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Soonmot posted:does molly ever wear a cool hat for more than half an episode? Barry Convex posted:eh, I enjoyed it and thought it was better than S2. wish they had introduced Victor instead of just teasing him for S4 though Literally: a wizard did it They also blatantly change the way the telephone platform worked (4 light aliens shooting star jizz at it) and just never talk about it aside from a really lame they, uh, turned the saltwater plant into a super atomic reactor yeah sure ok. Morgan just isn't an interesting villain despite Hurley's heavy lifting, and S3 is more like "hey our parents are murderers but ya know they had stuff to work out" Mancha would have been something. Did Tesladad build him, was he made by Chase and sent back into the past, was he actually an Ultron bud, etc. Ah well.
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I got a ping for a new review from an old reviewer I've been following over the years, because when he does recommend something it's really good. And what ya know, he just did today. It's about Pulp, from Brubaker + Phillips, a short GN about early 30's New York, but also about the late 1890 period. An amazing mix of noir and western. Check it out if you are looking for some non-cape stuff.
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I was talking with a buddy and I think I've read all of the Brubaker and Phillips stuff I ever need to. It's all great, but I'm just not that into crime drama. Between Criminal, Fatale, and Incognito, I have more of their collections than I have volumes of anything else (Hellboy, Sandman, Bone, etc). That's not counting the several series that were in the recent Humble Bundle.
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Saoshyant posted:I got a ping for a new review from an old reviewer I've been following over the years, because when he does recommend something it's really good. And what ya know, he just did today. I'm really interested in that period where mass culture was beginning to really pin down a structure for romanticizing "the West" as a reified, generic ideal, and especially all the work that pulp and dime novels did in that process, so I'll check this out!
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Darthemed posted:
The last panel would make a cool avatar.
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Aug 5, 2020 23:28
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I'd like to see some pretty art to break up the angry politics that is my Twitter timeline. Anyone have some accounts that I can follow, either artists or an aggregate (with proper attribution)?
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Aug 9, 2020 20:01
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Uthor posted:I'd like to see some pretty art to break up the angry politics that is my Twitter timeline. Anyone have some accounts that I can follow, either artists or an aggregate (with proper attribution)? Good illustrations and pixel animations https://twitter.com/waneella_/status/1291702427763322882?s=20 Little square landscape cutout things that are cool https://twitter.com/gozz_sss/status/1264118803081785344?s=20 Fantastic sci-fi concept art https://twitter.com/AlexJayBrady/status/1287866257069338624?s=20 a couple of excellent miniature makers https://twitter.com/yu5ukejbk/status/1279018545897078791?s=20 https://twitter.com/haswano/status/1291221859644485633?s=20 and most importantly, just women in full victorian maid outfits on skateboards https://twitter.com/suzushiro333/status/1287703041936781313?s=20
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Much thanks!
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What's the consensus on Evan Dorkin's Beasts of Burden?
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Happy Hippo posted:What's the consensus on Evan Dorkin's Beasts of Burden?
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Uthor posted:I'd like to see some pretty art to break up the angry politics that is my Twitter timeline. Anyone have some accounts that I can follow, either artists or an aggregate (with proper attribution)? My advice for finding artists is just to follow every comic artist you like because they will often rt and/or like other artists works. Also I've found that when you follow someone and it gives you recommended follows, for artists at least the people it recommends generally aren't poo poo. It's how I've found a lot of the queer artists I follow
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Yeah, I should follow more people that get retweeted. Good advice. I probably shot myself in the foot a bunch cause other than following people ten years when I first signed up, I hadn't used Twitter until the last few years and the artists I've followed since then have been mostly for political reasons, and now they all post about politics! Maybe I should log back into Deviant Art...
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site posted:My advice for finding artists is just to follow every comic artist you like because they will often rt and/or like other artists works. Also I've found that when you follow someone and it gives you recommended follows, for artists at least the people it recommends generally aren't poo poo. It's how I've found a lot of the queer artists I follow Adding to this: your recommended follows are also affected by accounts you've recently viewed, so even if you've only browsed some artists' stuff you might still find some good potential follows in there.
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Aug 10, 2020 00:47
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Uthor posted:Yeah, I should follow more people that get retweeted. Good advice. Just grab a big stack if comics that you own and like the art of and start checking if the artists are on twitter. You might add some writers too, because they'll tweet pages from stuff they're working on and also retweet stuff from their artist friends and previous collaborators.
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Aug 10, 2020 00:53
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JordanKai posted:Adding to this: your recommended follows are also affected by accounts you've recently viewed, so even if you've only browsed some artists' stuff you might still find some good potential follows in there.
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Aug 10, 2020 02:43
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FilthyImp posted:big yiddie goth girls Jewish goth girls, or was that a typo? Either way, I am very intrigued. Please name names!
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That reminds me of years ago when my friend was doing fetish art for commissions. One guy had him draw a specific pose showing off a lady's feet. We were walking through C2E2 and he came across another artist in Artist Alley with a very similar print for sale. Turns out they were both hired by the same guy!
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Aug 10, 2020 03:32
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Jewish goth girls, or was that a typo? Either way, I am very intrigued. Please name names! They didn't go to my school 😥
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Happy Hippo posted:What's the consensus on Evan Dorkin's Beasts of Burden? It will punch you in the heart and make you thank it for the privilege.
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Aug 10, 2020 12:22
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Most artist now tell you on their twitter name if they post +18 nsfw stuff, but some of them don't, so be careful when following if you don't wanna see that type of stuff on your TL.
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https://twitter.com/asher_elbein/status/1292954315770994697?s=20 I wish I had something insightful to say about this but I really feel for anyone here who might work for DC or knows anyone who does. This seems horrible.
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RevKrule posted:https://twitter.com/asher_elbein/status/1292954315770994697?s=20 Holy poo poo, what's going on over there, I thought DC was doing good?
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Soonmot posted:Holy poo poo, what's going on over there, I thought DC was doing good? AT&T bought Warner a while back. Took on a lot of debt to do so.
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Aug 11, 2020 03:05
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Soonmot posted:Holy poo poo, what's going on over there, I thought DC was doing good? Given they now have AT&T over their shoulder I expect our 'good' is not their 'good.' And Bob Harras at least doesn't seem to have been doing much for the company for a while.
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Earlier this year when I was worried about comic shops not surviving, I was just thinking about how they'd get through the lockdowns and deal with reduced demand. It didn't occur to me that they were also going to have less stuff to sell as companies close departments and end product lines to save money.
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And they also pulled out of Diamond, so whatever you do want may become a pain for your shop to order.
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IUG posted:And they also pulled out of Diamond, so whatever you do want may become a pain for your shop to order. Because of how badly this distribution change has gone my shop was already talking about no longer stocking DC.
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Jordan7hm posted:Because of how badly this distribution change has gone my shop was already talking about no longer stocking DC. Oh wow, I knew there were a lot of hiccups but I thought (before this latest news about DC) it would ultimately be better for the floppy industry as a whole in the long term.
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Aug 11, 2020 21:16
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How can anybody imagine a comic book shop that doesn't sell Superman comics? Yes, yes, post a picture of a manga store, you know what I mean.
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From e&cs post the other day I imagine the hit from no Batman books would be much worse
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A girl and her dad enter Phantom of the Attic comics. Dad: "My daughter is really into Superman and Harley Quinn, do you have any trades you can recommend?" Store: "Sorry, we don't sell any DC comics at all anymore. You'll have to order them online I guess." Dad: "What the gently caress?" Store: *shrugs* "I dunno, man, I'm going to be laid off next week I'm pretty sure."
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Skwirl posted:Oh wow, I knew there were a lot of hiccups but I thought (before this latest news about DC) it would ultimately be better for the floppy industry as a whole in the long term. Are we confident that the floppy industry has a long term?
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Gripweed posted:Are we confident that the floppy industry has a long term? I think Image will probably be around for a while, and Marvel hasn't had a ton of luck with digital only stuff.
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A Strange Aeon posted:How can anybody imagine a comic book shop that doesn't sell Superman comics? Yes, yes, post a picture of a manga store, you know what I mean. I’m imagining stores going out of business, but for the ones that stick around, sure. They’ll still have a back issues, they’ll still sell marvel and image stuff and a billion gross badly drawn barely porn comics.
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Skwirl posted:I think Image will probably be around for a while, and Marvel hasn't had a ton of luck with digital only stuff. How much of that is due to the insane single issue pricing on digital comics? I buy a lot of DC's "Digital first" range, because they're £0.80 each and it's a no thought impulse purchase at that point. I'm not saying they all have to be that cheap, but they should absolutely be cheaper than the paper comics.
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Tom Breevort tweeted out that Mark Gruenwald, Mike Weiringo and Joe Kubert all passed away on 8/12. I never realized.
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frameset posted:How much of that is due to the insane single issue pricing on digital comics? I buy a lot of DC's "Digital first" range, because they're £0.80 each and it's a no thought impulse purchase at that point. Marvel doesn't release numbers for digital sales, but there's some books that we're pretty sure did really sell in digital sales (Ms Marvel, Moon Girl) that also had print releases and the digital copies cost the same as the print, so I don't think price point is nececessarily the issue. How much does it cost Marvel to print a 24 page comic and ship it to a retailer? Does anyone have a close estimate?
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Skwirl posted:Marvel doesn't release numbers for digital sales, but there's some books that we're pretty sure did really sell in digital sales (Ms Marvel, Moon Girl) that also had print releases and the digital copies cost the same as the print, so I don't think price point is nececessarily the issue. Diamond sells a single $2.99 book to retailers for $1.34. That's as far as anyone really knows.
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Rhyno posted:Diamond sells a single $2.99 book to retailers for $1.34. That's as far as anyone really knows. Don't retailers have to pay some small amount for Free Comic Book Day books? That's probably close to cost for printing. Although yeah the bigger difference between digital and print is probably less the printing costs and more not having to cut retailers in. I doubt Comixology takes over half the cover price, I know you can get up to 70% of the cover price via self-publishing on Amazon.
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