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Post by tingramretro on Oct 14, 2021 16:48:37 GMT -5
That makes me wonder... so back in the day, monthly singles issue were often a complete story. If that started happening again, would it help? I know that would be a big change for the writers these days, and for the artistic style, but it clearly used to happen. I don't believe that would work. Audience expectations have changed. Modern readers expect and want long form storytelling. This is the box set generation, who followed a single story in Game of Thrones for eight years. They don't want something done in one twenty minute hit.
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 14, 2021 13:36:06 GMT -5
I officially gave up purchasing new monthly comics July 2020 with Covid in full force and leaving my current job. Haven't felt a desire for buying anything new as single issues since. Instead, I have embraced Internet reading of new comics. Sampling a few issues and deciding then if to order the collected trade version when it comes out later. At $5 or more it means I am even more cautious and discerning with how I choose to spend my precious dollars. 2 comics for 10 bucks or a collected 4-6 or more issues for 10-15 dollars? Quantity versus cost. Guess which wins? Add to this that I can buy DVD-Rom classics for e-reading at %7-12 that have an entire series running from 80 up to 200 issues or more and "new" for a single issue cost at $5+ is not appealing. No interest in reading anything off a screen. Sorry.
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 13, 2021 18:27:51 GMT -5
Not everyone follows social media. Or cares about it. That doesn't mean it didn't happen and it's certainly not a good reason for why there shouldn't be consequences...and the fact that after said consequences happened he took up residence with a publisher who says the KKK is an "upstanding gentleman's organization with a proud and storied culture and history" says a lot too. I've never heard of the publisher in question. I'd imagine they don't have much distribution in the UK.
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 13, 2021 18:19:01 GMT -5
I don't care what kind of a person he is. I can't judge him because I don't know him. I don't much care about the private lives of any comics writer or artist. I care about whether or not I like their work. And Bennett is partly responsible for one of my favourite books of the last few years, so I'll happily buy any future project he's on, if the premise interests me. It's not some private secret...it's stuff that he posted on his public social media and in one case included in his actual published work. It's all right there for the whole world to see and it's unequivocally terrible. It's not possible to be antisemitic and a good person and when you make that public there are going to be consequences no matter how talented you are and deservedly so. Not everyone follows social media. Or cares about it.
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 13, 2021 18:15:19 GMT -5
I had heard of him, but Christopher Priest was not well-known in the U.S. outside the deepest SF circles. I knew him from not only his comics writing, as well as his heavy involvement in the launching of Milestone at DC. but also I had his album since stumbled on it in early 80's - and i was nerdy enough to recognize it as the Marvel Comics building address on the cover (and it was a quarter). (if you're not aware, Priest/Owsley had another name he went by: "Hollis Stone") Some fine funk:
I think you're getting confused. We're talking about Christopher Priest, not Christopher Priest.
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 13, 2021 18:12:02 GMT -5
Marv Wolfman wrote one of the stories in GSMT #5, but it was my least favorite of the three.
Doug Moench got his start in horror at Warren and continued to use elements of it even in his modern superhero comics, so I think he would have been great.
Moench for me was one of the most dependable writers around - maybe THE most in the sense that he seemed to be able to take on any sort of assignment and do a better than average job with it.
Moench's early eighties run on Batman is still my favourite ever era of the Dark Knight.
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 13, 2021 18:04:35 GMT -5
I thought this was going to be an event with evil versions of the heroes who all have "Dark" before their names. There was never any suggestion of that.
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 13, 2021 17:56:28 GMT -5
and here. . since you aren't aware of the individual's Anti-Semitism:
I'm not really sure what I'm looking at or why I should care. It's just a picture of someone on horseback chasing down some weirdo monsters.
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 13, 2021 17:53:18 GMT -5
Since I have no interest in Twitter, I wouldn't know. But I like his art. you're supporting a Grade-A asshole by purchasing anything he's involved with.
but hey. . it doesn't affect you, right? so you do what you wanna do.
Thanks. I will. I'm tired of being told who I should support and what I should care about. I care about comics, and the characters. That's it.
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 13, 2021 17:46:51 GMT -5
Mego "action figures" (we just called 'em dolls) were a big part of my childhood; I had a few superhero ones (all Batman-related), some Planet of the Apes figures, and several from the Star Trek line. My older brother even made a few stop-motion 8mm films with the Star Trek figures. My Holy Grail was The Enterprise bridge playset, so was quite the happy camper when I got it one Christmas. Had I been a kid then, I likely would have lost my mind over that one, as I love playsets, and I love Trek. Fortunately, this one came around when I was in my teens: and the Mega Bloks bridge has become my favorite bridge playset in adulthood: Incidentally, my youngest wanted to play Barbies last night, so out came the Mego figures I've acquired in adulthood to play along! I still have the Playmates TNG Enterprise bridge! Missing a couple of bits, admittedly, but the crew seem to be coping...
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 13, 2021 17:42:43 GMT -5
Why does everything have to become about politics these days? It became about politics because he literally made it about politics. He inserted stuff in the art and used the platform provided to him by being a marvel artist to make political statements on Twitter. I'm sure there are other artists who think the same as this guy. But I don't know because they leave it out of the work. If he had done the same, this wouldn't have happened. It's 100% on him. Since I have no interest in Twitter, I wouldn't know. But I like his art.
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 13, 2021 17:28:32 GMT -5
I had never heard of him until the Nolan film came out and I'm a pretty well read sci-fi guy. I had heard of him, but Christopher Priest was not well-known in the U.S. outside the deepest SF circles. Still seems a bit too coincidental to me. It's not a common name.
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 13, 2021 17:20:44 GMT -5
Doesn't matter, if you're a terrible person then you're a terrible person and deserve to face consequences because of that. I don't care what kind of a person he is. I can't judge him because I don't know him. I don't much care about the private lives of any comics writer or artist. I care about whether or not I like their work. And Bennett is partly responsible for one of my favourite books of the last few years, so I'll happily buy any future project he's on, if the premise interests me.
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 13, 2021 17:17:09 GMT -5
it's nothing to do with homosexuality in itself, why are you not getting this? It would be exactly the same if a character who had been presented as gay for twenty years was suddenly straight. It's about continuity! Even if I could accept that these characters were hiding something about themselves from every other character for decades, they'd still have known it themselves and addressed it in their inner monologues. It's ludicrous. As has been said, they wouldn't have to. How often was a comic book super hero's deep seated sexual views something that was important to the story being told? That answer? Never. So why would it be on the page? And that's not even taking into consideration the fact that because of social norms of the time it simply would not have been allowed even if a writer had wanted to. So yeah, history is moot...and trying to cling to it just makes it feel like it's an attempt to mask something else. Yeah, I get that you're determined to believe that, for some reason. But whether you believe it or not, to me history matters. I am deeply emotionally invested in the personal history of thse characters going back over forty years. And I don't like them being changed. And don't appreciate someone who doesn't even know me trying to make out that it's all about his pet agenda.
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 13, 2021 17:13:06 GMT -5
The guy who played the Red Guardian was good in that he brought off most of his comic bits successfully, but then was it a good idea to have his character mostly played for laughs? Maybe I should clarify that - I'm questioning the writing there, and the decision-making of the producers and/or director, not the actor: I thought he did a very good job in executing what I assume he was being asked to do. But I think more could have been done with the character, who really was meant to be the Soviet equivalent to Captain America - an idea that is indeed brought forward in the movie but, once again, played strictly for laughs. And I don't deny that it worked, as far as it went - those comedy bits were pretty funny, for the most part. But at the same time, I can't help thinking there was a missed opportunity there. Maybe some day they can bring in Steve Gerber's Red Guardian - was she the daughter of the original? - as a more serious character. I actually thought Red Guardian was the best thing about the movie. He was hilarious.
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