Still Sort of Hanging On
Jun. 7th, 2015 09:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerThe "official Robotech site" shut down a little while ago; I at least got an email from them saying this was a security measure in the face of hacking. (It might well have been a "nothing personal; we're out for money" exploit, but I suppose I did think, just a little, of the Macross fans whose constant condemnation of Harmony Gold can seem to overshadow their interest in the actual anime, and imagined, with a full awareness of the risk of making "dark hints," them reacting with some form of approval.) That this happened right when there seems to have been a tiny bit of movement towards the long-fabled "live-action movie" (and not that long after the rights-holders had seemed to decide they at last had to put a bit of effort into coming up with "new story product" themselves) did seem unfortunate. Eventually, links to Twitter and Facebook accounts did get posted; I wondered a bit about assumptions that there's no need to set up "independent platforms" these days, and anyway even "official" discussion forms just provide excuses for criticism. It did mean that when another bit of news about the movie was passed around to get me setting down thoughts about this whole matter, I was aware what discussion there might be of it was more likely to just be dismissive.
Even with all of that, though, I do appreciate that Jonathan L. Switzer, who I have sometimes thought of as the last "independent Robotech commentator" (although I shouldn't forget that artwork keeps being added to the "Robotech Visions" page on Facebook), has been posting sample pages from the numerous Robotech comics in "story order" on his Tumblr. It seemed for a while that he had ground to a halt with the penultimate issue of one series he had seemed positive towards, short of getting into the original adaptation of "The Macross Saga" with its early efforts to reproduce "anime style" and the stranger attempts in the three decades since to work in "additional stories," but then he picked up again. I suppose I was conscious of how I kept coming across sites he'd started to chronicle the Robotech comics but ground to a halt on; that there's relatively little commentary being added in the apparent style of Tumblr (although it is sort of interesting to notice posts with more "notes" and wonder just what lucky accident resulted in that) may help.
Even with all of that, though, I do appreciate that Jonathan L. Switzer, who I have sometimes thought of as the last "independent Robotech commentator" (although I shouldn't forget that artwork keeps being added to the "Robotech Visions" page on Facebook), has been posting sample pages from the numerous Robotech comics in "story order" on his Tumblr. It seemed for a while that he had ground to a halt with the penultimate issue of one series he had seemed positive towards, short of getting into the original adaptation of "The Macross Saga" with its early efforts to reproduce "anime style" and the stranger attempts in the three decades since to work in "additional stories," but then he picked up again. I suppose I was conscious of how I kept coming across sites he'd started to chronicle the Robotech comics but ground to a halt on; that there's relatively little commentary being added in the apparent style of Tumblr (although it is sort of interesting to notice posts with more "notes" and wonder just what lucky accident resulted in that) may help.