#JCA ↺

[puellaphantasia]

As promised, gushing about ↺ Ratso and his ties

I haven't had a chance to really implement this in the writing yet, but Ratso wears a different tie every day, he has tons of them and they're mostly gifts from his mother or sisters. Any time I draw a screencap with Ratso in it for ↺ he will have a probably different tie because of this.

His father, Loreno Marchetti walked out on their family when Ratso was young, leaving him to be "Man of the House" taking care of his mother, Cimone, and two little sisters, Lucia and Elena. The family struggled for a long time, and some of it because of Ratso's issues with "some sort of mental problem", probably ADHD or Autism, but he isn't sure, he never got an official diagnosis. He managed to get by telling his mother and sisters to just get him ties for gift giving occasions.

Ratso was high functioning enough that he managed to hold a couple of odd jobs and get a scholarship to go to college. He stumbled into a life of crime mostly by people taking advantage of his willingness to do any job for an extra paycheck to send back to his mom and sisters, until he became the top weapons dealer in San Francisco "Mostly by accident". He doesn't want his family to find out where the money he sends them comes from, and continues to ask them to buy him silly and novelty ties so he can pretend nothing's changed, but it's also become a bit of an obsession of his, he'll collect them on his own and ask friends for them too.

[2001hz]

Yosuke Ohnishi, jca annual 4 (1982)

[jca-archive]

Gervasio Gallardo, from JCA Annual 6 (1985)

[triggerblaze345]

Bonus round: list all nine in order of favorite to least favorite!

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It is still translated by a translator.

[pandorapromises]

propaganda posters by Victor Rathsmann, senior concept artist at Ubisoft Massive

[nattikay]

"waaaaaa James Cameron is sTEaLiNG from ATLA!!!11!!1!"

sigh yeah sorry but this is just a really stupid claim. There are some fun coincidences, but they are just that: coincidence, nothing more. If it weren't for the fact that both franchises happen to use the word "avatar", a term which neither of them owns nor invented, it wouldn't have even crossed your mind to compare them.

Oh, they both have "water" themed groups? Sure, but the concept of "water" is really the only thing those groups have in common. The Water Tribes in ATLA are arctic-dwelling peoples heavily inspired by the Inuit (plus the Swampbenders, idk if they have a formal name or how widespread their society is), neither of which are locations or cultures we've seen explored in James Cameron's Avatar (which for the sake of this post we'll abbreviate to JCA). Meanwhile, the Metkayina clan in JCA are a tropical island-dwelling people heavily inspired by the Maori and other Polynesian cultures, which likewise is a culture/location that ATLA didn't explore.

They both have an "evil" fire-themed group? Sure, but again it's not 1:1 and it's very odd that y'all are acting like ATLA invented the concept of fire=bad guys. This one's a little harder to analyze because we of course don't know a lot about the Mangkuan clan yet, but from what little we've heard, it seems their reason for being antagonists is that they've turned their backs on Eywa (the deity revered by most Na'vi clans) after a series of natural disasters destroyed their homeland and they felt Eywa didn't do enough to help them. This is a very different motivation from the Fire Nation, who are antagonists because Sozin was power-hungry enough to commit unprovoked genocide on a peaceful nation and start a hundred-year war to conquer the other two. "Fire" and "antagonists" are the only similarities these groups have.

It's also worth noting that the Fire Nation are the primary antagonists of ATLA, whereas the Mangkuan (as far as we can currently tell) are only secondary antagonists in JCA, who may or may not get involved with the actual primary antagonists, the RDA. In this sense, if we're going to force a connection between ATLA and JCA, the Mangkuan might actually be more conceptually comparable to the Dai Lee than to the Fire Nation. Both are factions of what are supposed to be a "good" group (the Na'vi and Earth Kingdom, respectively) who got involved in shady practices and wind up aligning with the primary antagonists (the RDA and Fire Nation). There are still plenty of differences, of course, and this is far too broad a concept to call it a definitive "copy", but there you go.

They both have a group of flying travelers? The Air Nomads were monks and spiritualists who migrated between their own four temples. The Windtraders—based on what very very little we currently know—are merchants who travel to various other clans to trade.

All these comparisons are based on very broad vague ideas that can potentially be executed in a gazillion different unique ways. I don't think James Cameron "stole" these ideas from ATLA, but hey, for the sake of argument, let's say he did. Let's assume that he did purposefully take the very vague very broad ideas of "water people" and "evil fire people" and "flying travelers" specifically and exclusively from ATLA. What he's DOING with these ideas is still completely different from what ALTA does with them.

Take it from someone who adores both franchises: they are completely different. One is about humans with supernatural ability to bend the elements in a fantasy universe heavily inspired by primarily Asian cultures, the other is about a nine-foot-tall blue alien race living on an alien moon where everything glows in the dark and every living being on said moon has the ability to biologically "plug in" to a global neural network. As I mentioned at the beginning of the post, the only reason anyone even thinks to compare them in the first place is merely that their titles share the word "avatar", a term which again neither franchise owns nor invented. If they didn't share this title, nobody would be calling any of these things a "copy". stop.

[iamtoothandclaw]

Beloved fandoms never die. Thinking once more about my dumb bbs and their adventures post-show. I know the likelihood of actually *writing* my season 6 fanfic is abysmally low, but a girl can dream (and draw).

Everyone wore the same clothes for 5 seasons so I decided it was time for a redesign; their new kind-of-good-guys-kind-of-not civvies. This is some certified 2005 (and 1975) fashion right here.

[tobinsonny]

ultimate hype man

[kissentz]

the fuck i did

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Tom Hallman, from JCA Annual (1990)

[puellaphantasia]

Vanessa Barone - Jackie Chan Adventures ↺

[2001hz]

Hideo Matsushita, jca annual 4 (1982)

[jca-archive]

Gervasio Gallardo, from JCA Annual 6 (1985)

[nando161mando]

The Jewish Council of Australia:

⭕ "Israel’s soldiers have been documented emblazoning the Star of David on Palestinian prisoners, graffitiing it on the walls of houses they loot in Gaza, and using tanks to sear it into the rubble of what used to be recreation parks for families."

⭕ "These actions place all Jewish people at risk by tarnishing us with these egregious human rights abuses."

[wei-smiler]

In fact, my original intention in creating these short comics was to promote Xiaolin Showdown in China. However, I will still publish them here, treating it as a way to thoughtfully manage my blog and let more people appreciate my work.(-_-)ゞ