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C.K. Stewart of Newsarama gave the comic a score of 9 out of 10: "Midnighter and Apollo #1 is a strong debut issue for the miniseries, building on the world Orlando created in his groundbreaking Mindighter solo run but teasing a perhaps more supernaturally-imbued tale than we saw in Midnighter’s first battle against the military industrial ...
Upon release, the manga has sold over 400.000 copies. Many people who read the manga upon its release were inspired to become a cartoonist, this includes the Fujiko Fujio duo, [2] Shotaro Ishinomori, [3] Tetsuya Chiba, [4] Mikiya Mochizuki, [5] Mitsutoshi Furuya, [6] Kazuo Umezu, [7] Noboru Kawasaki, [8] Keiji Nakazawa, [9] and Yoshiharu Tsuge.
Apollo's Song was created during a period where manga was increasingly portraying sexual stories and imagery, and was Tezuka's exploration of love and sex in manga form. This period in Japan was also marked by violent student riots and incidents involving student activists, and Tezuka reportedly later said that Shogo's depressed character ...
Midnighter and Apollo's relationship, though hinted in previous issues, was revealed in The Authority #8. Midnighter was the architect of the team's first significant victory, the defeat of autocratic dictator Kaizen Gamorra, which he achieved by dropping the 50-mile-long Carrier onto Gamorra's island base.
It began serialization in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in September 2023. [1] It is also simultaneously released in English on Kodansha's K Manga service in the United States. [2] During their panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2024, Kodansha USA announced that they licensed the series for English publication beginning in Q2 2025. [3]
Apollo is a superhero who first appeared in the Stormwatch series, but is best known for his role in The Authority. While visually distinct, Apollo is cast in the mould of the Superman archetype. Apollo is notable for being among the first openly gay superheroes in print, although several years behind Marvel Comics' Northstar. [1]
For those who didn’t know the Marvel catalog inside-out, when James Gunn first unleashed “Guardians of the Galaxy” back in 2014, it felt like the company was suddenly calling in the B-team.
Little Pollon [1] [a] (Japanese: おちゃめ神物語コロコロポロン, Hepburn: Ochamegami Monogatari Korokoro Poron, lit. "Roly-Poly Pollon – The Story of a Bratty Goddess") is a musical Greek mythology-based Japanese anime series, based on the 1977 manga series Olympus no Pollon (オリンポスのポロン, Orinposu no Poron, "Pollon of Olympus") by Hideo Azuma.