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Post by tarkintino on Jun 6, 2023 6:06:51 GMT -5
Except the times its getting its ass kicked by a giant ape...
Oh...and Bob Larkin's work was such a treasure for any publication he enhanced. There. I said it!
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 6, 2023 7:03:14 GMT -5
I’ve never seen a cover with a shark that I didn’t love.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 6, 2023 7:15:10 GMT -5
I admit to having a blind spot when it comes to Will Eisner. I don’t recognize his greatness because he never really did comic books as we know them. There I said it.
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Post by commond on Jun 6, 2023 7:26:18 GMT -5
But he did graphic novels.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 6, 2023 8:04:16 GMT -5
But he did graphic novels. ...not to mention co-creatig most of the original Fox (Blue Beetle, The Flame, Samson) and Quality (Doll Man, Uncle Sam, Blackhawk) heroes.
Cei-U! I summon the solid track record!
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Post by Confessor on Jun 6, 2023 8:09:25 GMT -5
Eisner was amazing. The colour Spirit sections alone are some really fun, breathtakingly inventive and beautifully rendered comics. But on top of that, A Contract with God is rightly recognised as a masterpiece.
In fact, for my money, Eisner's The Spirit is waaay better than most of what Timely, DC, Fawcett etc were putting out in the 1940s in comic books as we know them.
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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 6, 2023 9:00:27 GMT -5
I’ve never seen a cover with a shark that I didn’t love.
Try looking for this when you're scrounging the dollar bins. It's an absolutely insane read.
There are also a couple of other variant covers--
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 6, 2023 9:01:48 GMT -5
Eisner was amazing. The colour Spirit sections alone are some really fun, breathtakingly inventive and beautifully rendered comics. But on top of that, A Contract with God is rightly recognised as a masterpiece. In fact, for my money, Eisner's The Spirit is waaay better than most of what Timely, DC, Fawcett etc were putting out in the 1940s in comic books as we know them. I have read some Spirit comic strips and it wasn’t my cup of tea. |
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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 6, 2023 9:06:04 GMT -5
Eisner was amazing. The colour Spirit sections alone are some really fun, breathtakingly inventive and beautifully rendered comics. But on top of that, A Contract with God is rightly recognised as a masterpiece. In fact, for my money, Eisner's The Spirit is waaay better than most of what Timely, DC, Fawcett etc were putting out in the 1940s in comic books as we know them. I have read some Spirit comic strips and it wasn’t my cup of tea.
It might be your subconscious fear of characters with feet. If you see feet in the panel, put your finger over them, and it will probably increase your enjoyment of the story by making the artwork seem more familiar.
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Post by MDG on Jun 6, 2023 10:25:23 GMT -5
I admit to having a blind spot when it comes to Will Eisner. I don’t recognize his greatness because he never really did comic books as we know them. There I said it. Can you explain "comic books as we know them"?
For me, "comic books as we know them" includes stories from one-half to hundreds of pages, with continuing characters or characters that appear in only a single story (as well as different versions of continuing characters), created by anywhere from one to a half-dozen (or more) people, in any type of media from pencil to computer tablets, in a size from about the size of a stamp to the size of a small table....
I'm sure Eisner did something that fits in there.
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Post by tarkintino on Jun 6, 2023 10:46:03 GMT -5
I’ve never seen a cover with a shark that I didn’t love.
Try looking for this when you're scrounging the dollar bins. It's an absolutely insane read.
There are also a couple of other variant covers--
Comics' greatest best friends characters in trouble on that third variant cover? If its in the Life with Archie tradition, that's always a fun read. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 6, 2023 10:53:47 GMT -5
Speaking of which... We're WAY overdue for the conclusion of Afterlife with Archie.
We're getting into A Song of Ice and Fire territory, delay-wise!!!
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 6, 2023 12:40:42 GMT -5
I admit to having a blind spot when it comes to Will Eisner. I don’t recognize his greatness because he never really did comic books as we know them. There I said it. Can you explain "comic books as we know them"?
For me, "comic books as we know them" includes stories from one-half to hundreds of pages, with continuing characters or characters that appear in only a single story (as well as different versions of continuing characters), created by anywhere from one to a half-dozen (or more) people, in any type of media from pencil to computer tablets, in a size from about the size of a stamp to the size of a small table....
I'm sure Eisner did something that fits in there.
32 pages, 2 staples , continuing stories tied together in a monthly format. |
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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 6, 2023 12:46:45 GMT -5
Can you explain "comic books as we know them"?
For me, "comic books as we know them" includes stories from one-half to hundreds of pages, with continuing characters or characters that appear in only a single story (as well as different versions of continuing characters), created by anywhere from one to a half-dozen (or more) people, in any type of media from pencil to computer tablets, in a size from about the size of a stamp to the size of a small table....
I'm sure Eisner did something that fits in there.
32 pages, 2 staples , continuing stories tied together in a monthly format. While they were not 32 pages when they were published as a Sunday paper insert (7-8 pages per installment, with no ads), The Spirit had a multitude of ongoing storylines and sub-plots, a host of recurring villains and other characters, and it was weekly. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2023 13:23:29 GMT -5
Can you explain "comic books as we know them"?
For me, "comic books as we know them" includes stories from one-half to hundreds of pages, with continuing characters or characters that appear in only a single story (as well as different versions of continuing characters), created by anywhere from one to a half-dozen (or more) people, in any type of media from pencil to computer tablets, in a size from about the size of a stamp to the size of a small table.... I'm sure Eisner did something that fits in there.
32 pages, 2 staples , continuing stories tied together in a monthly format. Well that rules out Superman for the first half of his existence. It was mostly shorter standalone stories, many of which were in an anthology title called Action that featured several other short shorter features and the books both Action and Superman were more than 32 pages for much of their existence. And many of the DC titles, even when they went to 32 pages, weren't monthly but 8 times a year, and some were bi-monthly not monthly. But I guess comics as we know them is code for comics when you first saw them and prefer them, not as they actually were for much of the existence of the industry. -M |
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