Like manna from heaven, we were recently blessed with an abundance of new scans. On the German Boerse forum, user hatehagen and others have been working together to upload the remaining scans of Club Nintendo (Germany’s official Nintendo magazine) that were not yet on the Internet. Thanks to their diligent efforts, I now have access to excellent scans of almost every comic they ever printed, including a few I’d never seen before.
N-Gang doesn’t get a lot of attention, it’s not as well-liked as the earlier CN comics. It’s the result of the new management that took over production of the magazine in 1999. Art was no longer outsourced to Japan and the format changed to the serialised adventures of gamer teens, solving problems in their lives with the help of characters or concepts from Nintendo games. It’s like, symbolic, or something. The comic lasted for 2 years (12 issues).
This marks the return of my collaboration with Caramelman, who found the scans for me. We went with this one because it’s previously been unseen, and is very topical for Easter. Otherwise we’ll try to keep them in order, because they seem to build off previous installments, with characters, relationships, and concepts being assumed knowledge. To help you out in this case, I’ll explain that the armadillo was introduced in the last issue, being shipped from South America. He thinks in Spanish sometimes. The bully who is encountered in this issue is part of a nasty rival group of teens that the N-Gang clashes with. The Reproducer is a machine that VIP invented to bring game characters to life. The idea is that later, when all issues have been translated, it will be natural to read through them in order.
This issue is about Easter, a time of celebration. Easter is about Jesus dying for our sins and his resurrection, showing his power over death. Apparently it’s also about eggs. In order to make nice eggs for school, the gang enlist the help of Yoshi and Cranky Kong. Everything turns out fine in the end. So enjoy the comic this Easter, whether you’re painting eggs or at church or whatever (although it’s hard to read comics while doing those things).
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