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Rhyno posted:A friend of mine and one of my best former customers opened a new comic shop here in town on Saturday. It's pretty great, hits all the right notes and he's running with all the ideas he and I used to shoot back and forth when I still worked at the old shop. Swung in for the grand opening and met his crew and business partner. Took less than 10 minutes for them to offer me a job and I've never felt more like I should run away screaming then in that moment. Doesn't your current job pay way better? Should have said "I'll do it for (current salary +20%)" just to see their jaw drop.
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Rhyno posted:A friend of mine and one of my best former customers opened a new comic shop here in town on Saturday. It's pretty great, hits all the right notes and he's running with all the ideas he and I used to shoot back and forth when I still worked at the old shop. Swung in for the grand opening and met his crew and business partner. Took less than 10 minutes for them to offer me a job and I've never felt more like I should run away screaming then in that moment. You got out of retail right? When I quit Best Buy I took a massive pay cut and if they'd offered me a 20% increase to stay it wouldn't have been enough (as it stands their response to me leaving after 13 years was "okay, we'll fill your spot"). 10 years later and I'm in such a better position in life.
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Yeah I left it behind 4 years ago. Even my new gig is twice what I made at the comic shop.
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I was looking to sell off some ominboos locally, any general tips on dealing with people?
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Were the Elvira comics any good?
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I was looking to sell off some ominboos locally, any general tips on dealing with people? Try not to look them in the eyes. And try to be still, their sight is based off movements.
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Speaking of omnibusii for some reason Amazon just can't understand how they work when it comes to recommendations. Like I read the omnibus of Before the Incal and now my recommendations are full of the various individual trades that the omnibus covers.
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muscles like this! posted:Speaking of omnibusii for some reason Amazon just can't understand how they work when it comes to recommendations. Like I read the omnibus of Before the Incal and now my recommendations are full of the various individual trades that the omnibus covers. A while back Barnes and Noble used to put recommendations on your receipt. I remember when I bought volume 2 of the Strain trilogy, the recommendations were volume 1 of the Strain, volume 3 of the Strain, volume 1 in hardcover, and volume 2 in hardcover.
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Seems Bill Willingham of Fables fame has declared his Elementals series and characters to be in the Public Domain, an interesting move
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drrockso20 posted:Seems Bill Willingham of Fables fame has declared his Elementals series and characters to be in the Public Domain, an interesting move He lost the rights years ago, he's probably has no say in this matter.
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Elementals has a handful of interesting ideas, like the team becoming increasingly directionless since they’re essentially superpowered zombies, but there are easily a dozen more engaging takes on the Fantastic Four you could run with first.
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Rhyno posted:He lost the rights years ago, he's probably has no say in this matter. Seems to be a bit more complicated than that, like there's good probability that the rights reverted to him when Comico went out of business but another guy is claiming to hold the rights(he's got some murky claims on other characters from other creators too) and Bill doesn't really have the time or money to fight him in court over it(not to mention he has no interest in using the characters anymore anyways), so most people are speculating this move is so someone else tries using them and when they get sued it will drag out into the open who truly owns the rights to spite the other guy
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Okay, the quoted tweet is amazing, and I'm really sad the other tweet didn't happen. https://twitter.com/DirkMaggs/status/1503645203072262145?s=20&t=4Q6SYsxtDKY4zKv5Mv4fGA
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Skwirl posted:Okay, the quoted tweet is amazing, and I'm really sad the other tweet didn't happen. You can find the BBC adaptations on youtube and the Death of Superman one was okay. I should try listening to Knightfall sometime. I don't think Adam West can portray Batman as vicious, so that would be more stunt casting than something that would be effective. But I appreciated the clip. 
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He played a lot of villains in low budget movies so he could be mean if he needed to.
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Whoever they choose needs to have a great rear end.
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Alec Robbins, the artist who did the controversial autobiographical comic about being married to Betty Boop, has started a new series. https://twitter.com/alecrobbins/status/1498342233665421312?t=JWxyV1iQAZGtsYdyTgqYPQ&s=19
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Well that ended anticlimactically
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I love that guy's stuff. Speaking of, this bad boy is coming out through Silver Sprocket in a couple months! https://store.silversprocket.net/products/mr-boop-by-alec-robbins Silver Sprocket is quickly becoming one of my favorite publishers (it's them and Floating World Comics I think)
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Jordan7hm posted:I love that guy's stuff. Oh hell yeah, I'm gonna preorder that at my local comic shop. I wonder if they're going to include anything about all the online drama that happened when it was found out he wasn't actually married to Betty Boop. Its a book so they can't include the videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_d7lyMCiM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJkWJdz7H5g Gripweed fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Mar 24, 2022 |
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Aw man! Zdarsky just randomly dropped into my local comic shop today. I was like 20 feet away in the same mall around the same time but didn’t have any business in that end, bummer
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My wife has been going into a big nostalgic Star Wars deep dive and that's led me to the current Marvel comics. I think they're by and large quite good, even as someone who until very recently just never really got too invested in the franchise. I don't ever really see them talked about in BSS though, and there definitely doesn't seem to be a dedicated thread. Is anybody else reading these? If I whipped up an OP would that be appealing to people or would I just be gabbing on to myself about Dr. Aphra? Edit: Oh! Never mind! I found the thread hidden way back in June 2021. How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Mar 28, 2022 |
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you should also check out the IDW High Republic Adventures book, if you've gotten to that era
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How Wonderful! posted:My wife has been going into a big nostalgic Star Wars deep dive and that's led me to the current Marvel comics. I think they're by and large quite good, even as someone who until very recently just never really got too invested in the franchise. I don't ever really see them talked about in BSS though, and there definitely doesn't seem to be a dedicated thread. I'd love to hear your thoughts, but as you've discovered, I think most people (including myself) fell off them after the last relaunch. There's some good stuff in the early bits, though.
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site posted:you should also check out the IDW High Republic Adventures book, if you've gotten to that era I've read a little bit of the Marvel series, I have not dug into ANY of the IDW stuff just because it's not on the reading order I found. I'll give it a look when I get a chance though, I've been finding the High Republic stuff pretty fun and a neat clean slate. I really like that the Marvel series has two non-binary characters-- still really rare for me to see in mainstream-ish nerd stuff and even though they aren't particularly cool or enthralling characters imo I like seeing that needle budge in terms of just visibility for non-cis folks. Endless Mike posted:I'd love to hear your thoughts, but as you've discovered, I think most people (including myself) fell off them after the last relaunch. I adored the entire first volume of Dr. Aphra and the first two volumes of Darth Vader, none of the main title really clicked with me until Greg Pak came on. Even Gillen's Star Wars run kind of felt like he was handling the characters too delicately to really say anything interesting. I've really just been blitzing through the three main titles up to the point of ESB and now I'm planning on going back in and reading some of the minis and one shots. I have already added the Alyssa Wong Dr. Aphra to my pull list just because I could not get enough of the character's whole vibe, but I'm excited for more Pak and Soule stuff in the other main titles (I have no opinion or particular hype about getting to Bounty Hunters). So far for me the low points were Jason Aaron's entire goofy run, Larocca really not nailing whatever he was trying to do throughout, and a pretty but underwhelming Darth Maul mini I read on a whim last week. How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Mar 28, 2022 |
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Wong's Aphra has basically jettisoned the emotional core of Gillen and Spurrier's runs in favor of leaning into the bad Indiana Jones vibe. it's still pretty fun, but it's definitely different. also the entire cast is queer but it's not horny in the slightest, which i find both darkly amusing and somewhat of an unintentional commentary on how Disney treats queer characters
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I picked up some comics this week as a gift to myself (I’m turning old). The Parker Martini edition, the Lady Killer library edition, and Plain Janes. I hadn’t read Plain Janes so I decided to start with that. It’s three stories about a bunch of high school girls who create an art collective. It’s a wonderful little book and I highly recommend it.
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Ugh. I feel I'm the one person who can't stand Alec Robbins' humour. It's like he tells the same joke over and over, only he overexplains it and the joke wasn't funny in the first place.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Ugh. I feel I'm the one person who can't stand Alec Robbins' humour. It's like he tells the same joke over and over, only he overexplains it and the joke wasn't funny in the first place. The overexplaining is what makes it funny.
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I like Heterogenia Linguistico, the series about a linguist working to understand the language of various monster races, but a lot of the lingual stuff goes over my head. I do not know what a declension is
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It's a good series from what I've read, perhaps your enjoyment of it could spur you to find out what a declension is.
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You know some languages have things like male and female nouns? La Nino vs la Nina, for example. Declensions are like that for lots of different things like case or number.
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Been a minute since I've posted but I've been catching up on some comics recently trying to get current. Here's my Top 10 of what I've been reading from Marvel/DC. 1. Moon Knight 2. Nightwing 3. Superman: Son of Kal-El 4. Iron Man 5. Robins 6. Death of Dr Strange/Strange 7. Action Comics 8. The Flash 9. Defenders 10. Daredevil/Reign's End/Tie-ins Lots of stuff I haven't caught up on yet but really want to like Silk, Dark Days, The Marvels, She-Hulk, Hulk, Various X-Titles.
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Jordan7hm posted:The overexplaining is what makes it funny. But why?
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https://www.viz.com/shonenjump/chapters/goodbye-eri Just a head's up that Tatsuki Fujimoto (the creator of Chainsaw Man) has a new stand alone story up on the Shonen Jump website that you can read for free.
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muscles like this! posted:https://www.viz.com/shonenjump/chapters/goodbye-eri Thanks, that was amazing in every way. I want to gush about the story structure and the use of panels and the clever adaptation of other media forms and pacing and the physical presence of the characters and use of perspective and... well. I think people are better off going in blind.
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