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I bought all of those Image titles.
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X-O posted:Jesus. What were we doing in 1994?   
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Apr 24, 2017 07:25
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Pretty much, yeah.
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Apr 24, 2017 07:29
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Supreme #12 came out in April 94, so my guess is in July 94 we were hyping the poo poo out of the collector's market, which is why there's such an emphasis on cover artist and alternate covers in the coverage and there's so many small-run comics in the top 10.
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Apr 24, 2017 07:28
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I never played any of those. I also never bought any of the books in that Top 10 though. I did read Marvels probably five or six years later though.
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Apr 24, 2017 07:36
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X-O posted:I never played any of those. I'm sorry for your wasted youth.
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Apr 24, 2017 07:38
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Lurdiak posted:I'm sorry for your wasted youth. I was actually even less into video games then than I am now, and that's saying something. I had an SNES but the only thing I ever really played was Mario. My brother was much more into video games.
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Apr 24, 2017 07:42
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Maximum Carnage owned bones because you could play as Venom, who was like a badass muscle Spider-man with big teeth, while listening to some of the sweetest butt-rock this side of Rock 'n Roll Racing.
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Ghostlight posted:Maximum Carnage owned bones because you could play as Venom, who was like a badass muscle Spider-man with big teeth, while listening to some of the sweetest butt-rock this side of Rock 'n Roll Racing.
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Apr 24, 2017 07:53
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X-O posted:Jesus. What were we doing in 1994? Does anyone still have that 1994-ish Wizard layout of the top ten most popular writers and artists? I remember it being posted a few threads back and someone made this great joke about how everyone's photo made them look like stereotypical creepy 90s goons, then John Ostrander at the end looked like "a college professor's About the Author photo".
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Apr 24, 2017 09:52
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Green Jelly is definitely not butt rock. As for what we were doing in 1994: speculating. Why, I see upwards of three college educations funded just on those two pages!
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Apr 24, 2017 13:30
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Endless Mike posted:Green Jelly is definitely not butt rock. Are you sure? They have a song about poop.
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Apr 24, 2017 13:39
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Jesus Wizard, leave Whoopi Goldberg alone.
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Apr 24, 2017 13:44
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For what it's worth here is the actual DIamond chart from July 1994 That other Top 10 is, believe it or not, the ten hottest *back issues* on the market. Even though they're almost all from the year or so prior. I always thought it was interesting ("interesting") that Wizard was owned/operated by a family that also happened to own some comic shops and a mail order business, and they definitely did everything in their power to push the awesome collectible value of variant covers, limited edition variants, various different tiny launch books/companies that were going to be The Next Image/Spawn, etc. So when they brag about how they really pushed Gen 13 and now Gen 13 is a big hit and a terrific investment and etc. it seems like a not so subtle sales pitch to pay to run previews of your comic in Wizard, and also probably means that the Wizard of Cards or whatever their shop was called was sitting on a shitload of Wildstorm variant covers. I doubt Bleeding Cool has any sort of hidden agenda like Wizard did, but in terms of using retailer straw polls to determine actual hotness/coldness/'loving people loving getting loving sick of loving Marvel's loving bullshit", they're pretty unreliable!
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I was trying to fact-check someone's claim that "Batman stabbed Joker to death in his first appearance" (incorrect), and found this sentence on a wiki.quote:At this point, the editors decided that only one-shot villains should commit murder, so as to not make Batman look impotent in his inability to punish such recurring foes as the Joker or the Penguin. Write your own punchline about modern Batman comics here.
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redbackground posted:Congrats! How long do you think it will take to convince her to dress up as Guy Gardner on your wedding night? No, man, she dresses as Ice. Congrats, Rhyno! Endless Mike posted:Green Jelly is definitely not butt rock. I don't know. Their "Three Little Pigs" video started with close-ups of butts.
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Apr 24, 2017 14:25
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Fun fact: Billy Tucci is doing a new Shi series this year through Kickstarter ("Return of the Warrior"). Also X-O, condolences on your FF3-less 1994 lifestyle. Gavok posted:No, man, she dresses as Ice. Honestly, both dressing up as Guy seems more likely. redbackground fucked around with this message at 14:34 on Apr 24, 2017 |
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Apr 24, 2017 14:31
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Edge & Christian posted:For what it's worth here is the actual DIamond chart from July 1994 I'm not sure Zero Hour is a massive improvement.
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Apr 24, 2017 14:35
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One dressed as a green lantern and the other as warrior
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redbackground posted:Also X-O, condolences on your FF3-less 1994 I've never played a Final Fantasy, or any of those types of games, and I think my life is probably better for it. I figure that's probably many many hours I've saved.
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Apr 24, 2017 15:12
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1994 had Doom 2, System Shock, Warcraft, SimCity 2000 and TIE Fighter. I don't think I'd even heard of Final Fantasy.
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Apr 24, 2017 15:16
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Doctor Spaceman posted:1994 had Doom 2, System Shock, Warcraft, SimCity 2000 and TIE Fighter. This is the good stuff
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Apr 24, 2017 15:32
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1994 was the best year in human history and its a complete coincidence that it happened when I was twelve years old
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Apr 24, 2017 15:41
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1994 was a butts year.
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Apr 24, 2017 15:45
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I was checking to see if Simease Dream came out in 1994 but it came out in 1993. Sorry 1994, you were so close to being cool
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Apr 24, 2017 15:49
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I was starting college in 1994. Art school. To get a job to be like all those Top Ten comics I bought. Innocent youth...
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Apr 24, 2017 15:53
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Not a bad movie year from what I've seen* *which is what I've remembered to add to Letterboxd. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Apr 24, 2017 |
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Teenage Fansub posted:Not a bad movie year from what I've seen. It was like comics and movies were heading in two different directions that year. Comics got stupider and more terrible, while movies were embracing the more indie gen-x vibe.
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Also, I didn't have FF3/6 or an SNES in 1994, but I did get my mum to buy me a Sega 32X  edit: Never mind. That must've been early '95 over here. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Apr 24, 2017 |
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Apr 24, 2017 17:04
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Hell yeah D2
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Teenage Fansub posted:Not a bad movie year from what I've seen* It was even better for music.
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Apr 24, 2017 17:55
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I mean, if you cherrypick things 1994 featured: Dark Horse was publishing Sin City, Martha Washington, Madman, Eddie Campbell's Bacchus, Concrete, Flaming Carrot, the Tale of One Bad Rat, Badger, Grendel, Instant Piano, and a debuting book called Hellboy. DC had James Robinson and Tony Harris on Starman, Ostrander/Mandrake's Spectre, Ennis/McCrea on Demon, Waid/Wieringo on Flash, plus Sandman, Shade, Ennis Hellblazer, Sandman Mystery Theatre, Books of Magic and the Invisibles at Vertgo. Milestone was hitting its stride with year 2 of its core four titles and adding new titles including Xombi. You also had the debut of Acme Novelty Library, new issues of Eightball, Hate, Naughty Bits, Love & Rockets, Milk & Cheese, Dork, Optic Nerve, Jim, AKA Goldfish, probably a bunch of other things I'm forgetting. Marvel and the big properties at DC were pretty much a mess, but in terms of films The Flintstones Movie and Santa Clause were Top 10 box office draws, the top songs of 1994 were by Ace of Base, All-4-One, and Celine Dion, etc.
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Apr 24, 2017 19:47
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Some extremely great rap came out in 1994
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Edge & Christian posted:I mean, if you cherrypick things 1994 featured: It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken was also getting serialized, Underwater started, and there was a really good stretch of Bone. And to be totally fair to Marvel Generation X started strong I think.
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Apr 24, 2017 20:37
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This is an accurate representation of my 1994.
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Archyduke posted:And to be totally fair to Marvel Generation X started strong I think. It did. Bachelo's art was delightful and Lobdell's writing wasn't bad either. Even the next team, Hama and Dodson, did a decent job. It wasn't until after that run that it started to decline.
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Edge & Christian posted:I mean, if you cherrypick things 1994 featured: Yeah. A lot of people point to the 90's as the height of capes and pouches and foil covers and gimmicks but it was also a stellar time for the indie and semi-indie scene. All those Slave Labor and Fanta books and lots of self-publishers. Even those Dark Horse books you mentioned were pretty indie or at least a step in a different dimensions. The time spawned (no pun intended) a lot of creators to flex outside the Bam-Bif-Pow confines.
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I've managed to find a comic book solicitation where the involvement of somebody with the last name "Jackendoff" is not even close to the most embarrassing part. From Marvel's June solicitations: quote:BLACK EYED PEAS: MASTERS OF THE SUN – THE ZOMBIE CHRONICLES TPB
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I read the first volume of Snotgirl, and really liked it. It's kinda like that manga No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular!, in that the main character is genuinely kind of a lovely person and a gently caress up, and most of her problems are of her own creation, but you still end up rooting for her at least a little. And the mystery is really interesting too. I was pretty meh on Scott Pilgrim, so I'm surprised at how much I like Snotgirl
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Guy Goodbody posted:I read the first volume of Snotgirl, and really liked it. It's kinda like that manga No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular!, in that the main character is genuinely kind of a lovely person and a gently caress up, and most of her problems are of her own creation, but you still end up rooting for her at least a little. And the mystery is really interesting too. I quite liked Minutes so give that a shot.
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