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Post by tonebone on Feb 3, 2022 10:18:22 GMT -5
Reading through Conway's run on Thor and I have a bone to pick: Did the final battle (more of an axe chop to Thor's head by Pluto really) between Thor and Pluto in #199-#201 really need to be three issues long? I mean, don't get me wrong, I do love a good build up, but it felt like I was reading a play by play of pre-Kai cutdown of Dragon Ball Z For me, Conway is one of those writers who ping-pong between brilliance and hackery. I have learned to shy away from reprints of anything he wrote unless I KNOW it's a great story. |
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Post by tonebone on Feb 3, 2022 10:22:51 GMT -5
Wish Creepy Magazine stories like this were done in colour. These are the first 2 pages of this 6 page tale. I'm not a big fan of B&W.
There, I reached for some crayons.
Black and White, when it's the intended printing method, can be awesome. The yellowing of the paper (as in your example) can really put a crimp in the effect. If you want to check out some modern B+W stuff, Batman Black and White is really well done.  |
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Post by badwolf on Feb 3, 2022 10:46:25 GMT -5
Agreed, the hardcover reprints of these mags on white paper look great!
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Post by commond on Feb 3, 2022 19:12:24 GMT -5
Ed Brubaker's Captain America is so freakin' badass.
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Post by impulse on Feb 4, 2022 10:03:14 GMT -5
Yes, his run was amazing.
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Post by commond on Feb 5, 2022 6:48:51 GMT -5
Oh, my god. How did Peter Milligan and Mike Allred get put in charge of an X-book? Their X-Force is so subversive. It's great!
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Post by Duragizer on Feb 6, 2022 3:42:19 GMT -5
Back in '96, my mother bought me a Calvin and Hobbes collection. Right away, I started using it as a colouring book. Worked on it off-and-on for about eight years before I coloured the final panel.
It was a fun distraction at the time, but adult me wouldn't dream of recreating such blasphemy today.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 6, 2022 7:49:06 GMT -5
Back in '96, my mother bought me a Calvin and Hobbes collection. Right away, I started using it as a colouring book. Worked on it off-and-on for about eight years before I coloured the final panel. It was a fun distraction at the time, but adult me wouldn't dream of recreating such blasphemy today. You used that book up, That's awesome. Sometimes I think people that keep items wrapped away and are afraid to handle them , are strange. Myself included. I never knew you were young, Duragizer. |
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 6, 2022 12:00:08 GMT -5
Eh.
While that HB contained work from a few longtime talents, none of the newer artists compare to the masters of satirical art, nor is it ever as potent as it had been in black and white.
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Post by profh0011 on Feb 6, 2022 12:00:10 GMT -5
Oh, my god. How did Peter Milligan and Mike Allred get put in charge of an X-book? Their X-Force is so subversive. It's great! At the time, I was so F****** fed up, it was the only "X"-book I would go anywhere near. It was shocking how violent it was when it started... then, slowly, it began to become more "comfortable".
That said, I had to hand it to them, virtually thumbing their nose at the company by KILLING OFF the entire cast in their last issue. A way of saying "We don't want ANYONE ELSE screwing over our characters when we're gone."
I much prefer Allred's MADMAN. I often lament that the big corporations have the market so swamped that they make it almost impossible for anyone else to make a living. I hate seeing some of my top favorite talents forced to work for Marvel or DC, just to get by. (Frank Cho is another one.)
I long for the day when corporations are put down like the mad dogs they are.
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Post by profh0011 on Feb 6, 2022 12:04:01 GMT -5
Back in '96, my mother bought me a Calvin and Hobbes collection. Right away, I started using it as a colouring book. Worked on it off-and-on for about eight years before I coloured the final panel. It was a fun distraction at the time, but adult me wouldn't dream of recreating such blasphemy today. My favorite coloring book as a kid was the MAJOR MATT MASON (Mattel's Man In Space). I probably put more work into that than any other coloring book, perhaps because the art was better than in any other such book I'd ever seen.
Decades later, I dug it out, and noticed, it may be the only such book that listed who the artist was: DAN SPIEGLE! Whoa. I fell in love with his somewhat-"rough" work on BLACKHAWK (the only "Earth-1" version they ever did).
Part of me would love to get another copy of that coloring book-- scan it into my computer-- and color the whole thing, in Photoshop!
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 6, 2022 18:34:08 GMT -5
Full-colour interior, Hardcover MAD is awesome....this is from 2012. B&W sucks hehe
Years ago I bought a stack of mostly coverless Mad magazines from the 60's-70's Thinking I could enjoy those Movie and TV parodies. What a bummer, I felt nothing. |
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Post by Confessor on Feb 6, 2022 18:58:22 GMT -5
Full-colour interior, Hardcover MAD is awesome....this is from 2012. B&W sucks hehe Years ago I bought a stack of mostly coverless Mad magazines from the 60's-70's Thinking I could enjoy those Movie and TV parodies. What a bummer, I felt nothing. Aww, man... MAD movie satires from the 60s, 70s and 80s are the best! |
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Post by Batflunkie on Feb 6, 2022 20:17:35 GMT -5
Oh, my god. How did Peter Milligan and Mike Allred get put in charge of an X-book? Their X-Force is so subversive. It's great! At the time, I was so F****** fed up, it was the only "X"-book I would go anywhere near. I'm partial to David's X-Factor, Generation X, and to a lesser extent, Alpha Flight and Excalibur
But honestly, if I want X-Men, I tend to go off-brand. I think Valiant's Harbinger, Eclipse's DNAgents, and Comico's Elementals handled a lot of ideas in X-Men in far more interesting and unique ways
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2022 23:07:59 GMT -5
Batman and Superman really hate each other...say it isn't so lol
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