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Open Marriage Night posted:Just saw that cover on Transformers The Basics. Some Pat Lee art in there helped Dreamwave get the Transformers license. LoL, same.
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Open Marriage Night posted:Just saw that cover on Transformers The Basics. Some Pat Lee art in there helped Dreamwave get the Transformers license. What an epic saga. I believe Pat still hasn't paid Simon Furman and other folks.
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Wikipedia has Hal Jordan on its list of Jewish superheroes. Have I missed something rather major or did somebody sneak in a bit of vandalism? That dude has always read as WASP as imaginable to me.
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CapnAndy posted:Wikipedia has Hal Jordan on its list of Jewish superheroes. Have I missed something rather major or did somebody sneak in a bit of vandalism? That dude has always read as WASP as imaginable to me. He was raised Catholic but his mom was Jewish, which does make him Jewish until their rules
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Is there a "Help me remember this comic from when I was 10" thread going?
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Pneub posted:Is there a "Help me remember this comic from when I was 10" thread going? pretty sure that's this thread here, ask away
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It was an indie comic (I think) from the early 90s about a blonde boy genius. The story was about him inventing a time machine. As soon as he first sends a bolt through it as a test, a cyborg soldier shows up from the future to kill him before he can perfect the machine because something something temporal war, end of the world, ect. The story ends with (spoiler tag, gently caress it) boy genius deciding to not finish the machine during their fight, which causes the cyborg to fade from existence since the future has changed. The cover has genius kid grappling with the cyborg while wearing an exo-skeleton that Dexter's Lab totally ripped off (https://youtube.com/watch?v=V6OOP_MZN3o&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE&t=2m5s), and in the close foreground is the bolt he sent through time. I basically remember every detail except the loving title and publisher.
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Pneub posted:It was an indie comic (I think) from the early 90s about a blonde boy genius. The story was about him inventing a time machine. As soon as he first sends a bolt through it as a test, a cyborg soldier shows up from the future to kill him before he can perfect the machine because something something temporal war, end of the world, ect. The story ends with (spoiler tag, gently caress it) boy genius deciding to not finish the machine during their fight, which causes the cyborg to fade from existence since the future has changed. Adventures of Barry Ween, boy genius?
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SiKboy posted:Adventures of Barry Ween, boy genius? No, this was probably 1992 at the latest, and the art style was more realistic.
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SiKboy posted:Adventures of Barry Ween, boy genius? Man I loved Barry Ween
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Has DC or Marvel ever had a Saul Goodman-type character? It seems like the Arkham residents or sinister six would benefit from a criminal lawyer.
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  yes i know what you meant but it's too good not to post
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Jan 5, 2023 21:19
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This is way later than the 90s, but Jack B Quick in Tomorrow Stories is a blonde boy scientist adventurer.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Has DC or Marvel ever had a Saul Goodman-type character? It seems like the Arkham residents or sinister six would benefit from a criminal lawyer. Not Marvel/DC, but there's St. John Latham (aka Loophole) from the Wild Cards books.
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Is there a chronological list of the recent X-Men comics of as they came out? I'm trying to order mine, but constantly flipping to the back page and seeing only a dozen issues, mostly of titles I don't read, is super annoying.
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Uthor posted:Is there a chronological list of the recent X-Men comics of as they came out? I'm trying to order mine, but constantly flipping to the back page and seeing only a dozen issues, mostly of titles I don't read, is super annoying. Wikipedia has lists for Dawn / Reign / Destiny, which probably have everything, I tried searching for lesser things like the Devil's Reign crossover and one-shots like Secret X-Men and they're all on there.
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Go with that wikipedia list, because the back of the book is wrong. COVID and then later distribution issues makes the back of the book incredibly inaccurate for when poo poo actually came.
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Skwirl posted:Go with that wikipedia list, because the back of the book is wrong. COVID and then later distribution issues makes the back of the book incredibly inaccurate for when poo poo actually came. Oh, I would look at those after buying my books and see that my local shop "forgot" to get me a title. It would sometimes come out several weeks later. poo poo, those were still off a few months ago. I was happy when they just removed the dates completely, but they're back now and the problem comes up from time to time.
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UPDATE: I knew I had a a crate of old comics in my closet, but I assumed most of them got thrown away 20+ years ago , so I didn't bother looking.    Unfortunately, I have no idea what's Com Soo.
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Continuity was Neal Adams's company and they had some weird books. I don't think any of them were great, but they're kind of interesting in that 80s independent attempt to redo Marvel and DC kind of way.
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Pneub posted:
We don’t read television? Wait until they hear about subtitles
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Is.. is having a huge left leg one of his powers? Look at that thing!  "Mom and Dad, please request that your child's local comic book retailer restock issues of LEFT LEG MAN immediately"
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Is there a book that’s really considered the first “modern” book? Like that leaves behind the narration boxes and lovely art from the 90s? Is it Ultimate Spider-Man?
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Beerdeer posted:Is there a book that’s really considered the first “modern” book? Like that leaves behind the narration boxes and lovely art from the 90s? Is it Ultimate Spider-Man? Saying ultimate Spider-Man left behind narration boxes is hilarious (unless you are talking about omnipotent narrator).
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Beerdeer posted:Is there a book that’s really considered the first “modern” book? Like that leaves behind the narration boxes and lovely art from the 90s? Is it Ultimate Spider-Man? And Bagley was the artist for Amazing Spider-Man in the 90s
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What issue of What if is the one with Spider Man and Wolverine as a spy team
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El Gallinero Gros posted:What issue of What if is the one with Spider Man and Wolverine as a spy team What If? Spider-Man Vs. Wolverine #1 - The Spider Who Went Into The Cold came out in 2008. In case you're not familiar and your searches turn up confusing results, this is a What If? version of the classic Spider-Man vs. Wolverine story (that was the title). Lobok fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Jan 13, 2023 |
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Madkal posted:Saying ultimate Spider-Man left behind narration boxes is hilarious (unless you are talking about omnipotent narrator). I'm not familiar with Ultimate Spidey, but I did notice that when reading comics in the 80s the convention was: - spoken dialogue: speech bubbles - internal monologue: thought bubbles - authorial narration: narration boxes And when I got back into Marvel stuff ~5 years ago, the convention was: - spoken dialogue: speech bubbles - internal monologue (main character): narration boxes - internal monologue (other characters): absent - authorial narration: absent and wondered when that change happened. I have mixed feelings about it.
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Editorial stopped being about having Big Bombastic Personalities with vision see BSS post #82031 for more -- sizzlin' shooter
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USM has some hold over stuff but Bendis definitely pushed decompressing comics
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I will say that one thing I notice marvel doesn't do anymore which I wish they would is everytime a different character appears on the page for the first time the narration says "this is so and so whose my best friend and their powers are such and such". It really feels like it you haven't been following certain runs for years and years you are poo poo out of luck with introductions for characters.
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The Jim Shooter about every issue being somebody’s first went out the window at some point post-2000. It was definitely alive in the 90s.
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i dunno on one hand i definitely still have the problem of not knowing who half the people in any given xmen book are but that type of dialogue is always so stilted and lovely
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I AM GRANDO posted:The Jim Shooter about every issue being somebody’s first went out the window at some point post-2000. It was definitely alive in the 90s.
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Jim Shooter had an "every book is someone's first" ethos and hammered that into all of the editors and writers when he was EiC. He also left the company in April 1987. About ten years later (Bob Harras was EiC by this point) Marvel books started doing a two page intro/recap printed inside the front cover as a foldout that looked like this:  Within a year or so those got converted into more ad space, but not long after Quesada took over in 2000 they started doing recap/credits/character list pages, which have more or less continued to exist for the past 20+ years.
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FilthyImp posted:I thought a few Marvel books did the one-page summary thing but maybe it was just the Books for a hot minute? Every Marvel book I've read in the last few years has a one page summary. It's nice, because it's been at least 30 days and who knows how many comics since I read the previous issue!
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It would make sense to give characters who are showing up with the expectation of "you know who this is" with human name/mutant name/power outline and/or clever joke if they're real obscure. You probably don't have to do it for some people unless you're doing a team intro.
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Nessus posted:It would make sense to give characters who are showing up with the expectation of "you know who this is" with human name/mutant name/power outline and/or clever joke if they're real obscure. You probably don't have to do it for some people unless you're doing a team intro. I feel like Ewing and Gillen do that a lot in team books.
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