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Posted by gatch72 on 13-07-2006 at 18:45:
i may be sharing them on my group..got to see how big the files will be..
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Posted by Metaliant on 14-07-2006 at 04:12:
If you do put them on your group, send me a link please.
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Posted by Condorfan on 01-09-2006 at 04:08:
BOTP Comics
Hello Gatchaman fans! Very happy to be here!
I loved the BOTP comic series but the end left unanswered questions. I wrote to Top Cow and they replied BOTP was cancelled because of low sales. (Curses!) I hope when BOTP interests renew by the general comic readers that they will continue with the series.
Posted by CricketBeautiful on 01-09-2006 at 15:03:
Welcome, CondorFan.
BOTP comic may be less than alive, but check out the stuff about the new Gatch movie. Fingers always crossed for something around here.
Cricket
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Posted by gatchgirl on 01-09-2006 at 20:39:
Welcome Condorfan. I agree that the ending really did need to be told. To bad they never finished it. Maybe they will realize that there are a lot more people out there buying it.
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Posted by Cep on 02-09-2006 at 12:13:
Welcome welcome Condorfan, nice to see a new face as always.
Enjoy the corruption 
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Posted by meridianday on 02-09-2006 at 16:09:
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The reason it got cancelled is because there just weren't enough people out there buying it. It started out as Top Cow's biggest ever first issue, I think they sold over a quarter of a million copies. But people stopped buying it. So that's why the manga was in black and white, and after that the whole thing was cancelled.
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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny." Posted by gatchgirl on 02-09-2006 at 17:00:
Thanks meridianday, I guess it was because of people like me that never took the time to investigate what all BOTP/Gatch things were out there. Maybe if more of us had then we could have seen the total outcome.
***Gatchgirl hangs head down in shame for not pursuing an old time friend like BOTP****
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Posted by meridianday on 02-09-2006 at 19:20:
Naah, there aren't a quarter of a million people out there who didn't check it out at the time. It didn't get good reviews, and I assume people just gave up buying it.
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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny." Posted by Condorfan on 03-09-2006 at 05:23:
Could the reason be that the comics were not successful because the BOTP comics were more like Gatchaman? I first saw this series as BOTP and only recently have seen the Gatchaman series for the first time. A lot of comic readers are adults, perhaps they felt it was not like the old BOTP series they remembered--there was no 7-Zark-7 (except a brief cameo here and there). No offense to 7-Zark-7 fans, but I prefer him NOT being there.
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Posted by meridianday on 03-09-2006 at 07:31:
Who can say? I don't personally think that was the reason. I think the writing could have been a lot better.
The size of the launch would have been helped by Alex Ross's name on the comic, and a lot of people might have bought it because they were more interested in him - lots of them might have never heard of BOTP before. There's no way to know what proportion of the buyers that would have been, but sales started to drop off very noticeably after issue 4.
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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny." Posted by Metaliant on 03-09-2006 at 11:57:
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Posted by gatchgirl on 03-09-2006 at 12:08:
********* Gatchgirl slowly walkes by with whistling with her evil smile across her face. Rubber room........whats the rubber room........?!**********
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Posted by Metaliant on 03-09-2006 at 18:28:
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Posted by Springie on 04-09-2006 at 03:12:
Springie shrugs and blushes...better late than never... Welcome Condorfan! I agree with you about the comics! I'm dying to find out what happens next...how could they leave us hanging like that? I'd love for some of the wonderful fic writers out there to fill me in with their take on what happens next...Jason can't have become a traitor!! I believe he's spying on Spectra and trying to ruin Zoltar's plans from the "inside"...
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Posted by Cep on 04-09-2006 at 09:41:
Ner face it Condor sold out 
The gatchgoon suit just looked so much better he thought.
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Posted by Condorfan on 04-09-2006 at 18:13:
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Hello Springie! (I like that name!)
I too am dying to know what happens. I don't Jason could be a traitor-but on the otherhand, he thinks his parents were from Spectra so is he is going to play his part as he had told Mark he was going to?
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Posted by Springie on 04-09-2006 at 20:16:
Thanks Condorfan! Yeah, I remember he says to Mark something about "You with the white hat, and me with the black hat"...I never thought of that before...but I have to believe that he has a really good reason for playing the traitor role!!!
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Posted by gatchgirl on 05-09-2006 at 00:10:
I have a feeling that he is too. Wish we could have seen the ending.
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Posted by Condorfan on 05-09-2006 at 16:32:
I read that Marc Silvestri, Editor at Top Cow, will be at Wizard World Texas at the Arlington Convention Center on November 10 & 11. Hmm, I wonder if someone will ask him about BOTP.
Wait! I have a cunning plan! Kidnap him from the airport, hold him for ransom..(no, no, no--forget that!)
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