Manga Trigun and Trigun Maximum

[Solo Tremaine]

[color=#503f86][QUOTE]Somehow the past has placed a sixty billion double dollar bounty on Vash's head, and the gunslinging pacifist can't seem to get away from money grubbing, itchy-trigger-finger citizenry. Find out why Vash is worth so much money dead! Feel the clumsy worry of the unfortunate citizens of the pulverous planet! Follow the follies of an unlikely hero in a forbidding world! Join Vash the Stampede -with his troubled past and an uncanny ability to dodge a gazillion bullets- and a cavalcade of unlucky characters on a dusty, desert planet in the distant future.[/QUOTE]The story's quite similar to the anime, at least for the two biggest Trigun manga volumes released by Dark horse comics. The Trigun Maximum mangas, on the other hand, are very different. I won't post up the summary for that series though, as it contains mild spoilers for the first two volumes.

What does everyone think of these mangas?

I was first attracted to them because I was on a Trigun high and wanted to know more about the specific characters and their backgrounds; specifically Vash, Legato, Knives and the plants. The Trigun mangas I thought were great, and really spurred me on to get the Maximum mangas. But...

...so far I've found them rather disappointing. Perhaps I was expecting something a little more like the anime- Trigun Maximum is incredibly dark in comparison. but even so I don't normally mind darkness, but generally I've found it rather too far drawn out for my tastes. I haven't picked up Volume 5 yet, as I'm still deciding whether I want to continue with it or not. I'm finding it quite difficult to follow the action a lot of the time; perhaps that's why. But I was also wondering if anyone else felt the same or if I'm just inept at manga-reading ^_^;

Anyway: thoughts, questions and comments to do with this series are all to be directed here, heh.[/color]

[Dagger]

I've read the first volume of the regular Trigun manga, but I didn't really dig it. Granted, I'm not a colossal fan of the anime either, so I'm not exactly sure what I was suspecting. Ironically, that means I might like Trigun Maximum better, going by your description.

In general, though, I only read action manga if they come with some other kind of hook (i.e. the human drama in Gunslinger Girl & Peacemaker Kurogane) or have extremely awesome art (which also applies to both of those series). I had an easier time swallowing Trigun's initial episodic-ness when watching the anime, and the manga's art style put me off somewhat.

~Dagger~