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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 23, 2023 7:25:48 GMT -5
Cradle
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 23, 2023 6:49:54 GMT -5
Nap
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 22, 2023 12:52:06 GMT -5
Rendez-vous
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 22, 2023 9:38:30 GMT -5
Future
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 22, 2023 9:35:56 GMT -5
I was on Quora for a while, as answering questions felt like an extension of my day job. But I dropped it when most discussions on biology degenerated into arguments with creationists. Comments on Youtube or on the sites of news media are simply toxic. Brandolini's law has never proven truer than today. Who needs the grief? Facebook is mostly about publicity, apparently. Or recommendations for stuff any good algorithm should know I don't care about. Were it not that my family uses Messenger to stay in touch, I'd cancel my account without an ounce of regret. All I ever got out of LinkedIn were requests from people I didn't know or notifications for things that don't interest me. I can see how a social network for professionals can be useful, but it's something I do not need at this late stage of my career. I deleted my account years ago (I think). I was never on Twitter, Instagram or Tiktok. From what I hear, I'm not missing much. Criminy, apart from the CCF, it looks like there's nothing good out there in terms of social media! Like supercat, I think that smaller communities focusing on specific shared interests are the way to go; they're the only places where the great connection potential of social media isn't marred by unchecked greed, ignorance, hostility or attempts at manipulation.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 22, 2023 8:51:28 GMT -5
I got to read Rai #1 and a few pages of #2 before the site asked me to pay to read further, but I must say Michelinie packed a LOT of story in that first issue. The art looks very plain, especially compared to the very flashy style that was all the rage back then at Marvel and DC, but I found the comic much more engaging than a lot of its contemporary competitors due to its script. It reminded me of the 5YL era of the Legion, reading more like the start of a novel than a super-hero adventure.
I don't know if we were supposed to know beforehand who Grandmother was (I guess the whole Japan/space dragon thing came from the Magnus comic), but landing in media res was not a problem. I could easily figure out that Japan had been ruled until recently by a computer, that the citizens must have lived a life of leisure, and that upon the collapse of the system (due to some alien invasion), many of them were upset at having to work. No need of a recap section; Michelinie made things clear as he went along (with some ironic comments on human nature, as when a man is furious at now having to work thirty hours a week to make ends meet).
The marital situation of the main character looks like it could be the source of good dramatic material, and since I did read the series from issue #11 on, I was saddened to see his baby son back when he was all innocent. That is one of the strengths of the tight continuity of the early Valiant titles: they often read like history and not like stories made up month after month.
I look forward to that podcast!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 22, 2023 8:04:38 GMT -5
Toxic
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 21, 2023 11:47:11 GMT -5
WandaVision
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 21, 2023 10:23:17 GMT -5
Cinemascope
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 20, 2023 20:46:34 GMT -5
Ruler
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 20, 2023 8:44:01 GMT -5
Accordion
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 19, 2023 20:03:16 GMT -5
What about other publishers' mega-cross-ever-continuity-shattering events? I vaguely remember that Valiant and Image had them too, just few years they started publishing! What continuity they had to clean-up?!? I don't know about Image, but at Valiant the Unity 2000 crossover was due to the company being bought out by Acclaim, with all the series being rebooted. That gave us two continuities, which the PTB eventually decided to do something about in the hope of maybe generating enough interest among older readers to keep the line afloat. (As it is, the crossover itself was never finished!) The original Valiant universe was, at first, an amazing example of continuity done right: the timeline was established for thousands of years and could not be changed. You knew who would die when, and often how. You saw events happen in the XX century that would affect Magnus' XL century, and in the Rai #0 special we got an eagle-eye view of the whole thing. It was quite impressive! Writers had enough leeway to create exciting and unexpected stories, but nonsensical major plot twists (*cough! sins past! cough!*) introduced "just because" were harder to pull off.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 19, 2023 19:28:55 GMT -5
I had forgotten about the Gene Colan/Dick Giordano collaboration in Dracula Lives! #2. By the hoary hosts of Hoggoth, Mr. Giordano could almost challenge Tom Palmer for the title of best Colan inker around!
What's also great is that it doesn't look like a Colan/Palmer job, but manages to convey the same type of mood, with highly contrasted art full of light and shadows.
I wish the two gentlemen had done more work together!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 19, 2023 8:51:46 GMT -5
Summer
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 18, 2023 18:36:29 GMT -5
Nag
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