Why do you hate me so?

Heh, that would have been indeed a good choice, as Tezuka himself was and is still a reference for modern artists. Who still knows who created Ultraman, and what contributions he gave to the cinema/animation/comics world ?...
Independantly from the fact it is known or not outside Japan (we can't blame them for having their own references !), What you proposed is still far more logical IMHO, even if I do know Ultraman myself.

Because you're rubber and I'm glue... wait, that doesn't make sense, I have to rewrite that a bit... um, you're rubber and I'm glue, shame sticks to me that bounces off you?

Oh I dunno... Let's just say I don't hate you, I just find the whole idea excruciatingly funny.

I actualy liked the origional Ultraman then the others starting to pop up afterwards then it was making it realy stupid.....

I still remember when my older brother and I would watch Ultraman on channel 30 out of St Louis, back in the late 60s... We would root for the monsters...

omg, omg!! i love Astro Boy EEEE! you draw him cute ^^

Sorry to disappoint you but I used a commercial illustration I found somewhere a couple of years ago. However, the airbrushed 3D effect and glossy highlighting, as well as the "reflection" in the chrome rocket are all my work.

O_O;;; huh?
ok.....

Whats wrong with Speed Racer? Or (screem it really loud now), KANEDA! from Akira. But I do agree that Astro Boy is the best choice. (It's not that I hate Ultraman, I've just never seen any.)

I dig it. I love Astroboy

HUGO??? rofl xD hugo hahahahah hugo chavez? lolol sorry i didnt know (until now) that Astroby's name was HUGO XD

or is the rocket called hugo??? well i dont know i am out of news recently... <_<

The award is called a Hugo. It's named after the man who is generally regarded as the midwife of science fiction, a magazine editor named Hugo Gernsback. He was an advocate of "scientifiction" back in the 1920's, and in 1929 or thereabouts founded the first specialized SF pulp magainze, Astounding Stories. He was, however, what jazz aficianados would call "a moldy fig". He thought SF should teach and promote science and became quite incensed by SF written after about 1950, because it was getting distracted by social issues, characterization, alternate history, and other herasies. His contribution to the birth of modern SF was acknowledged by naming the World SF Convention's annual award after him all the same.

Astroboy does have a name, after a fashion. He was created in imitation of a son of the scientist who created him. He had a name, of course, though I forget it. You could think of it as Astroboy's "real" name too, though I don't think he was ever called by it.

I love Astro Boy! I'm so happy that Cartoon Network have been showing the original series on Adult Swim! ^_^

I have a recent remake of the series that the Tezuka studio produced. I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, its well done and some of the episodes are really odd and good. But other episodes are predictably "robots and humans should learn to love each other" stories with stupid fights between Astro and one ultimate robot after the next, that bore me to tears. I wish I had some idea how they compare to the original b&w cartoons.

Did you know a CGI Astroboy is coming up next year or '09 from Imagi Studios (same people who did TMNT)? Check out http://www.firstshowing.net/2007/09.....roboy-posters/

Columbia was supposed to do a live action Astroboy several years ago (with a CGI Astro), but that never happened.

THANK GOD!! I don't think Astro Boy would've worked in live action

I know Ultraman, but yeah Astro Boy is better known.