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I still don't understand what an Avengers world is at all.
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Obviously it's a theme park with horrible gimmick rides.
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Apr 28, 2019 17:14
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Schneider Heim posted:Kinda of a broad question, but who among comic book writers have pet characters for the Big 2? That is, characters they love writing and get super-protective of that it's very transparent in their work? It could also be for characters they didn't invent. Greg Ruck seems really protective of his version of Wonder Woman.
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Lurdiak posted:I still don't understand what an Avengers world is at all. Kingdom Hearts DLC
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Apr 28, 2019 17:31
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When it comes to getting paid character royalties I know Andy Lanning got some money after his daughter was playing Disney Infinity and Cosmo turned up in the game without any credit for him and Dan Abnett, who then had words with thier lawyers. And that's the super hero origin of Thier very nice games room!
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Apr 29, 2019 06:41
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I've been out of the game for a minute and was wondering if Neil Gaiman was working on finishing Miracle Man, and if the entire thing is ever going to get collected in an omnibus or two?
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Apr 30, 2019 06:36
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Happy Hippo posted:I've been out of the game for a minute and was wondering if Neil Gaiman was working on finishing Miracle Man, and if the entire thing is ever going to get collected in an omnibus or two? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Apr 30, 2019 08:56
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I don't have a Twitter or anything, can someone see if Ken Penders is having any kind of meltdown over the Sonic movie trailer?
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Apr 30, 2019 18:06
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food court bailiff posted:I don't have a Twitter or anything, can someone see if Ken Penders is having any kind of meltdown over the Sonic movie trailer? Not really. 
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Apr 30, 2019 18:15
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Those are actually accurate and cognizant points.
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Apr 30, 2019 18:18
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"The multibajillion dollar franchise phenomenon comedy movie that has a ton of star power and a huge CG budget will do better than the hideous movie about the guy whose most recognizable games were 25 years ago" isn't like, some kind of prophetic revelation though.
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Apr 30, 2019 18:31
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food court bailiff posted:"The multibajillion dollar franchise phenomenon comedy movie that has a ton of star power and a huge CG budget will do better than the hideous movie about the guy whose most recognizable games were 25 years ago" isn't like, some kind of prophetic revelation though. it might be controversial among sonic fans, though, those people seem to live in a very different world from our own
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Apr 30, 2019 19:02
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Yeah, I saw some guy today going "Sonic is one of the greatest cartoon characters of all time" and my brain went right to its John Oliver impression: "Is he, though? Is he?"
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Apr 30, 2019 23:20
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Cubone posted:yeah every single reaction I've seen about it, including Sonic fans, seems to be an emphatic "who thought this was a good idea? why does this exist?"
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Apr 30, 2019 23:34
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Senior Woodchuck posted:Yeah, I saw some guy today going "Sonic is one of the greatest cartoon characters of all time" and my brain went right to its John Oliver impression: "Is he, though? Is he?" He's so great he got two cartoons running simultaneously with completely opposite tones!
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Apr 30, 2019 23:36
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Is Spawn a good book?
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May 4, 2019 18:52
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omnibobb posted:Is Spawn a good book? No.
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May 4, 2019 19:23
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It’s got some wicked art.
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May 4, 2019 19:26
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Spawn ran long enough it has some interesting moments but it's basically pure distilled 90s.
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May 4, 2019 19:31
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The most interesting things about Spawn are Todd's ego and bad business decisions.
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May 4, 2019 19:34
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Rhyno posted:The most interesting things about Spawn are Todd's ego and bad business decisions. It was a bit amazing watching his toy empire take off.
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May 4, 2019 20:49
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And then crumble. The whole Miracleman thing is truly wonderous to behold.
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May 4, 2019 20:50
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Rhyno posted:The most interesting things about Spawn are Todd's ego and bad business decisions. And the issue Dave Sim did with the DC/Marvel characters in cages.
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May 5, 2019 01:21
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Spawn has Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman for writing one or two issues. It also has pretty art. It is also so edgy you better not be a 14 year boy reading all this edgy ultra violence. In other words it's such a product of it's time that it's pretty much 90s distilled. Also it should have ended at issue 50 as it pretty much came full circle then and actually had a logical end point. Man I know I got the Spawn Bible somewhere. I should check that out again
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May 5, 2019 01:47
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Is it hard to get the Neil Gaiman issues of Spawn, considering the massive lawsuit. I think McFarlan would need to get permission from Marvel to reprint anything with Angela in it now.
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May 5, 2019 01:52
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Skwirl posted:Is it hard to get the Neil Gaiman issues of Spawn, considering the massive lawsuit. I think McFarlan would need to get permission from Marvel to reprint anything with Angela in it now. Dunno how hard it is to get but I got him to sign my copy of it. He put a copyright sign in front of his signature on the cover.
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May 5, 2019 01:54
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I bought these for 20$ earlier this week.  I feel like a lot of this stuff is available just because there was so much of it printed.
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May 5, 2019 02:02
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Madkal posted:Spawn has Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman for writing one or two issues. It also has pretty art. It is also so edgy you better not be a 14 year boy reading all this edgy ultra violence. In other words it's such a product of it's time that it's pretty much 90s distilled. Also it should have ended at issue 50 as it pretty much came full circle then and actually had a logical end point. The thing is McFarlan is a terrible writer. I mean terrible. He didn't give two shits about plot or dialog or how things held together, he just wanted concepts that he could hang his pictures onto. That was why he got Moore, Gaiman, Sim, and Miller to do those four early issues: he realized people were talking about how much it hurt to actually read his book and he wanted to improve that. And it turned out that he did actually learn from them. Spawn went from unreadable pile of dogshit that nobody should ever touch before that four issue block to incredibly mediocre superhero book that nobody should bother with after them. But it was still bad comics. Fun question, what were the most and least readable books from Image up to the end of 1993 (basically, the original seven and the first wave of followers)? From my perspective there's only two real choices for best: The Maxx and 1963 and I'd much rather read 1963 again than The Maxx even if it's unfinished. Least readable is harder since there's so much absolute poo poo that would leave you going, "What the gently caress was this?" I think I'd have to give the nod to Liefeld and Youngblood, but that's because I can actually remember how awful Youngblood was where other early Image books have been actively purged from my brain cells.
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I think from the first set it’s Savage Dragon as most readable, no question. For the rest I’m in for the art so whatever man.
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Skwirl posted:Is it hard to get the Neil Gaiman issues of Spawn, considering the massive lawsuit. I think McFarlan would need to get permission from Marvel to reprint anything with Angela in it now. It was before the lawsuit, but I got that issue for $0.50 ($2 for the Sim, Moore, Gaiman, and Miller issues). They're the only Spawn I own and the only Spawn I've read since the 90's.
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There's the three or four issue Grant Morrison/Greg Capullo story which I... liked at the time, I think? Spawn teamed up with Harry Houdini.
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Happy Hippo posted:I've been out of the game for a minute and was wondering if Neil Gaiman was working on finishing Miracle Man, and if the entire thing is ever going to get collected in an omnibus or two? Skwirl posted:AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Okay. Anybody have anything for me here? Miracle Man? Gaiman?
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May 5, 2019 05:58
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Marvel won't even entertain questions about it at cons. Something is fucky with the deal and they aren't saying what.
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May 5, 2019 06:33
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I still have a soft spot for WildC.A.T.s, even though it was generic and mediocre until Alan Moore came aboard to write #21-34 (and wrapped up his run with a short story in #50). The early issues featured some pretty, pretty Jim Lee artwork and excellent computer coloring. To this day, I still love Spartan's costume design and Grifter's mask, and I hate that we never got good action figures of them -- just the mid-'90s Playmates figures and the old DC Direct PVC figurine set. Then it became one of my all-time favorite comics when Joe Casey wrote Wildcats Volume 2 #8-28 and Wildcats 3.0 #1-24, wisely chucking out a lot of the original concepts and focusing on Spartan and Grifter putting aside the costumed superhero antics and trying to really change the world for the better.
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Happy Hippo posted:Okay. Okay, remember how everyone was all "and now the question of who owns the rights to Miracleman is finally settled, for all time!"? Yeah, they might have been wrong.
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According to Mark Buckingham who got asked about it as a FCBD signing yesterday, it's still happening, and he's co-plotting it, it sounds like mostly because Neil Gaiman is too busy. Gaiman gave an interview last month where he said quote:I am very very hopeful that Marvel, that currently own[s] Marvelman/Miracle, will be finishing the story that Mark Buckingham and I began well over 20 years ago, but we'll see. I've said this before but I think a lot of the delays/backstage problems with Miracleman at this point are less about legal rights and more about how Marvel spent a ton of money untangling the rights with the assumption that they had a goldmine on their hands -- look at how many trades of Watchmen and Sandman are sold every year! -- and then rolled it out in the dumbest most protracted way possible. It's likely they offered Gaiman a ton of money to finish his lost masterpiece, and may have cold feet when the drip feed of reprints didn't sell big numbers. Or maybe it's something completely different, but if it's rights issues they've still got the entire Moore run, the entire Gaiman/Buckingham run to date, and even that weird one-shot with a new Milligan/Allred story in it, up for sale on Comixology. The thing that seems to be indefinitely delayed with no clear resolution is "new material written by Neil Gaiman", which sounds like an issue with Gaiman, not the character rights.
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#25 was fully penciled and inked back in the day, have they released that one yet?
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Rhyno posted:#25 was fully penciled and inked back in the day, have they released that one yet? Miracleman #1 - 52,313 Miracleman #2 - 36,927 Miracleman #3 - 25,970 Miracleman #4 - 23,557 Miracleman #5 - 22,399 Miracleman #6 - 20,598 Miracleman #7 - 19,123 Miracleman #8 - 17,654 Miracleman #9 - 16,466 Miracleman #10 - 15,409 Miracleman #11 - 14,824 Miracleman #12 - 14,634 Miracleman #13 - 14,155 Miracleman #14 - 14,024 Miracleman #15 - 14,548 Miracleman #16 - 13,595 All New Miracleman Annual - 21,644 Miracleman by Buckingham and Gaiman #1 - 27,269 Miracleman by Buckingham and Gaiman #2 - 22,143 Miracleman by Buckingham and Gaiman #3 - 19,375 Miracleman by Buckingham and Gaiman #4 - 16,825 Miracleman by Buckingham and Gaiman #5 - 15,427 Miracleman by Buckingham and Gaiman #6 - 14,200 I guess these numbers aren't terrible considering they were reprints of decades-old stories that may have been out of print but were hardly out of reach, most of the back issues weren't that expensive and they'd all been pirated to hell and back. But I have got to imagine that 2010s Neil Gaiman (and Buckingham, even) would get paid a lot more to produce/finish new material than whatever reprint royalties Marvel was putting out for this stuff. And the prospect of reprinting Silver Age 1-3 (to sales hovering around 15,000 copies) and then somehow try to message out HEY ISSUE 4 OF THIS HAS NEVER EVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE, ALSO ISSUE 5 AND 6 ARE BRAND NEW AND WE PAID A poo poo-TON OF MONEY FOR THEM is a tough nut to crack, especially if all of the contracts you signed were predicated on the idea that these books would be selling in the six figures.
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And they reprinted all that Anglo stuff that barely anyone was asking for. Such a head scratcher.
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