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Saoshyant posted:I have nothing against taking Jar Jar Binks to breakfast, but leaving the diner table like that is just filthy, inexcusable behavior. And for that one sin... A NEW MUTANT SHALL DIE!
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How Wonderful! posted:And for that one sin... A NEW MUTANT SHALL DIE! They got killed and maimed a lot, but I don't remember it being on covers when I was reading New Mutants, unlike when DC would literally put "A Titan Will Die" on covers.
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Skwirl posted:They got killed and maimed a lot, but I don't remember it being on covers when I was reading New Mutants, unlike when DC would literally put "A Titan Will Die" on covers. I also don’t remember a titans corpse getting played with like a meat suit
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bobkatt013 posted:I also don’t remember a titans corpse getting played with like a meat suit That's had to have happened more than once to the titans by now.
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Edge & Christian posted:This is Bird Brain erasure. I love in that run Magik is just such a chaos-loving imp. I'm sure it's like to medicate from having her soul slowly taken over by Limbo or whatever, but she is absolutely the 'yes, let's do it because it will be funny' one of the group. It only feels like she's starting to come back to that now.
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Sam being the faintly responsible one who pays for the damages is just perfect Sam Guthrie is the very best
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Sam Guthrie is the very best
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Edge & Christian posted:This is Bird Brain erasure. I know it's not the best or whatever but this art makes me happy.
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Rick posted:I know it's not the best or whatever but this art makes me happy. That Blevins art is objectively Good. He and Silvestri were putting out really fun work on their respective books, drawing a lot of good gags and reaction shots. One of the best things about Inferno is how funny it is at times. NYC turning into a Demon-infested hellscape is played for laughs so much and so many character designs (especially suddenly animated objects like mailboxes) are great.
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Yeah Blevins breathed a ton of life into New Mutants-- it's certainly not the same book that Claremont was writing, but Simonson and Blevins had incredible creative chemistry together.
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danbanana posted:That Blevins art is objectively Good. He and Silvestri were putting out really fun work on their respective books, drawing a lot of good gags and reaction shots. One of the best things about Inferno is how funny it is at times. NYC turning into a Demon-infested hellscape is played for laughs so much and so many character designs (especially suddenly animated objects like mailboxes) are great. Everything in New York turning baroque and cartoonishly baroque is the kind of art I believe Blevins was born for. I love his S'ym.
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Blevins' work is pretty good; it works more than I think it would for such a dire scenario as a demon-infested New York. Still, what brings the art down for me are the costumes. Those individual costumes the New Mutants got were just awful.
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I liked dani and illyana's outfits but the rest were off. Oh and warlock was cool too.
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The art all across Inferno probably benefited from the fact that this was still an era in which everybody was living and working in New York. You've got seven or eight different artists all doing their own cheeky, affectionate sendups of a city they're infinitely familiar with. I doubt it would work half as well doing the same sort of thing today. Are there any Marvel comics coming out that still have a solid basis in New York, actually? The two I suspect might are Spider-Man and FF, and I'm not reading either of those.
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Saoshyant posted:Uh, no, no you don't. Look, I'm several days behind, and this is quick and dirty, but I felt the need to make this: 
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Rochallor posted:The art all across Inferno probably benefited from the fact that this was still an era in which everybody was living and working in New York. You've got seven or eight different artists all doing their own cheeky, affectionate sendups of a city they're infinitely familiar with. I doubt it would work half as well doing the same sort of thing today. I would assume daredevil and maybe moon knight? But I don't read either.
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Black Cat is for sure.
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Rochallor posted:The art all across Inferno probably benefited from the fact that this was still an era in which everybody was living and working in New York. You've got seven or eight different artists all doing their own cheeky, affectionate sendups of a city they're infinitely familiar with. I doubt it would work half as well doing the same sort of thing today. The whole thing where people are going about their day while demonic mailboxes are biting off peoples hands and BLACK WIDOW AND KAREN PAGE TAKING KIDS ONTO AN OBVIOUSLY EVIL SUBWAY TRAIN is played just as "New York, amirite?!!" It's kinda great but yeah... it feels a lot like NY residents making inside jokes about the city they live in.
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WaffleZombie posted:Look, I'm several days behind, and this is quick and dirty, but I felt the need to make this: That page reminds me that I miss Steve Skroce and Roger Cruz.
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SnatchRabbit posted:Steve Skroce Still doing some comics work despite being tight with the Wachowskis! His last big thing was this:  Which... obviously a little different style! He did Matrix storyboard work with Geoff Darrow and that obviously had an influence.
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Rochallor posted:The art all across Inferno probably benefited from the fact that this was still an era in which everybody was living and working in New York. You've got seven or eight different artists all doing their own cheeky, affectionate sendups of a city they're infinitely familiar with. I doubt it would work half as well doing the same sort of thing today. You had folks like JRJR and Keith Pollard drawing tie-ins while living in New York City, and the Simonsons were still living in NYC or at least close enough upstate to let Walt teach at SVA, and at any rate they'd live in NYC for years prior. Same with Ann Nocenti, Chris Claremont, and most of the writers (and all of the editors) so you're not wrong there's a lot of personal touches to NYC in the books, but I don't know if those would be impossible today either. As of right now, people are correct that Spider-Man (both Peter Parker and Miles Morales) are based out of NYC, as is Daredevil, Moon Knight, Fantastic Four, Black Cat, and probably other books I'm forgetting. Venom was based out of NYC in his last run. Ms. Marvel lives in Jersey City still, and they just established the X-Men built a new base off Central Park West. Children of the Atom was based out of Brooklyn, Deadpool until recently was living on Staten Island. Books like the current Eternals run, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Spider-Woman, Savage Avengers, and Iron Man are globetrotting adventures but all of them have a focus on New York City or it's the characters' home. Jane Foster, Doctor Strange, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, and probably a dozen other relatively prominent heroes who don't have books currently are still NYC residents. This is referring specifically to where the books take place, few if any of the writers/artists are living here, to my knowledge.
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Edge & Christian posted:
It's not like anyone could afford to live in NYC on what Marvel pays.
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Skwirl posted:It's not like anyone could afford to live in NYC on what Marvel pays. Also if I'm being honest, lots of artists who live on other continents have written "better" New York scenes than a number of New York City residents I can think of. Though to be fair I don't think Dan Slott (NYC lifer) ever had the Yancy Street Gang rap battle (Mark Waid, hasn't lived here in thirty years) Edge & Christian fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Aug 4, 2021 |
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nuh uh all 8.25 million people who live in new york city are billionaires
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Edge & Christian posted:I'm not really sure if any of the main X-Book artists were living in NYC at the time of the crossover? Even in the 1960s "Bullpen" era that wasn't strictly true, and by the late 1980s people were living all over the place. Huh, that's interesting. All the bullpen stuff was pretty effective marketing as I bought it hook, line, and sinker. I would have figured that most creatives would have to be in NYC until the mid-90s or so, if for no other reason than mailing scripts and art back and forth would make deadlines even tighter.
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Rochallor posted:Huh, that's interesting. All the bullpen stuff was pretty effective marketing as I bought it hook, line, and sinker. I would have figured that most creatives would have to be in NYC until the mid-90s or so, if for no other reason than mailing scripts and art back and forth would make deadlines even tighter. If there wasn't a local production chain (Jim Lee, Marc Silvestri, Scott Williams, Whilce Portacio, Art Thibert, etc. for instance all ended up in California and renting a shared studio space so they could pencil/ink the books in one go, there were/are lots of other similar studis) then a lot of the inkers, letterers, etc. were local to NYC so that they could finish the books in a timely manner. It's something that comes up in interviews (contemporary and retrospective) a lot, and I wish I knew more about the nuts and bolts of it, it's why "Romita's Raiders" existed and how weird things like "paste over all of Jack Kirby's Superman faces because they don't look Supermanny enough and he's on the other side of the country" happened.
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WaffleZombie posted:Look, I'm several days behind, and this is quick and dirty, but I felt the need to make this: I snort laughed at this and woke up my wife. Hope you are happy.
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Yo did Hellions just goatse us?
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Kingtheninja posted:Yo did Hellions just goatse us? 
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Hellions was great this week. Also, why didn't they call the Sinister-led series "Marauders" and call the one that dealt with the Hellfire Trading Company "Hellions"?
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because Marauders is a better name for a group of pirates and Hellions is a better name for a group of amoral fuckups
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The selling point of the Marauders book as "pirate X-Men" has never been fully realized and it's another small tick against the Hickman era.
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They’re a trading company, not pirates. It’s totally different. Totally.
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Caros posted:I snort laughed at this and woke up my wife. Hope you are happy. I am! Thanks!
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Kingtheninja posted:Yo did Hellions just goatse us? I need a Kwannon fist shaking ESSEEEXXXXX smiley after today. God Alex is so hilariously pathetic.
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Last issue of Hellions was kind of "eh" with those random "badass" soldier antagonists being introduced and then the random mooks from Tarn showing up as well, but this one today? Glorious. High stakes, new revelations, goatse, WELCOME TO THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE!
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Kingtheninja posted:Yo did Hellions just goatse us? Thanks, goons, for making me know exactly what panel this is in reference to.
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This is not the first time a goatse-adjacent panel has appeared in a Zeb Wells book. So I think he knows the deal. This one was a bit more blatant.
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So I'm reading this week's X-Men, and it's a fun bit of superhero nonsense, but Polaris needs to ditch the sunglasses (and arguably get a different type of costume, but mostly the sunglasses) because they make her indistinguishable from Brand
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