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Post by junkmonkey on Feb 5, 2021 19:31:09 GMT -5
OK, I just found out who Tommy Wiseau is.
It's STILL bound to be better than the 2015 version with Michael Fassbender...
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Post by junkmonkey on Feb 5, 2021 15:43:49 GMT -5
The world needs an adaptation of Macbeth directed by/starring Tommy Wiseau. There, I said it. Isn't the pandemic punishment enough for the world's sins? I have no idea who Tommy Wiseau is but it's bound to be better than the last version I saw. (The 2015 version with Michael Fassbender.) That was awful.
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Post by junkmonkey on Feb 5, 2021 15:05:51 GMT -5
I know Christopher Plummer did some great stuff in his career but I will always remember him best from the compellingly dreadful Italian SF masterpiece Starcrash, in which he delivered one of THE great lines of Science Fiction moviedom while flanked by Caroline Munro and David Hasselhof.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 31, 2021 18:28:02 GMT -5
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 30, 2021 19:19:04 GMT -5
Depends on what I'm reading. I'm a story over art reader, so modern stuff I get through very quickly as there's usually very little story content in each issue, probably spend about 5-10 mins an issue. Older stuff takes anywhere up to 20 mins. I really should slow down and look at the art more, but it's never been a big draw for me. This is something I never understood. People who read comics and don't care about the art. For me the art is what drew me to comics, well the whole visual storytelling thing. But the actual drawing matters, I can stare at single panels for minuets. I can't read comics with bad art. For some it just doesn't matter, and that is so different than my comic experience. Me too. But then I'm an artist. I can and do read comics with 'bad' art with great pleasure - I have this theory you can learn more from reading stuff that doesn't work than you can reading stuff that does. For example I've learned more about film-making by watching Ed Wood's films than I have by watching Hitchcock's because you can see the joins and how things don't fit together properly in his films. Watching Hitchcock's films is great. I love them but they are so well done I can't work out how he does it. Same with comics. I've learned more about lettering and how to make a page readable and flow by looking at a lot of amateur stuff that doesn't work than I have by reading any of the people I consider masters of the art.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 30, 2021 10:45:20 GMT -5
Just a general question to our members. how many comics an you read in one day? I am finishing a week of vacation and I read 13 issues of the Badger in one day. I'm surprised because usually I fall asleep or am pulled away for various responsibilities. How many have you read? These issues are actual comics and not Digital, which I find read faster. Most days I'll read one or two comics in a day and that will take me at least an hour per book - but then I'm reading French language books at the moment and spending a lot of time translating rather than reading. I'm going back over text again and again and consulting dictionaries as I go.
American books I obviously get through a lot faster. (Partially because American books do tend to have fewer words in them than Franco Belgian books.) Last week I got a dozen US comics in a cheap job lot from eBay and read them all in an hour. (All but one are back on eBay.)
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 30, 2021 9:09:34 GMT -5
Arthur Berckmans - co-creator of the Sammy books died in December. Berckmans worked for Tintin for a decade before moving to Spirou, where, after a couple of false starts, he hit his stride with Sammy (written by the incredibly prolific Raoul Cauvin) which catalogues the adventures of two bodyguards-for-hire in Prohibition era Chicago. The strips are fast and funny, and Berks (and his assistants) fills every panel with cartoonish dynamism. He retired in 1994.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 29, 2021 20:01:55 GMT -5
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 26, 2021 20:29:53 GMT -5
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 26, 2021 15:36:08 GMT -5
Here's (well most of - I had trouble getting the middle of the thick book into my scanner) a page from a 1995 Spirou. I like the way the balloons here are coloured to fit the nighttime ambiance - it's 2am - and especially the 4th panel where, for no particular reason other than it looks good, the balloons are obeying the perspective of the panel.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 26, 2021 14:47:05 GMT -5
Maybe it's not laziness or to make it more easy to read, maybe it's to denote proximity to the deceased?
Maybe but it's not just this list. It's everywhere.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 26, 2021 10:59:33 GMT -5
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 26, 2021 10:53:56 GMT -5
not to make light of anything. . .but WHO THE "F" alphabetizes by first name? I hate that too. I guess it's people being ignorant (or lazy) and not splitting names into columns on spreadsheets and sorting their data properly.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 25, 2021 7:41:07 GMT -5
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 23, 2021 14:32:21 GMT -5
F@#$! indeed.
I am genuinely saddened by this. Often times when you see that someone famous has died it's just another of those things, but sometimes... I don't know what makes the difference but sometimes you suddenly realise you are never going to bump into that person somewhere, not be able to thank them for their art, not to be able to buy them a drink and have a blether with them.
No matter how unlikely that ever was going to be, the chance of it ever happening is suddenly, forever, gone.
F@#$!
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