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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2014 22:59:23 GMT -5
Top Ten Reasons why I love Comics:
#10: When rolled up, they fit easily in back pocket with plenty of room for sling-shot.
#9: Exchange rate with Baseball Cards highly favorable.
#8: Hologram covers make perfect signalling devices when lost in the woods.
#7: De-compressed story-telling allows characters to ruminate on vital issues in the style of CSPAN.
#6: CGC slabs double as cutting boards on "Stir-fry Night."
#5: Super-ventriloquism
#4: Pages turn easily, even when they are your older brother's copies.
#3: Jack and Woody (Sky Masters)
#2: The readers: best and worst thing ever to happen.
And the Number One reason I love Comics:
Giant-Size Man-Thing
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Dec 15, 2014 6:53:41 GMT -5
Arguing with (obviously) less intelligent friends about the best Avengers/JLA team members, or about whether Kirby could kick Ditkos ass, or what you do when you find that Action Comics #1 next week.
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Post by tolworthy on Dec 15, 2014 23:19:49 GMT -5
Why I love comics: efficient story telling.
Art and pictures can get more stuff into your mind more quickly than text alone or pictures alone. And unlike movies you choose your pace and how much to see.
Comics are just the most efficient medium in the world. It breaks my heart to see them try to copy movies. Decompression plus glossy paper and small print runs are economic suicide: it's killing comics. If you want a movie, watch a movie. Comics can be so much more, but nobody sees their potential.
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Post by hondobrode on Dec 15, 2014 23:29:10 GMT -5
Agree with tolworthy.
To me, comics are the ultimate form of expression and the perfect balance of visual and cerebral, both left and right brain at once.
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Post by dupersuper on Dec 16, 2014 2:32:11 GMT -5
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Post by DE Sinclair on Dec 18, 2014 15:04:42 GMT -5
The sheer unbridled creativity that comics have available to them. They can do stories with the work of a half dozen people that movies couldn't duplicate for hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2014 15:26:18 GMT -5
The sheer unbridled creativity that comics have available to them. They can do stories with the work of a half dozen people that movies couldn't duplicate for hundreds of millions of dollars. Excellent piece of writing ... just perfection! |
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 19, 2014 1:23:44 GMT -5
Every once in a while, I read something that works in exactly the right way on all the right levels.
Just last week, I read one of my favorite comics, something I came across two years ago and have only read two or three times.
Kamandi #7!!!!
Kamandi comes across a giant ape! It's two or three times taller than King Kong! It's name is Tiny! And it talks! And not only does it talk, it refers to itself in the third person! And it talks like Bizarro!
And it says stuff like:
TINY JUST WANT TOY! WHY DOES TOY SCREAM?
when it reaches for Kamandi (who has been tied up as an offering to Tiny), and later Tiny says:
TOY HIT TINY! TOY NOT LIKE TINY?
And later Tiny grabs Kamandi and climbs the highest tower in the Lion city and ... well, airplanes show up and it ends badly. And Kamandi's last word before the Next Issue blurb:
Even the ancients, with their imaginative movies, couldn't have produced anything like this!
Sure, Kamandi. Whatever you say, fella.
Another one that gets me every time is The Brave and the Bold #78. But we'll save that for another time. |
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Dec 23, 2014 3:25:29 GMT -5
The sheer unbridled creativity that comics have available to them. They can do stories with the work of a half dozen people that movies couldn't duplicate for hundreds of millions of dollars. Case in point below, see anything by Kirby in the 70s mate, he would have hollywood producers sweating. Every once in a while, I read something that works in exactly the right way on all the right levels.
Just last week, I read one of my favorite comics, something I came across two years ago and have only read two or three times.
Kamandi #7!!!!
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Post by DE Sinclair on Dec 23, 2014 9:58:35 GMT -5
The sheer unbridled creativity that comics have available to them. They can do stories with the work of a half dozen people that movies couldn't duplicate for hundreds of millions of dollars. Case in point below, see anything by Kirby in the 70s mate, he would have hollywood producers sweating. Every once in a while, I read something that works in exactly the right way on all the right levels.
Just last week, I read one of my favorite comics, something I came across two years ago and have only read two or three times.
Kamandi #7!!!!
or When the phrase "unbridled creativity" is used with comics, Mr. Kirby was without a doubt the prime example. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2014 2:16:08 GMT -5
^^^JACK KIRBY, KAMANDI, one of the reasons I love comics too! Beautiful art!
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