Thanks a lot for the memories. Such a small world... I knew both Carlos; Carlos Trillo was my uncle in third degree and Carlos Meglia was a dear friend (and collegue), and I was a pupil of Osvaldo Viola, or Oswal, for whom Meglia worked as inker. I remember in those days how Carlitos was thin and pale because Eura wanted a 96 pages comic... monthly! Totally insane! They had to hire at least 40 cartoonists to help him to finish the pages in time, even Carlos Trillo had another writer to help him, because he was also writing at least two or three comics for other cartoonists; and even those ones who help didn't last too long because it was a hell of work against the clock... And they did 40 novels of 96 pages each! Eura wanted a comic to compete against Bonelli, the publisher of Dylan Dog and other comic books... But the increase of the cost of paper at the end of the nineties and the reducing of costs and damage of quality killed the series, with the feud between Meglia/Trillo and Eura. The rest is history... Greetings from Argentina!
I fell guilty about asking this but have you ever thought about rereleasing the cybersix comic again for a possible English release. I am absolutely in love with what your uncle and his colleague created.
@@wukong1475 that depends of the copyright owners, not me! Eura, now Editoriale Aurea, surely owns the copyright, or at least, the third part. Here, in that time, between us, Eura was known as "the machine to smash cartoonists"; I don't know if I am clear... They virtually exploited local artists, but we must consider that in the 90(s our local industry virtually vanished from one day to another! But well, time will tell about Cibersix...
@@osvaldogreco I see,well in any case I appreciate you for responding to me in the first place but the overall insight of Cybersix’s status. I’d like to say from the bottom of my Guatemalan heart muchas gracias!
For some reason, I remember Cybersix as part of the 90s grungy comic-based shows like Spawn and The Maxx, but it's a bit more nuanced and yet more obscure.
As a Canadian millennial I see the Cybersix cartoon as a point of national pride. It was hugely popular here and that brief, 13-episode season ran for years. Even my mom was into it.
It's crazy how international that franchise is. Because the comic book was originally published in Italy first, technically, it's an italian comic. With two argentinian authors, set in a fictional city in Argentina, and with a canadian animated show, with japanese staff. Like, it's crazy, but also really cool. Four countries on different contintents/hemispheres, united by this cyberpunk-ish obscure heroine.
@@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299 Well, yes, but I remember it kind of has a beautiful ambiguity to it, and the show more leans to implying her survival.
I actually caught this show on Canadian television when I was a kid. We were up in Canada for a wedding and I had no idea what there was for cartoons. So I flipped through the channels and I stumbled on this show. I really liked it. It was like a mix of Batman and Totally Spies without the absurd humor.
@@discontinued692funnily enough I'm told one of the reasons it didn't get a second season was due to low ratings outside of Canada plus in America they banned an episode due to the Japanese characters resembling Asian stereotypes (buck teeth, slanted eyes) even though said characters were really cool, the intro and ending songs were absolute 🔥 too I'm proud to have the DVD set in my collection
The only show that ever left me with a lump in my throat by the end of that cliffhanger 13th episode. CyberSix deserved a second season (arn't we all waiting for episode 14?). The look, style, and animation was rarefied air in a mass of anime glut in 99/00. A beacon of pride here in Canada, and the brightest hidden gem of them all.
I think one of the things that makes Cybersix stand out so much is that, aside from its stunning animation, they wisely chose to respect the original artist's umique art style, to a t. It's such a personal, unmistakable style, that it really sets it apart. It doesn't look like anime, it doesn't look like those "realistic" Marvel cartoons like X-Men and Spiderman. It doesn't look like Batman TAS, it just looks unique. Still to this day, it does. On that regard, I find it reminiscent of Aeon Flux, in the way that, it looks like nothing else.
I believe if season 2 happened it would've focused on José as main villain since Von Reichter got killed off and we would've seen more Lucas x Cybersix romance
I 100% agreed!!!Cybersix is a huge epic masterpiece this show deserves more seasons and a movie!!!🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️There’s gotta be way to bring Cybersix back!!!!!
Carlos Trillo is one of the best writers in comic history. I am lucky enough to have read most of his output, I can read Spanish, and it is a stellar work.
Both stories given for how the animated series are entirely possible. Haim Saban and Stan Lee both discovered Super Sentai while on business trips in Japan. They otherwise had no way to be exposed to it. Someone from the Japanese animation company could have traveled to Europe and happened on the comic read it, liked it, and thought it would be a great basis for a show.
I actually saw this cartoon as a kid, before I knew what anime was except for the fact that I liked it. But I only saw it a few times then it was gone. Thanks for once again expanding my comic horizons.
@ComicTropes , Adrian and Lucas work in a high school, but all their student are older. They work for an institute specifically built to help delinquents and dropouts to gain acccess to higher education for free. As for the nudity scene. Eura Editoriale (the Italian publisher) was notorious for pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable to publish, so it's not impossible that there was a mandate for nudity. The in-story justification is that Cybersix feels more at ease like that. I hope this helps to clarify.
What a great episode! It brings back so many memories, I even remember being super excited about the TV show here on Argentina, which was starred by a really popular model/actress at the time (Carolina Peleritti). Sure it looks really dated right now, but I recall being amazed at the fact of an argentinian comic being adapted into live-action.
What a cool, unexpected episode. I was into the Cybersix cartoon and really got into Carlos Meglia's art after seeing his American comics in the early 2000's. It's nice to see a spotlight put on his work. I was unaware of (or maybe forgot about) the Dark Angel connection. I also didn't realize that Cybersix was available on DVD. If only someone would get the rights to collect, translate and publish the comic in the US. I may have to try and track it down in Spanish.Thanks for reminding me of this imaginative piece of fiction.
The comic was a bit adult oriented because of its mix of violence-horror-erotism in a super cool way The worst I can say is that sometimes they recycled some background to save time, but it was greatly illustrated and written and I enjoyed it A LOT as a teenager! Absolutely recommended
I distinctly remember digging around the internet around 2004 or so when I was a young teen just looking at as many translations I could find. There was one fan website that had a story synopsis that I just thought was the coolest thing. There was something really compelling about Cybersix and it's bounced around my brain for a good 20 years now.
I loved looking at my copy of volume 4, using it as art reference, way before I discovered it had an English translation. Nowadays I still check in on the Subreddit effort to translate the whole series.
As an Argentinian comic book fan, I have to thank you, this is a superb video!! I like your channel because it has quality content and you dig stuff "nobody" knows, just like Cybersix. I want to add some information. As Osvaldo Greco pointed on another comment, there are literaly hundreds of pages to read. Some years agot, THREE Argentinian publishers collaborated on a complete edition of ALL Cybersix comics: they planned 30 books of around 200 pages each. Sadly they only published 4, and nobody knows what happend. So in Argentina, the home country of the creators, we can only read like 10 o 15% of what was published in France and Italy. This huge number of pages to draw force Meglia not only to hire many cartoonist (I know one of them), he used his animation skills to draw BIG images to used as the background for the panels. So you can see the same buildings, streets, etc. over and over againg, but in different sizes: they simple fotocopied the part they needed and draw over the characters. I've heard that some cartoonist didn't like that and talk bad about Meglia, but it was necesary to do the job!!
Dude, this brings back so many memories! Absolutely loved watching Cybersix back in the day. Can still recite all the music from the open and close of each episode!
Being argentinian, and having a comic-loving father, I grew up with Cybersix. Her comics were my favorite out of all the national productions he had in his collection. I just loved the unique, unmistakable artstyle, the nocturnal themes, her amazing outfit, the androgynous element, etc. EVERYTHING about Cybersix, I loved. It's so unfortunate that the animated version kind of got blacklisted like that. But at the same time, it's a blessing it was produced at all. It's just a treasure few of us are aware of, but love dearly 🩵.
What a nice surprise! And uploaded just in time for Argentina's Independence day holiday. I loved this comic when i was young, i fell in love with Meglia's style, very stylized and unique. Thanks for talking about this, Argentinian comics deserve a much bigger audience.
I watched a Thought Slime/Scaredy Cats video about this not too long ago, and their passion for it really caught my interest. Thanks for an even deeper dive to remind me to go find this! Also, just wanted to say that I've been loving your nails lately, Chris. Love to see those little bits of a creator's personality show through!
Yeah, except that Thought Slime is ideologically biased to the point of outright fabrication. Cybersix isn't "antifascist" nor is she "trans". Chris does a much better balanced job of explaining the lore. Exhibit A: Once Lucas and her get naked, Cybersix is a gorgeous sexy female - One Hundred Percent.
@@heroineburgh If trying to stop actual Nazis isn't antifascist to you, I don't think you could grasp much less. Saying more would be a further waste of my time
@@RadikaRules I can grasp plenty. They're not "Nazis" in Cybersix. They're campy caricatures of mad Nazi scientists. Jose and Von Richter are campy, goofy, silly, over the top. That's like saying that the Fausta episode of Wonder Woman '77, or Hogan trying to outwit Colonel Klink, or the sexy film Ilsa She Wolf of the SS are "antifascist". None of them are. They just use Nazis as a vehicle to convey a sense of adventure, comedy, or sexuality. Big difference. Would you consider any film in which the Soviets are the bad guys to be 'anti-communist'? Would any film with Arabs as the bad guys be considered 'anti-Islamic'? You need to stop considering everything to be deeply 'political'. It isn't. Sometimes (quite often, actually) it's just entertainment for its own sake.
I've never read the comic, but I was a huge fan of the Cybersix cartoon back in the day. The first thing that grabbed me was that intro song, sung by Coral Egan. Animation was so good. Thanks for the nostalgia, Chris!
AMAZING EPISODE! I follow you from Argentina, thank you for this investigation!! I grew up with Cybersix since I first saw the live action series on TV and at newstands you'd find her comicbook issues and graphic noveles from 94 to 97 and ended after publishing about a third of the run. To this day they still haven't published the whole comicbook series in spanish, how can that be? It's a real hunt, I read there's a hardcover edition in italian. I'll cry when I find it.
Thanks for this, Chris. Great work as always. I recommend Anita La Hija del Verdugo, Anita the Executioner's Daughter, another great argentinian cómic. Greattings from Argentina.
¡Me acuerdo! Lo publicaba Ivrea en sus inicios en el 2000, con un formato similar a la revista Lazer. Era muy chica para comprarla en ese momento y ahora me arrepiento. No me acuerdo si hubo una reedición más tarde.
@@Nadia1989 Una compatriota por aquí. Si, la revista se llamaba Ultra (revistas que aún tengo desde mi adolescencia) y ahí se vio los principios de Anita. Después salió todo el cómic completo en formato libro y después hubo una reedición de ese mismo libro, aunque este último no traía cosas que el primero tenía. Tengo el orgullo de tener ese primer libro compilación firmado por Bobillo, que dicho sea de paso es muy piola.
This really takes me back! I remember the first time I watched Cybersix, up until then, the only cartoons I saw were ones that were kids' shows. The more somber tone and the storyline were amazing to see. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, awesome video!
That episode with the assailant who could turn invisible was really nicely-animated. TMS' animators were really channeling that same energy they bring to Lupin III with the car action in that one.
Man, this was one of my favourite edgy cartoons to watch on Canadian television as a child. I even preferred it over the typical anime of the time. Such a neat story. Thanks for the memories!
I have bittersweet memories of watching series like Cybersix and Mummies Alive because they were the last shows to be traditionally animated by Japanese studios by the 90's. You really need time and a big budget and to even match that level of quality nowadays.
The fact that James Cameron stole the idea from Cybersix to make Dark Angel (which had much greater recognition), and that the creators could not file a lawsuit due to lack of resources makes this whole story even sadder. Hopefully Argentine comics reach a new level of recognition with the Eternaut series on Netflix next year.
That might not be the only place Cameron stole from to create Dark Angel. Chris forgot to mention that Marvel Comics already had a series called "Dark Angel" in the early 90s. She was originally called "Hell's Angel" but the biker club threatened a lawsuit (and probably to physically bust some heads) and was changed to "Dark Angel". Actually, that backstory might be enough for Chris to do a whole video on just that topic, especially considering that Dark Angel is "one of the heroines Marvel wants you to forget" (according to CBR in 2017).
So happy to watch each episode on your channel and to see that you are interested in a wide horizon of comics from all around the world. Love your content! Cheers from France!
Great as always, Chris! I actually forgot there was a cartoon series. I read some of it and watched the live action adaptation (I'm from Argentina and was a teenager at the time). Will see if I can find the cartoon version. I LOVED the visual style of the book. Cheers, mate! Keep it up!
Also worth mentioning that the official TMS Cybersix uploads include the pretty good theme song. Iirc I think there used to be rights issues with the opening music, which I think might have prevented the series from getting a home media release much sooner.
Your videos are the best covering comics. It’s great to see comments from people who knew the creators. I’ve discovered many great titles through you. Your passion shines through!
There is a commentary track on one episode (probably the clayface one you mention) of Batman: The Animated Series where Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski say how much they loved work of the Spectrum animators, saying they always went above and beyond what was required of them. They then conjectured that that was why they folded, because they weren't able to sustain such a high quality yet remain competitive.
Cybersix came up on my RUclips recommended a few months ago. I did a bit of research (watching RUclips videos😅) and found it quite interesting. I was glad when you decided to cover it because of how in depth you cover the creation of comics and thier creators. Love your work
Great job! I remember Cyber Six through the show on Fox Kids. Loved the animation and story, plus there was something intriguing about female character dressing up as a male in the civilian identity. Also the show came on during a time when I was becoming aware of more mature comics and anime, of Watchmen, Blade, Toonami, etc. Other shows on Fox Kids at the time were Spider-Man Unlimited and Beast Machines. Kids WB had Batman Beyond. Of course, then Digimon and Pokémon took over everything and most of those shows didn’t stay. But yeah Cyber Six was a part of my maturing comic tastes.
Omg you gave me flashback to watching the cartoon as a kid in Canada 🇨🇦 it was one of the first adult cartoons I was exposed to outside of like the simpsons.
As someone who discover and checked out the Cybersix cartoon and then the fan translation comics, I really adore the franchise. Especially with art style from Carlos Meglia, as it became a big inspiration for my arty style.
A month ago I finished watching the show out of curiosity. Thanks for putting a spotlight on the series, it's great to have more people be aware of it!
Italian here, and this was a good episode, a nice chance to introduce viewers to an Argentinian comic book gem. When I was in middle school, a close friend of my uncle who was an avid Skorpio and Lanciostory reader would give me his old issues every now and then, and this allowed me to build a nice comic book culture by reading stories from European, Italian and South American authors. Cybersix was among those series, and Carlos Trillo was a frequent feature on Eura/Aureacomix weeklies.
I'm glad this series is preserved on RUclips's Servers! Hopefully it gets a semi faithful reimagining at some point, because the series would probably do really well now these days! Great review as always 👌
I remember coming across the cartoon back in the day, I was 20 at the time and it appealed to me greatly. Then I lost track of it until here and now with your vid. Glad to come across it again this way. At the same time it's saddening though to hear both its creators aren't among us anymore.
Great video! Carlos Trillo was a beloved writer and there's a respetable amount of english editions of his work to read, especially if it is drawn by Eduardo Risso or Horacio Altuna.
Which comic did he do with Altuna that was translated? I know a lot of his Mandrafina collabs were translated but I would love to read his Altuna collabs
Kudos on this episode. Forgot I owned an Image miniseries with Meglia (Monster World) and wasn't aware of this series. Wish it would be collected and translated. Thanks Chris.
I think I recall seeing some volume of Cybersix being sold in Italy during the 90s, but I was too young then so I was never allowed to get any copy, given the sexy images on many covers. On the other hand, I do not think I had ever watched even a single episode of the cartoon, I wonder whether it was also broadcast there.
I found about it randomly looking up old cartoons on RUclips. The show was my introduction to Cyber 6 and I liked it. The animation is gorgeous to look at and the cape is amazing to see in action. Cyber 6 has a gripping primise: an MC who's not a human (or is she?) and hunts down others for substance, and doesn't want to destroy the bad guy since without them, she'll die. I feel Cyber 6 would make an interesting livw action movie.
I was really surprised and happy with this episode though I think Thought Slime provided a much more comprehensive video that highlights some interesting choices done with this comic that you didn't get the chance to touch on, Always appreciate you Chris keep being awesome.
Loved this show, and I'm so going to watch it again to. As for the Dark Angel connection, I never really knew there was one till now. And while I don't believe it much, now that I think about it. The main guy character in Dark Angel does look like a real life Adrian but that's circumstantial/coincidental at best.
I loved Cybersix ever since I saw it on tv in Canada as a kid. It was so unlike any other cartoon I had seen up to that point with its tone and artstyle. The episodes that stuck with me most were the episode where cybersix meets dataseven for the first time and the finale where she seemingly dies. I’d say it’s right up there with Samurai Jack as one of my favourite animated action cartoons of all time! I haven’t read the original comics but would love to get a chance to if I ever find a decent English translation online or somewhere else.
As an Italian I must say... A lot of our action comics for the young adult market have the occasional nude/topless woman somewhere in the middle, or on the cover. Or at least, they used to have (I moved to Spain 17 years ago, and lost track of my country's comicsdom). I sometime wonders if it is a possible side effect of the "p.rn" comics publishers being among the most honest a comic artist could work for (them and Edizioni Paoline, i.e. the Paolini Monks Order's publishing arm; neither did "forget" to pay royalties on reprints, for example... And yes, the best Italian comic authors usually worked for both, pseudonyms are so useful). So, nobody really noticed all that much Cybersix going around deshabillé in her flat. Par of the course for the genre and the Italian (or French, or Spanish) market.
Great episode! I watched the series when it came out on fox kids. Between all the Power Ranger and Digimon/pokemons knockoffs, this cartoon was a breath of fresh air!
Now, regarding the lawsuit, I am 100% with the creators. For those who are unfamiliar with Hollywood practices, and how the industry... "resolves" copyright issues, it might sound far fetched. But I've seen it happening enough times to recognize a pattern. Hollywood does have a tendency of just stealing ideas from obscure, foreign markets, when they can't get licence, or simply consider the source material to be too obscure for them to bother. We have countless examples like Disney's blatant plagiarism of Tezuka's "Simba", the "borrowed" scenes from the japanese Little Mermaid, Guillermo Del Toro's Evangelion knock off with "Pacific Rim", The Hunger Games/Battle Royale, etc, etc. Hollywood has been robbing, successfully, for decades. And even if those cases can be cinsidered "sibjective speculation", there is at least one confessed instance of plagiarism, that I'm aware of: in the 90's, during Sailor Moon's international explotion, the US tried to adapt the franchise for its market. The negotiations fell off, but the company behind the project decided to just go ahead and rip off the idea, because they just liked it. They went on to produce a pilot episode for a show called "Team Angels", that essentially plagiarized Sailor Moon: it was a group of teenage girls, with color coded outfits and magical powers. The pilot failed to get investor's interest and the project was cancelled, however, I have no doubts that if it was produced, a lot of people would argue that its similarities with Sailor Moon are coincidential, even if the show was explicitely created to plagiarize Sailor Moon and profit off its target demographic. That is how the industry works. The similarities between Dark Angel and Cybersix are too many for it to be coincidential. If it has four legs, a tail and meows, it's most likely a cat. Obviously the shows aren't *identical* because they know how to steal properly, in order to avoid legal trouble. But I have no doubts they were more than "inspired" by Cybersix, lol.
I have that Fox Kid's magazine with her on the cover but never watched the show. Seeing the panels and art style in the show really makes me want to finally check it out, thanks for the deep dive.
Deep in my heart, I feel love so alive! Excellent assessment of the Cybersix lore, Chris. The only thing you missed is actually playing the theme song, which I think you probably could have done, at least in part. Now for your next assignment: the sexy Serbian comic Cat Claw (and the short movie) by Bane Kerac - it's like the Eastern European analogue to Cybersix!
Woah. Felt like a very pretty comic AND a very pretty animation. Those smooth walks down a flight of stairs. Felt alot better than some present day shows where they just bob up and down a bit :)
Finally, i was waiting for this one ❤! One of my favorite cartoon growing up and one of my big childhood crushes (her love interest that also happened to be named Lucas helped ☺️ haha!)
This is why I love this channel. I remember this but had totally forgotten about it since I first saw it in 99. I worked nightshifts and would catch this on Saturday mornings on Fox Kids if I remember. It was so stylized and unique. I wasn't sure if it was an anime or what.
100% agreed it was the cartoon I found years ago that got my attention for the series. The animation alone is worth looking at cause omg it's gorgeous. I'm aware of the comic but always had trouble finding it but I've heard things. It's a shame they never got to make an official english release or finish out the series. Didn't even know the original creators already passed til I watched this.
TMS is Tokyo Movie Shinsa, and they did a lot of spectacular work. They animated all the best of Warner Bros TV work back in the day, from Batman to Tiny Toons.
Pretty great overview, in fact. Thanks to it I learned official uploads exist, and as many already have I recommend the Thought Slime video for people who can't get enough, and also want a deep dive. But as always, Chris doesn't fail to bring that "friend showing you cool stuff" energy
Loved this episode! Cybersix was a huge thing for me back when I was a kid, even though I could only watch very few of them due to the show's inconsistent airing schedule in my country. As for the comic, maybe it's because I caught a translation of a translation, but I found the plot a little hard to follow at times, and though the visuals are gorgeous, I'll have to agree with you that it gets very gratuitous with its nudity (and the stylized anatomy doesn't really do it for me).
I remember the cartoon popping up on Fox Kids occasionally. Completely forgot about it, gonna be going through the TMS uploads. Thanks for unlocking a memory Chris!
Oh wow, I love Cybersix! I love Carlos Meglas attempt into USA comics, and it was that Latin wavewhen Humberto Ramos was making it big. He did Superman and under rated Star Wars Underworld comic. His style was exciting, fresh, animated. Like even his Tarzan/Superman book was a fun read, hard to image the two would work, and he did it with a lot of fun energy. It's a shame he died so young. If you can get a hold of Star Wars Underworld, it's criminally underrated in Star Wars comic scene.
Never heard of this before. I’m definitely going to look into this, but hopefully they do put out an official English translation sometime soon. Thanks Chris!
Al thought I very vaguely remember seeing some of this on Teletoon all those years ago, I never really watched the show, which I regret now. Going to have to dig up those episodes but I can't seem to find this "TMS" RUclips channel you mentioned. All I can find are short episode snippets. (Link to channel anyone?) I do love episodes of your show that discuss these obscure, now forgotten gems. Thanks for the episode.
Hi Chris, great episode, like always. I'm from Argentina, if you ever come to Buenos Aires, you can crash at home. I have a library with shelves dedicated to argentinian comics (I own some Cybersix issues) Trillo was a really prolific writer. Luckily, we have many great artista in our comic history. I'd love to share some with you. Until then, justo keep reading comics
2:40 As an aside, it reminds me of the 80's cartoon Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea. It was very Moebius inspired, aesthetically and with a really interesting story to it. Although many other dubs existed, including English. To date, only the native French language version has ever been released as physical media.
There are so man interesting and even iconic Italian comics that have never gotten translated. I really want to try Diabolik as well at some point but there's just so little of it in English
this takes me back; ages ago I watched on HBO and decided to tape some episodes then I pause the credits to see "based on Cybersix by Carlos Trillo and Carlos Meglia". start looking and get some spanish editions, a Meglia artbook, read other works by Carlos Trillo, is a rabbit hole I did not regret dive into.
I don't get why the comics never got an english translation, You would think they would make it english for the fans of the cartoon and wanna know the stuff the show didn't mention.
Thanks a lot for the memories. Such a small world... I knew both Carlos; Carlos Trillo was my uncle in third degree and Carlos Meglia was a dear friend (and collegue), and I was a pupil of Osvaldo Viola, or Oswal, for whom Meglia worked as inker. I remember in those days how Carlitos was thin and pale because Eura wanted a 96 pages comic... monthly! Totally insane! They had to hire at least 40 cartoonists to help him to finish the pages in time, even Carlos Trillo had another writer to help him, because he was also writing at least two or three comics for other cartoonists; and even those ones who help didn't last too long because it was a hell of work against the clock... And they did 40 novels of 96 pages each! Eura wanted a comic to compete against Bonelli, the publisher of Dylan Dog and other comic books... But the increase of the cost of paper at the end of the nineties and the reducing of costs and damage of quality killed the series, with the feud between Meglia/Trillo and Eura. The rest is history... Greetings from Argentina!
Feliz 9 de julio! Viva el mejor país del mundo!!!
I fell guilty about asking this but have you ever thought about rereleasing the cybersix comic again for a possible English release. I am absolutely in love with what your uncle and his colleague created.
@@user-ch9mp6ue8u Gracias, igualmente!
@@wukong1475 that depends of the copyright owners, not me! Eura, now Editoriale Aurea, surely owns the copyright, or at least, the third part. Here, in that time, between us, Eura was known as "the machine to smash cartoonists"; I don't know if I am clear... They virtually exploited local artists, but we must consider that in the 90(s our local industry virtually vanished from one day to another! But well, time will tell about Cibersix...
@@osvaldogreco I see,well in any case I appreciate you for responding to me in the first place but the overall insight of Cybersix’s status. I’d like to say from the bottom of my Guatemalan heart muchas gracias!
For some reason, I remember Cybersix as part of the 90s grungy comic-based shows like Spawn and The Maxx, but it's a bit more nuanced and yet more obscure.
Cybersix was more anime because it animation was done by TMS ENT.
I mean, it sure fits the vibe
What year do you remember seeing it?
@@StubsMalone not sure but I was already high school and wasn't watching as much TV so maybe that's why it's more obscure for me.
@@eddiejoewalt7746I guess so, but it definitely felt more like a comic cartoon series with how the episodes played out.
As a Canadian millennial I see the Cybersix cartoon as a point of national pride. It was hugely popular here and that brief, 13-episode season ran for years. Even my mom was into it.
That show was awesome, didn't it end on a cliffhanger? :P
@@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299 Yuuup...
It's crazy how international that franchise is. Because the comic book was originally published in Italy first, technically, it's an italian comic. With two argentinian authors, set in a fictional city in Argentina, and with a canadian animated show, with japanese staff.
Like, it's crazy, but also really cool. Four countries on different contintents/hemispheres, united by this cyberpunk-ish obscure heroine.
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Heroine is a hell of a drug.
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Well, yes, but I remember it kind of has a beautiful ambiguity to it, and the show more leans to implying her survival.
I actually caught this show on Canadian television when I was a kid. We were up in Canada for a wedding and I had no idea what there was for cartoons. So I flipped through the channels and I stumbled on this show.
I really liked it. It was like a mix of Batman and Totally Spies without the absurd humor.
I'm in Canada, I didn't realize it was exclusive to us. It was awesome, but short lived. I don't think they even played reruns after.
@@discontinued692funnily enough I'm told one of the reasons it didn't get a second season was due to low ratings outside of Canada plus in America they banned an episode due to the Japanese characters resembling Asian stereotypes (buck teeth, slanted eyes) even though said characters were really cool, the intro and ending songs were absolute 🔥 too I'm proud to have the DVD set in my collection
The only show that ever left me with a lump in my throat by the end of that cliffhanger 13th episode. CyberSix deserved a second season (arn't we all waiting for episode 14?). The look, style, and animation was rarefied air in a mass of anime glut in 99/00. A beacon of pride here in Canada, and the brightest hidden gem of them all.
I think one of the things that makes Cybersix stand out so much is that, aside from its stunning animation, they wisely chose to respect the original artist's umique art style, to a t. It's such a personal, unmistakable style, that it really sets it apart.
It doesn't look like anime, it doesn't look like those "realistic" Marvel cartoons like X-Men and Spiderman. It doesn't look like Batman TAS, it just looks unique.
Still to this day, it does. On that regard, I find it reminiscent of Aeon Flux, in the way that, it looks like nothing else.
And yet, I think the ending of episode 13 works, a bittersweet coda to a brief but lovely little animated series.
I believe if season 2 happened it would've focused on José as main villain since Von Reichter got killed off and we would've seen more Lucas x Cybersix romance
I 100% agreed!!!Cybersix is a huge epic masterpiece this show deserves more seasons and a movie!!!🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️There’s gotta be way to bring Cybersix back!!!!!
My dad (Oz Capristo) worked as an assistant on this comic along with another family friend, I still remember his study full of CiberSix pages.
Carlos Trillo is one of the best writers in comic history. I am lucky enough to have read most of his output, I can read Spanish, and it is a stellar work.
Both stories given for how the animated series are entirely possible. Haim Saban and Stan Lee both discovered Super Sentai while on business trips in Japan. They otherwise had no way to be exposed to it. Someone from the Japanese animation company could have traveled to Europe and happened on the comic read it, liked it, and thought it would be a great basis for a show.
I actually saw this cartoon as a kid, before I knew what anime was except for the fact that I liked it. But I only saw it a few times then it was gone. Thanks for once again expanding my comic horizons.
@ComicTropes , Adrian and Lucas work in a high school, but all their student are older. They work for an institute specifically built to help delinquents and dropouts to gain acccess to higher education for free.
As for the nudity scene. Eura Editoriale (the Italian publisher) was notorious for pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable to publish, so it's not impossible that there was a mandate for nudity. The in-story justification is that Cybersix feels more at ease like that.
I hope this helps to clarify.
The intro animation for Tropes is always amazing, and I’ve seen it dozens of times.
What a great episode! It brings back so many memories, I even remember being super excited about the TV show here on Argentina, which was starred by a really popular model/actress at the time (Carolina Peleritti). Sure it looks really dated right now, but I recall being amazed at the fact of an argentinian comic being adapted into live-action.
What a cool, unexpected episode. I was into the Cybersix cartoon and really got into Carlos Meglia's art after seeing his American comics in the early 2000's. It's nice to see a spotlight put on his work. I was unaware of (or maybe forgot about) the Dark Angel connection. I also didn't realize that Cybersix was available on DVD. If only someone would get the rights to collect, translate and publish the comic in the US. I may have to try and track it down in Spanish.Thanks for reminding me of this imaginative piece of fiction.
Yes! I remember this cartoon as a kid growing up. Ah, Teletoon! Keep up the great work, Chris. Always a pleasure spending some time together!
The comic was a bit adult oriented because of its mix of violence-horror-erotism in a super cool way
The worst I can say is that sometimes they recycled some background to save time, but it was greatly illustrated and written and I enjoyed it A LOT as a teenager!
Absolutely recommended
I distinctly remember digging around the internet around 2004 or so when I was a young teen just looking at as many translations I could find. There was one fan website that had a story synopsis that I just thought was the coolest thing. There was something really compelling about Cybersix and it's bounced around my brain for a good 20 years now.
"but works as a teacher to pay the bills"...who's gonna tell him
Italian subscriber and comics retailer in Italy, it's a shame how today this gem is completely forgotten
I loved looking at my copy of volume 4, using it as art reference, way before I discovered it had an English translation. Nowadays I still check in on the Subreddit effort to translate the whole series.
As an Argentinian comic book fan, I have to thank you, this is a superb video!! I like your channel because it has quality content and you dig stuff "nobody" knows, just like Cybersix.
I want to add some information. As Osvaldo Greco pointed on another comment, there are literaly hundreds of pages to read. Some years agot, THREE Argentinian publishers collaborated on a complete edition of ALL Cybersix comics: they planned 30 books of around 200 pages each. Sadly they only published 4, and nobody knows what happend. So in Argentina, the home country of the creators, we can only read like 10 o 15% of what was published in France and Italy.
This huge number of pages to draw force Meglia not only to hire many cartoonist (I know one of them), he used his animation skills to draw BIG images to used as the background for the panels. So you can see the same buildings, streets, etc. over and over againg, but in different sizes: they simple fotocopied the part they needed and draw over the characters. I've heard that some cartoonist didn't like that and talk bad about Meglia, but it was necesary to do the job!!
Dude, this brings back so many memories! Absolutely loved watching Cybersix back in the day. Can still recite all the music from the open and close of each episode!
Being argentinian, and having a comic-loving father, I grew up with Cybersix. Her comics were my favorite out of all the national productions he had in his collection.
I just loved the unique, unmistakable artstyle, the nocturnal themes, her amazing outfit, the androgynous element, etc. EVERYTHING about Cybersix, I loved.
It's so unfortunate that the animated version kind of got blacklisted like that. But at the same time, it's a blessing it was produced at all.
It's just a treasure few of us are aware of, but love dearly 🩵.
What a nice surprise! And uploaded just in time for Argentina's Independence day holiday. I loved this comic when i was young, i fell in love with Meglia's style, very stylized and unique. Thanks for talking about this, Argentinian comics deserve a much bigger audience.
I watched a Thought Slime/Scaredy Cats video about this not too long ago, and their passion for it really caught my interest. Thanks for an even deeper dive to remind me to go find this!
Also, just wanted to say that I've been loving your nails lately, Chris. Love to see those little bits of a creator's personality show through!
Ever since that thought slime video all listings on ebay for these comics have been going fast
Thought Slime did a very good job of exploring the theming (as well as the more questionable aspects of the comic).
Yeah, except that Thought Slime is ideologically biased to the point of outright fabrication. Cybersix isn't "antifascist" nor is she "trans". Chris does a much better balanced job of explaining the lore. Exhibit A: Once Lucas and her get naked, Cybersix is a gorgeous sexy female - One Hundred Percent.
@@heroineburgh If trying to stop actual Nazis isn't antifascist to you,
I don't think you could grasp much less. Saying more would be a further waste of my time
@@RadikaRules I can grasp plenty. They're not "Nazis" in Cybersix. They're campy caricatures of mad Nazi scientists. Jose and Von Richter are campy, goofy, silly, over the top. That's like saying that the Fausta episode of Wonder Woman '77, or Hogan trying to outwit Colonel Klink, or the sexy film Ilsa She Wolf of the SS are "antifascist". None of them are. They just use Nazis as a vehicle to convey a sense of adventure, comedy, or sexuality. Big difference. Would you consider any film in which the Soviets are the bad guys to be 'anti-communist'? Would any film with Arabs as the bad guys be considered 'anti-Islamic'? You need to stop considering everything to be deeply 'political'. It isn't. Sometimes (quite often, actually) it's just entertainment for its own sake.
I've never read the comic, but I was a huge fan of the Cybersix cartoon back in the day. The first thing that grabbed me was that intro song, sung by Coral Egan. Animation was so good. Thanks for the nostalgia, Chris!
AMAZING EPISODE! I follow you from Argentina, thank you for this investigation!! I grew up with Cybersix since I first saw the live action series on TV and at newstands you'd find her comicbook issues and graphic noveles from 94 to 97 and ended after publishing about a third of the run. To this day they still haven't published the whole comicbook series in spanish, how can that be? It's a real hunt, I read there's a hardcover edition in italian. I'll cry when I find it.
Thanks for this, Chris. Great work as always. I recommend Anita La Hija del Verdugo, Anita the Executioner's Daughter, another great argentinian cómic. Greattings from Argentina.
¡Me acuerdo! Lo publicaba Ivrea en sus inicios en el 2000, con un formato similar a la revista Lazer. Era muy chica para comprarla en ese momento y ahora me arrepiento. No me acuerdo si hubo una reedición más tarde.
@@Nadia1989 Una compatriota por aquí. Si, la revista se llamaba Ultra (revistas que aún tengo desde mi adolescencia) y ahí se vio los principios de Anita. Después salió todo el cómic completo en formato libro y después hubo una reedición de ese mismo libro, aunque este último no traía cosas que el primero tenía. Tengo el orgullo de tener ese primer libro compilación firmado por Bobillo, que dicho sea de paso es muy piola.
Caballero Rojo, Cronicas de tiempo Medio, ❤
This really takes me back! I remember the first time I watched Cybersix, up until then, the only cartoons I saw were ones that were kids' shows. The more somber tone and the storyline were amazing to see. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, awesome video!
That episode with the assailant who could turn invisible was really nicely-animated. TMS' animators were really channeling that same energy they bring to Lupin III with the car action in that one.
Man, this was one of my favourite edgy cartoons to watch on Canadian television as a child. I even preferred it over the typical anime of the time. Such a neat story. Thanks for the memories!
I have been waiting for this episode. I have become a Trillo fan over the years (i wish more was translated). Thanks for another great episode
I have bittersweet memories of watching series like Cybersix and Mummies Alive because they were the last shows to be traditionally animated by Japanese studios by the 90's. You really need time and a big budget and to even match that level of quality nowadays.
The fact that James Cameron stole the idea from Cybersix to make Dark Angel (which had much greater recognition), and that the creators could not file a lawsuit due to lack of resources makes this whole story even sadder.
Hopefully Argentine comics reach a new level of recognition with the Eternaut series on Netflix next year.
Yeah, I wouldn’t put it past Cameron - you stole ideas before and he’s an egomaniac.
@@stephenbarone4053Harlan Ellison caught Cameron red-handed admitting the plagiarized the story of terminator from Ellison's short stories
That might not be the only place Cameron stole from to create Dark Angel. Chris forgot to mention that Marvel Comics already had a series called "Dark Angel" in the early 90s. She was originally called "Hell's Angel" but the biker club threatened a lawsuit (and probably to physically bust some heads) and was changed to "Dark Angel". Actually, that backstory might be enough for Chris to do a whole video on just that topic, especially considering that Dark Angel is "one of the heroines Marvel wants you to forget" (according to CBR in 2017).
So happy to watch each episode on your channel and to see that you are interested in a wide horizon of comics from all around the world. Love your content! Cheers from France!
Cybersix tv show and comics need to make a comeback
So much nostalgia from my childhood
I fell in love with the cartoon when I caught it on a trip to Canada. Then I found the comic. What a great premise.
Hey Chris, another great video! Love when you bring this more unknow/uncommon works, keep them coming!
Can´t belive you did this one ! Cybersix was the greatest, big hug from south-america
Great as always, Chris!
I actually forgot there was a cartoon series. I read some of it and watched the live action adaptation (I'm from Argentina and was a teenager at the time). Will see if I can find the cartoon version. I LOVED the visual style of the book.
Cheers, mate! Keep it up!
Also worth mentioning that the official TMS Cybersix uploads include the pretty good theme song.
Iirc I think there used to be rights issues with the opening music, which I think might have prevented the series from getting a home media release much sooner.
Your videos are the best covering comics. It’s great to see comments from people who knew the creators. I’ve discovered many great titles through you. Your passion shines through!
Literally the best theme song of its era.
Still top 5 of all time.
There is a commentary track on one episode (probably the clayface one you mention) of Batman: The Animated Series where Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski say how much they loved work of the Spectrum animators, saying they always went above and beyond what was required of them. They then conjectured that that was why they folded, because they weren't able to sustain such a high quality yet remain competitive.
Cybersix came up on my RUclips recommended a few months ago. I did a bit of research (watching RUclips videos😅) and found it quite interesting. I was glad when you decided to cover it because of how in depth you cover the creation of comics and thier creators. Love your work
Great job! I remember Cyber Six through the show on Fox Kids. Loved the animation and story, plus there was something intriguing about female character dressing up as a male in the civilian identity. Also the show came on during a time when I was becoming aware of more mature comics and anime, of Watchmen, Blade, Toonami, etc. Other shows on Fox Kids at the time were Spider-Man Unlimited and Beast Machines. Kids WB had Batman Beyond. Of course, then Digimon and Pokémon took over everything and most of those shows didn’t stay. But yeah Cyber Six was a part of my maturing comic tastes.
Omg you gave me flashback to watching the cartoon as a kid in Canada 🇨🇦 it was one of the first adult cartoons I was exposed to outside of like the simpsons.
As someone who discover and checked out the Cybersix cartoon and then the fan translation comics, I really adore the franchise.
Especially with art style from Carlos Meglia, as it became a big inspiration for my arty style.
A month ago I finished watching the show out of curiosity. Thanks for putting a spotlight on the series, it's great to have more people be aware of it!
Italian here, and this was a good episode, a nice chance to introduce viewers to an Argentinian comic book gem.
When I was in middle school, a close friend of my uncle who was an avid Skorpio and Lanciostory reader would give me his old issues every now and then, and this allowed me to build a nice comic book culture by reading stories from European, Italian and South American authors. Cybersix was among those series, and Carlos Trillo was a frequent feature on Eura/Aureacomix weeklies.
I'm glad this series is preserved on RUclips's Servers! Hopefully it gets a semi faithful reimagining at some point, because the series would probably do really well now these days!
Great review as always 👌
I remember coming across the cartoon back in the day, I was 20 at the time and it appealed to me greatly. Then I lost track of it until here and now with your vid. Glad to come across it again this way. At the same time it's saddening though to hear both its creators aren't among us anymore.
Great video! Carlos Trillo was a beloved writer and there's a respetable amount of english editions of his work to read, especially if it is drawn by Eduardo Risso or Horacio Altuna.
Which comic did he do with Altuna that was translated? I know a lot of his Mandrafina collabs were translated but I would love to read his Altuna collabs
Kudos on this episode. Forgot I owned an Image miniseries with Meglia (Monster World) and wasn't aware of this series. Wish it would be collected and translated. Thanks Chris.
I think I recall seeing some volume of Cybersix being sold in Italy during the 90s, but I was too young then so I was never allowed to get any copy, given the sexy images on many covers.
On the other hand, I do not think I had ever watched even a single episode of the cartoon, I wonder whether it was also broadcast there.
I just re-discovered this show on the Retro Crush channel on Sling a week ago. You're reading my mind!
Great video. Keep up the good work!
I found about it randomly looking up old cartoons on RUclips. The show was my introduction to Cyber 6 and I liked it.
The animation is gorgeous to look at and the cape is amazing to see in action. Cyber 6 has a gripping primise: an MC who's not a human (or is she?) and hunts down others for substance, and doesn't want to destroy the bad guy since without them, she'll die.
I feel Cyber 6 would make an interesting livw action movie.
I was really surprised and happy with this episode though I think Thought Slime provided a much more comprehensive video that highlights some interesting choices done with this comic that you didn't get the chance to touch on, Always appreciate you Chris keep being awesome.
Loved this show, and I'm so going to watch it again to. As for the Dark Angel connection, I never really knew there was one till now. And while I don't believe it much, now that I think about it. The main guy character in Dark Angel does look like a real life Adrian but that's circumstantial/coincidental at best.
I loved Cybersix ever since I saw it on tv in Canada as a kid. It was so unlike any other cartoon I had seen up to that point with its tone and artstyle. The episodes that stuck with me most were the episode where cybersix meets dataseven for the first time and the finale where she seemingly dies. I’d say it’s right up there with Samurai Jack as one of my favourite animated action cartoons of all time!
I haven’t read the original comics but would love to get a chance to if I ever find a decent English translation online or somewhere else.
As an Italian I must say... A lot of our action comics for the young adult market have the occasional nude/topless woman somewhere in the middle, or on the cover.
Or at least, they used to have (I moved to Spain 17 years ago, and lost track of my country's comicsdom).
I sometime wonders if it is a possible side effect of the "p.rn" comics publishers being among the most honest a comic artist could work for (them and Edizioni Paoline, i.e. the Paolini Monks Order's publishing arm; neither did
"forget" to pay royalties on reprints, for example... And yes, the best Italian comic authors usually worked for both, pseudonyms are so useful).
So, nobody really noticed all that much Cybersix going around deshabillé in her flat.
Par of the course for the genre and the Italian (or French, or Spanish) market.
Argentinian comics are super underrated tbh, we have some real gems
Great episode! I watched the series when it came out on fox kids. Between all the Power Ranger and Digimon/pokemons knockoffs, this cartoon was a breath of fresh air!
Fun fact . i'm from Montreal , Quebec and i haved those books in french
Thanks for bringing attention to this series! It really needs more attention!
Now, regarding the lawsuit, I am 100% with the creators. For those who are unfamiliar with Hollywood practices, and how the industry... "resolves" copyright issues, it might sound far fetched.
But I've seen it happening enough times to recognize a pattern. Hollywood does have a tendency of just stealing ideas from obscure, foreign markets, when they can't get licence, or simply consider the source material to be too obscure for them to bother.
We have countless examples like Disney's blatant plagiarism of Tezuka's "Simba", the "borrowed" scenes from the japanese Little Mermaid, Guillermo Del Toro's Evangelion knock off with "Pacific Rim", The Hunger Games/Battle Royale, etc, etc. Hollywood has been robbing, successfully, for decades.
And even if those cases can be cinsidered "sibjective speculation", there is at least one confessed instance of plagiarism, that I'm aware of: in the 90's, during Sailor Moon's international explotion, the US tried to adapt the franchise for its market. The negotiations fell off, but the company behind the project decided to just go ahead and rip off the idea, because they just liked it.
They went on to produce a pilot episode for a show called "Team Angels", that essentially plagiarized Sailor Moon: it was a group of teenage girls, with color coded outfits and magical powers. The pilot failed to get investor's interest and the project was cancelled, however, I have no doubts that if it was produced, a lot of people would argue that its similarities with Sailor Moon are coincidential, even if the show was explicitely created to plagiarize Sailor Moon and profit off its target demographic.
That is how the industry works. The similarities between Dark Angel and Cybersix are too many for it to be coincidential. If it has four legs, a tail and meows, it's most likely a cat.
Obviously the shows aren't *identical* because they know how to steal properly, in order to avoid legal trouble. But I have no doubts they were more than "inspired" by Cybersix, lol.
I have that Fox Kid's magazine with her on the cover but never watched the show. Seeing the panels and art style in the show really makes me want to finally check it out, thanks for the deep dive.
Deep in my heart, I feel love so alive! Excellent assessment of the Cybersix lore, Chris. The only thing you missed is actually playing the theme song, which I think you probably could have done, at least in part. Now for your next assignment: the sexy Serbian comic Cat Claw (and the short movie) by Bane Kerac - it's like the Eastern European analogue to Cybersix!
Woah.
Felt like a very pretty comic AND a very pretty animation.
Those smooth walks down a flight of stairs.
Felt alot better than some present day shows where they just bob up and down a bit :)
Finally, i was waiting for this one ❤! One of my favorite cartoon growing up and one of my big childhood crushes (her love interest that also happened to be named Lucas helped ☺️ haha!)
This is why I love this channel. I remember this but had totally forgotten about it since I first saw it in 99. I worked nightshifts and would catch this on Saturday mornings on Fox Kids if I remember. It was so stylized and unique. I wasn't sure if it was an anime or what.
Thanks!
That artwork is phenomenal!
The art style is stunning
100% agreed it was the cartoon I found years ago that got my attention for the series. The animation alone is worth looking at cause omg it's gorgeous. I'm aware of the comic but always had trouble finding it but I've heard things. It's a shame they never got to make an official english release or finish out the series. Didn't even know the original creators already passed til I watched this.
TMS is Tokyo Movie Shinsa, and they did a lot of spectacular work. They animated all the best of Warner Bros TV work back in the day, from Batman to Tiny Toons.
I was born 1999 and this was one of the first cartoons I ever watched. Thank you for covering it
Thanks for the recommendation! I can't wait to share with everyone!
Pretty great overview, in fact. Thanks to it I learned official uploads exist, and as many already have
I recommend the Thought Slime video for people who can't get enough, and also want a deep dive.
But as always, Chris doesn't fail to bring that "friend showing you cool stuff" energy
Loved this episode! Cybersix was a huge thing for me back when I was a kid, even though I could only watch very few of them due to the show's inconsistent airing schedule in my country. As for the comic, maybe it's because I caught a translation of a translation, but I found the plot a little hard to follow at times, and though the visuals are gorgeous, I'll have to agree with you that it gets very gratuitous with its nudity (and the stylized anatomy doesn't really do it for me).
I remember watching the animated series on Tubi. I really like Cybersix's design.
I remember the cartoon popping up on Fox Kids occasionally. Completely forgot about it, gonna be going through the TMS uploads. Thanks for unlocking a memory Chris!
Oh wow, I love Cybersix! I love Carlos Meglas attempt into USA comics, and it was that Latin wavewhen Humberto Ramos was making it big. He did Superman and under rated Star Wars Underworld comic. His style was exciting, fresh, animated. Like even his Tarzan/Superman book was a fun read, hard to image the two would work, and he did it with a lot of fun energy. It's a shame he died so young.
If you can get a hold of Star Wars Underworld, it's criminally underrated in Star Wars comic scene.
Never heard of this before. I’m definitely going to look into this, but hopefully they do put out an official English translation sometime soon. Thanks Chris!
Al thought I very vaguely remember seeing some of this on Teletoon all those years ago, I never really watched the show, which I regret now. Going to have to dig up those episodes but I can't seem to find this "TMS" RUclips channel you mentioned. All I can find are short episode snippets. (Link to channel anyone?) I do love episodes of your show that discuss these obscure, now forgotten gems. Thanks for the episode.
Hi Chris, great episode, like always. I'm from Argentina, if you ever come to Buenos Aires, you can crash at home. I have a library with shelves dedicated to argentinian comics (I own some Cybersix issues) Trillo was a really prolific writer.
Luckily, we have many great artista in our comic history. I'd love to share some with you.
Until then, justo keep reading comics
Another good episode. I have a vague memory of the cartoon, but I don't remember much about it. Also, you consistently have awesome shirts.
Always look forward to new episodes. Gotta check this comic out.
2:40 As an aside, it reminds me of the 80's cartoon Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea. It was very Moebius inspired, aesthetically and with a really interesting story to it. Although many other dubs existed, including English. To date, only the native French language version has ever been released as physical media.
There are so man interesting and even iconic Italian comics that have never gotten translated. I really want to try Diabolik as well at some point but there's just so little of it in English
Great show, never heard of Cybersix. Thanks for putting it on my radar.
this takes me back; ages ago I watched on HBO and decided to tape some episodes then I pause the credits to see "based on Cybersix by Carlos Trillo and Carlos Meglia". start looking and get some spanish editions, a Meglia artbook, read other works by Carlos Trillo, is a rabbit hole I did not regret dive into.
Dark Angel was also accused of ripping off Chameleon, but I don't know if there was any litigation.
Nice to see the show get some love. It was great! Love the theme song!!
I'm argentinan and I haven't heard from this Comic, thanks for sharing
Yes! New video on my Sunday night!
I actually watched this a ton as a kid! I should definitely look it up again.
I don't get why the comics never got an english translation, You would think they would make it english for the fans of the cartoon and wanna know the stuff the show didn't mention.
Brilliant animated series. Being Canadian it was often on late night television. Definitely got hit with a lot of nostalgia from this one.
Let's go! I missed these, feels like it's been a long time since last episode haha
That shirt is DOPE! ❤ Great episode, thanks Chris! The 1990’s comics are really interesting!