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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 5, 2024 14:39:20 GMT -5
So for this week's selection, I wanted to do one of the Green Lantern comics that I've probably read the most in my meager collection, Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #2 What I like about this book is that it's a good mix of action, comedy, and somber tales that are incredibly well written. If I had to pick a favorite, it'd probably be a toss up between "The Lonely Man" by Gerard Jones (about a man who's lost his lust for life after his pregnant wife passes on and has a mysterious vision of his wife calling on him to save a distant world) or "The Trouble With Yellow" by Doug Moench (a story told by another Green Lanten about a bunch of bottom dwelling insects who get a headstrong insect Green Lantern who gets into mischief)
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 5, 2024 8:51:21 GMT -5
Dredd has got to have some serious helmet-hair going on, under there. I think most of the Judges (outside of maybe Hershey and Anderson) have buzz-cuts?
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 4, 2024 14:08:51 GMT -5
I like the cover of the current issue of 2000 AD (art by RM Guera): Kind of reminds me of the artwork that Michael Avon Oeming did for the DC Judge Dredd series
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 2, 2024 20:11:07 GMT -5
I have dozens and dozens of track designs for RCT-1, which is still my favorite of the series.
When my son was little, he loved to design tracks with the most extreme ratings... resulting in a park-customer puke fest... which 9-yr old boys apparently find hilarious.
That's very funny. There was a youtube video I was watching earlier where somebody literally had a bunch of park goers puking every minute from the intensity of the coasters and had to hire TONS of cleaning crew folks to manage it I'd love to play some of your old tracks if you still have the files laying around
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 2, 2024 19:04:04 GMT -5
So I was poking around Youtube (as I often do) and I stumbled across some videos regarding Roller Coaster Tycoon. I've tried playing it before, but never got far, but something about the videos just sparked an interest and having a whole week off with not much to do, I said "why not?". Thankfully both 1&2 are currently on sale on GOG for cheap, so I scooped them up, downloaded OpenRCT2 and brought the files over. It'll definitely be a nice time waster this week
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 2, 2024 13:56:30 GMT -5
I often think about buying art books, whether by the likes of Salvador Dali and Picasso, or by comic/pop culture artists like Boris Vallejo or Frank Frazetta, but I never do. I always kinda just think that if I want to look at the works of a particular artist I can access it all online. I guess I just see art books as potentially taking up precious shelf space that could be used for books with words in them. But at the same time, I do kinda wonder if I'm missing out. Anyone care to try and sell me on art books? My mom is fairly big into Dali as well as cookbooks, so some years ago I bought her two Dali related cookbooks that were released in English for the first time called "Les Diners De Gala" and "The Wines of Gala". They're both beautiful and fairly surreal as can be expected of Dali
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 2, 2024 12:33:31 GMT -5
Radioactive Man: Radioactive Repository Volume One (2012) Finally got around to finishing this over the long Easter weekend, after a really long pause (I started reading it back in November, but then set it aside to read other things – mainly re-reading stuff for the 12 days of Classic Comics Xmas – and honestly sort of forgot about it). Anyway, this very nice and hefty HC is a collection of the first six-issue Radioactive Man mini-series published by Bongo Comics in the 1990s, i.e., it collects the issues that were numbered 1, 88, 216, 412, 679 and 1000; it also includes all of the stories from Radioactive Man 80-page Colossal as well as the four Radioactive Man back-up stories from Simpsons Comics #s 36-39, which are notable for the back-covers, as they are all homages to Steranko covers: Most of the stories were written and/or drawn by Steve Vance and Bill Morrison and I won’t bother summarizing any of them; I’ll just say that these are all entertaining stories on their own, but like so many of the other Simpsons comics, they are also very much comics about comics, i.e., they riff off of or satirize superhero comics from all eras, both in terms of overall stories but also in little details like this: So there are stories that reference Wertham and the comic book scare of the early ‘50s, the ‘relevant’ late ‘60s/early ‘70s stories, esp. Green Lantern/Green Arrow, as well as Watchmen and the Dark Knight Returns. However, they’re never mean-spirited, and like those Sterankoesque mock covers above, they’re just as much homages to the stories and creators. I highly recommend reading these, esp. if you can find a reasonably priced copy of this collected volume. It’s too bad the second Radioactive Man mini-series and some of the later RM material didn’t get collected into a second volume. Of all the books that I was upset about getting eaten away by rats (even more so than my two issues of the Valiant "Nintendo Comics System", The Adventures Of The Super Mario Bros), I was devastated the most by the loss of my collection of Radioactive Man comics (though issue #100 thankfully survived as it's one of my favorites) It's such a great homage book, definitely up there with Moore's 1963 and Big Bang Comics
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 2, 2024 12:27:32 GMT -5
The only predictions I can make about WM40 are (1) Judgement Day losing the tag-team titles....I hope it's not to Awesome Truth as I really hate R-Truth's simpleton gimmick, but they might actually get the nod *rolls eyes* and (2) Bayley winning the women's title.
Everything else, including Becky Lynch and Cody is up in the air.
I won't be surprised if Drew wins the belt and then Priest cashes in....he's running out of time with that briefcase. I'm actually thinking about renewing my Peacock subscription so that I can watch it. I'm VERY hyped for the Cody vs Bloodline matches. The storyline so far has been amazing and I still can't get over Rock beating the absolute dog dooky out of Cody
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 31, 2024 11:11:12 GMT -5
I'll say this much, there's been quite a few channels aping the success of Cartoonist Kayfabe, so it's not a total loss. Though the dynamic with Ed and Jim was special. Ed dug his own grave and found out the hard way that screwing around like he did has consequences
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 29, 2024 17:55:48 GMT -5
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 29, 2024 16:23:20 GMT -5
I've actually been pondering my own choice this week and decided that it should be something Judge Dredd related, but not what got me into the series, but rather what got me hooked on it. How I came into owning it is kind of a bizarre story. So me and my cousin Luke one day were going to the Walgreens across the street from my old house in the mid 00's. To get there, we usually have to cut through a former mortuary that was recently turned into a Baptist church. Well, we passed by the bushes and something caught my eye, it was a 20 dollar bill. Elated, we hung onto that sucker and decided to use it towards buying a comic at the recently brought back "Ground Zero Comics". The original Ground Zero was out in the middle of absolute nowhere, but was a cool place that had a gaming set up in the back with arcade machines and XBOX consoles for Halo. The newer one that we went to wasn't quite as lavish and was more kind of a hole in the wall. As we browsed through the bins, I found Judge Dredd #3 and was immediately taken by the Brian Bolland cover art. Luke was more into the random Spawn issue that he found, but I forgot the 20 and we kind of had to settle (I think he felt that Dredd was the better choice?) As someone who hadn't experienced the wonders of "body horror" before, this issue was something else and the following panels still give me chills (though not inherently body horror really, it was still kind of shocking)
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 28, 2024 20:49:02 GMT -5
I've never really enjoyed how Claremont writes stuff (with the lone exception of Excalibur) and I wish I could put my finger on why I'm not a big fan on how he writes romantic relationships; he always felt stuck in the soap opera tropes of endless suffering, for the heroes That makes sense, I think the "Claremont's X-Men" documentary went into his background saying that he studied theater. Maybe a bit of a fan of Hamlet?
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 28, 2024 18:37:22 GMT -5
I've never really enjoyed how Claremont writes stuff (with the lone exception of Excalibur) and I wish I could put my finger on why
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 27, 2024 8:43:06 GMT -5
Elfquest: Siege At Blue Mountain #1-#8
Like I previously posted, I thought it was a fairly decent continuation of the Original Quest, but not as strong even if the premise was solid. (Though I still got that bittersweet feeling when it was over. Kings Of The Broken Wheel though? Most of it had me outright on the verge of tears at some points)
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 25, 2024 18:16:15 GMT -5
Max Headroom/20 Minutes Into The Future
William Gibson of Neuromancer fame worked at IDW a while ago doing a comic and I would have been curious to see how he would have adapted such a story
Hell, I'd even settle for a reboot of the series on TV!
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