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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Feb 2, 2024 8:16:35 GMT -5
Maybe it is because I started out with Silver Surfer (when Starlin started it) and an issue of X-Men 2099 being one of the first comics I bought that I would have preferred Ron Lim do the whole story. Nothing against Mr Perez a very talented artist. I guess I was just use to those characters being drawn by Ron Lim.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Feb 1, 2024 13:08:14 GMT -5
In the conversation regarding Buscema, I will never understand people in the industry and fans (not anyone here) disdain or freely using words like "hack" in regards to artists and writers that were just doing it for a job. It seems very unfair to question the quality of their work as if they have to be doing it because of an "artistic calling" for it to be quality. I mean if I didn't have to work I certainly wouldn't. But I do put my best effort and hard work into my job to earn the money that I am paid.
But then I guess this post is more for the "there I said it" thread.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 29, 2024 9:42:39 GMT -5
Next month is the anniversary of my wife's biological mother's death. So we were talking about it this weekend. Her father remarried fairly quickly, less than a year, after her mother died and we were talking about that too. So we were talking about remarriage ourselves. I don't think I would want to. At least not actively try. But then my wife's maternal grandmother lived to 96, if I remember right, but her husband died of a heart attack in his mid 50's. My wife said that grandma only ever dated once after her husband died and so she spent the last 40 plus years of her life alone. Not sure if I could do that either.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 27, 2024 15:31:35 GMT -5
I’m curious how many might consider remarriage if death separated your marriage. Or would you rather stay alone? I personally would rather have a shorter life if it meant me dying first.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 26, 2024 11:49:00 GMT -5
I've always thought "modern age" should have ended with the turn of the century. But I have no idea what would be a good label for future eras of publishing. Maybe the "digital age"??
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 26, 2024 11:45:29 GMT -5
My wife has no idea what you are talking about... but she won't let me shave it off. She likes the look of a 19th century cavalry officer, but from the neck down I look more like a 19th century quartermaster. (I'm still at home in a saddle, though... poor horse.) My wife more stares me down when I try to change my hair more than my facial hair. I don't have long hair to my shoulders or in a ponytail because I like it. I'd shave my head with a bic razor if I had my way. But alas I don't. Now to get back on topic.... Ultimate Spider-man is the only thing of Bendis' that I have read that is any good. He's (or was not sure his status now) an overrated writer. There I said it!
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 25, 2024 16:04:20 GMT -5
Yeah I think it's more of a millennial woman thing. When the kids were younger most of the younger fathers in the late 20's to early 30's had giant and, in my opinion, some scraggly, beards. Most men's facial hair seems reflect more on their wives' taste than their own. I know I keep both my facial hair and the hair on my head to my wife's liking. But at least it leads to fairly accurate memes like this ....
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 25, 2024 15:16:18 GMT -5
Back in 2007 to raise money to buy the boys an XBox 360 and some games, I sold quite a few books to Lone Star and they were all 90's comics. New Mutants #98, (which I regret now) and Batman Adventures #12, a handful of one-shot stories that came along with the Deadpool on-going series (which that I did keep) a few other random appearances of Deadpool in other series, one of the copies of Batman: Mad Love (I think I had two because there was a 1st and 2nd printing) and some early Venom appearances. But I am talking in the $10-$40 range per issue from the cheapest to the best. Nothing in the neighborhood of $1000's like the link Miss Jezebel posted.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 25, 2024 10:20:33 GMT -5
Not too keen on facial-hair Spidey...not to impugn those who look similar, just never imagined him looking like this. I let my beard get that unkempt my wife wouldn't let me leave the house. And very well she should.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 24, 2024 8:56:08 GMT -5
I think one of the reasons a consensus will never be reached on this question is that many comics readers see very little of value in Kirby's solo work and thus it's hard for them to believe he contributed much of value to the Marvel Universe: maybe a few bare-bones concepts that required someone like Stan to bring them to life; just as, for them, even Kirby's most highly acclaimed solo work would have been infinitely better if only he'd had someone like Stan to write the scripts for them. I think that that's totally misguided and that a New Gods scripted by Stan Lee, or whoever else you'd care to name, would have been an artistic disaster. Even if Kirby only offered the visuals, being an artist, as the main contribution to the early Marvel that still means he was a part of the creation of the characters. I don't think HR Giger could have anticipated someone would take Necronom IV and turn into a multi million dollar franchise. But without his art for inspiration would Ridley Scott took Dan O'Bannon's story to screen and made it the success that it is now? Movies, comics, novels, toys, video games, cross overs with other franchises? Alien was the game changing science fiction film that made us all look at science fiction in a different light from that point on. And I think that whatever combination of contributions, Kirby, Lee or Ditko made changed the way people saw comics. They were kid's fair. Now we have middle aged men in discussions about the validity of comics in the entertainment industry. I think we can say that all three of them (and many more other talents following) made comic books what they are today.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 23, 2024 13:53:54 GMT -5
Hopefully I won't be banned over siding with Ayn Rand over Jack Chick. Also I think Lee's writing really shined in Silver Surfer. I sought (and paid good money in the 90's) for the four issues of that series that weren't reprinted. And no Mangog will be Mangog that isn't Kirby's. They both helped me into reading old comics that I would have otherwise not gotten into. Like trying to get me into big band music. I still prefer Gil Kane's Adam (Him) over Kirby's. Why would you get banned? It was more a "joking aside" comment as I've found there are not a lot of Ayn Rand advocates as oppose to dissenters.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 23, 2024 11:42:33 GMT -5
Farrar
My youngest son would never forgive me if I didn't vote for Sonic.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 23, 2024 11:38:28 GMT -5
Yesterday Keith Pollard turned 74 and today Klaus Jansen turns 72. Think on that for a minute. Did Klaus Jensen do some Daredevil or am I just imagining it?
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 23, 2024 11:26:46 GMT -5
Thats not nice. Jack Chick is at least amusing … and much easier to read. Hopefully I won't be banned over siding with Ayn Rand over Jack Chick. Also I think Lee's writing really shined in Silver Surfer. I sought (and paid good money in the 90's) for the four issues of that series that weren't reprinted. And no Mangog will be Mangog that isn't Kirby's. They both helped me into reading old comics that I would have otherwise not gotten into. Like trying to get me into big band music. I still prefer Gil Kane's Adam (Him) over Kirby's.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 19, 2024 17:55:04 GMT -5
And I guess that raises another hard question in the discussion of creatorship: does it matter more who generated the initial concept or who added the ingredients that made the concept great? Everyone might not get this analogy but I just watched a video on youtube about what was better Zelda: Breath of the Wild (BotW in 2017) or Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (TotK in 2023). And every argument the content creator of the video pointed out in all five categories that he presented as evidence (technical, story, combat, world design and progression) was that TotK did everything BotW did better. Without BotW, TotK wouldn't exist to be as good as it supposedly is. To him at least. So, per your analogy, I would say BotW is the "initial concept". Which is what Nintendo started from in adding "ingredients", the differences in TotK from BotW to make it a "better" game. But in the end TotK is the game so many people like over BotW that it doesn't matter to the enjoyment of the person playing the game. So to me Kirby being the concept man and Lee fleshing out stories and characters as long as we get a good end product, to me it doesn't matter. You can argue that without the concept something can't be expanded on. But if you also don't have someone to smooth said concept out than the product may not be as good or functional. In the end, I will agree most times, being the concept person is a thankless job. When you see an amazing looking house that blows your mind. Or you go to St.Louis or NYC and see the Arch or Empire State building what wow's you? The mere sight of it and imagine how it was actually built and all the possible people involved. When you see those old pictures of dudes eating their lunches on hanging beams? But how often do we think of the amazing minds that design it; the architect? So I think of Kirby as the architect and Lee the labors that made that planning of the architect a reality. And in my younger years when I was trying to write my own fiction one of the hardest things was doing the writing itself. I could come up with so many concepts and stories and scenarios but it was much harder to put them into words and then put them on paper. It's not an easy tasks. You have to have a well versed vocabulary. And know how to use it. While I am not a fan of the use of the dramatic speak Lee made in his Silver Surfer series it still amazes me that he pulled it off. It made that series like a superhero soap opera. Then there was his old Norse in Thor. All difficult tasks. Again though he would not have done that without Kirby's concepts. Both made it happen. To me it doesn't matter to me who did "more". To me the end product is what shines and at the same time showcases the talents of both men equally.
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