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I stopped in to my local library to pick up their only printed volumes of Blacksad, and at the same time they had the hardcover of Flex Mentallo, so I grabbed that too. And read it first. Man, that is extremely Morrison, isn't it? All the hallmarks. Superheroes as gods which are potentially real, multiverses crashing together, concepts just a foot out past where your mind's eye can see. Must have been mindblowing back in Ninety-loving-Six. Or was it the kind of thing where it was ahead of its time and it didn't sell for beans?
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Given how goddamn impossible the back issues still are to find, I'm gonna guess the latter.
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I think it wasn’t reprinted for the longest time because of legal issues involving the ads Flex was a parody of. For the longest time it felt like Flex was some legendary book that you’d never be able to read a physical copy of.
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Open Marriage Night posted:I think it wasn’t reprinted for the longest time because of legal issues involving the ads Flex was a parody of. For the longest time it felt like Flex was some legendary book that you’d never be able to read a physical copy of. Yeah, reading up on it, it looks like some eager beaver sent a copy of Flex to the Charles Atlas people thinking they'd get a kick out of it; instead they went "whoa hey what the gently caress" and lobbed law bombs at DC, tying it up for well over a decade. Bet Morrison was real thrilled to have a major chunk of his hero-summoning hypersigil bound up in the dusty grey tape of copyright law. I'm trying to remember the most Morrison sentence I've ever heard but all I can remember right now is that it involved Superman sealing the hole in forever, or something similarly ultra-bombastic.
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Phy posted:I'm trying to remember the most Morrison sentence I've ever heard but all I can remember right now is that it involved Superman sealing the hole in forever, or something similarly ultra-bombastic. “I’ll do what I can to plug the hole in forever” from Superman Beyond?
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Somebody make me a new avatar out of this
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Rhyno posted:Somebody make me a new avatar out of this  
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Mr Hootington posted:Hey you go. I mean it's going to be this. Even if it's not what he wanted it will be.
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I wanted it to pan from his face to the but and back, somebody make it do that.
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I could do it tomorrow if nobody else has.
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Make it so.
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Phy posted:Yeah, reading up on it, it looks like some eager beaver sent a copy of Flex to the Charles Atlas people thinking they'd get a kick out of it; instead they went "whoa hey what the gently caress" and lobbed law bombs at DC, tying it up for well over a decade. Bet Morrison was real thrilled to have a major chunk of his hero-summoning hypersigil bound up in the dusty grey tape of copyright law. Probably what was below your quoted post, but my avatar used to be from Superman Beyond with the text “I’m trapped in a self evolving hyper story! And it’s trying it’s best to destroy me”
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Rhyno posted:I wanted it to pan from his face to the but and back, somebody make it do that. Do this but have batman's fist go into Guy's butt
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Benito Cereno posted:“I’ll do what I can to plug the hole in forever” from Superman Beyond? It was exactly this, thank you
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Rhyno posted:Make it so. 
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LoL. Nice.
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https://twitter.com/usagiguy/status/1143233669290532864 I have no idea if this is part of the colour reprints or not but I want it. EDIT: Apparently Artist editions are like gallery editions and are faithful reproductions of the original art that the published comic are scanned from. That's pretty neat. MrFlibble fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Jun 24, 2019 |
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I reached out to Annie Nocenti on social media, and I got a response, and I'm over the moon
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MrFlibble posted:https://twitter.com/usagiguy/status/1143233669290532864 which one of you is the guy on the left
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I dunk on Dan Slott as much as the next person, but this was funny. https://twitter.com/DanSlott/status/1144501020157865984?s=19
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This is from the comicgate thread, but it's just someone being an idiot, not saying hateful poo poo and more people need to marvel in the idiocy.
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Just an FYI for people that maybe don't follow the indie comics thread, if you're in that small overlap of people that still read The Walking Dead and actually buy physical comics you might want to get to your shop early tomorrow. I don't think there's many here that read it, and probably fewer still that actually go to shops, but it's going to be in pretty huge demand I expect.
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Did the aliens finally show up?
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Lurdiak posted:Did the aliens finally show up? Could be! None of the actual contents of the book have been leaked yet, just the ending editorial and that it's the surprise 70+ page final issue of the series.
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Jesus wept. https://twitter.com/TomTaylorMade/status/1146271719918833664
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Are there any retailers kicking up a stink about Image putting out fake solicitations for further TWD issues yet?
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Teenage Fansub posted:Are there any retailers kicking up a stink about Image putting out fake solicitations for further TWD issues yet? Retailers? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=One-bA58yVI&t=9s
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Ahh yes, the film where Rambo fights alongside the brave soldiers of Al-Qaeda.
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Skwirl posted:Ahh yes, the film where Rambo fights alongside the brave soldiers of Al-Qaeda. Hey, they were fighting the commies, that makes them the good guys. Now to take a big sip of coffee and not pay attention to the region for 20 years.
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Just read TWD final issue (Google Play had it up at midnight.) They stuck the landing imo. I don't want to say more before others get their hands on it
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Kirkman said waaaaay backnwhem #50 came out and teased Rick's possible death that the comic wouldnt outlive that character. I was expecting another year and then a reboot.
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Here's a gift for those of you who are really weird about Tessa Thompson. https://twitter.com/JarettSays/status/1146064489965469697
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Lurdiak posted:Here's a gift for those of you who are really weird about Tessa Thompson. 
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It seems Mad Magazine is dead. https://twitter.com/RubenBolling/status/1146588406534877186 Lurdiak fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Jul 4, 2019 |
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Not that I read it, but that's still a bummer.
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Was anyone picking up the relaunch? I'm guessing they lost most of whatever old audience they had there. Edit: Remember it's a DC comic and they're shutting down their lines. Hopefully they sell it off to Fantagraphics or something. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 02:57 on Jul 4, 2019 |
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