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Post by Pharozonk on Jun 9, 2015 16:36:21 GMT -5
crazyoldhermit said it much better than I could.
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Post by Pharozonk on Jun 9, 2015 8:24:59 GMT -5
bert
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Post by Pharozonk on Jun 9, 2015 8:02:18 GMT -5
double post
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Post by Pharozonk on Jun 9, 2015 8:02:06 GMT -5
I hate the current trend of making costumes into "armor" or "more practical". And by current trend you mean the thing they've been doing for over 15 years now since the first X-Men film in 2000, or really since the first Batman film in '89 making it 26 years and still going...or longer than you've been alive I believe? -M I haven't liked ANY of those changes since the X-Men did it back then. The 1989 Batman movie didn't have much of an immediate impact on costume design though. I'd say we have the Singer X-Men movies to thank for that. I'd say Nolan's Batman had more to do with it than Burton's.
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Post by Pharozonk on Jun 8, 2015 23:06:21 GMT -5
The irony about capes is that the most iconic cape, Batman's, is the most impractical for the type of superhero that he happens to be--all that jumping around and acrobatic movement and the like. Batman would probably have a suit similar to Black Panther's if taken to more literal extreme. Justifying Batman's cape by having it be a glider was a great addition to the mythos by Nolan. I also liked how in TDK it would fold up into a little backpack, shame he didn't use it in that mode more. One of my favorite things about the Batman Beyond costume (and there are many) is the set of retractable wings. It just adds the perfect sci-fi edge to the design. Speaking of Beyond... This is in no way an official design but it's a redesign all the same and it exemplifies a trend I find repulsive: I hate the current trend of making costumes into "armor" or "more practical".
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Post by Pharozonk on Jun 7, 2015 17:04:01 GMT -5
I'm digging the hair, pip.
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Post by Pharozonk on Jun 7, 2015 10:31:55 GMT -5
I'm going for the dark horse in this race and declaring that David Michelinie was the best Spider-man writer.
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Post by Pharozonk on Jun 6, 2015 20:14:51 GMT -5
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Post by Pharozonk on Jun 6, 2015 19:19:20 GMT -5
The only thing I can say about San Andreas is that my son Connor collapses in gales of laughter every time he sees the trailer. It really does look ridiculous. I still can't tell whether it's trying to be ironic or if it's really meant to be that sincerely serious.
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Post by Pharozonk on Jun 5, 2015 22:26:10 GMT -5
I stopped by Half Price Books today on my way home from class and noticed they had some new comic bundles. Usually these are just packages of 90's Image comics nobody will buy, but today they had something good: 23 issues of Warlord. I've been wanting to get into this series for a while now and I got so many books for such a great price. 23 comics for only $8.00? I'll take that.
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Post by Pharozonk on Jun 5, 2015 22:21:23 GMT -5
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Post by Pharozonk on Jun 5, 2015 18:40:58 GMT -5
And yet this cover is nothing but a shameless swipe of Alex Schomburg's cover for Captain America Comics #3. Shameless swipe? A popular trend with variant covers (and sometimes a regular cover) is to give a tip of the hat to a blast from the past. How shameless of those who gave a nod to this one. The difference is that Todd McFarlane, at least at that point in his career, did that cover as the ONLY cover to that issue of ASM. I'm pretty sure Campbell's entire career these days is predicated on churning out variant covers for every book that Marvel is putting out and making them all callbacks to past eras/designs.
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Post by Pharozonk on Jun 5, 2015 9:13:06 GMT -5
The little I've read of James Robinson has pretty much made him my least favorite writer ever. It seems that his only real goal in writing is to de-hero-ize superheroes into being the guy next door that you grab a beer with on Fridays. I find that outlook disappointing. The world is already lacking in heroes; I don't need my expectations grounded in escapist fantasy too. Have you read his Starman run, shax?
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Post by Pharozonk on Jun 4, 2015 22:59:44 GMT -5
Or at least stop being the dominant sales force in American corporate comics, at least? Why? What genre should be better? Science fiction? Fantasy? Horror? Westerns?
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Post by Pharozonk on Jun 4, 2015 22:45:03 GMT -5
With the prices of comics these days, I find it hard to believe any significant number of customers ever buy a book based on the cover. And the publishers know this. No longer does a cover try to entice you with a dramatic representation of what lies inside. Its just poster art now and interchangeable. It could have been commissioned a year ago and that doesn't matter. I'm not saying I prefer one type of cover over another but I did miss the old school type I won't necessarily buy a comic based on a cover, but I will take a look at the comic to see if I want to buy it. Yesterday, when I was at my LCS, that Omega Men cover caught my eye simply because it looked so different from everything else on the stands. But usually it's a Brian Bolland cover that catches my eye (as is probably evident from my avatar) because a Bolland cover generally indicates a book with a skewed, idiosyncratic style. It's a type of shorthand for a book trying something different, even if Bolland's technique itself is pretty classic in its style. Except for when Bolland does covers for conventional superhero fare
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