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Post by LovesGilKane on Aug 7, 2017 15:38:37 GMT -5
i smell a fellow lover of the nick fury hound of the baskerville's tale, here, lol. one of the singular issues which galvanized me at age 8 to train to enter comics. That was a fantastic issue! Off the top of my head, it was in Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.E.I.L.D. #3, wasn't it? yeppers! and yummo! and as you'd appreciate, very like 1960's subtle Hammer Horror films , ala pacing, mood, lighting, etc., with a lot of Mario Bava thrown in as well (i'm also a film nerd, natch)
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Post by LovesGilKane on Aug 7, 2017 15:35:43 GMT -5
great Hanuman! love it! here's one of mine for him:
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Post by LovesGilKane on Aug 7, 2017 15:27:08 GMT -5
The digital system doesn't allow us to 'own' the comics we purchase either. We buy the right to read the comics on a specific website, and under no other circumstances. No downloads, and if something happens to your account or the website, then its goodbye comics forever. It's basically a fancy rental system. yes, indeed, and also, your digital comics go bye bye if the server hosting your comics suffers 'the hiccups'. not to mention the question of wanting to read 200 or more pages on a trans-oceanic plane-flight.
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Post by LovesGilKane on Aug 7, 2017 15:24:18 GMT -5
i never bagged anything i didn't read twice first.
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Post by LovesGilKane on Aug 7, 2017 15:23:27 GMT -5
super-cute! great one Jesse!
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Post by LovesGilKane on Aug 7, 2017 15:22:10 GMT -5
probably tons. Nexus, for one. Grimjack. Dr. Strange. Adam Warlock. the list goes on.
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Post by LovesGilKane on Aug 7, 2017 15:17:07 GMT -5
Dumnonii
love your entry, Honeystinger! and your username!
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Post by LovesGilKane on Aug 7, 2017 15:14:46 GMT -5
as should the editors whom, by your use of the word complicit, must, by definition, be equally complicit. slam byrne for this all you like but slam the editors EQUALLY alongside that. Actually I place equal blame on the consumers and completists who had to buy one of each cover making it a financial boon to the company and rewarded the decisions and complicitness of the artists and editors involved. But I am sure it came form an even higher level than editor, likely publisher or VP of publishing who saw the chance to make more money and set the policy. It's the same thing I saw about all the #1 issues and event storylines, if people didn't buy them in greater numbers than other comics, publishers would have no reason to continue putting them out there, but customers do and their buying habits define the market. Comic fans get the comics (and covers) their buying habits deserve. -M as long as you're egalitarian in your blame, as you were above, i have no problem. well said, well written.
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Post by LovesGilKane on Aug 7, 2017 14:59:43 GMT -5
if free will is an illusion (though philosophically it would be a DELUSION, hah ha, ho ho, hee hee, context-context), then all memetic theory is a lie.
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Post by LovesGilKane on Aug 7, 2017 14:57:15 GMT -5
BOUDICCA!
HA!
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Post by LovesGilKane on Aug 7, 2017 14:55:34 GMT -5
was HE the start of it, provably, or was it an idea from EDITORIAL? just because an artist gets thrown under the bus for something doesn't mean it was THEIR idea. *collectors' market-comicscrash-cough cough* If he didn't start it, he was complicit in it and his ego probably thought if any creator deserved multiple covers for his big company debut it was him. He also produced the first variant cover since he did the art for both and reaped the finanacial rewards for the extra cover and the extra sales through royalties. He certainly bent over backwards to take as much of the credit for it selling so well with 2 covers, so he should shoulder some of the blame for the consequences of his actions. -M as should the editors whom, by your use of the word complicit, must, by definition, be equally complicit. slam byrne for this all you like but slam the editors EQUALLY alongside that.
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Post by LovesGilKane on Aug 7, 2017 14:53:32 GMT -5
Emma Ríos ROCKS. She should be given a 12 issue or longer run on Dr. Strange, or the Specter. As much as I like Emma Rios' stuff (and I alike it a lot) her art on the 4 issue Dr.Strange mini written by Mark Waid was underwhelming (I like Mark a lot too, but it was one of the things he's written I liked the least). It's from 2009 and most of Rios' other stuff I have seen was form later, so it could have just been growing pains. -M allow me to rephrase: She (as the artist she is now, versus then) should be given a 12 issue or longer run on Dr. Strange, or the Specter, being given generous deadlines of 2 months per issue or more.
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Post by LovesGilKane on Aug 7, 2017 13:56:52 GMT -5
comics are owned by film/tv conglomerates now. it's not comics/their creators problem.
to change comics, you must change the mindset of execs at Diz, WB, Netflix.
after Kingpin made a slushie out of a guys head with a car door on tv, and ratings went up, meaning ancillary went up, there's no going back from the violence for a while. creators have little say in this if the properties are corporately owned.
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Aquaman
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Post by LovesGilKane on Aug 7, 2017 13:51:05 GMT -5
'I've been meaning to check this out since I got into the character. Is the Neil Pozner mini-series collected in TPB?'
sadly no, which is throwing guaranteed money away on DC's part. unfortunately you'll most likely need to buy the original issues.
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Post by LovesGilKane on Aug 7, 2017 13:41:29 GMT -5
Emma Ríos drew some hauntingly beautiful pages for Pretty Deadly written by Kelly Sue DeConnick. It's a Weird Western with elements of fantasy and horror. I also think Jordie Bellaire is one the best colorists currently working. Check out a preview here. Emma Ríos ROCKS. She should be given a 12 issue or longer run on Dr. Strange, or the Specter.
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