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Has anything happened yet with Brandon Graham's 8House shared universe thing yet? It was announced last year but I haven't heard anything more and mostly all I'm seeing on yahoo seems to be that announcement.
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Jan 9, 2015 05:49
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Yes, it was on the list of announcements. Go here and scroll down or else ctrl+F 8house.
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Jan 9, 2015 05:59
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Heaven sounds fun, and have to love anything with front covers that are women in massive power armour. Runlovekill reminded me of The End League, did that ever get an ending? All I remember was the not Batman wound up at an amusement park on some death trap.
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Jan 9, 2015 06:43
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Spawn was my favorite comic when I was twelve... twenty years ago  Image is one of the best publishers of solid new titles, Deadly Class, Low, Pretty Deadly, Southern Bastards, so many many awesome books. I still find it hard to believe that they started with so much 90's HARDCORE dreck, but they've come so far it's great. Also the new Lemire/Snyder collab sounds promising, so there's that too.
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Jan 9, 2015 07:54
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NotAnArtist posted:Also the new Lemire/Snyder collab sounds promising, so there's that too. Definitely going to wait for reviews on that one. Lemire saying that it would be nice to take a break from writing and just draw someone else's script makes me wary. I hope he co-writes with Snyder a bit to temper his Snyderness.
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Jan 9, 2015 09:20
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Hakkesshu posted:I know that, that's not what I mean. Yeah I agree, was thinking of doing one up a few weeks back but thought it be better to see how the Expo went. No doubt that Image will be getting most of my money this year.
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Jan 9, 2015 19:29
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From a quick glance there are a lot of cool-looking Image books that never get discussed here aside from the big ones like Saga, etc. I don't know that an Image thread would change that, but with the pace they're putting out new books these days I would definitely appreciate a thread that's a bit more structured than the general indie comics one.
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Jan 9, 2015 19:36
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So I gotten to Reads in the Cerebus series and I just can't muster any will to even begin to read it.
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Jan 10, 2015 20:09
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I'm going to go ahead and shamelessly self promote now, if that's cool with everyone. I don't think I can resist any longer. The podcast I've gotten involved in has enough episodes out now that it feels like a thing that won't just shrivel up and blow away. We just posted our first annual best-of episode, which gives a pretty comprehensive idea of where our tastes are. I ended up spending most of the episode talking about Rat Queens and East of West. http://www.thelastpanel.com/2015/01/10/last-panel-episode-7-best-2014/ If there's a particular podcast-listening app that you think we should be available on, feel free to mention it. We want to be as broadly available as possible.
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Jan 11, 2015 01:16
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Alhazred posted:So I gotten to Reads in the Cerebus series and I just can't muster any will to even begin to read it. Skip the prose, that's what I did, and it was a quick painless read.
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Jan 11, 2015 04:22
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fatherboxx posted:McFarlane is so loving dense. Liefeld has realized that his time has gone and he has been giving his characters to talented people for several years now; meanwhile that dunce is announcing Paul Jenkins as hot new author of Spawn. McFarlane's old interview with The Comics Journal is an amazing insight into the mind of a man who has yet to discover the invention of the self-critical thought.
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Jan 11, 2015 07:58
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Alhazred posted:So I gotten to Reads in the Cerebus series and I just can't muster any will to even begin to read it. If you think that's bad, wait until you get to the issues where Dave Sim has Cerebus explain his batshit exegesis of the Bible in excruciating detail. Better yet, get out now. You've already reached the point in the series where Sim publicly declared his belief that women are inferior beings incapable of rational thought.
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Jan 11, 2015 08:56
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The bizarrely hostile interview David Sim did with the AVClub is worth a read.
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Jan 11, 2015 08:58
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Doctor Spaceman posted:The bizarrely hostile interview David Sim did with the AVClub is worth a read. Wow, I never read Cerberus (outside of the Spawn crossover :iamafag: ) and had no idea Sims was such an rear end in a top hat
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Jan 11, 2015 18:17
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NotAnArtist posted:Wow, I never read Cerberus (outside of the Spawn crossover :iamafag: ) and had no idea Sims was such an rear end in a top hat Most comic book creators are assholes.
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Jan 11, 2015 19:05
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He's widely believed to be mentally ill.
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Jan 11, 2015 21:37
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Lurdiak posted:He's widely believed to be mentally ill. Pull the other one.
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Jan 11, 2015 21:39
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Alien Rope Burn posted:McFarlane's old interview with The Comics Journal is an amazing insight into the mind of a man who has yet to discover the invention of the self-critical thought. This is actually pretty smart: I was not stupid enough to try and emulate John Romita because that’d be like me becoming a painter and trying to draw like Michelangelo or paint like Rockwell. I was not going to go down in history as a good-John-Romita imitator. I said, “Nope, Todd, if you’re going to keep your career going, you got to live and die on your own merits.” Also, this interview amused me because I just saw the Image Revolution doc a couple weeks ago, so I was reading the whole thing with McFarlane's weird Canadian-stroke-patient speech pattern in my head.
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Jan 11, 2015 22:43
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I'd forgive a lot of Todd's bullshit if he hadn't hosed everyone over on Image United.
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Jan 11, 2015 23:06
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Servoret posted:This is actually pretty smart: Yeah but: quote:GROTH: Did it ever occur to you that a lot of these artists might not know how to write?
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Jan 12, 2015 13:01
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tenniseveryone posted:Yeah but: Considering some early issues of Spawn were written by Morrison and Moore and Gaiman I would have thought that it had occurred to him.
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Jan 12, 2015 17:24
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Madkal posted:Considering some early issues of Spawn were written by Morrison and Moore and Gaiman I would have thought that it had occurred to him. Those were just filler iisues to him.
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Jan 12, 2015 17:39
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You also have to remember that at that time Marvel and DC treated the artist as more important than the writer. They then left them and assumed that it would not matter what they wrote as the art would sell.
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Jan 12, 2015 18:12
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Regarding Dave Sim and his mental health, there is a pretty established correlation between genius and insanity.
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Jan 12, 2015 18:20
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chime_on posted:Regarding Dave Sim and his mental health, there is a pretty established correlation between genius and insanity. It's kinda hard to use the word genius when you're trying to read the latter half of the Cerebus series.
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Jan 12, 2015 19:57
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Alhazred posted:It's kinda hard to use the word genius when you're trying to read the latter half of the Cerebus series. You judge an artist by his best works, not his worst.
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Jan 12, 2015 20:00
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prefect posted:You judge an artist by his best works, not his worst. It's the same work though.
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Jan 12, 2015 20:04
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prefect posted:You judge an artist by his best works, not his worst. I don't agree with that at all.
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Jan 12, 2015 20:05
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McSpanky posted:Those were just filler iisues to him. That seems like a mischaracterization, given that he went on to reuse some major elements of those stories (Gaiman's, mainly, but Moore's story popped up again too). It was mainly a middle finger to those who said Spawn had lousy writing, so he would show them by getting some of the best writers in the industry! He'd show them all! Also he would get trapped in a lawsuit that would last for years and years.
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Jan 12, 2015 20:22
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I wish I could have been a fly on the wall when Todd was told he in fact did not own Marvelman and as a bonus you don't own Angela or Cogliostro and a major part of your only viable creations origin.
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Jan 12, 2015 20:24
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I thought Todd get's most of his money from toy sales now. Though I doubt that is enough to keep his sports memorabilia habit in check now.
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Jan 12, 2015 20:37
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Also he would get trapped in a lawsuit that would last for years and years. Well he was just a boy in a garage printing 1000 000+ copies of Spawn quote:I don’t got no lawyers. I don’t got no PR people. I don’t got no licensing people. I ain’t got poo poo! I hate to say it but I just proved that half those jobs at Marvel and DC are worthless.
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Jan 12, 2015 20:41
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Madkal posted:I thought Todd get's most of his money from toy sales now. Though I doubt that is enough to keep his sports memorabilia habit in check now. If memory serves he laid off half his staff and lost a bunch of licenses.
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Jan 12, 2015 20:42
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zoux posted:I don't agree with that at all. there's give on either sides but we can at least acknowledge that like, when people say "Francis Ford Coppola is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time," they're not talking about Jack. edit: or, to use a more comix-appropriate example, when i say "Chris Claremont is a legend in the field" i'm not referring to X-Treme X-Men Uncle Boogeyman fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Jan 12, 2015 |
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Jan 12, 2015 20:58
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prefect posted:You judge an artist by his best works, not his worst.
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Jan 12, 2015 20:59
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:there's give on either sides but we can at least acknowledge that like, when people say "Francis Ford Coppola is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time," they're not talking about Jack. Yeah but what about Roman Polanski   
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Jan 12, 2015 21:06
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zoux posted:Yeah but what about Roman Polanski Chinatown is still a fantastic film. Polanski's a creep, but he made a great movie.
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Jan 12, 2015 21:06
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prefect posted:You judge an artist by his best works, not his worst. It seems puzzling to me that you wouldn't judge them by their entire body of work. Cherry-picking just distorts things unnecessarily.
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Jan 12, 2015 21:13
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zoux posted:Yeah but what about Roman Polanski what about him? i'm talking about artists' body of work, not what a lovely person they may or may not be. although actually you can bring him into what i'm talking about too: when people say Roman Polanski's a great filmmaker they're generally not referring to Frantic or The Fearless Vampire Killers Alien Rope Burn posted:It seems puzzling to me that you wouldn't judge them by their entire body of work. Cherry-picking just distorts things unnecessarily. context is everything. for example, what about artists who have a long period of great work and then get lovely? nobody who says the Rolling Stones are one of the greatest bands of all time is talking about anything they've done in the past 35 years. if you factor that stuff in, they go from being an all-time great band to being a just average band. if anything, i would say that is distorting things unnecessarily. Uncle Boogeyman fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Jan 12, 2015 |
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Non-troll question: What about The Simpsons? It's been bad for longer than it was good, so can we say it's a "good show". Perhaps it's better not to try and reduce entire oeuvres into reductive bins like "good" and "bad". Even Jeph Loeb has written some good stuff.
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