Found out today there's, like. A weirdly large amount of sci-fi adaptations of the journey to the west. At
least like, a half a dozen of them.
Internet stumbled across what google translates as Time and Space Monkey King (超时空猴王), a hella' B-movie tier sci-fi comic series running what seems to be 40 something volumes, going by a baidu page selling them* -- as near as I can tell, it started publishing in the 70s or 80s (putting it as at least the
second series of sci-fi journey to the west adapations that decade, the other I found trying to find some sort of english presence regarding the comic series being
whatever the hell this is), and (I
think) was produced by
this guy. No sodding clue what's going on with it, other than wukong apparently getting resurrected into the 2800s to fight space robots, but scoping some of the stuff available online is a friggin' trip.
... anyway, everything I've learned about this bizarre thing since first seeing it has only gotten weirder. Part of me's really surprised no one seems to have translated the thing into english, tbh. It's the sort of oddity I'd halfway expect someone to have taken a swing at it just due to how oddball it is.
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Dr. Liang Ting's large-scale picture album "The Monkey King in Time and Space" is one of his sci-fi comic books that are popular among children from all over the world. He endowed Monkey King, who represents light and justice in Chinese mythology, who is not afraid of heaven and earth ghosts and gods, witty, brave and tenacious, with modern technology, making him a super-space-time monkey king who can defeat all kinds of powerful robots in 2989. And through magical stories, thrilling plots, changeable martial arts and rich scientific fantasy, it educates children that justice will inevitably defeat evil and popularize scientific knowledge, enlightens and develops intelligence, which is a major breakthrough in children's science fiction comics at that time.
Most of the generation born in the 1980s have seen this picture album. The bright colors and rich imagination stood out among the children's books at that time. But the price of 1.7 yuan was indeed not cheap in the late 1980s.
Edited by Dr. Liang Ting Translated by Spring Publishing House
The copyright of "The Monkey King in Time and Space" belongs to Hong Kong Liangshi Publishing House. It began to be released in mainland China in June 1989. Chunqiu Publishing House published episodes 1-26, and episodes 27-43 were published by Juvenile and Children Publishing House, and the general distribution of Xinhua Bookstore nationwide . The original author and planner of the story is Dr. Leung Ting from Hong Kong, and the people who participated in the drawing include Li Yuxuan, Huang Zhenji, Ma Shi and others.
1. War Robots
2. Iron Fortress
3. Monster Corps
4. Ambassador of Mars
5. Star Wars
6. Destroy the City of Ambition
7. Deformation split monster
8. Into the Magic City
9. Suspicion and suspicion
10. Lance Supergirl
11. Return the Earth
12. Last Days on Earth
13. The Great Earthquake in San Francisco
14. Invincible Giant Worm
15. Alien Giant Cicada
16. Cowboy Town
17. Death of a Ninja
18. Back to ancient times
19. True and False Monkey King
20. Cannibalism
21. Undersea Adventure
22. Mysterious Comet
23. Fight the Invisible Man
24. Smart Piggy
25. Save the Moon
26. The Doctor Disappears
27. Forest Adventure
28. Arctic Crisis
29. Electron Trap
30. Magic Crystal
31. Underwater City
32. Venus Visitor
33. Messenger of Peace
34. Catch the Electronic Monster
35. Cosmic Games
36. Catch the murderer in the body
37. Desert Demon King
38. Dream War
39. Battlestar Blast
40. Monkey King Amnesia
41. Track the future
42. Freeze Man
43. Miniature World
Author Dr. Liang Ting
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Liang Ting: Born in 1947, an outstanding martial arts educator and a generation master of Wing Chun. He is versatile, not only has profound attainments in martial arts, but also is a planner and creator of many film and television and graphic works. [1] In 1968, he became a disciple of Ip Man's Fengmen. In 1979, he received the title of Doctor of Philosophy at Franklin University in the United States with the title of "Kung Fu Philosophy: Xiao Nian Tao". I have done many things around Wing Chun, made many TV shows and movies, worked as a trainer for the Indian military and police, wrote "Wing Chun" [2] Volume 2, "Wing Chun Roots" [1], "Wing Chun" There are many language versions of Wing Chun books such as Chun Self-taught Fighting Skills, and a foreign language "True Kung Fu" Kung Fu magazine. Since the 1980s, he has taught apprentices professionally in more than 60 countries around the world; he founded the International Wing Chun Association. There are more than 4,000 branches of Liang Ting boxing gymnasium, with more than one million descendants. He is the most famous Chinese who spread Wing Chun abroad, and he is the last disciple of Ye Wen, the old master of Wing Chun! In the same year as the Monkey King, Lingnan Fine Arts Publishing House published "The Robber Yan Fei", which was also edited by him, a set of four. Nowadays, few physical books remain, and the storyline is only circulated among a few netizens. [2-3]
E: though actually looking over that, I just noticed one of the episodes is just titled "Cannibalism". Wtf, indeed.