|
Post by Rob Allen on Jun 13, 2018 13:46:18 GMT -5
I forgot to post about this: a few weeks ago, I attended the annual Memorial Day ceremony in Beaverton, OR, which is put on by the local American Legion post. In this picture, I'm the one in the red shirt on the far left, that you can only see half of: We're all looking up at a flyover by the local Air National Guard. The thing that makes this event relevant to this board: the American Legion Post Commander and emcee of this event is a gentleman named Steve Gerber.
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2018 20:47:49 GMT -5
Unbelievable YouTube
Crazy Romance Story - Hollywood Fitting Material
|
|
|
Post by Cei-U! on Jun 14, 2018 18:09:55 GMT -5
It's been one of those days where I've been forced to wade through what are possibly the worst "professional" comics ever published. It's all I can do not to go running into traffic while simultaneously laughing maniacally and sobbing uncontrollably. Damn you, Victor Fox!
Cei-U! I try to summon the will to go on!
|
|
|
Post by Icctrombone on Jun 14, 2018 18:16:14 GMT -5
Does it make Liefeld look like Alan Moore?
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2018 18:49:59 GMT -5
It's been one of those days where I've been forced to wade through what are possibly the worst "professional" comics ever published. It's all I can do not to go running into traffic while simultaneously laughing maniacally and sobbing uncontrollably. Damn you, Victor Fox! Cei-U! I try to summon the will to go on!
Even the best jobs can feel like work and drudgery on the worst days. When I was freelancing in the rpg industry, there were days I hated D&D even though I loved D&D (spending about 4 hours crunching numbers to stat out a simple peasant because you have to cover all the minutiae for published adventures will do that to you) and I can empathize with what you are going through. Everyone thinks-oh writing about something you love is the best job ever, and many days it is, but then there are others where you come to loathe the thing you love and curse the job. It passes though (usually, unless you have reached the breaking point and it;s time to get out). Hopefully tomorrow will bring better things (and better comics) to the job. -M
|
|
|
Post by Cei-U! on Jun 14, 2018 19:24:06 GMT -5
Does it make Liefeld look like Alan Moore? It makes Liefeld look like Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and Beethoven rolled into one.
Cei-U! We're talking Olympic-level awful here!
|
|
|
Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jun 15, 2018 9:11:08 GMT -5
I got this in my Pinterest feed and thought I’d share it here.
|
|
|
Post by Prince Hal on Jun 15, 2018 10:47:08 GMT -5
Did you catch this story, with its mention a few grafs in of an all-time favorite site of many of us here? www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/technology/personaltech/technology-comic-books.html"And I need to give a shout out to Mike’s Amazing World of Comics, a fan-produced site that has a searchable archive that includes the cover, publication date and details about the book’s characters and story. I turn to it often to fact-check dates — or to get lost in nostalgia." Bravo, Mike, aka dcindexer!
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2018 14:11:38 GMT -5
Did you catch this story, with its mention a few grafs in of an all-time favorite site of many of us here? www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/technology/personaltech/technology-comic-books.html"And I need to give a shout out to Mike’s Amazing World of Comics, a fan-produced site that has a searchable archive that includes the cover, publication date and details about the book’s characters and story. I turn to it often to fact-check dates — or to get lost in nostalgia." Bravo, Mike, aka dcindexer! Interesting little article overall too. -M
|
|
|
Post by Cei-U! on Jun 15, 2018 21:14:24 GMT -5
Frustrated though I may be by the abysmal quality of Victor Fox's second try at publishing comics, I must admit to a certain amount of pride I'm taking in straightening out the tangled timeline of his 1944 output (which includes books issued through two proxies, Wm. H. Wise & Co and R. W. Voight), something nobody has yet tackled with much success judging by the GCD, the Who's Who of American Comic Books, and other sources. Unfortunately, this has required actually *reading* the bloody things but whatcha gonna do?
Cei-U! I summon the sense of accomplishment!
|
|
|
Post by EdoBosnar on Jun 16, 2018 3:01:27 GMT -5
You mean the Fox Feature Syndicate comics? I was just looking over the listing at the Digital Comic Museum, there's a ton of titles listed there. I'm assuming his second attempt is the material from the later 1940s and I thought some of that stuff, like the Phantom Lady with Matt Baker doing the art, was considered pretty good.
|
|
|
Post by Cei-U! on Jun 16, 2018 7:09:08 GMT -5
You mean the Fox Feature Syndicate comics? I was just looking over the listing at the Digital Comic Museum, there's a ton of titles listed there. I'm assuming his second attempt is the material from the later 1940s and I thought some of that stuff, like the Phantom Lady with Matt Baker doing the art, was considered pretty good. Baker (and Phantom Lady) came aboard in '47 when Fox switched packaging services from the Lou Ferstadt studio to Roche & Iger. It's the Ferstadt material from '44 that is so gawdawful.
Cei-U! I summon the clarification!
|
|
|
Post by EdoBosnar on Jun 16, 2018 14:04:57 GMT -5
Hmm, interesting. Thanks for the info.
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2018 20:59:25 GMT -5
Green Lake on Hawaii's Kilauea volcano lava claims a legendary victim
This is so sad to see it gone ...
|
|
|
Post by Icctrombone on Jun 17, 2018 17:56:48 GMT -5
Happy Father's Day everyone!
|
|