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Madkal posted:Here's a strange question. Which comicbook character has been shat upon by the universe most (figuratively speaking). There was talk in the worst runs thread about Skin who died rather acrimoniously, had his name misspelled on his tombstone and had Jubilee proclaim that she wanted to sleep with him while he was still alive. I found this all funny in an absurd way, but it also got me thinking who has the worst life in comicbooks. One filled with suffering and failure with very few bright spots. I don't think Karma's ever had particularly happy moments in her comic book existence. Just moments of "well things aren't quite as lovely as usual".
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Oh, hey, remember when everyone was saying that a DVD boxed set of the 1966 Batman TV series was going to require an act of God? Apparently God doesn't have anything better to do: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2014/01/15/batman-tv-show-complete-series-dvd/4496197/ quote:Holy nostalgia, Caped Crusader! The original 1960s Batman show is finally getting a home-video release. Well, I'm happy for this. Hello new item for my x-mas list.
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It turns out that, most days, you can get rid of a bomb 
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CzarChasm posted:Oh, hey, remember when everyone was saying that a DVD boxed set of the 1966 Batman TV series was going to require an act of God? Reeeeally hoping they found a way to get all the stupid "head out a window" cameos to stay in. 
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Jan 17, 2014 17:12
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prefect posted:Reeeeally hoping they found a way to get all the stupid "head out a window" cameos to stay in. IIRC, weren't those scenes the stickiest parts of all the copyright quagmire?
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Jan 17, 2014 18:23
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Choco1980 posted:IIRC, weren't those scenes the stickiest parts of all the copyright quagmire? The whole thing was an absolute mess, but yeah that was a big one. I do wonder if the Vincent Price episodes are in or out. Last I heard it was an "absolutely not" from his estate. Be kind of a shame if we don't get Egghead.
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Jan 17, 2014 19:01
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I don't even understand why they need guest stars' permission to release the episodes.
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Halloween Jack posted:I don't even understand why they need guest stars' permission to release the episodes. Why? The appeared on the show and due to the way contracts are written deserve to get something for the episodes they are in. Also some are uncredited, unpaid walk-ons. They do not have the video rights to show them.
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CzarChasm posted:The whole thing was an absolute mess, but yeah that was a big one. I do wonder if the Vincent Price episodes are in or out. Last I heard it was an "absolutely not" from his estate. Be kind of a shame if we don't get Egghead. Why? Its not like its the worst thing he's ever done.
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bobkatt013 posted:Why? The appeared on the show and due to the way contracts are written deserve to get something for the episodes they are in.
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Jan 17, 2014 19:20
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Halloween Jack posted:I agree, I just don't know why the contracts were structured so as to allow them to rebroadcast on television forever and ever but not do a home video release.
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Halloween Jack posted:I agree, I just don't know why the contracts were structured so as to allow them to rebroadcast on television forever and ever but not do a home video release. The idea of releasing shows on homevideo was a sort of recent idea. I mean in the 60s they would wipe shows since the idea of rebroadcasting them was foreign. It is the same reason music rights for some shows are such clusterfucks.
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redbackground posted:Yes, it sure is shocking that home video provisions weren't a standard in 1966. If I'm understanding correctly from last time we went over this, the weird thing is that the contract explicitly DID say home video was a no-no.
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Jan 17, 2014 23:04
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bobkatt013 posted:The idea of releasing shows on homevideo was a sort of recent idea. I mean in the 60s they would wipe shows since the idea of rebroadcasting them was foreign. Monty Python might have been lost forever if Terry Gilliam hadn't bought the tapes for example.
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Yeah, there's a bunch of "lost" Doctor Who episodes because of it, although I think they were in storage in some BBC vault, and were partially decayed/destroyed by a fire or something.
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I strongly advise against looking into the storage practices of basically anything you might consider valuable television or film history. Or video games, for that matter.
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Jan 17, 2014 23:56
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Anyone here ever use Midtown Comics? I went to my local shop today but they didn't have the latest issue I was looking for and it takes forever to go there and back so I'd rather order it than waste the gas next time. I don't think I'll go for a Pull List just yet. Maybe an issue or two and go from there.
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Action Tortoise posted:Anyone here ever use Midtown Comics? I went to my local shop today but they didn't have the latest issue I was looking for and it takes forever to go there and back so I'd rather order it than waste the gas next time. I don't think I'll go for a Pull List just yet. Maybe an issue or two and go from there. I prefer Lonestar's https://mycomicshop.com.
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Lurdiak posted:I strongly advise against looking into the storage practices of basically anything you might consider valuable television or film history. Or video games, for that matter. Or like, NASA video of moon landings.
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Rhyno posted:I prefer Lonestar's https://mycomicshop.com. I'm a big fan of ComicCollectorLive. Last time I ordered from a store on CCL it was packed with a 90s comic book mag as stuffing, and the magazine came with a FREE MALIBU PREVIEW COMIC. THat was worth the price of the book I ordered all on its own.
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Action Tortoise posted:Anyone here ever use Midtown Comics? Rhyno posted:I prefer Lonestar's https://mycomicshop.com. Literally The Worst posted:I'm a big fan of ComicCollectorLive. redbackground fucked around with this message at 05:35 on Jan 18, 2014 |
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Action Tortoise posted:Anyone here ever use Midtown Comics? I went to my local shop today but they didn't have the latest issue I was looking for and it takes forever to go there and back so I'd rather order it than waste the gas next time. I don't think I'll go for a Pull List just yet. Maybe an issue or two and go from there. I did a month using the pull list subscription but then found out that if you use the previews order system you get 35% off, so I cancelled the pulls and started using that. I'm spending a significant amount less on comics, but shipping is a little slow to the west coast.
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http://www.dcbservice.com has normally 40% off if you pre order and have specials for 50% off certain books each month. Full disclosure though I'm friends with a bunch of people who work there so I might be a little biased. They're super rad. 
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Senor Candle posted:http://www.dcbservice.com has normally 40% off if you pre order and have specials for 50% off certain books each month. Full disclosure though I'm friends with a bunch of people who work there so I might be a little biased. They're super rad. Do you live in Fort Wayne?
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Jan 19, 2014 19:39
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Yeah I bought one of those X-Statix omnis from you last summer.
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Senor Candle posted:Yeah I bought one of those X-Statix omnis from you last summer. Ha! I have a good memory. Shame Zack left the company, their customer service has suffered a bit since then.
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:Don't be too worried by that, FE is contained in the main series,a couple of minis and only three series are directly connected: JL, JLA and supposedly, Nightwing. If you were interested on one of those you're utterly hosed though Hey, is there a way I can contact you off the forums? I don't have plat, but I would like to ask you something.
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Wasn't sure what the best thread for this was, so here goes: I'm reading backissues of Daredevil on Marvel Unlimited, and I'm at Daredevil #118 during the Brubaker run, which came out in 2009. I noticed that after #119, the next available issue is #500. This is just a renumbering, right? Are there any other issues in there that Unlimited is missing that I need to grab elsewhere?
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The Dagda posted:Wasn't sure what the best thread for this was, so here goes: I'm reading backissues of Daredevil on Marvel Unlimited, and I'm at Daredevil #118 during the Brubaker run, which came out in 2009. I noticed that after #119, the next available issue is #500. This is just a renumbering, right? Are there any other issues in there that Unlimited is missing that I need to grab elsewhere?
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Once Brubaker is done just skip directly to Waid.
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Yeah even with using Marvel Unlimited I wouldn't recommend reading Shadowland. Such an awful book.
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Shadowland wasn't the worst thing I've ever read, but it actually got me to stop reading Daredevil after a long, long run of loving that book. I'm starting to reread everything from the Brubaker run up to Shadowland, whereupon I'll skip over it and keep going. Who knew that "Matt Murdoch has finally had enough of everyone's poo poo" could turn out to be so dull?
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Well it was less the dullness and more let's try and drastically change the status quo with the main character being possessed while simultaneously trying to drag Elektra: Assassin down with it.
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Waterhaul posted:Yeah even with using Marvel Unlimited I wouldn't recommend reading Shadowland. Such an awful book. 
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Waterhaul posted:Well it was less the dullness and more let's try and drastically change the status quo with the main character being possessed while simultaneously trying to drag Elektra: Assassin down with it.
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Mister Roboto posted:Hey, is there a way I can contact you off the forums? I don't have plat, but I would like to ask you something. poo poo, just saw this. You can contact me at machine_emperor@hotmail.com Yes, I made that mail on High School 
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CapnAndy posted:For me it was more that they seemed to really expect the reader to take killing Bullseye as some horrible can't-come-back-from-that fall to evil instead of, y'know, pure justice and something that really should have been done years ago. I mean, in that very book they take great pains to show you that no jail can hold Bullseye and as soon as he breaks out -- which is trivially easy -- he starts killing innocents again. And I'm supposed to react to his death with anything besides an attaboy? I wonder how people would react if the Joker died.
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Madkal posted:I wonder how people would react if the Joker died. They'd probably react in a much bigger way, because even though Joker suffers the same sort of issues Bullseye and many other supervillains do, (i.e. insane body count, should be dead, inexplicably aren't due to hero's no-kill code and apparent total lack of death penalty in Big Two universes), Joker has one big thing working in his favor: murder's not his only thing. I know it's like the only thing he does nowadays, but that's just due to poor writers who can't figure out how to write a good story where Batman chortles at the Joker's boner crimes without a triple-digit body count. Bullseye, by comparison, is just a murderer. He works as an assassin, whether for Kingpin or Norman Osborn or for his own shits and giggles, and he murders people by the dozen with a poo poo-eating grin on his face. And he's not even crazy, either.
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Madkal posted:I wonder how people would react if the Joker died. To build off what TwoPair says, Joker is also crucial to Batman in ways that Bullseye isn't to Daredevil, and he's a billion times more popular. There's absolutely zero chance he'd stay dead; Bullseye staying down wasn't likely but it could have happened and eventually someone else woulda just started calling themselves Bullseye or whatever.
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:poo poo, just saw this. You can contact me at Got it.
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