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It began as a bunch of fetish commissions that the author got, and his reaction to them. He takes a joke character designed for bondage and thought about how such a character would actually exist. Or something like that. It's not a great comic, but I enjoy it for what it is. The early volumes are 100% cheesecake, but around volume 4 he starts experimenting with longer, more persistent characters. Around the time Mindf__k is introduced. Senerio fucked around with this message at 10:14 on Apr 14, 2015 |
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KayTee posted:I kinda share Linkara's reaction to this comic - part of me absolutely hates it for the poo poo artwork (I hate that style - it might just be a personal thing) The art is loving wretched, and this is coming from somebody completely down with anime influence in western art. The problem is that it's aping late-80's teen anime, poo poo like Tenchi Muyo that never looked good in the first place, let alone after being run through babelfish.
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DStecks posted:The art is loving wretched, and this is coming from somebody completely down with anime influence in western art. The problem is that it's aping late-80's teen anime, poo poo like Tenchi Muyo that never looked good in the first place, let alone after being run through babelfish. I like it...  Not necessarily the art in this, but the other work that Adam Warren's done. I think the problem is that it really looks better in black-and-white. With color, it doesn't come off quite as well. Also, after watching the review, the impression I get is that Adam Warren can only do '80s-era cyberpunk manga and that 's it. You probably could've changed the names and you would have never guessed that this was about the Teen Titans.
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Max Wilco posted:I like it... Taste is subjective. If you like it, I can't tell you you're wrong. I personally find it very unappealing, but I can't say it's poorly-executed. And yeah, not sure why I deleted this from my post, but I was going to say something to the effect of a western colouring style not working with a heavily anime-inspired lineart style. Or at least, this colouring style doesn't work with this lineart style. It just makes everything look bulbous. Of course some of that comes from the lineart, what with corpseguy having the biggest bust of any of the not-Titans, but the colours do not do it any favours.
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DStecks posted:Taste is subjective. If you like it, I can't tell you you're wrong. I personally find it very unappealing, but I can't say it's poorly-executed. At least I know I'm not alone. It reminds me of Gen-13 which all my friends were raving about back in the day and I simply could not read because goddamn look at that GIS page. But yeah, I know it's personal taste here - I absolutely cannot stand some recent art styles. Look at Power Pack, for example. Here's issue 1 from back in the mid 80's:  That, BTW, is one of about one time you will ever see a comic artist draw a realistic toddler. And here's what they looked like a few years ago:  *Blegh* e: I'm so sorry, tables! I didn't mean it!
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Miss Wallace posted:New Baywatching! Mitch does battle with a dog and Eddie attempts to make Shauni jealous. Eddie gets worse and worse (in both the show and real life) by the episode. Also nice recap on the kidnap plot line.
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Infamous Sphere posted:Oh man, you've never heard of Inspector Rex before? I'm amazed. Here in Australia it was a really big thing, in terms of it was one of the few shows on SBS (the public broadcasting channel that mainly showed foreign and subtitled media) everyone had heard of. When you're a child, you think it's great, because you don't know how cheesy and predictable it is yet. I did German at school, and most of it was spent watching Inspector Rex. They've also got some terrible/amazing/terrible spinoffs, "Rex in Rome", as well as "Baby Rex."  This really freaks me out for some reason. The idea that anyone, anywhere would pay to license lovely German tv shows is just mind blowing. I mean, I could see other European countries, but worldwide, holy poo poo. e X fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Apr 14, 2015 |
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Apr 14, 2015 18:00
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e X posted:
 I loved that show when I was ~10. 
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e X posted:
You never heard of Derrick, I assume? quote:The series received enormous popularity and was aired in more than 100 countries worldwide.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Chuck has been doing Star Trek reviews for almost a decade. I believe he used to upload them to Youtube before he moved to his own website. That's correct, he moved over to blip over frustration with his videos been taken down by paramount. And before that he did text reviews some of which are on hid blog I believe he'd done one for every episode of Voyager and Enterprise, though some were just a couple of paragraphs, if you watch some early Enterprise and Voyager reviews he comments about the impact of some of these reviews in the Trek Community, such as dubbing the nameless villain from Enterprise as `Future Guy`. And before that he's mentioned he used to do a similar thing on several trek forums. So he's been at this a very long time. But that's not really surprising given that his main focus is Star Trek, a franchise that's been around for ages and has had this kind of attention paid to it since the 60's. People mostly remember the decades of praise but a large number of Trekkies were very vocal about what they didn't like.
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Zedd posted:Commisar Rex is a goddamn treasure. Komissar Rex is endearing comparing to the Portuguese spin off, called Inspector Max. Kommissar Rex had the elaborate plot of "This was a bomb squad dog, his owner died, so he moved in with the detective". Inspector Max would balk at the idea and decided to give the inspector a large family and the dog is randomly found in the street. Bachelorhood, complexity of characters? No gently caress that, the dog just wants to be a cop. The inspector character, who 85% of the time has this expression, even when listening to a sexual assault description or a murder of any creature younger than World War II, engages crimes in a way that would make Hawaii Five-O (Modern version), look like loving Miss Marple or Murder She Wrote in terms of demanding intelligence from the audience. The dog is barely trained and does only his investment on already weakened or surrendering villains, with constant tales of several dogs behind the scenes attacking several cast members.
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Apparently Brad is going to be involved with the AT4W: The Movie. He's just about to go on a 10-day shoot. You know, Brad, when you said "Everyone needs a Battlefield Earth on their resume" that's "a", as in "singular".  (Joking aside I can see the AT4W movie being fun as long as it's self-aware about how goofy it is. Though I am concerned that the movie's going to be completely impenetrable to someone (like me) who hasn't really kept up with AT4W's increasingly elaborate backstory)
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Kunster posted:Komissar Rex is endearing comparing to the Portuguese spin off, called Inspector Max. HOW FAR DOES THIS RABBIT HOLE GO?? dijon du jour posted:Apparently Brad is going to be involved with the AT4W: The Movie. He's just about to go on a 10-day shoot. I'll be there too! It's gonna be a hell of a time.
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dijon du jour posted:Apparently Brad is going to be involved with the AT4W: The Movie. He's just about to go on a 10-day shoot. At least you know the level of competency will be considerably higher than that of the Walkers/Michaud.
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TheMaestroso posted:At least you know the level of competency will be considerably higher than that of the Walkers/Michaud. Also I get the impression that Linkara is more flexible and fun to work with. Like, I think his writing sucks, but everything I've seen of him indicates he's a really nice, albeit nerdy guy.
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Infamous Sphere- got a question. Have you reviewed "Fried Green Tomatoes" ? I know they got rid of a ton of the lesbian content, but whoa watching that movie recently and it seems very obvious Ruth and Idgie are a couple, something I didn't get when I was younger.
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Puppy Time posted:Also I get the impression that Linkara is more flexible and fun to work with. Like, I think his writing sucks, but everything I've seen of him indicates he's a really nice, albeit nerdy guy. Exactly. I don't care for his writing either, but you can definitely tell that he cares about what he's doing and won't half-rear end it.
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Miss Wallace posted:HOW FAR DOES THIS RABBIT HOLE GO?? One of the episodes was set at a jail they cleared out to do scenes there, and there was a scene between a prisoner and our friend, Ersatz Gwynplaine Not-Mauser having a fist fight through the courtyard and a cell. The cell ends with a struggle on a bed, where either the former occupant or the set designer decided to lay down some cheesecake next to the bed that included, for some reason, a scene of a woman getting poo poo on her mouth. As much folk like to call Kommissar Rex shlock, at least it wasn't Inspector Max.
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DStecks posted:Taste is subjective. If you like it, I can't tell you you're wrong. I personally find it very unappealing, but I can't say it's poorly-executed. The tragedy of Adam Warren's art style is that it's too anime for western comic fans and too western for anime fans. He is in this weird place where both sides don't like it. But Empowered is such a good damned comic. It can be funny, heartbreaking, sexy, and scary as all hell within the same volume. It just doesn't get a fair shake from most folks. It is in that same category as Transformers More Than Meets the Eye and Afterlife With Archie. The fans of it adore it. The critics adore them. They still don't get gently caress all sales out of it. Everyone would rather buy more stupid Marvel and DC books where even the good teams loving either get jerked around (Batwoman), or seem to be milking it to the point they aren't writing for the trades any more but hardback omnibuses! (Everything Bendis does, Fables.) Those comics I mentioned so need more love. A shame most of the people this thread is about largely just cover things that suck rear end because they so deserve more notice. Empowered isn't for everyone but it's goddamned fantastic for anyone who has any self esteem issues whatsoever. Or wants a cynical take on superheroes but doesn't want something outright vile like that Garth Ennis series I recall him doing.
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DStecks posted:Taste is subjective. I'm sorry, but that's completely wrong because: WickedHate posted:Nonsense, my taste is objectively superior to everyone elses. That's a WickedHate fact, jack.
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Captain Rufus posted:The tragedy of Adam Warren's art style is that it's too anime for western comic fans and too western for anime fans. He is in this weird place where both sides don't like it. But Empowered is such a good damned comic. It can be funny, heartbreaking, sexy, and scary as all hell within the same volume. It just doesn't get a fair shake from most folks. Empowered is a fetish comic; it's a very entertaining fetish comic, but a fetish comic nonetheless. I mean, I enjoy it, but of course it's going to put people off. I remember an interview with Warren, where he remarked that he gets more stick from manga fans for "stealing" their style to use on superheroes than he does from superhero fans for putting manga influences in his comics. I thought that was amusing.
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Empowered is a porno comic with heart.
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More or less.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Empowered is a fetish comic; it's a very entertaining fetish comic, but a fetish comic nonetheless. I mean, I enjoy it, but of course it's going to put people off. In a way it's a lot like Evangelion. Most people go in thinking its one thing, then it quickly subverts the whole damned thing. Except our heroine is an adult who wants to be a hero. But she has even less self esteem than Shinji does. Luckily she tries hard and has people who love and care about her because she is a good person. And she has basically saved the world on a half dozen or so occasions at this point. And has earned the respect of NOT BATMAN who chooses to wear a French Maid outfit when he beats the poo poo out of everyone. And the NOT JOKER in this series is one of the scariest goddamnned villains in fiction. Imagine if Joker had the powers of that eternally burning wizard from Planescape Torment. And his preferred form of killing was skull loving. Terrifying as hell. Also Cthulhu but not is trapped in a belt on our heroine's coffee table and likes bad tv. And loves her best friend who because of what he is knows when and how she dies. Also our heroine goes to Hell to help someone who basically treated her like poo poo for most of the series. This series is so goddamned good. Edit: It doesn't actually show any nudity so I am not sure I could call it porn. It's got sex in it and fetishy stuff but less than Cinemax late night honestly. If you are reading this for porn you have probably gone to the wrong place outside of it not being misogynistic and hateful as most actual porn seems to be. And it's audience seems to want out of their wank material male or female targeted/created. I am not sure this thread or any thread really wants to try to figure out or discuss that pile of worms. At least not without a large amount of hard liquor and drugs on hand. Captain Rufus fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Apr 14, 2015 |
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e X posted:
Inspector Rex was really big in Australia! I wouldn't be surprised if it made up a big chunk of the SBS ratings. There's even apparently a long-form parody of it, Inspector Herring, done by one of our comedy treasures, Shaun Micallef. Also, apparently there's even more spin-offs than I originally thought. Not only did they do a baby Rex one, they also did one based on the uptight nerd detective Stockinger. I haven't seen it so I can't vouch for its quality. Leelee posted:Infamous Sphere- got a question. Have you reviewed "Fried Green Tomatoes" ? I know they got rid of a ton of the lesbian content, but whoa watching that movie recently and it seems very obvious Ruth and Idgie are a couple, something I didn't get when I was younger. I've never seen Fried Green Tomatoes. It's in my Netflix queue though.
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I can't say for sure since there's a lot of big series that I missed the boat on, but I imagine Inspector Rex was just one of those things that's big outside of the USA. Outside of cable stuff we don't usually have subtitled programs on TV, at least I don't recall watching any when I was growing up. I didn't grow up with cable either, so maybe I just missed it? I'm pretty sure my watching back then was limited to like the Starship Troopers cartoon, Zoboomafoo, and Zoom.
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Starship Troopers: Roughneck Chronicles was a surprisingly good show. How come more people haven't covered Starship Troopers? It was a miniz craze in the late 90s, with a good movie and a decent tv series, and its been popular enough to have three sequels and an OVA ripoff based on the film version and the book, respectively. The only internet critics I've seen touch it are Mike J and Decker Shadow. By the way, check that second guy out. He's a fairly standard critic, but he's covered a lot of interesting sf and horror films on his channel.
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Miss Wallace posted:I can't say for sure since there's a lot of big series that I missed the boat on, but I imagine Inspector Rex was just one of those things that's big outside of the USA. Outside of cable stuff we don't usually have subtitled programs on TV, at least I don't recall watching any when I was growing up. There's another thing to consider - Australia is not a huge creator of content. We do create content, and we do have a content law similar to Canada (I think it's 55% content) but we've got something like 7% of the US' population. So we import a lot of TV and movies. BBC stuff goes to ABC (our public broadcasting, government funded), American stuff usually goes to commercial television because it's more expensive and commercial channels are more likely to pay for licensing, and SBS (also public broadcasting, but it has ads now unfortunately) takes most of the subtitled and/or sexy stuff. I'm not sure how frequently the average Australian watches subtitled content, but the average Australian most definitely watches non-Australian content on a regular basis. All of this is just free-to-air TV. I've never had cable.
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And speaking of personal taste, I disagree completely with KayTee above about the artwork in Power Pack. Yeah, June Brigman's work is great, but I love Gurihiru's artwork. It was a little rough at first, but they really hit their stride with the third or fourth miniseries. More recently they've been doing the art for Gene Yang's Avatar: The Last Airbender comics for Dark Horse, and I think they easily match the best episodes of the show. If you want bad, you want the Mike Higgins/Tom Morgan run, the one that got the series canceled. I've always wanted to see Linkara review this run, because it is downright baffling. The artwork is the least of it:  That kid in yellow? He's supposed to be eight years old.
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A Gnarlacious Bro posted:Empowered is a porno comic with heart. Fetish Comic with a Heart of Gold, I would say.
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Infamous Sphere posted:Inspector Rex was really big in Australia! I wouldn't be surprised if it made up a big chunk of the SBS ratings. There's even apparently a long-form parody of it, Inspector Herring, done by one of our comedy treasures, Shaun Micallef. Inspector Herring was unfortunately just a series of mock commercials played during his SBS show Newstopia. But the Late Show (the Australian sketch show) did have Charlie the Wonderdog, though that was more a spoof on Lassie and Skippy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukqt7-2AGaE *edit. Oh wait he did an actual episode/movie? I had no idea. Wrageowrapper fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Apr 15, 2015 |
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SBS used to have a guy who would bark into the phone whenever kids called up to ask about the show. I saw stack of Inspector Rex DVD's at an op-shop the other week that were rated MA15+ (Australian R, for any non down under folk) for sex scenes and violence. I only ever watched the episodes SBS put on at 7:30 for families. I'm curious, how sleazy did the program get? High Warlord Zog fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Apr 15, 2015 |
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Keromaru5 posted:And speaking of personal taste, I disagree completely with KayTee above about the artwork in Power Pack. Yeah, June Brigman's work is great, but I love Gurihiru's artwork. It was a little rough at first, but they really hit their stride with the third or fourth miniseries. More recently they've been doing the art for Gene Yang's Avatar: The Last Airbender comics for Dark Horse, and I think they easily match the best episodes of the show.
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The Attitude Era Podcast is back with Summerslam 2000! Witness the start of Right To Censor, Vince McMahon's embaressingly heavy handed jab at the Parent's Television Council who inexpicable win almost every PPV match they ever appear in. Watch ECW veteran Tazz fight an old wrestler/announcer. Also the loving incredible TLC match. Seriously, even if you've never watched wrestling watch the TLC match from Summerslam 2000 because holy loving poo poo it's incredible. Then you have perhaps the biggest quality dropoff in PPV history with a....'stinkface' match between the Kat and Terri. The main event of Rock, Angle and HHH is pretty awesome as well which leads into the absurd love triangle storyarc. https://soundcloud.com/the-attitude-era-podcast/summerslam-2000
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Wrageowrapper posted:Inspector Herring was unfortunately just a series of mock commercials played during his SBS show Newstopia. That second link I provided was an actual episode they did of Inspector Herring. I only found this out when reading the Inspector Rex wikipedia page. High Warlord Zog posted:SBS used to have a guy who would bark into the phone whenever kids called up to ask about the show. Uh, from what I recall from my German class, it was usually the evil guys who were sleazy. The worst I saw was a paedophile room set up where they were going to film a kid, but nothing graphic was shown (the child was rescued before anything happened), an evil guy grabbing a ballet teacher's breast, and just some evil soap opera level making out/tame sex stuff between the evil man and the evil women villains they usually had. Violencewise I don't remember anything that outrageous. In terms of content it was about the same as The Bill (although apparently Mickey got raped on that show, which I found out when I was trying to find a specific episode of The Bill for one of the two gay cop things I reviewed.)
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One ep I skimmed a bit on youtube featured them showing a 12-year-old's corpse. While not particularly graphic, it looks like it has about the same tonal whiplash as Tequila and Bonetti.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Starship Troopers: Roughneck Chronicles was a surprisingly good show. How come more people haven't covered Starship Troopers? It was a miniz craze in the late 90s, with a good movie and a decent tv series, and its been popular enough to have three sequels and an OVA ripoff based on the film version and the book, respectively. The only internet critics I've seen touch it are Mike J and Decker Shadow. By the way, check that second guy out. He's a fairly standard critic, but he's covered a lot of interesting sf and horror films on his channel. Roughneck Chronicles was really good, and its an awful shame it got canned in the final stretch before it could finish properly. Seriously, it just ends about three quarters into the final Campaign arc on Earth.
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achillesforever6 posted:Its amazing how hard it seems to be for comic book artists to draw children It can be really hard for artists with only basic training to draw body types other than the default they learned. Check out Medieval and Renaissance pictures of the Madonna and child and see how many Baby Jesuses are basically midgets with weird heads.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Roughneck Chronicles was really good, and its an awful shame it got canned in the final stretch before it could finish properly. Seriously, it just ends about three quarters into the final Campaign arc on Earth. That really sucked, the show literally ends with the bugs sending in another wave to earth and the heroes screwed. The show wasn't perfect, but I quite liked it. My only real gripes are with the spotty first campaign, where they were still trying to figure out if they were going for a more childish or more adult tone for the show. You get some downright awful lines like "Really deep doo-doo!" alongside episodes where Carth Onasi's squad gets murdered by arachnids. And I suppose Dizzy's voice actress bugs me, as well, but that's one mediocre va amongst a really solid cast.
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http://blip.tv/brows-held-high/the-avengers-between-the-lines-7189206 Interesting video on superheros by Kyle E: I learned more about the MCU and superhero movies than any musing from CD on how "bad" the MCU is and how I should not like these bad movies which are killing the art that is cinema achillesforever6 fucked around with this message at 06:46 on Apr 15, 2015 |
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