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Post by commond on May 8, 2024 4:42:47 GMT -5
An earlier record, The Amazing Spider-Man: From Beyond the Grave – A Rockomic, had a gatefold cover by John Romita.  This is the one I had. I still have the some of the tunes in my head. Does anyone know if this is on YouTube ? |
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Post by Confessor on May 8, 2024 5:27:58 GMT -5
All this thing seems to do is conduct a search of on-line sources and stitch different information threads together in complete sentences (of a sort), but with less critical thinking than a lazy C-student doing a report with Wikipedia and Google. By the way, they are being sued over pilfering the works of various newspapers, including the New York Times. This is way off-topic for the thread, so forgive me my rant... I know there are serious medical and scientific applications for AI, but let's get real: here in the real everyday world, all AI is being used for is plagiarising copyrighted art from artists, stealing work from writers and journalists, helping turn women into porn without their consent, and undermining our democracies with political deepfakes and propaganda bots. That's without even considering the ethical and moral implications of the use of deadly autonomous AI in the military. So yeah, f*ck AI. |
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Post by zaku on May 8, 2024 7:00:54 GMT -5
I don't care what anyone says, the trunks were separate before, though I have never seen a depiction of it. They exist because they existed with circus performers and pro wrestlers to hide their package and comics almost never showed anyone with trunks off. It's tights and trunks; pure and simple. The depiction of empty costume is more about displaying the whole thing than functionality. So, in your opinion, in-universe Supes wore tights first, then trunks and finally the belt and boots? |
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Post by tartanphantom on May 8, 2024 7:45:16 GMT -5
According to ChatGPT there's a comic featuring Kiss included with this mid 70s vinyl record Spider-Man: Rock Reflections of a Super-Hero. Has anyone ever seen it or is Chatty sending me on a wild goose chase?
Back to the original question--
No. AI is lying to you. period.
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Post by foxley on May 8, 2024 7:52:42 GMT -5
I don't care what anyone says, the trunks were separate before, though I have never seen a depiction of it. They exist because they existed with circus performers and pro wrestlers to hide their package and comics almost never showed anyone with trunks off. It's tights and trunks; pure and simple. The depiction of empty costume is more about displaying the whole thing than functionality. So, in your opinion, in-universe Supes wore tights first, then trunks and finally the belt and boots? If the look at the cover of Action Comics #1, Supes is wearing tights and trunks but no belt. And the boots are ankle length booties.
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Post by driver1980 on May 8, 2024 8:05:41 GMT -5
All this thing seems to do is conduct a search of on-line sources and stitch different information threads together in complete sentences (of a sort), but with less critical thinking than a lazy C-student doing a report with Wikipedia and Google. By the way, they are being sued over pilfering the works of various newspapers, including the New York Times. This is way off-topic for the thread, so forgive me my rant... I know there are serious medical and scientific applications for AI, but let's get real: here in the real everyday world, all AI is being used for is plagiarising copyrighted art from artists, stealing work from writers and journalists, helping turn women into porn without their consent, and undermining our democracies with political deepfakes and propaganda bots. That's without even considering the ethical and moral implications of the use of deadly autonomous AI in the military. So yeah, f*ck AI. Absolutely. Weren’t Tom Cruise and the Pope “represented” in some dodgy AI? The plagiarising copyrighted art and stealing work from writers is a concern. Last summer, someone, obviously in awe of AI, tweeted pics of some Batman ‘art’ that Bing’s AI had done. As some commented, it just looked like someone had badly plagiarised Brian Bolland. I would never buy a book ‘drawn’ by AI. I’m sure I remember I read about someone who’d ‘taken legal advice’ from an AI ‘lawyer’. I want real people to help me. Or provide art. There’s something deeply personal in, say, music. I like to think that a piece of profound music I like has been written and recorded by a talented artist who put his own stamp on the music - not some overrated artificial ‘intelligence’. I don’t want an AI ‘doctor’ trying to diagnose me via Google. I want a GP who knows me to diagnose me, he or she will not only have the medical skills, but perhaps he/she might pick up on something I haven’t mentioned, e.g. I neglect to mention a symptom out of embarrassment, but because the GP knows me well, he/she will work out that maybe something deep-rooted pertains to my symptoms - and gives me a helpful diagnosis. That’s far, far better than some AI scraping a load of worldwide web info from various medical journals. |
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Post by zaku on May 8, 2024 8:08:08 GMT -5
I’m sure I remember I read about someone who’d ‘taken legal advice’ from an AI ‘lawyer’. |
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Post by Prince Hal on May 8, 2024 11:09:21 GMT -5
Anybody recognize the source of this illustration?  Seems as if it's a female version of Mowgli. I looked around on-line, but have found nothing close. Just can't believe it's original to this theatre company, but don't see any attribution on this announcement. Can't believe it would be a public domain drawing. Maybe it's an altered version of another drawing, but again, I haven't seen anything similar. |
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Post by codystarbuck on May 8, 2024 11:46:20 GMT -5
I don't care what anyone says, the trunks were separate before, though I have never seen a depiction of it. They exist because they existed with circus performers and pro wrestlers to hide their package and comics almost never showed anyone with trunks off. It's tights and trunks; pure and simple. The depiction of empty costume is more about displaying the whole thing than functionality. So, in your opinion, in-universe Supes wore tights first, then trunks and finally the belt and boots? Yup. Shirt and pants as separate pieces, trunks over the tights. The stirrup or non I've seen both ways. You could just as easily have a couple of snaps to tighten them around the ankles. I picture Martha sewing the costume and having him try it on, seeing that it is a bit too tight, in certain areas, and whipping up the trunks, for modesty. Other super heroes just follow suit because Superman is their inspiration. Collegiate wrestlers, for a couple of generations, wore long tights, with shorts over them. The long tights actually helped with gripping the mat, as they absorbed sweat and created more friction against the mat, compared to sweaty skin. Singlets didn't become the norm until much later. Pro wrestlers wore either trunks or tights, but always wore trunks with their tights, or else long tights over a singlet, like Bret Hart. There is a locker room scene, in the documentary Wrestling with Shadows, where he is getting dressed and you see him in a singlet, pulling on his long tights and then grabbing his boots. Even trunks were sewn to not conform to the crotch so tightly that it outlines the genitalia. If you ever see pro wrestling trunks close up, they are not the same as a speedo. |
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Post by codystarbuck on May 8, 2024 11:49:49 GMT -5
Anybody recognize the source of this illustration? Seems as if it's a female version of Mowgli. I looked around on-line, but have found nothing close. Just can't believe it's original to this theatre company, but don't see any attribution on this announcement. Can't believe it would be a public domain drawing. Maybe it's an altered version of another drawing, but again, I haven't seen anything similar. I've seen that pose and am pretty sure that it is from comics. Not quite sure about the art, whether it copies the original or is someone copying the pose. |
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Post by codystarbuck on May 8, 2024 14:36:09 GMT -5
Some of the technique on it reminds me of Christopher Moeller's art, but I don't think it is his, in the Mowgli illustration. My Google-Fu is weak, today. I may just be conflating the similarity to recognizable comic art; but I still think it looks familiar.
I would assume that is supposed to be Bagheera, but the shading doesn't work for a black panther. Doesn't look like the artist was suggesting stripes, for Shere Khan, which wouldn't be faithful anyway, unless he had Mowgli between his jaws! Heads not right for a tiger, in any case.
It may be a complete original; but I would be they at least surveyed some comic artist's work for inspiration.
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Post by Cei-U! on May 8, 2024 14:40:02 GMT -5
Something about the girl, especially the face, reminds me of Michael Golden but nothing else in the picture does.
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Post by commond on May 8, 2024 16:05:48 GMT -5
Are the Gerry Conway & Jose Luis Garcia Lopez Tarzan issues worth reading?
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Post by Cei-U! on May 8, 2024 16:25:25 GMT -5
Are the Gerry Conway & Jose Luis Garcia Lopez Tarzan issues worth reading? I thought so, but then I think anything with Garcia-Lopez art is worth reading.
Cei-U! I summon the personal bias!
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Post by foxley on May 9, 2024 5:27:58 GMT -5
Are the Gerry Conway & Jose Luis Garcia Lopez Tarzan issues worth reading? I enjoyed them. |
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