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Post by foxley on Nov 27, 2022 0:01:33 GMT -5
So Latveria, Wakanda, Rudyarda, Terra Verda, Santo Marco, Costa Verde, Delvadia, etc. were all countries in the real world during the 1960s?
Or does the real world stop at the NY city limits?
Not stop, but... Hey foxley, I hope you know my tongue is firmly in my cheek in all of this. I know.
Just be aware that the late, great Douglas Adams once described Australians has having the most finely tuned sense of irony in the world.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2022 16:14:10 GMT -5
Wow:
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Post by Batflunkie on Nov 28, 2022 20:49:44 GMT -5
It would be nice if Marvel actually planned something around that. Maybe christening Steve's time of enlistment "Captain America Day"? New Orleans has one for Valiant's Shadowman
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 29, 2022 14:48:09 GMT -5
It would be nice if Marvel actually planned something around that. Maybe christening Steve's time of enlistment "Captain America Day"? New Orleans has one for Valiant's Shadowman Steve Rogers' birthday is established as July 4, 1918 in the MCU and July 4, 1920 in the comics. So either way his 100th birthday has come and gone.
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Post by tonebone on Nov 30, 2022 10:00:54 GMT -5
Good point supercat. We can cringe now at some of what Stan did with "real people with real problems" but they did feel like real people that we could relate to. This was not the case with DC heroes. Not that one is superior to the other, just a matter of preference in your comic book reading. I always saw Stan's adults as more or less realistic... whereas the adults in DC at the time were what a kid thought adults were like.
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Post by Batflunkie on Nov 30, 2022 18:43:43 GMT -5
Good point supercat. We can cringe now at some of what Stan did with "real people with real problems" but they did feel like real people that we could relate to. This was not the case with DC heroes. Not that one is superior to the other, just a matter of preference in your comic book reading. I always saw Stan's adults as more or less realistic... whereas the adults in DC at the time were what a kid thought adults were like. I feel like I've said this before, but a lot of the early Marvel books read like a really bad soap opera. But at the time it must have seemed fairly revolutionary
I think Kirby and Stan might have done that intentionally what with Simon and Kirby pioneering the Romance comic
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Post by kirby101 on Nov 30, 2022 19:21:23 GMT -5
Stan's main writing in the 50s was Westerns and Teen books. The soap opera stuff is what he was good at.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2022 0:23:59 GMT -5
It seems writer Peter David has suffered multiple strokes and is currently hospitalized. Comics Beat has the story plus info about a gofundme set up to help defray his medical costs if anyone is inclined to support. -M
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Post by tonebone on Dec 2, 2022 10:09:17 GMT -5
It seems writer Peter David has suffered multiple strokes and is currently hospitalized. Comics Beat has the story plus info about a gofundme set up to help defray his medical costs if anyone is inclined to support. -M Marvel is pumping out Omnibus editions of his Hulk material like mad fiends... hopefully he's seeing some of that money coming his way... if not, shame on Marvel.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2022 11:44:46 GMT -5
I think we’ve found remnants of the Cosmic Cube:
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Post by tonebone on Dec 2, 2022 22:25:38 GMT -5
Has anyone dared to watch Slumberland on Netflix. It's Little Nemo in Slumberland, but with Jason Momoa (with ram's horns) as Flip and a girl as Nemo. I'm going to make a Marmaduke series, but with Marmaduke being a stay-at-home-mom, played by Matthew Perry.
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Post by kirby101 on Dec 2, 2022 23:14:12 GMT -5
I watched it. It's a cute move, but very loosely based.
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Post by commond on Dec 3, 2022 7:04:17 GMT -5
I came across an amusing typo in Savage Sword of Conan recently. The letterer meant to write "armor" but wrote "namor" instead.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2022 10:20:41 GMT -5
The great Sergio Aragones Happy Holidays! -M
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 3, 2022 12:26:49 GMT -5
Has anyone dared to watch Slumberland on Netflix. It's Little Nemo in Slumberland, but with Jason Momoa (with ram's horns) as Flip and a girl as Nemo. I'm going to make a Marmaduke series, but with Marmaduke being a stay-at-home-mom, played by Matthew Perry. No, but I have seen and used to own the VHS of the animated movie, also very loosely based on the strip. Neither can touch the original. Nemo and his pals also appeared in very early animation, as creator Winsor McKay was one of the pioneers of line animation, with Gertie the Dinosaur. McKay used them for at least one short film, some footage of which appears in the Comics, The 9th Art documentary series, which was distributed by White Star Home Video, on VHS, in the early 90s (great documentary series about world comic book history, up to the late 80s). EDIT: Comics, The 9th Art was actually originally broadcast on Yorkshire TV, in 1990, with White Star distributing it, in the US, on VHS, in 4 volumes. Lot of great footage and interviews in there, including Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Will Eisner, Richard Corben, Howard Chaykin, Alan Moore, Moebius, Charles Schulz, Osamu Tezuka, Quino (Mafalda creator), Druillet, Mort Walker, and others. It covers comics, from the turn of the century, to the late 80s, with special emphasis on the US, the UK, Europe and a whole segment on manga history. It was where I was exposed to a lot of European imagery, like Bilal and Giardino, before I got my hands on some of the Heavy Metal back issues and the Catalan Communications and NBM English translated albums. Some discrepancies, here and there, but mostly pretty good stuff and some gorgeous imagery. Couple of episodes up on Youtube, including 1940-50s and Europe in 1975-1985, which features Judge Dredd.
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