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Post by Crimebuster on Nov 6, 2019 11:39:34 GMT -5
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Post by Crimebuster on Nov 5, 2019 11:42:05 GMT -5
I decided to record a short video for my Crimebusters social media channels showing some of the back issues I've gotten so far this year. I had to keep it at 1 minute for dumb social media reasons, so a lot of cool books got left out, but it's a bit of an overview anyway. I've been letting these pile up for basically the whole year because I just didn't want to deal with the hassle of getting them catalogued and sorted, but the time has come.
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Post by Crimebuster on Nov 5, 2019 11:37:15 GMT -5
Mister Spaceman
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Post by Crimebuster on Nov 4, 2019 16:22:33 GMT -5
Darwyn Cooke's Wonder Woman is the best Wonder Woman ever.
My two cents.
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Post by Crimebuster on Nov 1, 2019 9:01:59 GMT -5
I have never read these GL issues mostly because I've never cared for Hal Jordan. But to what the OP is alluding to, without knowing the actual material, it doesn't surprise me that if any GL was going to have a "14-year old girlfriend" it would be Hal. The short version: Arisia is a 14-year-old alien elf Green Lantern. She has a crush on Hal, so she uses her ring's powers to physically age herself up to adulthood - so she has an adult body, but a 14-year-old mind, like Captain Marvel. And once she's a hot adult, Hal's like... yeah! Let's do this! It's like Julie Schwartz was the editor or something.
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Post by Crimebuster on Nov 1, 2019 8:59:03 GMT -5
Englehart looks back proudly (you might even say smugly) on his #188-200 stint on Green Lantern: "When Joe Staton and I took this book over, Dick Giordano, DC's Editor-in-Chief, told me nothing ever affected its sales; good people, bad people, good stories, bad stories, GREEN LANTERN's numbers never varied. Six months later, Dick announced to the world that sales had doubled." I think Arisia aging herself up and the two of them hooking up happened later in the run - Wikipedia says #210, but I don't want to look into it further than that! My first issue of the series was #199, so I read this as it was coming out. I was the same age as Arisia when this story came out, so to think she was hot just seemed normal, since I was looking at it from my point of view, not Hal's. Now that I'm Hal's age, sweet jumping jesus. What the heck were they thinking?! Has anyone involved in this decision ever discussed this in an interview?
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Post by Crimebuster on Oct 31, 2019 12:09:27 GMT -5
I dressed up as Captain Chaos for a school Halloween party in 1986, but I don't think I have any photos of it.
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Post by Crimebuster on Oct 30, 2019 16:57:10 GMT -5
Life has been extra lifey this year, so I haven't had much time to post updates. And the next couple of months are going to be among the busiest of my life, so I don't know how often I will be able to update everyone. But I am making progress on The Crimebusters #2. I'm currently working the linework for page 26 of 31 on the main story, and I'm still expecting to head to Kickstarter in January. I took a little time away from that to color the regular cover for issue #2. There will be at least three variants, like last time, but I am in discussions with another artist to do guest art on one of the variants, so that's exciting. It's also a bit daunting! There's contracts and stuff involved, so it's a bit out of my depth, but a good learning experience, anyway. Here's the regular cover for issue #2. No doubt I will make some small tweaks before it's published, but since the story is a classic haunted house tale that takes place on Halloween night, 1956, it seemed fitting to get it done in time to show everyone for this Halloween. Happy Halloween!
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Post by Crimebuster on Oct 30, 2019 12:17:24 GMT -5
Okay, thinking outside the box on this one. I don't understand the Zodiac connection? There's pretty strong evidence that the Zodiac Killer used Tim Holt #30 as one of his inspirations.
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Post by Crimebuster on Oct 30, 2019 10:55:39 GMT -5
Okay, thinking outside the box on this one.
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Post by Crimebuster on Oct 29, 2019 10:56:05 GMT -5
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Post by Crimebuster on Oct 27, 2019 22:33:44 GMT -5
There are people that collect these still - the stamp book, and the stamps. Blasphemy, I know, but true.
I saw a really great project a while ago where someone had a sketchbook they were bringing to conventions and getting original art reworkings of all 100 Marvel Value Stamps by current artists. It was pretty sweet.
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Post by Crimebuster on Oct 26, 2019 0:40:41 GMT -5
I think the only comic I have ever bought that was missing the Marvel Value Stamp was... ...I mean, do I even have to say it? It was Incredible Hulk #181, of course. This was a long time ago. I was pretty sharp at the speculation game in my earlier days, and when this book first started really breaking out, I was on it. I found a copy at a shop. The guy wanted $12, but on a hunch, I asked to look through it first. Sure enough, it was missing the freaking stamp. He let me have it for $6.
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Post by Crimebuster on Oct 25, 2019 18:35:56 GMT -5
It depends how you define "binge watch". If you mean sit down and watch multiple episodes or seasons of a program end over end from start to finish over the course of a weekend or even up to a week, then my answer is "nothing", because I barely have time to watch one episode of a show in a given day, let alone a season. If you mean watch multiple episodes or seasons of a program in a row with little or no variety in the interim, like how I usually read my comic books, then I'm currently binge-watching DC's Legends of Tomorrow. I get in about 3-5 episodes per week, and I am up to the end of Season 1. I began watching it primarily because I like Arthur Darvill and Wentworth Miller, as well as being familiar with many of the characters from the Arrow-verse shows, but I'm not sure if I'm going to continue with it past the first season. It's fine for what it is, but I'm not necessarily feeling the pull to keep going with it. Earlier this year, I binge watched all 14 seasons of Supernatural, and I have done the same with Angel (but not Buffy, as it has lost a lot of its appeal over the years for me), Community, and Game of Thrones in the recent past. I guess I technically do it with Firefly about once a year, but is it really "binge watching" if the entire show lasted just 13 episodes and a movie? And, yes, I can over-complicate the answer to a relatively simple questions quite easily. I stopped watching legends of tomorrow after season one as well, but I've heard it got much better in later seasons. Entertainment weekly even had it on its year end best shows of 2018 list if I recall correctly.
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Post by Crimebuster on Oct 24, 2019 9:16:08 GMT -5
Sal Buscema's second run in the 80's/90's is unreadable to me. One look at that art style and I want to curl up in a ball like a sea urchin. It's just so ugly.
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