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Fair enough
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# ? Mar 15, 2024 18:49 |
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# ? May 9, 2024 23:29 |
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Thundercats is still really good. It was never a franchise I was super into as a kid but it's pretty cool here.
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# ? Mar 15, 2024 18:57 |
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Is it a reboot or does it pick up from one of the cartoons? I haven't checked it out yet.
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# ? Mar 15, 2024 20:39 |
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Another reboot. Separate from the Star/Marvel comics, the Wildstorm comics, or Rankin/Bass, 2011, and Roar cartoons.
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# ? Mar 15, 2024 20:54 |
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Inkspot posted:Another reboot. Separate from the Star/Marvel comics, the Wildstorm comics, or Rankin/Bass, 2011, and Roar cartoons. Well I'm at least thankful it's not a continuation of the Wildstorm comics. Those were rough.
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# ? Mar 15, 2024 21:17 |
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It is cool that every 80s-90s cartoon can have a home in comics. Where is our The Critic comic?
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# ? Mar 15, 2024 22:47 |
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Heavy Metal posted:It is cool that every 80s-90s cartoon can have a home in comics. Where is our The Critic comic? It stinks!
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# ? Mar 15, 2024 22:53 |
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X-O posted:Well I'm at least thankful it's not a continuation of the Wildstorm comics. Those were rough. I didn't read the Wildstorm stuff because I remember it was set in the future of the cartoon, which is fine, and thus had aged up Wilys Kit and Kat and their first appearance is in like Princess Leia at Jabba's palace apparel. Just put it back on the shelf.
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# ? Mar 15, 2024 23:32 |
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Dawgstar posted:I didn't read the Wildstorm stuff because I remember it was set in the future of the cartoon, which is fine, and thus had aged up Wilys Kit and Kat and their first appearance is in like Princess Leia at Jabba's palace apparel. Just put it back on the shelf. Yes that is one of the bad things I was talking about. It was a direct continuation picking up from the last episode of the original cartoon series. Lion-O goes into the Book of Omens to train. While he's supposed to be in there for years of training no time is supposed to pass on the outside. But Mumm-Ra does some evil magic, as he is wont to do, and time does end up passing. So during that time they defeat the Thundercats. Take them all as prisoners and... well let's not get into what is both shown and implied happens to them during this time. Definitely done to prove this ain't no kid's cartoon anymore! It's really bad. So glad to not have that still be a thing.
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# ? Mar 16, 2024 01:01 |
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Heavy Metal posted:It is cool that every 80s-90s cartoon can have a home in comics. Speaking of which, a company called Nacelle has acquired the rights to a number of half-remembered properties and plans to do new titles with each of them through Oni Press. A special issue introducing the shared universe (of course it's a shared universe) comes out next week. Nacelle says it's also working on new animated series for each property. The properties are RoboForce, Biker Mice from Mars, The Great Garloo, Sectaurs, Power Lords, and C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa. Remember any of these?
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# ? Mar 16, 2024 02:27 |
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Action Jacktion posted:Speaking of which, a company called Nacelle has acquired the rights to a number of half-remembered properties and plans to do new titles with each of them through Oni Press. A special issue introducing the shared universe (of course it's a shared universe) comes out next week. Nacelle says it's also working on new animated series for each property. The properties are RoboForce, Biker Mice from Mars, The Great Garloo, Sectaurs, Power Lords, and C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa. I've heard of Biker Mice From Mars but never seen it. I know of Sectaurs only because I inherited some of my older cousin's toys when from when he was a kid of a couple of them were weird bug people with big eyes called Sectaurs. Never once saw the show though as I'm pretty sure it was cancelled before I would have been old enough to see it and it never played in reruns. Most of the cartoons I loved as a kid were all reruns by the time I saw them like GI Joe, Thundercats, Ghostbusters, etc.
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# ? Mar 16, 2024 02:34 |
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Someone license EXO-SQUAD.
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# ? Mar 16, 2024 02:38 |
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I liked some trash cartoons as a kid, haha. I remember in kindergarten I had a Denver The Last Dinosaur lunchbox. I think every kid had a dinosaur phase around five years old but I was unlucky enough to have that as the dinosaur cartoon on TV at the time. At least Land Before Time was actually good, but it wasn't on TV every day.
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# ? Mar 16, 2024 02:47 |
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Sectaurs I remember the toys pretty well because the bug thing and the big bugs the figures rode looked just enough like the real thing to creep me out so I never got into them, but I think this and the cost was on the whole why the toy line didn't do well. I had some of Robo Force but their big deal was their lower half was suction cups so they could stick to anything (for the first day or so you had them). Biker Mice felt like even to me as a dumb kid another attempt at TMNT. The other two honestly no knowledge of.
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# ? Mar 16, 2024 03:22 |
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X-O posted:I liked some trash cartoons as a kid, haha. I remember in kindergarten I had a Denver The Last Dinosaur lunchbox. I think every kid had a dinosaur phase around five years old but I was unlucky enough to have that as the dinosaur cartoon on TV at the time. At least Land Before Time was actually good, but it wasn't on TV every day. It could have been worse. You could have had a Widget the World Watcher VHS like I did.
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# ? Mar 16, 2024 04:24 |
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Did Nick Spencer's Morning Glories ever finish?
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# ? Mar 16, 2024 04:32 |
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I loved the robo force toys as a kid because instead of feet they had a suction cup base so you could stick them on walls and stuff.
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# ? Mar 16, 2024 11:07 |
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Dawgstar posted:Did Nick Spencer's Morning Glories ever finish? No. Like most of his personal projects it faltered when he couldn't find a way to end the story without either being pelted with rotten tomatoes or having to admit that mind control through torture doesn't work. Although on that note, he's been making noises about returning to Bedlam.
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# ? Mar 16, 2024 13:33 |
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X-O posted:I've heard of Biker Mice From Mars but never seen it. I know of Sectaurs only because I inherited some of my older cousin's toys when from when he was a kid of a couple of them were weird bug people with big eyes called Sectaurs. Never once saw the show though as I'm pretty sure it was cancelled before I would have been old enough to see it and it never played in reruns. Most of the cartoons I loved as a kid were all reruns by the time I saw them like GI Joe, Thundercats, Ghostbusters, etc. Sectaurs only had a five-episode mini-series and an eight-issue Marvel series. The line seems like a rip-off of Thundercats but both started the same year. And yeah a major gimmick was there were big bug puppets the figures could ride on. ruddiger posted:I loved the robo force toys as a kid because instead of feet they had a suction cup base so you could stick them on walls and stuff. RoboForce had a single half-hour animated special and three issues from DC. Unfortunately the line came out in 1984, the same year Transformers started, and the squat, chunky RoboForce figures couldn't compete. But there was the large-scale programmable Maxx Steele, part of the early to mid-80s home robot wave. But does anyone really want to read comics with these characters, or see them interact? I'm not sure of the point.
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# ? Mar 16, 2024 16:54 |
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Endless Mike posted:Someone license EXO-SQUAD.
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# ? Mar 17, 2024 18:46 |
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The new Dark Horse Ram V joint Dawnrunner starts off as basically Pacific Rim, which is fine as I love that poo poo. It does seem to be going off in a different direction, though, as the giant robot AI seems to have inhabited a human body somehow. I'd recommend it!
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# ? Mar 21, 2024 19:11 |
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I don't think it's been mentioned in this thread, but BOOM! Studios launched a Lumberjanes Kickstarter a few days ago:quote:Great Annie Edson Taylor! It’s time to celebrate 10 years of friendship to the max with the LUMBERJANES! Note that the Kickstarter has already reached it's funding goal (and then some).
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# ? Apr 11, 2024 00:00 |
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Thundercats continues and while it's a little slow, I do enjoy seeing everyone getting settled into place, I just hope it doesn't take forever to get going.
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# ? Apr 11, 2024 16:35 |
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Just binged Crossover. As a fan of self-indulgent meta House of Leaves/GM Animal Man/Matrix 4 bullshit I was thoroughly invested. One of the rare situations where a comic getting cut short by real-life circumstances actually makes it more narratively potent. Big fan of the sequence where Zdarsky commits selfcest. (Speaking of Zdarsky and inside-baseball comics that stopped suddenly, what happened to Public Domain? Is that still happening?)
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 22:57 |
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mutantIke posted:Just binged Crossover. As a fan of self-indulgent meta House of Leaves/GM Animal Man/Matrix 4 bullshit I was thoroughly invested. One of the rare situations where a comic getting cut short by real-life circumstances actually makes it more narratively potent. Big fan of the sequence where Zdarsky commits selfcest. (Speaking of Zdarsky and inside-baseball comics that stopped suddenly, what happened to Public Domain? Is that still happening?) Yeah, Crossover ended up being weirder and more enjoyable than expected with the Zdarsky stuff being a highlight. Public Domain is between arcs. I think the new one is starting soon according to Chip's newsletter, which is recommend subscribing to.
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# ? Apr 16, 2024 01:21 |
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Been reading Astro City through recommendation of the Marvel Thread. It's incredible how this comic is just Busiek flexing, doing every single hard-to-pull-off/tropey concept in superhero books effortlessly and then moving on to something completely different. He even manages to predict arcs that haven't happened yet, it's incredible.
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# ? Apr 30, 2024 19:03 |
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Astro City is an utterly guileless comic about how awesome comics are.
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# ? Apr 30, 2024 21:45 |
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It is really funny that Busiek followed up Marvels which is all "Hey what if there was a comic about NORMAL people" with Astro City's first issue, which asks the brave question "Hey I bet Superman feels a little sad sometimes"
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# ? Apr 30, 2024 21:57 |
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Have you gotten to Astro City #1/2 yet? It is one of my favorite single issue stories of all time.
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# ? May 1, 2024 05:04 |
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My two favourite issues are the super dog and one lady's incredible mad science effort to develop superscience based HRT.
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# ? May 1, 2024 07:49 |
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I really liked the story with the possible future sons of Jack-In-The-Box on a pure storytelling level. Again, supremely 90s story conceit but executed to perfection. As for one-shots, I really enjoyed the story about the cartoon lion who came to life.
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# ? May 1, 2024 21:37 |
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I'm not quite sure what's going on with Bear Pirate Viking Queen, but it sure is pretty! Recommended based on the art alone.
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# ? May 3, 2024 21:23 |
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wow thats two good points in three pages 1. cool animals 2. gently caress the british
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# ? May 4, 2024 10:18 |
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i heart skull-crusher is my favorite comic Bro Dad fucked around with this message at 05:11 on May 7, 2024 |
# ? May 7, 2024 05:03 |
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i had to check out just based on those two images and i enjoyed it as well. apparently the writer is also the head writer for my adventures with superman
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# ? May 9, 2024 23:29 |
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There's a new Charles Burns joint coming out later this year: https://www.amazon.com/Final-Cut-Charles-Burns/ I've seen parts of it listed in French for over a year now so I'm glad there's finally some movement. I think I've mentioned it before but it sucks how much of his and his contemporaries earlier works are impossible to find. There doesn't seem to be any digital archives and no one is currently willing to publish a new collection. I've always preferred Daniel Clowes earlier short form comics but other than the 20th Century Eightball collection its all stuck in out of print magazines. Here's some Zubrick & Pogeybait I did manage to find:
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