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Writing into a magazine to ask what "aka" means, truly the world was a different place before the rise of Google. I'm also very mad at them saying the first Tim Burton Batman movie sucked. It's really good! Batman Returns does suck though.
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funtax posted:I wish I could remember where I read it years ago, but in an interview someone basically mentioned to Allred that his style was so clean and consistent and how impressive that always looks. Allred responded by citing a "bad" drawing from early in his career that clearly still bugged him years later. The drawing in question was the cover for "Dead Air". Specifically the one badly-drawn HAND on that cover. Dude clearly has INCREDIBLY high standards for himself. lmao he totally unnaturally positioned the thought bubble to hide the thumb that's adorable
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Wizard Magazine Issue #33 May 1994 Cover   Contents   Magic Words! This month's column is dedicated to Jack Kirby.      Wizard News ARComics is relaunching all its titles. Wait they had titles? I don't believe you.       Pick Of The Litter This is definitely an article that was written. Some of those quotes. Yeesh.       Ex X-Man       Through The Eyes Of A Madman      Big Babies Guess they're really doing this.   Drawing Board      Hunk & Babe  Top 10 Heroes and Villains   Comic Watch  The Top 10 Uh oh. Lady Death in the Top 10, does that mean the Bad Girls Era is upon us?   Todd McFarlane's E.G.O.  Wizard Profile  Random Ads     
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Jim Balant has never seen a woman in spandex, huh? It's funny that he tries to justify it by "hey it's fantasy!" It's also funny that they pulled his joke about Dolly Parton and printed it out of context so it looks like he's actually scared of her. Also: Alan Moore, writer of Violator Endless Mike fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Jul 21, 2022 |
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For all it's faults I really really liked 90's Catwoman. I'm sure part of that was because I was a teenage boy but the comics themselves just had a fun energy to them.
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Endless Mike posted:Jim Balant has never seen a woman in spandex, huh? It's funny that he tries to justify it by "hey it's fantasy!" It's also funny that they pulled his joke about Dolly Parton and printed it out of context so it looks like he's actually scared of her. Seeing that in big purple letters got me good though.
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Balent did not in fact stay with Catwoman until he got tired of it, he got bounced when they decided to go with the beyond vastly superior Darwyn Cooke redesign/relaunch. He's been doing his Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose series for years so he's doing fine, so it all worked out. (He even sort of talked about it in the interview with talking about sword and sorcery women, which one can infer became Tarot.)
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Dawgstar posted:Balent did not in fact stay with Catwoman until he got tired of it, he got bounced when they decided to go with the beyond vastly superior Darwyn Cooke redesign/relaunch. He's been doing his Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose series for years so he's doing fine, so it all worked out. (He even sort of talked about it in the interview with talking about sword and sorcery women, which one can infer became Tarot.) Do I remember correctly that Tarot is the "Your vagina is haunted!" series?
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ManiacClown posted:Do I remember correctly that Tarot is the "Your vagina is haunted!" series? That's the one. I had a friend who reviewed the series on his blog and that was a peak.
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I love that they chose that picture for Persuasion and not even a sly joke about it being traced from a picture of Cindy Crawford.
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They did anticipate Sisqo's Thong Song by some years, though, so kudos.
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That Heroes vs Villains list is so weird, I always wondered if whomever at Wizard wrote it was actually asking anyone else.
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Oh wow, this thread is great, thanks for this. Catching up on it now and man so that's why I thought Valiant was so weirdly huge despite never seeing any of their comics anywhere in the early 90's. It also has to be responsible for me hype buying a bunch of awful image things like Wetworks and Bloodstrike. Also a Wizards article is responsible for me accidentally buying pornography at age 12. I read an article about Peter David in there, saw he was on X-Factor which I loved and they plugged a side project he was working on.... Sachs and Violens. Months later I'm leafing through a quarter bin and see two bagged issues of that and so I end up reading a comic about a lady who finds a place where they're shooting Barney the Dinosaur themed child pornography and infiltrates it as a topless stripper. So uh, thanks Wizards.
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Kalli posted:Oh wow, this thread is great, thanks for this. I saw the letter a few issues ago and looked up that book on Wikipedia. It's completely insane to me reading the wiki entry that this was a book by Peter David and George Perez.
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X-O posted:I saw the letter a few issues ago and looked up that book on Wikipedia. It's completely insane to me reading the wiki entry that this was a book by Peter David and George Perez. I thought Perez was semi-notorious for drawing a lot of bondage-themed commissions?
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Lots of artists do weird commissions because they're commissions. People like making money.
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Yeah, and Peter David was the guy whose original idea for his Supergirl run was to have Linda Lee Danvers give birth to the anti-christ.
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PAD enjoys writing about sex, which is fine. Whether he's good at it is another matter entirely.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Yeah, and Peter David was the guy whose original idea for his Supergirl run was to have Linda Lee Danvers give birth to the anti-christ. Wouldn't even be the weirdest thing PAD has written in regards to what a woman gives birth to.
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It's time for another edition of WIZARD TOP 10: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?? Issue 31, March 1994 #5 Marvels #1 (That Alex Ross art tho): This one surprised me a bit. There's basically no sales at all, but one closed at $5. For something with a cover price of $5.95 this is definitely QUARTER BIN FODDER #8 Gambit #1 (It not Wizard, it Gambit): Copies are selling for around $8 on average. Bad buy. #10 X-Men Unlimited #3 ("It's good, actually" I guess?): Lots of listings, no sales. QUARTER BIN FODDER Issue 32, April 1994 #3 Marvels #2 (Still that Alex Ross art tho): You can get it for a couple bucks without much effort. The full series goes for like $20 in a package. QUARTER BIN FODDER #5 Moon Knight #57 (Hey have you heard of this Stephen Platt guy? He draws a Spider-Man that looks like McFarlane drew it!): Unslabbed, this is around $70, while slabbed copies are at least triple this. Great buy here! Who knew? Issue 33, May 1994 #1 Prophet #4A (Stephen Platt cover): An unslabbed one went for under $25, while a slabbed was under $150. Good pick here? #2 Beavis and Butthead #1 (First appearance of Beavis and Butthead): Unslabbed copies are around $8, while slabbed range from $31-100. Bad buy, but not an awful one. #3 Lady Death #1 (BAD GIRL ALERT!!!): One copy sold for $17. I guess that's a decent enough buy. But then you'd have to have had a copy of Lady Death #1 for the last 28 years. #4 X-Men #30 (Cyclops and Jean Grey finally get married): $1.25-$8 QUARTER BIN FODDER. Probably because it stopped mattering in the interim. #8 Green Lantern #50 (Hal Jordan kills the rest of the GL Corps, absorbs the central power battery and becomes Parallax which gets retconned into him absorbing a yellow space bug years later ALSO the first appearance of Kyle Raynor but who cares about that nerd? - Geoff Johns, probably): $3-7 makes this QUARTER BIN FODDER #10 Gen13 #1 (First appearance of Gen13 and Kaitlyn Fairchild's gravity-defying breasts): This one is interesting as Wizard doesn't specify the cover - there was 13 variants printed, though I'm not sure if they had equal runs. That said, none are selling for much other than one signed by Todd McFarlane. I'm going to call this QUARTER BIN FODDER Hey, six all-new comics this month!
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Madkal posted:Wouldn't even be the weirdest thing PAD has written in regards to what a woman gives birth to. If you're referring to Rahne it's all the same story. His Supergirl gets axed so he starts writing Fallen Angel, where Lee is no longer Supergirl but the 'Fallen Angel' to continue his story, then that gets axed and moved to IDW, where it gets axed again. Then he ports the story to X-Factor.
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Was actually referring to Siren and Maddox's "baby"
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Endless Mike posted:#10 Gen13 #1 (First appearance of Gen13 and Kaitlyn Fairchild's gravity-defying breasts): This one is interesting as Wizard doesn't specify the cover - there was 13 variants printed, though I'm not sure if they had equal runs. That said, none are selling for much other than one signed by Todd McFarlane. I'm going to call this QUARTER BIN FODDER It's the first issue of the ongoing series that had the thirteen variants; this is the first issue of the original mini-series. It goes for $15-20, or less if it's part of a lot. I found a 9.8 graded version that went for $100 plus shipping.
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Madkal posted:Was actually referring to Siren and Maddox's "baby" Oof, oh yeah 'that'.
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I bought a lot of comics on eBay and the seller threw in a copy of prophet 3 for free. I immediately thought of wizard and this thread.
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Wizard Magazine Issue #34 June 1994 Cover   Contents   Magic Words!       Wizard News       I Was A Teenage Mutant       In Darkest Night       Bone-A Fide Success       Big Babies   Drawing Board      Hunk & Babe  Top 10 Heroes and Villains   Comic Watch  The Top 10   Todd McFarlane's E.G.O.  Wizard Profile  Random Ads     
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This is an issue I definitely had. I even alluded to buying a copy of Green Lantern #47 because of it earlier in the thread, I believe. I was super hyped for Gen X because of it, and may have picked up those issues of Disney Adventures to check out Bone (though I may have had a subscription for some reason?), which I really enjoyed. Sadly, I didn't follow along at the time, but did eventually get the big full series book, and I still love it. Also, it's good to find out the dastardly Capital Comics Distribution is the reason I was deprived of Rectus Errrectum: Halloween Fun!
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Could you upload the Storm Warning and Cut & Print sections? I’m eager to see how Lightning Comics tried to spin their product as being something worth buying.
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Darthemed posted:Could you upload the Storm Warning and Cut & Print sections? I’m eager to see how Lightning Comics tried to spin their product as being something worth buying. I think maybe I'll start including Cut & Print in the recaps because there's a lot going on in those these days even though most of it either never happens or turns out lovely. Cut & Print     Storm Warning    
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Well, that was a heck of a puff piece. I guess part of that was from having the interview done by a freelancer instead of a Wizard regular. Interesting to learn that Peter David wrote Trancers 4 and 5. I knew he worked on the Oblivion movies, didn't realize his association with Full Moon lasted past that. Thanks for the scans!
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“PERG.” Boy, there’s a title that just draws you in.
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i'm not a big comics guy at all but have been enjoying this thread because my dad dragged me to comics shops a ton in the early to mid 90s i do, however, love bone, so that interview was a fun little gift for me
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mactheknife posted:i'm not a big comics guy at all but have been enjoying this thread because my dad dragged me to comics shops a ton in the early to mid 90s Yeah I wonder how the attempt to animate Bone went https://twitter.com/jeffsmithsbone/status/1517640535233769472 Oh.  Same regards to Bone though, one of the greatest comics ever written and drawn. I'd even put it far above, say, Watchmen.
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Does Crossgen publication time concide with Wizards run? I’m wondering how they covered it
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TV Zombie posted:Does Crossgen publication time concide with Wizards run? I’m wondering how they covered it They talked about it, I remember that much. I don't think they tried to push it like they did Valiant, though.
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I know the general thing about Image being late for their releases was because....they are Image, but is there a bigger story about why the release of Image titles was so chaotic and it's impact on the industry as a whole. Was it just slow artwork? Was it soliciting titles that never existed?
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I was given an issue of Wizard at Christmas, probably around 1994 or 5, mainly because I think Dad thought the price guide would be useful. I cannot for the life of me remember the cover art or the issue number but I read that magazine cover to cover different times and two articles still stood out. One was on the Comics Code Authority and Frederick Wertham, and the other was from the All Dressed up feature-- one participant was a young woman who did a Vampirella costume and asked for her full name and address to be withheld. A friend of mine got an issue from a few months later and I remember reading the letters to the editor section in which at least a couple of gross dorks wrote in saying some gross things about the Vampirella cosplay and asking for the participant's contact information and as I recall the editor's comment amounted to "this is why she asked that her name and address be held back, and why we honoured that request."
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I hope there's some more cosplay pics in the future issues. I love seeing older cosplays and what people managed to put together without the help of the internet and such.
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Madkal posted:I know the general thing about Image being late for their releases was because....they are Image, but is there a bigger story about why the release of Image titles was so chaotic and it's impact on the industry as a whole. Was it just slow artwork? Was it soliciting titles that never existed? Probably something to do with everyone being part owner and so there was no one enforcing deadlines.
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