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Post by MDG on Apr 2, 2024 12:03:22 GMT -5
Not to mention the "CD-ROMix"
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Post by MDG on Apr 2, 2024 9:57:21 GMT -5
The Atlas title I'm really curious about is Venus (and I know it's been reprinted) because of the weird twists and turns it took and some wildly bizarre covers.
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Post by MDG on Apr 2, 2024 9:53:28 GMT -5
chaykinstevens
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Post by MDG on Apr 2, 2024 9:51:02 GMT -5
Suicide is the end-game of cancel culture mobs. This time they succeeded, sadly. ...It's really a terrible waste of life. He was a talented and knowledgable guy. While the text messages he sent were definitely skeevy and not at all appropriate, it's not like he actually did anything criminal (as far as I'm aware). Taking his life over this seems really excessive, but maybe there was more going on in the background regarding his mental health than we know? This.
Really, I have no knowledge of what he was like in person and what was going on in his life, but the image he cultivated was that of a fighter and I was a little surprised in the days after the revelations that he didn't dig himself in deeper going on the attack. The silence didn't seem to fit the character.
It's a shame but does a pile-on like he got make someone feel like they have no options to do the thing they love anymore?
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Post by MDG on Apr 1, 2024 13:42:10 GMT -5
I think this was just another case, certainly one of the earlier ones, of trying to shoehorn a shared universe and expecting fanboys to slaver over it. And it hasn't stopped. Now we see it with movies where everyone and their dog thinks that they can just slap together a shared universe and everyone will lick it up because there was one that was successful before. Except that the ones that were successful developed over time and gradually became what they were over time and with some good (and some bad) product. Yeah--one of the attractions of the early independents was that each book was it's own thing, driven by a creator who was invested in that book. So First had American Flagg, Mars, Grimjack, Sable, etc., and they all looked and felt unique. You followed some, didn't follow others, but probably enjoyed them more because of that. I do think that starting with eight books was far too many. I was buying quite a few comics in 1986, but there was absolutely no way I could justify jumping on the the bandwagon for eight new books on top of the ones I was already buying. So I didn't buy any. I suspect I wasn't alone in that. If they had started with one or two quality books and tried to build on that, it might, just might, have been more successful. The later indies, like Malibu, assumed a shared universe. When my partner and I were shopping things around, part of the agreement was that characters could be used in other books or x-overs whether you liked it or not.
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Post by MDG on Apr 1, 2024 12:36:24 GMT -5
I had put in a post about how I was rereading my TNTT trades to see how well they held up. And while overall they are enjoyable the one thing that I can’t stand is Changeling. Gar’s super sexist remarks not to mention his one liners made me wish that after he was shocked by Terminator in issue 10 he died. Was this Marc Wolfman and Perez’s sensibilities? Just an observation. It's just how they handled his "characterization." In the Doom Patrol Gar was pretty much a brat.
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Post by MDG on Apr 1, 2024 9:54:36 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Mar 31, 2024 21:07:45 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Mar 31, 2024 14:52:19 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Mar 31, 2024 13:03:12 GMT -5
If this were a just world, this would be on any list of "keys"
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Post by MDG on Mar 31, 2024 12:59:31 GMT -5
I'll say this much, there's been quite a few channels aping the success of Cartoonist Kayfabe, so it's not a total loss. Though the dynamic with Ed and Jim was special. Ed dug his own grave and found out the hard way that screwing around like he did has consequences Any channels you recommend, Batflunkie? I was often pleasantly surprised at some of the folks Ed and Jim got to sit for an interview.
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Post by MDG on Mar 31, 2024 10:39:20 GMT -5
I’m reading ARRGH! 5 and surprised to see it’s all reprints from Andre and Esposito’s 50s book GET LOST! Checking GCD, looks like every issue had at least one 50s reprint.
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Post by MDG on Mar 31, 2024 9:55:11 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Mar 31, 2024 9:44:47 GMT -5
So, I checked to see what the latest Cartoonist Kayfabe videos were and apparently Ed Piskor has been cancelled and Jim Rugg has ended their professional relationship. I was wondering when that would be mentioned here. I'm on one of the Kayfabe FB groups, and it almost felt over the past week that folks were getting a little fed up with Ed and looking for a chance to dump him. I hope Jim is able to land on his feet. Personally, I'm pissed because Switchblade Shorties is the first of Ed's projects that I've really enjoyed. (I didn't even bother with Red Room -- it just seemed like something I didn't want to subject myself to.)
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Post by MDG on Mar 30, 2024 16:46:43 GMT -5
"Key" issues are a matter of complete indifference to me. Or, everyone has their own keys. Don't let others tell you what you're supposed to love.
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