Comments on: Yow! What have they done to Little Lulu?

By: Maria

Maria — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:47:04 +0000

Eu compro a luluzinha teen e sou do Brasil. Eu acho que, a luluteen tá muito legal e não podemos julgar. Eu preferia que voce lesse primeiro e depois julgar. Tradução:

I buy the teen Lulu and I’m from Brazil. I think the luluteen’re really cool and we can not judge. I would prefer that you read it first and then judge

By: Darkkn

Darkkn — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:31:31 +0000

Just for the sake of curiosity, take a look at a sample of Little Lulu’s Teen:
http://www.easy-share.com/1905754504/luluteen01.cbz
Obs: CBZ is a format used by CDisplay (manga/comics viewer), but it actaclly is a ZIP file with the extension modified. Just rename the file to “luluteen01.zip” and it will be fine.

By: Darkkn

Darkkn — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:24:37 +0000

I’m from Brazil, and I admit that I though Lulu Teen was a cheap Monica’s Gang Teen rip-off at first, just because of its huge sucess here in Brazil. Of course I can recongnize that the popularity of Monica Teen is a combination of various factors, such as:
1. Monica’s Gang being the most popular comics in Brazil, and it is running for more than 40 years, and many generations of people know the brand.
2. The recent trend of manga in the world (Monica Teen explicitly says in the cover that it is drawn in manga-style).
3. It is long requested by fans that Mauricio de Souza (the Monica’s Gang author) so a version of Monica’s Gang where everyone is older and schoolgraders. This fan appeal is longstanding for years, and I’m sure Mauricio’s aware of that.
I’m a frequent buyer of Monica’s Gang Teen, and so far I have up to vol 15 as of Dec 2009, and besides the great fidelity to their child counterparts, the Monica’s Gang Teen has no continuity between its stories, which is not very manga-like. They adopt a lot of pop culture references in the comics, especially from anime and games, which are almost niche markets here in Brazil. Although it was nice of them, I think they kinda got carreied alway and put too many pop references, to the point stripping the plot of its seriousness. And, as they are teenagers now, they cannot use the kid’s innocence as a source of jokes like the original Monica’s Gang do, and so they end up overusing lame jokes.
Overral, Monica’s Gang Teen didin’t live up to my spectations, but today I’ve read the 1st volume of Little Lulu Teen and I can say that it is sooo much more manga-like than Monica’s Ganf Teen is that I was impressed. The drawings are very convincing as real manga, and it doesn’t try too hard using manga clichès like Monica do. And the story is more fluid and HAS CONTINUITY, which is a plus. The characters, even if they don’t resemple the original Little Lulu’s characters, are good on they own right, and appear to be more human and more believable than Monica’s.
Overral, i liked it, and would reccomned for anyone who likes manga in general, because the proximity to the real manga from Japan is impressive.
For those who are criticizing whithout reading it, it would be better if you reconsider your views.

By: jullynha

jullynha — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:44:27 +0000

e Marcus me desculpe concordo que USA seje maior georaficamente , mais cultural e historicamente vecê esta a anos luz atrazado acorda menino e cai na realidade ,o mundo pode ser perfeito mas a realidade não e pra todos!!!!

By: jullynha

jullynha — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:38:23 +0000

vocês largam de serem dramaticos …
adrorei a nova versão de lulu, e as historia são boas!!!!!!!!!
e uma das revista mais vendidas aqui no brasil junto com a turma da monica!!!!!!!

By: junior

junior — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:58:16 +0000

know I found a lack of creativity … copying the class of young monica (which is a manga cool and funny) and the German but radically changing the style of the characters, nothing to do, I bought an issue, until I found discusses legal even the subject of youth and mysteries (which lulu and very tanned ball as a child). luluzinha is a classic and I bet no one here like this change but if the author wanted to like this …
I’m Brazilian, I know you are angry with all this change we have made a design classic of its parents that their children have fun and even you, but the Brazilian has nothing to do with that only the author of this manga.

By: Nerdium

Nerdium — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:27:34 +0000

I’m Brazilian, and I couldn’t agree more with this article. I used to read Little Lulu comics when I was a child, I still like looking for vintage stuff (like the own Little Lulu comics, for instance), and what they did to the character was murder.
I also used to read Mônica’s Gang comics about 30 years ago, when their comics were still at least intelligent.
Speaking of intelligence, I just hate to see the Brazilian angry mob coming here to make a bad-mouthed comment in Portuguese and thinking they are so cool. Exactly what they did to Orkut. They took it over and messed it all.
We have English classes in our schools, I can’t understand why in the world do they still can be so lame at their age.
So sorry about that. Keep up the good work, congrats for the article.

By: DELEGADO

DELEGADO — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:00:13 +0000

Vao todos se fuder, voces nao mandam em mim, principalmente os brasileiros e brasileiras de merda!!

E eu quero hentai da luluzinha e da turma da monica!! !!!!!!!!!!

By: John Mayer

John Mayer — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:31:12 +0000

Even when Gold Key TRIED to stick with the original concept their version of Little Lulu fell flat. There was only one John Stanley. I’m sure his heirs must be outraged, but Stanley didn’t own the rights to the characters (even though I imagine he created at least a few of them). This might have been a clever concept as a one shot (though I can’t imagine what market they’d be courting); in fact I’ve seen artists’ concepts before of the characters all grown up (Tubby, atypically for Americans, has actually lost weight), and they were rather amusing. But I don’t have to read any of these stories (I can’t read Portuguese anyhow, though, I can get alonb in Spanish, so maybe I could dope out the storyline) to know they’re going to suck; the generic art is enough for me to avoid it. Actually, almost ALL animé/manga art looks bland and generic to me; I can’t imagine why it’s so popular.

I suspect this will be every bit as successful as the conversion of the Warner Brothers Bugs Bunny characters to superheroes. Or as successful as New Coke.

Yours truly,
John Mayer

By: Kamen Rider

Kamen Rider — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:44:26 +0000

Cadê o chinelo?!

By: Bia From Brazil

Bia From Brazil — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:09:22 +0000

(Sorry for the poor English)
They just want to get money. They think they can beat “Turma da Mônica Jovem”. But they can’t. There are kids (here, in Brazil) that don’t even know who is Little Lulu. Nobody is going to buy it, just that old nostalgic guys. In the past “Little Lulu” made a huge success here, but today, like I said, few kids know her here. When I was younger I used to watch the TV cartoon, but I didnt know that it was a comic book! But, in fact… Its terrible!
- E para os brasileiros:
Minha nossa, pelo menos a Turma da Mônica Jovem é bem desenhada. Sei que muitas pessoas não gostam, porque destruiu a infância e etc etc, mas vamos combinar que pelo menos os estúdios Maurício de Sousa estão fazendo um bom trabalho. E já que estamos no meio de várias pessoas dos EUA, queria comentar que tem uma coisa que detesto no comportamento deles: Eles (e o resto do mundo) se chamam de “Americanos”. Ora, nós também somos americanos, os mexicanos são americanos, os canadenses também. A América é um CONTINENTE, não um país! Devíamos começar a chamá-los de “Estado-unidenses” para eles pararem de se achar os donos da América! (Como se isso fosse adiantar)

By: johnnya

johnnya — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:18:05 +0000

Lest we forget, this Lulu is only halfway to the adult one that represents a certain North American comic book organization. WE raised the bar first!

By: regisclei

regisclei — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:07:00 +0000

“Every North American is stupid!”

How do you like this kind of generalization, said by me, a Brazilian man, judging everyone in U.S.A. based only in the acts of you ex-presidente G.W.Bush?

Well, that’s the same as Chris Mautner saying;
“I’m sure that will work well for them”.

We didn´t vote for Lulu Teen. It was not a majority decision. It was not a democratic election (like you did by reelecting Bush)

Choose carefuly your words.

Regisclei

By: johnnya

johnnya — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:00:17 +0000

It is kinda hard to take the complaints here seriously. In North America, Little Lulu hasn’t been published as a new series in decades and the only books you can get are reprint collections. So what audience is this offending? One that doesn’t exist, obviously.
Please let us make fun of how other countries keep comic books a viable and popular medium (Whats next? an expose on the story lines in German Donald Duck books?) while ignoring how publishers in the US have run themselves into a publishing ghetto.

By: DaisyDeadhead

DaisyDeadhead — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:38:36 +0000

OMG, that is is utterly horrifying.

I grew up with the original and adored her.

By: ScottyQuick

ScottyQuick — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:19:54 +0000

So … they’ve taken everything that was original and funny about the characters and replaced them with generic cliches?

Because it’s totally fair to say that they’re generic clichés when you haven’t read it.

By: Leo Violador from Brazil

Leo Violador from Brazil — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:24:53 +0000

Just a word: TERRIBLE!

By: Marco Santiago

Marco Santiago — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:41:01 +0000

I agree with Joe Cool: the art IS terrible, horrible and AWFUL!!!!!!

By: Marco Santiago

Marco Santiago — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:37:10 +0000

Gilson, my arms are closed, ok?

By: Marco Santiago

Marco Santiago — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:36:04 +0000

I’m against reboots, it doesn’t matter if it is Marvel, DC, the Hell or Little Lulu. I grew up and read the Little Lulu as in the old and good times, so It really seems something stupid to me.