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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 23, 2021 12:25:40 GMT -5
I started reading in 2000 and my most vivid memory is seeing the cover for Flash: Iron Heights on the shelf and absolutely loving it. There are, of course, many better covers, probably even other Flash covers from that era, but something about it grabbed me. I think it’s the way the red of Flash’s costume and the yellow of the title contrast against the darkness of the rest of the cover. That Johns run, as well as his JSA and Teen Titans are still among my favorite runs ever.
Good God! That's like a parody! What the hell is going on in Flash's crotch? I know comic book superhero art has a problem with genitals - how can a close fitting skintight suit show every muscle and vein over the entire body and then get all blank at the meat and two veg? but that is beyond silly. It's ludicrous. Not to mention the phenomenally weird thighs.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 21, 2021 20:14:31 GMT -5
I picked up a pile of DC Heroes and Villains books recently. Cheap in a charity sale. Long time since I read any DC books apart from Vertigo titles. All I can say is I don't think I have been missing much. I have read so far The Omac Project - Infinite Crisis and The Flash: Rebirth and when I say 'so far' I read so far then thought thought, "this is total crap! and gave up. The books were so far up their own continuity hoops they were incomprehensible to me. I abandoned both. They smelled horrible too. I don't know what they put in printing ink these days but it stinks.
There I said it.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 20, 2021 9:13:14 GMT -5
Colours by #2 Daughter Daisy
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 5, 2021 16:44:22 GMT -5
Strange what you find in charity shops in small town on the west coast of Scotland: a French language reprint of an English book which is one of my favourite comics ever.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jun 27, 2021 13:29:14 GMT -5
When I can't get anything to work I take a break and draw covers for comic books I'm never going to publish:
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Post by junkmonkey on Jun 20, 2021 16:04:19 GMT -5
Nice - portraits or out of your head stuff?
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Post by junkmonkey on Jun 8, 2021 6:03:33 GMT -5
Colouring by #2 Daughter, Daisy. (Yeah, and I know about the typo in panel seven.)
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Post by junkmonkey on Jun 8, 2021 5:59:04 GMT -5
All that mattered was catering to certain people's nostalgia at all costs. Western popular culture of the 21st century in one sentence.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jun 6, 2021 9:33:12 GMT -5
Where did the Betty and Veronica " eyes" originate? It's been copied in many humor type books and even in our own Crimebuster Crimebuster comics.
They are also very easy to draw (I use them myself) - one line and a flick at the end. Two, maybe three, strokes at the most and the bottom of the eye is left undefined making it the colourist's problem not the penciller/inker's.
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Post by junkmonkey on Apr 9, 2021 11:07:29 GMT -5
"the country, in the midst of the pandemic, prepares for his funeral,"
Sorry but no. Most of us are just going about our daily business. The media are having a field day wailing and moaning, tearing their clothes and rubbing ashes in their hair telling us we're all saddened by this. We're not.
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Post by junkmonkey on Apr 6, 2021 9:37:23 GMT -5
I'm glad to hear that. When I read Petit Hanneton serialised in Spirou I was more than lost at times.
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Post by junkmonkey on Apr 6, 2021 7:15:33 GMT -5
I thought of this thread when I read this in an old film magazine the other day (Empire June 1992)
In an article about the then soon to be released Basic Instinct and the giant hoo-haa about its content:
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Post by junkmonkey on Apr 2, 2021 20:16:23 GMT -5
I have a thirteen-year-old daughter and I am constantly marveling at how different her generation is in this regard. The amount of "out" friends she has seems to be almost equal to the number of straight friends she has. This ratio might be biased because she is bisexual herself (she came out about a year ago - so proud!). When I was in middle school, the only discussion of non-straight sexuality was mean-spirited speculation.
I got one of those (though she is now 18). Came out when she was 11 and we went on our first Pride march together that summer. I was stunned. My first Pride in my mid 50s. I spent a lot of it in tears both proud as hell of my bolshie Lesbian daughter telling the world who she was and gut punched by thinking how many people's lives (mine included) would have been so very different if the levels of acceptance and celebration I saw had been around when I was a kid. It was a hell of a day.
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Post by junkmonkey on Mar 31, 2021 17:46:03 GMT -5
Here's a nice wee thing from last weeks Spirou. A supervillain with the ability to turn her speech bubbles into captions. In panel 3 she says: "An Hour later in Kathmandu! Then, "An Hour later in Grandville." Thus trapping our hero on the other side of the world. What she doesn't realise is that he's the only superhero in the world with the power to see adjacent panes and cross frame lines...
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Post by junkmonkey on Mar 26, 2021 9:17:30 GMT -5
I've been listening to The Scissor Sisters as I've been doing the housework today and just wanted to add them to the "Holy Cow! them's some filthy lyrics right there" theme . It's pure dead filth some of it.
I was especially fond of:
"We can talk about relationships but there's better things to fill your head with..."
And talking about banned the original video shot for this is still banned from UK TV:
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