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Post by tarkintino on Sept 18, 2024 18:17:27 GMT -5
Fish Police Hairballs #1 (October, 1997). 
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Post by chaykinstevens on Sept 19, 2024 3:51:19 GMT -5
According to GCD, that one was from October 1987. I think it's time to choose another company to move on to.
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Post by jason on Sept 19, 2024 9:38:10 GMT -5
According to GCD, that one was from October 1987. I think it's time to choose another company to move on to. Now or Continuity would be good choices IMO. |
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Post by foxley on Sept 19, 2024 11:05:36 GMT -5
According to GCD, that one was from October 1987. I think it's time to choose another company to move on to. Now or Continuity would be good choices IMO. Or Innovation. |
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Post by tarkintino on Sept 19, 2024 16:35:04 GMT -5
According to GCD, that one was from October 1987. I think it's time to choose another company to move on to. Now or Continuity would be good choices IMO. Interesting choice. |
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Post by chaykinstevens on Sept 20, 2024 14:27:54 GMT -5
I'll create a new thread for Now shortly, and we can do Continuity and Innovation later.
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 20, 2024 20:54:40 GMT -5
I'll create a new thread for Now shortly, and we can do Continuity and Innovation later. If we do Continuity, we need to have the long breaks between issues, like the company did, while the material sat on Neal's desk, waiting for him to finish his commercial work to approve it. |
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Post by Calidore on Sept 20, 2024 23:14:03 GMT -5
I'll create a new thread for Now shortly, and we can do Continuity and Innovation later. If we do Continuity, we need to have the long breaks between issues, like the company did, while the material sat on Neal's desk, waiting for him to finish his commercial work to approve it. "Classic Continuity covers - year by year" |
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 20, 2024 23:52:17 GMT -5
If we do Continuity, we need to have the long breaks between issues, like the company did, while the material sat on Neal's desk, waiting for him to finish his commercial work to approve it. "Classic Continuity covers - year by year" I was over at Mike's Amazing World, just to see how bad the gaps were....man, they didn't even manage quarterly! Here and there, there are minor pockets where they got a couple of books out within 3 months, one brief stretch of monthly (for about 3-4 months). Funny, though, Mike's is missing some titles, like Toyboy and Zero Patrol, Echoes of Future Past, Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, Hybrids, Shaman and Urth 4. So, Mike's Amazing World may not be the best reference to use, on that one. |
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Post by Calidore on Sept 21, 2024 9:17:35 GMT -5
"Classic Continuity covers - year by year" I was over at Mike's Amazing World, just to see how bad the gaps were....man, they didn't even manage quarterly! Here and there, there are minor pockets where they got a couple of books out within 3 months, one brief stretch of monthly (for about 3-4 months). Funny, though, Mike's is missing some titles, like Toyboy and Zero Patrol, Echoes of Future Past, Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, Hybrids, Shaman and Urth 4. So, Mike's Amazing World may not be the best reference to use, on that one. Haning out in my comic shop on release day back in the day, we would jokingly treat the appearance of a new Continuity issue like a sighting of Bigfoot. Ms. Mystic was the biggest joke--I think the first two issues were a couple of years apart.
Their comics looked nice, but the focus was definitely on art, not writing. I did buy Echo of Futurepast, though, as that was a reprint anthology that had some nice stuff. It was also their only book that came out somewhat regularly.
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 21, 2024 17:55:36 GMT -5
I was over at Mike's Amazing World, just to see how bad the gaps were....man, they didn't even manage quarterly! Here and there, there are minor pockets where they got a couple of books out within 3 months, one brief stretch of monthly (for about 3-4 months). Funny, though, Mike's is missing some titles, like Toyboy and Zero Patrol, Echoes of Future Past, Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, Hybrids, Shaman and Urth 4. So, Mike's Amazing World may not be the best reference to use, on that one. Haning out in my comic shop on release day back in the day, we would jokingly treat the appearance of a new Continuity issue like a sighting of Bigfoot. Ms. Mystic was the biggest joke--I think the first two issues were a couple of years apart.
Their comics looked nice, but the focus was definitely on art, not writing. I did buy Echo of Futurepast, though, as that was a reprint anthology that had some nice stuff. It was also their only book that came out somewhat regularly.
I picked up 3 or 4 back issues; a couple of Megaliths and an Armor or two. I could never get past the garish coloring to enjoy the art. They had the most unique coloring on the stands; lots of orange and purple in there....just weird hues. Megalith had a decent premise, though the science behind it was laughable. The stories, however were just all over the place, with terrible dialogue and generic plots. Armor seemed to exist to justify gratuitous violence. I tried an issue of Samuree, with Charke Hawbaker on art and I couldn't make heads or tails out of the "story." Mostly seemed to be an excuse for gratuitous but and crotch shots. I picked it up after seeing his Nomad art and noticing the Mike Grell influence (and then the Acclaim reprint of Starslayer, where he touched up Grell's art, from scans). I met him a couple of years later and asked him about Continuity. He said everything sat on Neal's desk until he looked at it, approved or corrected it and then went to a printer. His commercial work came first. Heck, I get that; with a release schedule like that you are never going to be earning enough profit through publishing. I eventually got digital copies, along with a bunch of Pacific books, and gave up trying to read the stuff. The really weird one was Zero Patrol. It is Esteban Maroto's Cinco Por Infinito, hos seminal breakout work, from Spain, from the late 60s and early 70s. It's considered a masterpiece of science fiction & fantasy, in Europe. Neal gutted the story, replaced it with some insanity, then redrew figures over Maroto's artwork. You could barely detect any element of his style in there. Luckily, I got my hand on a digital copy of the collected original, a little while back, and can read enough Spanish to follow the story, along with the art. |
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Post by Calidore on Sept 21, 2024 19:50:20 GMT -5
Haning out in my comic shop on release day back in the day, we would jokingly treat the appearance of a new Continuity issue like a sighting of Bigfoot. Ms. Mystic was the biggest joke--I think the first two issues were a couple of years apart.
Their comics looked nice, but the focus was definitely on art, not writing. I did buy Echo of Futurepast, though, as that was a reprint anthology that had some nice stuff. It was also their only book that came out somewhat regularly.
I could never get past the garish coloring to enjoy the art. They had the most unique coloring on the stands; lots of orange and purple in there....just weird hues. Maybe that was the idea, making them stand out. They certainly did that.
Amazing story about Zero Patrol, too. I remember the book, though not whether I read any of it. Amazing that Neal Adams would disrespect another artist's work like that.
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Post by jason on Sept 21, 2024 20:58:26 GMT -5
Dont forget this ad which strikes of desperation:  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 21, 2024 21:29:10 GMT -5
Dont forget this ad which strikes of desperation: Pretty sure that violates most 'truth in advertising" laws.  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 21, 2024 21:29:47 GMT -5
ps, never realized it until I looked at that image, how much Megalith was modeled on Neal.
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