder if the genius of this comic is fully recognised. Salagir would have had to have known from the start the end fight would be Goku vs Xxi, the semi-finals Goku vs Vegeta, the quarter-finals Goku vs Uub. He then had to design the whole tournament to ask essentially every What-If scenario and every X vs Y question the DBZ fandom has had for decades. Was Nail stronger than Recuum? What would a fifth form Freeza look like? Why were the future Androids weaker than the main timeline Androids? Could Cell beat Dabra? Does Krillin's keinzan beat Salza's salza blade? What if Goku never turned good, what if all of the Namekians fused? Salagir even used Dr Raichi's ghosts, Tapion, and now Xxi to pose additional questions with regards to Broly, the Saiyans, Hildegarn and Janemba. The Janemba one in particular sits with me - Salagir said 17 years ago that Janemba couldn't reasonably be at this tournament due to being uncontrollable, but he must have known that Janemba was going to exist towards the finale. He spent nearly 20 years keeping that secret.
This comic is a love letter not just to DBZ, but to the DBZ fandom, and could only have been written by someone with a deep, fundamental understanding of what makes DBZ great, of what makes people keep coming back to this story year after year. I do not think I have ever seen a fan-led project have anywhere near as much earnest heart as this.
Now - it might be that the conclusion still takes some years - but as we are reaching the conclusion I want to put on record the years of absolute joy this project has brought me. I reread it in its entirety every year or two. I think it will stand the testiment of time. And I cannot wait to see how it ends. 4 Respuesta(s)