Nowadays, the commercial cross-border of comics is more and more frequent, and there are more and more tricks, and many popular comics will be used in various commercial cooperation for publicity and promotion, which is now not limited to comics, but has expanded to the entire secondary dimension, forming a part of business and market. For comics, the attraction brought by popular characters is huge, and this "popularity resource" will definitely be used by merchants. Recently, the November issue of the Japanese magazine FRaU published a joint manga by Yasuya Koyama, "Cosmic Brothers" and "Iron Man".
"Iron Man" is a famous American Marvel science fiction adventure movie, based on the classic story in Marvel comics, telling the story of industrialist and inventor Tony Stark who was kidnapped by a conspiracy and forced to make the deadliest weapon, but he was seriously injured but secretly made a set of high-tech armor to protect himself from escape, and since then transformed into "Iron Man" to defend the earth. As soon as this kind of superhero movie with American characteristics was released, it immediately gained the popularity of movie fans around the world. Cosmic Brothers, a manga by Japanese manga artist Yasuya Koyama, has been serialized in Kodansha's Shonen Manga Weekly Morning since 2008, depicting the bloody story of a pair of brothers Rokuta who dreamed of becoming astronauts from an early age and Japanese people chasing their dreams and eager to go to space themselves. The manga is also extremely popular, with adaptations of tv anime, theatrical animation and live-action films.
As a fashion women's wear magazine, "FRaU" is undoubtedly "linked" because of the huge popularity of the two works. In fact, as early as 2014, the magazine launched a collaboration with the then-popular manga "Attack on Titan", using the very popular female Captain Revere as the cover of the magazine, the cover was personally drawn by the original author Isayama, and also published special columns such as Isayama's long interview and character diagnosis. This strategy was a great success, and the magazine sales were booming until they sold out of stock. The joint manga of "Cosmic Brothers" and "Iron Man" was created by Yasuya Koyama, and with the popularity of the two works and the topicality of this novel collaboration, I believe that it will definitely attract the popularity of many fans of the original work for the magazine.
In the magazine's picture, you can see the heads of the protagonists of the two works, Iron Man and Nanbo Rokuta, one is a soaring superhero, the other is an astronaut who dreams of flying into space, what will happen to the story between these two people, what kind of spark will collide? It's really amazing.