I am now the proud owner of this blog!

It's HH's fault, it really is. XD Every other thing out of her, "You need a blog!"
"So I was doing this thing last night - "
"YOU NEED A BLOG!"
"Okay, I'll get one eventually, I - "
"ARE YOU A PM?"
"Yeah - "
"YOU NEED A BLOG!"
"But I wrote this up an - "
"Put it in the blog you don't have yet!"

Bless her heart! <3


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So last night I pulled out my special-edition copy of Bionicle Comic #1, with cover art by Ashley Wood, while looking for inspiration/design help for a project. I stared at the lovely cover art for a while, absorbing Ms Wood's fantastically awesomely chilling art. Then I decided to flip through the comic.

And remembered.

I saw Kopaka, just like I did the first time; he was piecing himself together on the beach, legs, then arms, and finally, his mask.

*flips page* OMGOSH Sun setting/rising behind him and he's got a flippin' sword!1!1!!

Then he starts his journey to find answers. He travels through the 'barren' icy wastes of Ko-wahi (which, for 'boring snowy backgrounds', are remarkably pretty. Kudos, D'anda (artist) and Sinclair (colorist)!) And look - it's little Matoro! He has seen the new Toa on the island! Kopaka's frozen the ground under him - it's amazing how much emotion and expression has been put into just these few panels on page 3, for 'robots' without 'faces'! And Kopaka keeps saying awesome things about himself. "Now I am whole. And the darkness cannot stand before me." "Interesting. The power is in me. The sword is but the focus." "I hate riddles."

:3


… Ever notice how, in some new comics, every talks like the old hollywood version of knights errant? I mean really, they talk so cool and formal and proper. Then as the story goes on, things.. just… eventually revert to plain English.

(TF's did that, ya know!)

Then Kopaka and Matoro are ambushed…. And Kopaka saves Matoro… and in the middle where the staples are is the Rahkshi bios/advertisment… and then they run into Turaga Nuju… HOLY MAHA he's not clicking and whirring! Remember that, ya'll. He CAN talk straight, silly newbies.

Take a moment. Remember the first comic? It Do you remember when Pohatu slammed into Kopaka with his rockslide? When Kopaka and Pohatu traveled up the mountain to claim Kopaka's first mask? When Kopaka found the other four Toa warriors? The lovely colors and new art? The pages that were so alive with these new ideas and stories? ARE YOU REMEMBERING!?


THANK HEAVENS!!



I thought I was all alone in this. ^^


If you can't remember, then go pull out your comics! And if you didn't get the comics, find somebody to led them to you, or to scan pages for you. Because you're missing out, you poor, deluded soul.

*gently, so as not to crease them, hugs her comics and revels in the happiness of days gone by*


Karda Nui or no Karda Nui, the Toa's first days on the Island of Mata Nui are the coolest.


EDIT: I have scanned the first comic!! Go thither, click, and remember!