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Alaois posted:capcom making combofiend go out in public and say that nobody cares about doctor doom or the x-men, they just care about The Functions was absolutely wild lol they ruined his career doing that, too
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Jul 23, 2023 17:25
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Even if the Inhumans were mildly successful, I doubt they would stick around once Disney got the full rights to the X-Men. Also the heroic eugenicists with a slave race are a bit of a hard sell. (Save to certain markets.) Nuns with Guns posted:The stuff with Cass was bullshit. And there was a big overlap in fans/editorial derision with Stephanie. I also "like" that period where Stephanie came back and was headlining a really fun Batgirl series that got obliterated by the Flashpoint reboot so that they could de-age Barbara Gordon and have her "get better" from the permanent waist-down paralysis. And that series sucked for a while until they just started writing Babs like Stephanie in her Batgirl series. Yeah. I didn't read that Batgirl at the time because I was kind of irritated that Cass gave Steph the identity with "I'm done now" out of nowhere and just sort of vanished save for brief cameos before she got memory holed entirely. It's a shame because reading it later it was indeed a lot of fun. The other thing with the Batgirl relaunch was Gail Simone wrote it which in theory was a great idea but in practice I'm pretty sure she was a victim of editorial writing the actual book and she basically scripting it which was certainly a thing in DiDio's tenure because the book itself was kind of a joyless affair. Before the reboot Barbara had always flatly refused comic BS cures for her paralysis like cybernetics or the Purple Healing Ray or whatever until the same cure would be widely available for everyone but oh well, I guess this Barbara didn't care about that. Wasn't there some sort of drama behind the scenes about the Batgirl of Burnside stuff which is when in theory the series 'got good?' (It got pretty, I won't deny that.) Aside from Cameron Stewart being a sex pest.
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Jul 23, 2023 17:26
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Libluini posted:I just wish the German collections were less insane. Somehow the decision was made to put volumes together by theme, instead of in order. So now I have a slowly growing collection of books that I have to carefully study each time I buy the next one, just so I can read the stories in sequence instead of some insane order like "stories that happened in X city" or "stories that involved y alien species". Wtf why?
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Jul 23, 2023 17:35
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:the inhumans are cool this is correct, they ARE cool. They just absolutely hosed up when they brought them into the MCU by having them not behave like actual characters and by spending £2 on special effects so Gorgon had to spend most of the show with boots on so you couldn't see his bull feet, and Medusa had to have her hair cut off because it was too expensive to animate. Also, Black Bolt, a man who has basically from birth trained to not make a sound lest he kill everyone around him gets mildly injured and goes "OOF" in a way that causes massive property damage, come on MCU, you can definitely do better than this.
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Jul 23, 2023 17:57
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EVERYONE SHUT UP AND WATCH THIS NOW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S97O_bbRyA0
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Jul 23, 2023 18:08
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MonsieurChoc posted:Wtf why? The first collection book I opened started with a lengthy forword by the artist, to explain stuff about the city he set those particular stories in and why he thought that city was awesome. My guess is, the publisher Carlsen and the author at some point planned this "theming" thing out together. It's a rather cute idea, I confess, but it makes the act of actually reading the stories chronologically a huge pain in the rear end
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Jul 23, 2023 18:18
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Fil5000 posted:But what if the batman was... A bad? What if superheroes... but bad? is maybe my least favorite trope in all of fiction. Something about it just strikes me as being so fundamentally fallow. The writing equivalent of drooling on a countertop.
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Jul 23, 2023 18:26
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Libluini posted:I just wish the German collections were less insane. Somehow the decision was made to put volumes together by theme, instead of in order. So now I have a slowly growing collection of books that I have to carefully study each time I buy the next one, just so I can read the stories in sequence instead of some insane order like "stories that happened in X city" or "stories that involved y alien species".
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Jul 23, 2023 18:27
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Skippy McPants posted:What if superheroes... but bad? is maybe my least favorite trope in all of fiction. Something about it just strikes me as being so fundamentally fallow. The writing equivalent of drooling on a countertop. Mortal Kombat 1's first DLC pack has both Omni-Man and Homelander so that's two 'Evil Superman' characters which is honestly two too many.
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Jul 23, 2023 18:36
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mycot posted:To be honest from the way you describe it it just sounds like a ploy to get people to buy more books. Maybe? The reason for the collection to exist was stated to give customers a chance to get volumes that are out of print, so I guess if you're deranged enough, you might think it's a good idea to force people who only wanted certain specific volumes for their collection to buy multiple other volumes they don't need at the same time. It's still insane, because whatever decision you make when putting those on your shelves, the line-up will either look wrong but secretly be correct, or look correct but secretly be wrong*. This is the kind of thing only a madman would think of when publishing a series of 20+ volumes. Or the Carlsen Verlag. *there isn't actually a way to line them up in a way that is correct Libluini fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Jul 23, 2023 |
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Jul 23, 2023 18:56
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Part of the challenge with reprinting long series is if you start chronologically you may never get to the good stuff. Fantagraphics will do the thing where they plan out the reprints and then start by reprinting volume 7 of 20 or something, slowly working through the other 19 volumes, but again with no guarantee of the whole thing being reprinted. This approach (reprint selected volumes by theme) can be a happy medium to get reprints on the market and actually sell books so you can continue reprinting the series.
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Jul 23, 2023 18:59
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BizarroAzrael posted:EVERYONE SHUT UP AND WATCH THIS NOW  
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Jul 23, 2023 19:05
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I love how his costume looks like a tuxedo T-shirt. Also that his name is black bolt despite having no electricity powers
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Jul 23, 2023 19:20
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Yeah, with a name like Black Bolt you'd expect a Black Lighting or Black Adam knock off/parody/ alternative whatever you call them. Like how there's the Flash and Quicksilver, I don't know what you call those.Dawgstar posted:Mortal Kombat 1's first DLC pack has both Omni-Man and Homelander so that's two 'Evil Superman' characters which is honestly two too many. I think there's a difference between being evil from the beginning or a sleeper agent and just being a dark side version of the same character. Maxwell Lord brainwashes Superman into being evil? Fine, I can deal with that. Darkseid does something similar? I can see it. Evil Superman from universe 8182894's Phantom Zone? Ugh. RareAcumen fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Jul 23, 2023 |
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Jul 23, 2023 19:26
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He's called Black Bolt because it's short for his real name: Blackagar Boltagon.
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Jul 23, 2023 19:27
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Flying Zamboni posted:He's called Black Bolt because it's short for his real name: Blackagar Boltagon. jack kirby was off his tits
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Jul 23, 2023 19:48
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:image comics is good todd ftw Also the workers at Image have a union, support them.
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Jul 23, 2023 20:27
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remember how Bone was this incredibly successful independent comic and then every single attempted adaptation of it in any form besides the original comic was a complete disaster that wound up never seeing the light of day
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Jul 23, 2023 20:52
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man, imagine a Bone movie nowadays. it'd be cool. Bone is cool.
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Jul 23, 2023 20:53
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A movie would probably get rid of the quiche.
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Jul 23, 2023 20:56
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Captain Invictus posted:remember how Bone was this incredibly successful independent comic and then every single attempted adaptation of it in any form besides the original comic was a complete disaster that wound up never seeing the light of day isn't this because Jeff Smith tells every single executive who's interested in adapting it "we can do this so long as you aren't planning to shove a bunch of licensed pop songs into the movie for no reason" and every single executive stands up and opens the door for him after hearing that
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Jul 23, 2023 20:58
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Captain Invictus posted:remember how Bone was this incredibly successful independent comic and then every single attempted adaptation of it in any form besides the original comic was a complete disaster that wound up never seeing the light of day some comics are just cursed, I still remember what a trip the Valerian-movie was sadly, while I personally enjoyed the movie, most of the world's movie goers didn't agree with me, and the movie bombed harder than a thermonuclear explosion
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Jul 23, 2023 21:00
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it took me like 15 years to realize that Bone and Cerebus were different comics made by different people, which certainly... went different places
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Jul 23, 2023 21:02
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Captain Invictus posted:remember how Bone was this incredibly successful independent comic and then every single attempted adaptation of it in any form besides the original comic was a complete disaster that wound up never seeing the light of day was the telltale game no good? i know it was before they found a niche footing with sam & max or broke into the mainstream with the walking dead
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Jul 23, 2023 21:05
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Captain Invictus posted:but manga...manga is ftw  reading ojojojo right now and it's genuinely the best thing. nice light romcom that reminds me a lot of Calvin and Hobbes. the translator even manages to capture most of the puns and does their best to explain the tricky ones 
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Jul 23, 2023 21:14
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:lol at the whole period where they tried to replace the xmen with the inhumans and tried to erase the fantastic four from comics entirely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOM0sBPrPO4
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Jul 23, 2023 21:26
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Alaois posted:isn't this because Jeff Smith tells every single executive who's interested in adapting it "we can do this so long as you aren't planning to shove a bunch of licensed pop songs into the movie for no reason" and every single executive stands up and opens the door for him after hearing that Catgirl Al Capone posted:was the telltale game no good? i know it was before they found a niche footing with sam & max or broke into the mainstream with the walking dead Famethrowa posted:
          there's so much insanely good manga coming out right now, even in genres that are considered wastelands like isekai or high school romcoms, there's still genuinely great stuff being released.
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Jul 23, 2023 21:36
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Catgirl Al Capone posted:was the telltale game no good? i know it was before they found a niche footing with sam & max or broke into the mainstream with the walking dead i remember it being Fine but they only ever adapted the first two volumes of the comic
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Jul 23, 2023 21:44
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The 7th Guest posted:don't worry, The Thing found work elsewhere in a really bad CG sequel to a beloved anime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ades3pQbeh8&hd=1 I seriously could not think of a much worse series to try to adapt to live action, but they're genuinely putting the effort in to make it work, and having people who LOVE one piece in the cast probably helps a lot, they're going all out for it.
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Jul 23, 2023 22:01
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Flying Zamboni posted:He's called Black Bolt because it's short for his real name: Blackagar Boltagon. how is this real
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Jul 23, 2023 22:02
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Pigbuster posted:I love how his costume looks like a tuxedo T-shirt. Also that his name is black bolt despite having no electricity powers if he'd been a DC character they'd have corrected this oversight and made him a black guy
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Jul 23, 2023 22:10
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Fil5000 posted:this is correct, they ARE cool. They just absolutely hosed up when they brought them into the MCU by having them not behave like actual characters and by spending £2 on special effects so Gorgon had to spend most of the show with boots on so you couldn't see his bull feet, and Medusa had to have her hair cut off because it was too expensive to animate.
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Jul 23, 2023 22:33
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Black Panther?
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Jul 23, 2023 22:40
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Libluini posted:some comics are just cursed, I still remember what a trip the Valerian-movie was
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Jul 23, 2023 22:44
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Ghostlight posted:i still haven't watched it despite the valerian comics being a core memory for me as they were french, so they got into the school library despite having boobs in it. I don’t remember any boobs in the Valerian comics.
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Jul 23, 2023 22:46
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heroes of the equinox also, rtgame put out 5 hours of greenscreen footage that is already paying dividends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04g6Z_pK_vs
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Jul 23, 2023 23:44
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Alaois posted:isn't this because Jeff Smith tells every single executive who's interested in adapting it "we can do this so long as you aren't planning to shove a bunch of licensed pop songs into the movie for no reason" and every single executive stands up and opens the door for him after hearing that I mean, that's the reason 90% of the attempted adaptations don't go through, the remaining 10% are because Jeff Smith is under some kind of mummy's curse. Seriously, the most recent attempt was the comic getting picked up by Netflix for an animated series right before they killed their animation division. American comics not made by DC and Marvel are cool, but they keep getting ignored because late stage capitalism ruins everything. fatherboxx posted:French comics are either cartoony adventure comics that has been going for five decades or something gorgeously drawn by someone called Raciste Incestes that is a thrilling fantasy epic with bizarre rape interludes You forgot the third category: A cartoony adventure protagonist going around and loving a bunch of naked ladies.
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Jul 23, 2023 23:59
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Garrand posted:how is this real Because Jack Kirby could do what he wanted.
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Jul 24, 2023 00:18
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Arc Hammer posted:Black Panther? Not an expert on either title but I think Black Panther, even if he's royalty he's not at least involved in maintaining a racial hierarchy or keeping an underclass, contextually has better race politics, and I think besides assuming life-threatening responsibilities as Black Panther he is at least kept accountable by politics and customs.
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mark gruenwald was actually the one who came up with the inhuman's "real" names in the 80s.
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Jul 24, 2023 00:27
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