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I remember Bruce and Nygma shitposting at each other in message boards but have no idea which issue it could possibly be from
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that prompt paid far bigger dividends than i had imagined when typing it. good content today
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Jan 15, 2019 01:03
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Mad hunter brings up some compelling points.
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Jan 15, 2019 01:03
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Superboy Prime actually used to post here, but got banned after posting a crazy rant about how much better everything was pre-Crisis.
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Jan 15, 2019 01:06
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and his name was american dracula
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Jan 15, 2019 01:09
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Samuringa posted:I remember Bruce and Nygma shitposting at each other in message boards but have no idea which issue it could possibly be from Detective Comics, I forget the number, around Final Crisis era. Detective Chimp was on the board too.
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Jan 15, 2019 01:26
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Why is Bruce so huge in the second to last panel and then like half the muscle in the next one?
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Jan 15, 2019 02:17
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joehonkie posted:Why is Bruce so huge in the second to last panel and then like half the muscle in the next one? In the first panel he's hunched over the keyboard, so his shoulders are forward, towards the viewer. In the next panel he's standing and his shoulders are relaxed
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Jan 15, 2019 03:33
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Lurdiak posted:It wasn't that hard to keep a book in print during the speculator bubble. This was the moment I knew Superboy Prime was a good character.
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Jan 15, 2019 03:41
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Wheat Loaf posted:A poster named "Slade the Blade" shows up in every thread to insist that of course Deathstroke the Terminator (who he doesn't know personally and has never met, but really respects and seems to know a lot of personal details about) could easily beat the entire Justice League at once. That's just Brad Meltzer.
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Jan 15, 2019 09:31
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Samuringa posted:Going through Miller's Daredevil: - Daredevil's first gig was scaring a man to death. Cold, but I approve. And apparenly so does Urich who just shrugs and calls it a day. - Not sure what move you just pulled here, Matt, but I'm not the superhero  - Oh, boy, I sure hope so! 
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Jan 15, 2019 13:58
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Superhero and rugby jerseys just dont mix, though the Black Panther isn't too bad.
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Jan 15, 2019 19:52
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They'd be fine if it wasn't for the advertising. Of course, then they'd just be regular shirts.
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Jan 15, 2019 20:29
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https://twitter.com/crackedpepper83/status/1085274824824537089 https://twitter.com/crackedpepper83/status/1085275095550119937
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Jan 15, 2019 23:18
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Endless Mike posted:https://twitter.com/crackedpepper83/status/1085274824824537089 The Spider-Man Who Collected Kid?
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Jan 16, 2019 04:50
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Samuringa posted:Going through Miller's Daredevil: Oh, gently caress you 
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Jan 17, 2019 00:45
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Samuringa posted:Oh, gently caress you "I will begin my interview by insulting blind people and implying they have no idea where they are at any time."
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Jan 17, 2019 03:40
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One of Jim Shooter's editorial edicts (which he is/was lambasted for but makes sense in a lot of ways) is that every comic is someone's first so writers had to restate the premise every issue. That's probably why Bullseye's powers are mentioned every issue, and where so many of the Claremontian cliches like "ah'm near invulnerable while blastin'!" come from as well.joehonkie posted:"I will begin my interview by insulting blind people and implying they have no idea where they are at any time."
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Jan 17, 2019 19:21
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Edge & Christian posted:One of Jim Shooter's editorial edicts (which he is/was lambasted for but makes sense in a lot of ways) is that every comic is someone's first so writers had to restate the premise every issue. That's probably why Bullseye's powers are mentioned every issue, and where so many of the Claremontian cliches like "ah'm near invulnerable while blastin'!" come from as well. I was actually reading my Uncanny X-Men Vol. 3 omnibus earlier this afternoon, which includes the introductions from the Marvel Masterworks books collecting the same issues. One of these is from either Simonson or Nocenti (whichever of them was editor at the time) and they restated this rule of Shooter's and also indicated that another thing which had to be spelled out for new readers in every issue was the characters' powers and abilities.
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Jan 17, 2019 20:07
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Edge & Christian posted:One of Jim Shooter's editorial edicts (which he is/was lambasted for but makes sense in a lot of ways) is that every comic is someone's first so writers had to restate the premise every issue. That's probably why Bullseye's powers are mentioned every issue, and where so many of the Claremontian cliches like "ah'm near invulnerable while blastin'!" come from as well. It's a good idea, particularly in the days before writing for the trade, and they were worried about comics becoming so insular only those who had followed them for years could read them. But the approach a lot of writers of the era took of just giving people a catch phrase for their powers was not the best way to do it.
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Jan 17, 2019 20:27
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Here's the excerpt I mentioned verbatim:Louise Simonson posted:Back in the early '80s, Jim Shooter was Marvel's Editor in Chief. I guess, by now, everyone knows that Jim had very strong ideas about what made a good comic book story. It was nothing controversial. He figured every sissue was somebody's first, so he demanded that the characters be named early on, and that their powers, relationships and status quos clearly established. He wanted each protagonist to have a clear need and a clear conflict, be it "man against man, man against nature, or man against himself." Each issue required a resolution, within the context of the comic that would enhance the larger, continuing story arc.
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Jan 17, 2019 20:41
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Random Stranger posted:It's a good idea, particularly in the days before writing for the trade, and they were worried about comics becoming so insular only those who had followed them for years could read them. But the approach a lot of writers of the era took of just giving people a catch phrase for their powers was not the best way to do it. And if that was their goal, they failed anyway!
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Jan 17, 2019 20:48
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Wheat Loaf posted:Here's the excerpt I mentioned verbatim: To be clear, I'm actually very glad this is a thing, for example, I had no idea who Heather was and the first issues she is in do a nice job of making her character known to newcomers, I'm just having fun with the concept.
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Jan 17, 2019 21:06
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When I was a young kid I didn't have a comic shop near by so I used to pick up comics at the local news dealer/magazine store and their collection could be rather spotty. Certain titles would be there one month and not the next. Certain story arcs within issues would suddenly start/stop so I would get part 2's or 3's but never part 1's etc. In this way, every issue was a first issue for me.
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Jan 17, 2019 21:26
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I've been reading through Punisher's original (circa 1987) series for the first time (it's... weird, I might write something about it) and one thing that got called out in the letter column is that Mike Baron/the editors were adhering to this rule but never bothered to keep straight exactly what type of criminal activity was happening when Frank's family was killed and they also never really kept track of how old his kids were. I know they pinballed between "caught in the crossfire of two warring gangs" and "accidentally witnessed a mob execution and were killed to cover it up" every third or fourth issue, depending on which worked better for the context of the issue.
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Jan 17, 2019 21:34
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Wonder if maybe someone at Marvel had the same problem that's why they had abnett do year one later on?
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Jan 17, 2019 21:39
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I mean, it's definitely not a bad idea to make sure you establish who everyone in the story is, what they want, and what they can do, especially in a time before people just yell "alexa who is cyclops" at thin air and get an answer. The problem comes in when every comic is its own self-contained story, so every comic has to introduce its entire cast, every single time. Summary pages at the start of every issue were an elegant solution, it's a shame it took 30 years for someone to think 'em up.
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Jan 17, 2019 22:50
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Reminds me of: "My name is Barry Allen/Hal Jordan and I am the Flash/Green Lantern meaning that I am the fastest man alive/ a space cop" that happens on the front page of Johns' stories. Clearly a child of the 80's.
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Jan 17, 2019 23:02
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big bang comics is doing a year in review for 2018 that some might be interested in (it's a thread) https://twitter.com/TheBigBang_/status/1086013880722227200
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Jan 17, 2019 23:47
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Samuringa posted:Oh, gently caress you Well, at least Matt had a convenient cover story for getting the gently caress outta there.
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Jan 18, 2019 01:08
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“Anything is a deadly weapon in his hands!” Is right up there with “Nothing stops the Juggernaut!” to me. Easily two of my favorite Marvel villains. Those catchphrases really helped sell them to me as a kid.
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Jan 18, 2019 01:55
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Did you guys know that Neil Gaiman created a superhero called Lady Justice? The premise is what if that justice is blind statue lady was a sexy superhero It's real bad
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Gripweed posted:Did you guys know that Neil Gaiman created a superhero called Lady Justice? The premise is what if that justice is blind statue lady was a sexy superhero It was a Tekno comix title, which if I am not mistaken was a bunch of well known authors making up some bullshit character and letting other people do whatever they want with it. He probably spent a whole 1 minute coming up with the character and that was it.
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Madkal posted:It was a Tekno comix title, which if I am not mistaken was a bunch of well known authors making up some bullshit character and letting other people do whatever they want with it. He probably spent a whole 1 minute coming up with the character and that was it. All of the books were NEIL GAIMAN'S LADY JUSTICE written by cj henderson NEIL GAIMAN'S MR. HERO THE NEWMATIC MAN written by james vance LEONARD NIMOY'S PRIMORTALS written by lawrence watt-evans Though honestly looking back at them, they apparently did an Isaac Asimov idea adapted by Howard Chaykin, Steven Grant, and George Perez which almost sounds like something that might be readable. By the time Teknocomix came out (in 1995) my barely-teenage self had already lived through the disappointment of realizing that all the comics with cool [Brian Bolland/Bill Sienkiewicz/Neal Adams/etc.] covers might have crappy interior artists, and had just lived through the first wave of Image books that were all JIM LEE'S STORMWATCH WITH COVERS BY JIM LEE AND INTERIORS BY ONE OF HIS WEED CARRIERS so I was immediately suspicious of Teknocomix. It might literally be the only one of those New Universes I never bought a single issue of, and I bought comics from Defiant, Triumphant, Comics' Greatest World, I'm pretty sure I bought a couple issues from Majestic Entertainment and I had to look up what their name was. Teknocomix was late to the party and a memorable stinker. I do see someone put out trades of the "Neil Gaiman" stuff a few years ago though.
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Jan 18, 2019 04:43
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I scored a shitload of Tekno books during a dime sale and they were pretty much universally terrible. My at the time shop owner bought into the hype hardcore though. He even got himself the funky purple leather jacket.
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Jan 18, 2019 04:55
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I assume all the comics by Topps were terrible too? Didn’t they do a similar stunt with Jack Kirby art?
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Jan 18, 2019 05:19
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I had those too and yeah, real bad. Ditto for Dynamites Kirby stuff.
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Jan 18, 2019 06:00
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Open Marriage Night posted:I assume all the comics by Topps were terrible too? Didn’t they do a similar stunt with Jack Kirby art? Topps Comics in general were weird because I don't remember thinking any of them were that great, but unlike Tekno and some of the other ones, they got real people with real talent to work on them; the abortive follow-up Kirbyverse stuff was Kurt Busiek and Keith Giffen, and other comics from the short weird run of Topps Comics included: --Bram Stoker's Dracula by Roy Thomas and Mike Mignola --Jurassic Park by Walt Simonson and Gil Kane --Mars Attacks by Keith Giffen and Charlie Adlard --Elric by Neil Gaiman (actually Neil Gaiman) and P. Craig Russell --A Jackie Chan: Spartan X series by Michael Golden --A Ray Bradbury anthology series with a bunch of talented people (Tim Bradstreet, Richard Corben, Guy Davis, Harvey Kurtzman's last published work, Mike Mignola, Moebius, Sean Phillips, P. Craig Russell, Matt Wagner) Of course, they also did a bunch of Zorro comics that quickly got subsumed by ~~LADY RAWHIDE~~, a Bad Girl character created as his partner, and put out a bunch of extremely forgettable Further Adventures of [X-Files/Xena/Duckman/Mars Attacks/Hercules/Dracula] comics by less memorable creators, or in one case a Steve Englehart Jurassic Park mini-series where the raptors learned to pilot helicopters. It looks like Topps initially bought their way into comcis by buying out Byron Preiss's publishing deal (or maybe just hiring him from wherever he was working), since he had been doing Ray Bradbury and Michael Moorcock comic adaptations in the early 1990s, and is listed as "executive editor" on a bunch of the aforementioned Topps books. They obviously had a big budget initially but gave up quick, and then jumped out when the licenses expired in the late 1990s. There's also the weird thing that never really affected their comics line, but Topps employed Art Spiegelman as an artist and eventually art director from 1965-1989, so Spiegelman was working for Topps doing Wacky Packages and Garbage Pail Kids and all of their other non-sports cards for decades while he was also working on Arcade and RAW and Maus and half of the artists in that scene (from Crumb to Panter to Ware, plus most of the ex-EC artists kicking around in that period like Wally Wood and Jack Davis) ended up doing Topps Trading Cards, but never Topps Comics.
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Jan 18, 2019 06:16
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I remember when X-Files #1 hit and my LCS had it up as their pick of the week or whatever. I thought the art looked real bad so I skipped it. A few months later Wizard had it worth $30 and boy was my like 13 year old self mad!
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I mainly remember Topps for being the first publisher to have the Friday the 13th license. During that time they released three comics with Jason in it: 1) An adaptation of Jason Goes to Hell because that's how late into the series they were by the time anyone thought about doing a Friday the 13th comic. 2) A quick appearance in Satan's Six, one of those Kirby concept comics. 3) A Jason vs. Leatherface series, which isn't fantastic, but at least better than it should be.
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