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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 5, 2015 10:59:06 GMT -5
WAUUGH!! I wish I would have thought of this one first. Get Down America!
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 5, 2015 10:55:03 GMT -5
Oh, since DE Sinclair mentioned Levitz' Legion and the All-Star Comics revival, I'll add them to my list. The Levitz Legion might be my all time favorite run. Also, per Action Ace - Super Friends, JLA/ JSA and guest star team ups Long Live the Legion!
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 5, 2015 10:38:16 GMT -5
Everything and anything associated with life, humanity, art, nature, love, music, loyalty, bravery, hate, cooking*, lust, happiness, sadness, and a million other things are messy inexact things that can't be reduced to numbers and mathematics. If you try, they lose their magic, their soul.
It's my believe they can be, although I don't think humans will ever be able to do that, not while tied up by their current biological substrate. That makes me sad. And it's certainly not a world I want to live in.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 5, 2015 9:20:40 GMT -5
Hmmm... MRP's lenghty post my have deserved more than a mere quote as an answer, especially that one as many consider mathematics the prime tool to explain why gods don't exist. I was just respecting the source of the idea. A more atheist way of saying the same, would be: anything and everything can be mathematically modeled. Comics being a part of art, art being a part of human behavior, and humans being a part of the universe, I believe you can rate comics using numbers that would, ultimately, become objectifiable. I'm not claiming to be there, or anywhere near, but I'm convinced that, if you express your own opinion trough numbers, just by doing that, you can access a level of accuracy unavailable to adjectives. I've bolded the portion of your post that I'm responding to. And I couldn't disagree more strongly. Everything and anything associated with life, humanity, art, nature, love, music, loyalty, bravery, hate, cooking*, lust, happiness, sadness, and a million other things are messy inexact things that can't be reduced to numbers and mathematics. If you try, they lose their magic, their soul.
You can wake up tomorrow and declare that you love your wife 4.3% more than yesterday, or that the morning is 18% less beautiful than a week ago, but in the end they don't mean a thing, and the weather prediction that was exhaustively researched for this afternoon will probably be wrong.
* I threw in cooking because it always amuses me how much it annoys my daughter when I don't measure anything or use a recipe when creating a dish. She has to have exact measurements and recipes or it drives her crazy.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 4, 2015 9:07:04 GMT -5
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 3, 2015 17:29:21 GMT -5
Yay! New wheels!
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 3, 2015 14:13:26 GMT -5
foxley
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 3, 2015 9:29:04 GMT -5
Okay, I'll play. How about this panel from Dark Reign #1 Yeah, that's Namor the Submariner. Sorry Jez, no thong. So here, Namor looks like an over 50, down on his luck cabby. Not sure what the context is here, cause I never read the story, but I can't help but wonder if the next panel has him saying "Where to mac?". The rest of the panel is fine, but that's not Namor's face.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 3, 2015 9:23:51 GMT -5
I think this panel is extremely distasteful which appears to be exactly what he was going for. The face in particular succeeds and could have been the face for Lust of the Seven Deadly Sins. So this one is a win. A sleazy, slimy, wouldn't-touch-her-with-someone-else's-ten-foot-pole, win.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 3, 2015 9:02:57 GMT -5
DE Sinclair CCF Mod SquadYou can add me to the list of members here disliking bananas because about 75 percent of the time - I ended up throwing away an overripe banana in the garbage because no good to eat. That's exactly what me and my girlfriend were talking about a couple days ago because she brought bananas from the store and her boss had asked her to go on a four days business trip for work. She brought the bananas three days before her trip and got sidetracked and completely forgot about them. We both stopped buying them for good. So, she ended up throwing away a $1.30 worth of bananas and she couldn't use them at all. That's not good at all ... Yes, bananas need to ALLLL be eaten at lightning speed it seems. Mine are already yellowing and spotting (even though green in the store) the minute I walk in the door from purchasing them. I feed all my over-ripe bananas to my dog. He LOVES them. The second he hears me peel a banana, he runs into the kitchen and slips into Beg Mode. Poor dog.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 2, 2015 17:19:22 GMT -5
Fun fact, The US consumes 3.3 million tons of bananas each year... consumption chart-M On behalf of the ABL, I would like to thank everyone who consumes bananas so we don't have to look at or smell them. Keep up the good work, and remember, if there's bananas still on the shelf, you're not done.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 2, 2015 17:17:48 GMT -5
DE Sinclair CCF Mod SquadYou can add me to the list of members here disliking bananas because about 75 percent of the time - I ended up throwing away an overripe banana in the garbage because no good to eat. That's exactly what me and my girlfriend were talking about a couple days ago because she brought bananas from the store and her boss had asked her to go on a four days business trip for work. She brought the bananas three days before her trip and got sidetracked and completely forgot about them. We both stopped buying them for good. So, she ended up throwing away a $1.30 worth of bananas and she couldn't use them at all. That's not good at all ... Congratulations on your brand new membership. Rest assured that we will support you in your banana dislike from now on. One of us, one of us, one of us....
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 2, 2015 15:52:11 GMT -5
Many of them that I miss have already been mentioned: Levitz' Legion, the All-Star Comics revival, the Defenders, the Avengers from around issue 100 to 200, Howard the Duck, Omega the Unknown, Brave & Bold, Marvel Two-in-One, 100 Page Super-Spectaculars (with all those glorious reprints), among others, and one that I don't think was mentioned yet, the Marvel Presents run of the original Guardians of the Galaxy by Steve Gerber.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 2, 2015 15:10:43 GMT -5
First off, thanks for providing the examples of some of his other works. You've succeeded in demonstrating that he is beyond a doubt an extremely competent artist. While I'll stick by my original opinion that the original Spidey panel was pretty far from successful for me, the other examples you posted were quite good.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 2, 2015 10:36:22 GMT -5
No offense to anyone , but I consider this to be a nitpicky thread. To pull one panel out of a book and criticize it, is kind of harsh. Even the great artists have had a bad panel or two. A entire book that is badly drawn will eventually lose sales and the artist will be fired , but one panel ? That was why I asked about other examples of the artist's work. Maybe this is his preferred style of drawing or maybe it's one panel from left field. Can't tell from one panel.
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