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Post by tingramretro on Jan 28, 2017 9:58:59 GMT -5
We did Kitty Pride, and Wolverine, so how about Jubilee? My fave was always the yellow trench coat, with the blue gloves, shorts and boots. My favourite Jubilee costume woud be the one the annoying, obnoxious little brat wore in the issues she wasn't actually contaminating with her irritating and unnecessary presence.  |
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 28, 2017 3:40:40 GMT -5
R.I.P. John Hurt. Dead at 77 from cancer. Actualy, no cause of death has yet been confirmed. Sir John's cancer was reported as being in remission, but he'd had other health issues since. |
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 28, 2017 3:12:59 GMT -5
Sir John Hurt, who played the Doctor's secret incarnation, the War Doctor, has died aged 77 after a spate of health problems including a battle against cancer which he seemed to have won. A sad loss to the world of entertainment.
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 27, 2017 10:09:44 GMT -5
I loved all the team-up books but I was always more Marvel than DC as a kid, so while I'd happily vote for B&B or DCCP, being limited to three choices means it really has to be MTIO (easily my favourite team-up book ever, particularly that early eighties run that included The Pegasus Project, the Warlock trilogy and The Serpent Crown Affair), MTU and, just for being the best "buddy" book ever, Power Man & Iron Fist. I also loved SVTU, but despite the title, I'm not sure most of its run really qualifies as a team-up book; it was more often Namor and various random characters opposing Dr. Doom.
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 26, 2017 9:22:41 GMT -5
Just been watching BBC News. If I have gathered correctly, our Prime Minister's advisors are rather concerned that she is flying out to present Donald Trump with a gift that signifies peace and tolerance when he's just announced he'd quite like to legalize torture, while Mr. Trump has now tweeted that if Mexico isn't willing to pay for his wall, he thinks their impending diplomatic visit should be cancelled. Is he really trying to antagonize the rest of the world, or does he just not care how he's viewed outside the US?
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 26, 2017 8:26:42 GMT -5
I used to work in magazine publishing. You may not think the current price point is delivering value, but they are not making much money from it. And publishing thicker books would not be cheaper. Hey tingram, I'd love to know how much money goes into the talent and how much goes into the printing aspect of a comic book. It seems to me that a digital comic should be cheaper because it doesn't use ink ,paper , staples etc. Logically, yes. If it's the same in the US as it is here, and I imagine it is, of the cover price of each book, roughly half is going to the retailer, not the publisher. Rounding down rather than trying to be entrely accurate, admittedly, they are not selling a book to you for $3.99, they are selling it to the store for $2.00. Of the costs the publisher then has to meet from their half, the largest is probably distribution, as Diamond pretty much have a monopoly. Then there's the print cost, and below that the cost of paying the creators. |
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 25, 2017 14:34:47 GMT -5
The part of floppies that I can't understand is--even at the current price point which doesn't seem to deliver much value (reading time) for the cost--how much more it it must cost publishers and retailers to manage dozens of thin books rather than put out a few books (or thicker anthologies if they want to stay with a periodical model) each month. If they looked more like "magazines," publishers could probably generate more ad revenue as well. Of course, one reason to keep floppies is to help maintain buyers' "weekly habit." I used to work in magazine publishing. You may not think the current price point is delivering value, but they are not making much money from it. And publishing thicker books would not be cheaper. |
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 25, 2017 12:43:53 GMT -5
The floppy format does not fit with the way modern audiences consume their narrative entertainment at all. It is too short a segment of the whole, too infrequently released, and overpriced. It is only available in inconvenient niche market outlets and does not reach enough of an audience to be relevant to anyone who did not already grow up reading the format, which is an aging, disappearing customer base, and it is not attracting a new audience to replace them. The characters are. Panels and pages in other formats are. Floppies are not. Hence it has outlived its usefulness as a format to deliver the content (i.e. art & stories) to a mass audience cheaply which is what the format was intended to do when it was put together in the 1930s. Back issue sales were never part of the intended use of the format and is irrelevant to its continued suitability as a delivery system for content to a mass audience. -M Curses. MRP beat me too it. I hate posting just to agree. But this is spot on. The floppy format is a dinosaur kept around for hard-core collectors. I don't believe this is the standard format in any other countries...though I'll be happy to be corrected. Really? There are still plenty of old fashioned paper and ink comics on newagents shelves in the UK (where, incidentally, we had a thriving comics industry long before the 1930s that MRP mentioned; I have British comics in my collection from before the first world war, and they'd been around for decades even by then). Admittedly, there are nowhere near as many as there were thirty years ago, but the weekly or monthly publication (I refuse to use the term "floppies") is still standard. When the long running war title Commando began offering a digital version, subscriptions to the print version went up by about two thirds. |
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 25, 2017 11:48:32 GMT -5
I am stunned by that comment. I can only assume it was a joke, otherwise it makes no sense to me at all. The floppy format does not fit with the way modern audiences consume their narrative entertainment at all. It is too short a segment of the whole, too infrequently released, and overpriced. It is only available in inconvenient niche market outlets and does not reach enough of an audience to be relevant to anyone who did not already grow up reading the format, which is an aging, disappearing customer base, and it is not attracting a new audience to replace them. The characters are. Panels and pages in other formats are. Floppies are not. Hence it has outlived its usefulness as a format to deliver the content (i.e. art & stories) to a mass audience cheaply which is what the format was intended to do when it was put together in the 1930s. Back issue sales were never part of the intended use of the format and is irrelevant to its continued suitability as a delivery system for content to a mass audience. -M Well so long as that "ageing, disappearing customer base" has not yet disappeared, it has not yet outlived its usefulness. |
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 25, 2017 10:30:14 GMT -5
And yet floppy is the format for which the art and panel arrangements were intended; not the bristol board. That can't be dismissed or minimized. Also: comic art is not "fine art." It was created to be printed. Also, without getting into the whole "what is work for hire?" argument, for most of the history of comics, and generally through today, people are hired to write and draw stories because the publisher wanted/needed to put a book out. With undergrounds and later companies like Fantagraphics, publishers are willing to publish "personal" work, but everything is still created to be printed. That said, I've started buying comics on digital because I have enough "stuff." I want to read something, not own it. The fact that so much is available digitally and in (relatively, compared to original printings) low-priced reprints is a godsend for those of us who started collecting at a time when tracking down originals was the only way to read stuff. Finally, as much as many of us (like me) love the floppy format, it's outlived its usefulness and is probably holding comics back.I am stunned by that comment. I can only assume it was a joke, otherwise it makes no sense to me at all. |
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 25, 2017 7:14:24 GMT -5
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 25, 2017 4:23:47 GMT -5
I am with tingramretro. I actually refuse to read a story unless it is in my collection in some floppy format. So I have never read an easily obtainable issue (online, digital, reprint format) of ASM #129 because I want to own it in some way before I do. I need the real deal. Maybe when I am older and it becomes financially impossible to get the books I want but I can still find deals and make it work without spending a fortune. I also find that, of the few newer comics I have read online, I hated it because it wasn't in my hands. The art was removed from its original place, on the pages and that did not work for me. Exactly how I feel. I just cannot sit and relax and read for pleasure off a screen. Not a book, or a comic. It just doesn't work for me. And as far as I'm concerned, if you buy digital, you don't end up actually owning anything. |
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 25, 2017 3:55:46 GMT -5
Ah, good memories of a wasted youth watching Red Dwarf and Doctor Who on the local PBS on a Friday night. I wouldn't call that wasted! |
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 24, 2017 17:18:53 GMT -5
And it's such a shame we'll never see those days again.
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 24, 2017 17:16:58 GMT -5
Actually, I don't consider an anti-abortion to be as valid as any other. I consider it ridiculous, in the early 21st century. Ridiculous, oppressive and inhumane. Nobody has any right to tell anyone ele what they can or cannot do with their own body. That should be self evident. Yeah, well, I meant valid in the sense that it can be an internally consistent argument, not that I adhere to it. If one considers an embryo to be a human being, the "I can do what I want with my body" argument cannot be received because we are not free to do what we want with our bodies if it hurts someone else. Defending an anti-abortion stance is therefore not de facto illogical; it depends on our premises. I wonder if we could have a thread on abortion without breaking the internet in half. It would probably be interesting, because at the core of this subject is the fundamental question "what makes a human being a human being and what rights should it have". An embryo is not a human being. It's a collection of cells with the potential to become one. It's not a person. |
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