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With a long time of hindsight, I feel we will all acknowledge that Nintendo Energy was much less a “journal” than it was an “promoting spectacular.” Not solely did it empower Nintendo of America to ship tons of of pages of promotional materials to hundreds of thousands of households, however these recipients truly paid cash for the privilege.

In fact, promoting and artwork are usually not mutually unique; simply as The Transformers: The Film marketed a brand new line of toys whereas concurrently telling an epic science-fiction story, Nintendo Energy featured loads of inventive materials worthy of admiration. Specifically, various proficient artists drew comics centered round Nintendo properties which let readers get pleasure from a brand new aspect of the characters and worlds in a distinct medium.

Longtime listeners could recall we have talked about Nintendo Energy on the podcast earlier than, means again in 2014 after which once more in a Patreon unique episode in 2020. This week, although, host Nadia Oxford welcomes Anthony John Agnello and Peter Malamud Smith to particularly look again at these official comics presenting alternate takes on Fox McCloud, Samus Aran, and extra first-party friends.

Description: We deal with the best kind of popular culture hybridization: Online game comics that confirmed up in Nintendo Energy! Nadia, Anthony John Agnello, and Peter Malamud Smith speak about Star Fox, Tremendous Metroid, Zelda: A Hyperlink to the Previous, and Tremendous Mario Adventures.

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Art work for this episode by John Pading and enhancing thanks go to Greg Leahy.