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Post by MDG on Oct 11, 2023 14:16:08 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 11, 2023 10:22:15 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 10, 2023 10:00:55 GMT -5
chaykinstevens
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Post by MDG on Oct 10, 2023 9:59:48 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 10, 2023 9:53:40 GMT -5
The Irwin Allen Lost World was just on. Cheezy fun that I loved as a child. But even then the live lizards with glue on horns were more nutsy than scary. I found out that Allen wanted to use stop motion, but Fox cut the budget to sink more into Cleopatra. Another fun fact from IMDB is Gil Kane drew a movie adaptation for Dell. Seeing some of the pages, it would have been a much better movie if it looked like what Gil drew. Interesting--I always wondered what kind of editorial/art direction artists got from Dell, because there was an unmistakable house style in their non-cartoon books. Page layout and composition was always pretty straightforward, and less stylistic "tics" by artists compared to their work for DC or Marvel (thinking here of Sekowsky, Wood, Dominguez, Kane here--even Ditko). GCD lists Mike Peppe as the inker. This blogger says that Steve Bissette contend that these are Alex Toth pencils, but I don't buy it. Maybe layouts, but that's definitely a Gil kane woman.
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Post by MDG on Oct 9, 2023 20:29:21 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 9, 2023 12:22:49 GMT -5
And though it was woefully short-lived, I always felt the romance between Bruce Wayne and Silver St. Cloud had real possibilities. Cei-U! I summon the incurable romantic in me! Yep! Yeah, but I considered it a blessing that writers other than Englehart didn't try to monkey with it (far as I know).
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Post by MDG on Oct 9, 2023 12:19:50 GMT -5
Meanwhile, and sorry to be negative, Marvel will continue with its 3,456 tie-in issues to “Hulk’s War on Asgard II” arc. How depressing!
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If you think that Disney/Marvel or Warner/Discovery/DC really care about their comics output, try actually reading any title published by them in the last couple of years. I challenge you-- unless you are into talking heads continuously waxing philosophic about ideology rhetoric of some sort. Actually for me, I don't care about that so much as I care about the fact that the quality of art has really taken a downward slide in recent years. If the art sucks, I might as well not even buy comics, I'll just stick to novels for decent storytelling and visualize it all in my brain.
I look at very little, but I've been seeing a lot of good art. In fact, I read the recent Human Target mini, and the art--technically--was among the best I've seen in comics.
However, even with that series, the art rarely added narratively or did any of the heavy lifting in the storytelling. Beautiful to look at, but it's a talky, talky book--often rehashing the same points every issue. And a lot of "inside baseball," where Human Target is one of the few characters where you can stay away from the rest of the DCU and have a great story.
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Post by MDG on Oct 9, 2023 12:10:46 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 9, 2023 12:07:17 GMT -5
This is the DC Universe! These fantastic things are not unbelievable or impossible to accept! We've got aliens from Krypton, Amazons, talking gorillas, faceless alien giants, time travel, cave monsters, all sorts of strange things. But there are an awful lot of fakers with some reason to try to scam Roy Raymond and Karen! One thing I've noticed is that Roy Raymond makes a lot more sense than Dr. Thirteen! Those Phantom Stranger stories might be a lot more tolerable if they had substituted Roy Raymond and Karen for Dr. Thirteen. As I was reading this, I was thinking before you mentioned it about Dr. Thirteen and those many Phantom Stranger stories where he's positive PS is putting one over on him no matter what he sees with his own eyes. Thirteen comes out looking like a bigger jerk each issue.
It's not just that they live in a universe where things like talking gorillas are almost common, but where it's acknowledged that Superman, a figure [sarcasm] firmly rooted in science [/sarcasm] only has two weaknesses and one of them is magic!
Well, it turns out that the Crimson Knight is actually a Gotham gangster called Dick Lyons. Guess he was just a lyin' Dick, amirite?
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Post by MDG on Oct 9, 2023 6:32:00 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 8, 2023 15:52:11 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 8, 2023 11:54:32 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 7, 2023 17:52:43 GMT -5
Just wanted to say, I forgot how much I loved this series. Sometimes a concept comes along that particularly throws you a curve ball, this was pretty unexpected and brilliant IMO. Concrete is wonderful. Apparently, Chadwick is working on a new story. I was following when he was putting put periodic 4-part minis and they were all very well done.
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Post by MDG on Oct 7, 2023 17:44:23 GMT -5
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