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Gavok posted:My favorite story about that is how Shaq claimed to have grown up reading Steel comics when hyping the movie. You know, the guy whose movie came out about two years after being introduced. You got a link where I can see something of that? He was pretty great on the movie (and I guess that explains why he bailed on Anhilation)
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Rhyno posted:RDJ wasn't an Iron Man fan but he spent like $1000 on various Iron Man comics to find the characters voice. "Oh, so this guy is just me, then? This should be easy."
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May 19, 2014 22:01
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Rhyno posted:RDJ wasn't an Iron Man fan but he spent like $1000 on various Iron Man comics to find the characters voice. I've heard Gwyneth Paltrow did something similar, except she just borrowed all the comics from Chris Martin.
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May 19, 2014 22:01
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:You got a link where I can see something of that? He was pretty great on the movie (and I guess that explains why he bailed on Anhilation) I was so bummed they killed Johnny off so early. He had the best one-liner in the first film.
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May 19, 2014 22:05
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What other celebrities are huge comic book fans?
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May 19, 2014 22:05
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Nic Cage, to his great detriment.
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May 19, 2014 22:07
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Madkal posted:What other celebrities are huge comic book fans? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o4doL3fcN0
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May 19, 2014 22:07
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zoux posted:Nic Cage, to his great detriment. Robin Williams is still a big fan, right?
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May 19, 2014 22:08
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CapnAndy posted:Vin Diesel is an enormous dork and was so stoked to be cast as Groot that he walked around the Fast and Furious 6 set in his mo-cap stilts. He convinced Dame Judy Dench to play D&D on the set of The Chronicles of Riddick
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May 19, 2014 22:10
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zoux posted:Nic Cage, to his great detriment. Did he ever get his copy of Action #1 back? And my point with David was that that interview was years and years after the fact and there's no indication that he'll ever be involved with the franchise again. He has no obligation to say he enjoyed it (and actors interviewed for that feature often DO poo poo on past roles). I believe Ben Affleck is a legit comic nerd also. It's one thing to play Daredevil, but dude wrote the foreword to a DD trade for Marvel. Plus he's friends with Kevin "I named my daughter after a cartoon insane clown woman" Smith.
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May 19, 2014 22:32
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Bob's Burgers the comic book!!!
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Madkal posted:What other celebrities are huge comic book fans? Samuel L. Jackson is one. He's also a big anime fan, apparently. Wu-Tang Clan are comic fans too. And possibly Quentin Tarantino? I think I've heard that Tarantino was big into comics. bobkatt013 posted:He convinced Dame Judy Dench to play D&D on the set of The Chronicles of Riddick I've heard he convinced her to DM the game.
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May 19, 2014 22:46
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Madkal posted:What other celebrities are huge comic book fans? Seth Meyers 
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Metal Loaf posted:Samuel L. Jackson is one. He's also a big anime fan, apparently. Wu-Tang Clan are comic fans too. And possibly Quentin Tarantino? I think I've heard that Tarantino was big into comics. Oh, for any Brits, it's probably pretty well known that talk show host Jonathan Ross is a big comic geek (and occasional comic writer). And Sam Jackson's nerd cred led to one of my favourite awkward moments I've seen/read in any publicity. During hype for the Avengers, some site was asking the cast, and Joss, I think, about bigger roles for women in comic book movies. So of course, Joss and Scarlett chime in... and then Sam pipes up and pitches a movie of The Pro.
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May 19, 2014 23:01
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How's a comic going to sing?
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sleepingbuddha posted:You would think Marvel would have just given him the books. Everyone seems to forget that only John Favreau was in RDJ's corner, he had to fight to get him cast.
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Rhyno posted:Everyone seems to forget that only John Favreau was in RDJ's corner, he had to fight to get him cast. Are you saying he bought $1000 worth of books before he got the role? Because that is pretty cool.
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sleepingbuddha posted:Are you saying he bought $1000 worth of books before he got the role? Because that is pretty cool. No, he'd been cast but he was still living under the cloud of his addiction. He was just doing his homework. I can't findit but there's a funny quote when someone told him about chap trades like the Essentials line. It's become a thing because he was seen buying Avengers comics when prepping to film that.
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bobkatt013 posted:He convinced Dame Judy Dench to play D&D on the set of The Chronicles of Riddick
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What do people want to read for next month's book club? I'm taking nominations early on for June to get a good consensus and give people time to obtain the eventually selected book. I'll just keep a running tally of votes made here instead of making a separate poll thread or whatever. My own nomination:  Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi. An autobiographical work of a young girl growing up during the radically changing backdrop of Iran during its revolution and later war, it has been favorably compared to Art Spiegelman's Maus. This is the first half of Satrapi's memoir; if there's enough interest we could also include the second half, The Story of a Return, but I think the first book is enough material for one month. There's been a disappointing shortfall of female creators discussed in the book club so far, and I think this book provides a really unique and seldom heard perspective. Also, if you have additional general comic-reading resources or any other information that you'd like to see added to the OP, post them here or PM me.
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This may shock you guys, but I'm pretty sure Brian Posehn and Patton Oswalt are major comic book nerds. I have my sources.CapnAndy posted:Vin Diesel is an enormous dork and was so stoked to be cast as Groot that he walked around the Fast and Furious 6 set in his mo-cap stilts. poo poo like this is why he's #2 on my "celebrities I desperately want to pal around with" list. 
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Was Taters posted:Seth Meyers Bill Hader, too. They co-wrote The Amazing Spider-Man: The Short Halloween one-shot, and Hader also wrote the introduction for one of Ed Brubaker's Incognito TPBs. For the longest time, Seth Meyers' Twitter avatar was a sketch of Blue Beetle by Kevin Maguire, so he must have been a JLI fan back in the day, explaining a lot.
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moot the hopple posted:Also, if you have additional general comic-reading resources or any other information that you'd like to see added to the OP, post them here or PM me. I haven't read it, so I can't nominate it in good faith but if you are interested in a discussion about female creators in comics there's Pretty in Ink, a book that tells the story of women on the comics field. Here's a summary from the amazon page amazon posted:Trina Robbins updates her seminal historical survey of female cartoonists for the 21st century — when female cartoonists such as Alison Bechdel, Lynda Barry, and Kate Beaton are at perhaps their highest profile.
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Gaz-L posted:Did he ever get his copy of Action #1 back? He got the insurance money on it. They found it a couple years later, but he decided to keep the money so the insurance company auctioned it. I think his copy was the last copy sold that broke a record.
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Gavok posted:I didn't really understand the manga argument anyway. I mean, reading right-to-left? That's not nearly as bad as it was dealing with Russian comic books back in the 80's. gently caress you.
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Literally The Worst posted:gently caress you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxzX3tyHHMg
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JSA Omnibus vol. 1 arrived today. It's a little bigger than I was expecting. 
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Sanschel posted:JSA Omnibus vol. 1 arrived today. It's a little bigger than I was expecting. Mine should be here in a week. Can't wait to sit it next to the Invisibles Omni and collapse my book case 
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Tarantino is definitely a comic fan, he's worked Silver Surfer into two movies. One he made himself (Reservoir Dogs has a huge loving poster in the background of a character's apartment, and it's quite intentional apparently), and Crimson Tide, which he did some script doctoring on and I believe he made Denzel Washington's character a Silver Surfer fan. El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 12:13 on May 21, 2014 |
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True Romance (script by Tarantino) also has Christian Slater as a huge comics dork, who woos his hooker girlfriend with stories about Nick Fury comics.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Tarantino is definitely a comic fan, he's worked Silver Surfer into two movies. One he made himself (Reservoir Dogs has a huge loving poster in the background of a character's apartment, and it's quite intentional apparently), and Crimson Tide, which he did some script doctoring on and I believe he made Denzel Washington's character a Silver Surfer fan. And when one of Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs characters describes Joe (the big bald boss guy), he says he looks just like the Thing. Freddy Newandyke: [asked by Holdaway to describe Joe Cabot] You remember the 'Fantastic Four'? Holdaway: Yeah, with that invisible bitch, 'Flame On!' and that poo poo? Freddy Newandyke: The Thing; motherfucker looks like The Thing.
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Sanschel posted:JSA Omnibus vol. 1 arrived today. It's a little bigger than I was expecting. Haha, yeah, it's taken the lead in the "most likely to destroy my bookshelves" competition. Apparently the second volume is going to be even bigger. Here's a picture I posted in the collected editions thread which compares it to my next-largest books. It dwarfs both of the Byrne books quite handily:(Yes, that is season four of Sliders, all four Highlander sequels, and the complete series of seaQuest DSV. I'm sorry.)
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I don't see any Stargate DVDs on there...
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I don't own any.
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Metal Loaf posted:I don't own any. Now you've failed this thread!
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Rhyno posted:Now you've failed this thread! One of these days I'll post a picture of the whole bookcase and fail the entire subforum.
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Metal Loaf posted:One of these days I'll post a picture of the whole bookcase and fail the entire subforum. And on that day, Stephen Amell will kill you.
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I'm just getting into comics. I finally managed to get the first two Hawkeye trades at my local comic shop. The only word I can think of is "fun". Everything so far's straight-up fun. Even though I'm new to comics, I do like that they're doing things that are interesting [to my inexperienced sense] with page layouts and storytelling, without it being A Serious Post-Watchmen Superhero Comic.
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