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Soonmot posted:\/\/\/ But a tablet is even smaller than my laptop screen? .cbrs flipped 90 degrees read perfectly. What resolution is your laptop screen? My 9" Nook HD+ has a 1080p screen, cost $150 on sale, and is much nicer to read comics on than my 1366x768 15" laptop turned sideways, not to mention the size and bulk of a laptop and being able to hold a tablet closer to your face and the tablet having much better viewing angles. My friend has the older Nexus 7 with a 1280×800 7" screen and has almost no problems (has to zoom in a bit on double page spreads).
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Soonmot posted:Does anyone remember a comic panel that was posted here about some up coming comic or web comic that had a girl with a sword running down a bridge and beating the poo poo out of some skeletons? It was posted maybe a year ago or more. It just popped into my head and, for the life of me, I can't remember what it was from or if it was ever released. It was by Jake Wyatt. Here's all there is so far. http://jakewyattriot.tumblr.com/tagged/Necropolis He was going to do a web comic, then put up a message about it "going to print" without any other information. I believe he's drawing it now (an issue? a volume?) and will put up 1 page/week once he finishes. Haven't seen anything posted about it recently so who knows. EDIT: There's some posts with sketches and the like in his tumblr beyond the link above. Uthor fucked around with this message at 13:42 on Mar 9, 2014 |
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Mar 9, 2014 13:40
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Wasn't X-Men #1 overhyped and retailers bought way more than they eventually sold? I was reading something as a lot of shops sunk significant money into buying copies, then had trouble digging out of the hole.
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Mar 14, 2014 16:59
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It also sounds like an arc of Sandman (with the Cuckoo) and Stephen King's The Dark Half, but not quite for both.
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Mar 25, 2014 02:55
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The last Superior Spider-Man Team-Up read (I think I'm a couple issues behind) had Punisher shoot Spider-Man point blank, but Spock invented bullet proof webbing and was okay.
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Mar 30, 2014 01:39
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There used to be a few, but they always die out quickly. Not sure if there's still a generic floating around.
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Apr 10, 2014 21:29
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I'm too lazy to pull out the books and look, but was the older white guy Bruce Willis? I'm thinking NewUniversal, which fell victim to the Warren Ellis Hard Drive Crash of Ought Seven.
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Apr 13, 2014 03:39
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SiKboy posted:In the interests of pedantry; Its possible it was billy batson that was killed by the nuke rather than captain marvel, because he detonates the bomb (which is a futuristic supernuke rather than a conventional nuke) by shouting Shazam. Magog survives a nuclear level blast when Captain Atom (I think?) blows up in Kingdom Come. Dr. Manhattan. Probably Apollo.
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Apr 15, 2014 23:30
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That's almost half the series to buy at that point. I think he hit his voice with the Death issue in the first TPB and while the plot doesn't really kick off until the second half, if you're not charmed by that issue, you probably will lose your patience long before then.
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Apr 16, 2014 00:11
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Benito Cereno posted:6) early 2010s-???: This era will almost certainly be notable for the rise of digital distribution, but who knows what else is coming? It's hard to see a paradigm shift when you're in the middle of it. To contrast 5), artists are seeming to be moving back toward parity with writers, at least (Marvel's recent move away from a house style, Image bringing a lot of style ... again). And creators raised on the Internet/webcomics are gaining prominence and jobs with the Big Two.
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Apr 23, 2014 02:00
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Benito Cereno posted:Well, I was going to mention the pendulum swinging in favor of creators' rights, increased parity among creative teams, and more diversity in both characters and creators, but I didn't want to jinx it. Oh no, what have I done!
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Apr 23, 2014 02:11
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zoux posted:I thought it was pretty well accepted that Watchmen changed the game as far as what comic book creators could do, but also as evinced by my questions in this thread I am a raw comics dilettante who may just be laboring under false information I read in a buzzfeed article. I terms of publishing, it follows in the footsteps of Camelot 3000 (which I haven't read), which lead to Frank Miller's Ronin, which lead to DKR and Watchmen.
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Apr 23, 2014 16:05
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zoux posted:Some Kree dudes resurrected him with part of the Mkrann crystal and they wanted to use the Phoneix force to give them ultimate power but it was actually just one dude who was mind controlling everyone on the Kree planet. "Comics: It Was Weird"
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Apr 25, 2014 21:59
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McSpanky posted:What does "separation" mean? I've seen that credit in some recent-ish comics and I assume it's some kind of digital thing but I can't really suss out more than that. In the old days, comics were printed with four colors, one at a time. A separator was in charge of splitting up the artwork into those colors so the printer knew which areas were red, yellow, blue, or a combination of the three. In a modern comic, you don't need to do any of that. I think in the modern context, it's the same thing as a flatterer, someone who preps the artwork digitally to make it easier for the colorist to select different objects or layers while they do their job. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatter
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Apr 27, 2014 04:52
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Do bad guys count? Daken had one for a while. Deadpool? He was part of X-Force.
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Apr 30, 2014 04:49
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Glad to see Brian Wood shuffle off, though, so there's that. MagnesiumB posted:No announcement yet for any new projects from Wood at Marvel, so maybe/hopefully they won't be hiring him on for anything else anytime soon. Wait, there's Brian Wood backlash on SA? I thought I was the only one who didn't like his writing.
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May 9, 2014 21:28
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I buy whatever the local shop has for bags and boards. Don't know what they're made of, but say Archival Safe. They made by Ultra-Pro and Silver Age sized so I can stick a few comics in together instead of one per bag. The boards are from Southern Hobby Supply. I spend $16/100 of each. I mainly just bag and board stuff as it's easier to handle, but haven't had any issues with either the last 7 or so years I've been collecting. If you have a book you think is worth anything, check eBay. Books are worth only what someone will pay for it, so guides about what it's "supposed" to be worth are pretty useless. Most people tend to go to ComicBookDB for book tracking/information. It's user created, so if something is missing, you can just add it yourself. You can output the data into a spreadsheet if you want to do spreadsheet stuff to it. The site hasn't been getting updated much (ie, new features, I think it could use a facelift, etc), but new comics are added regularly, the database is pretty solid, and the admin fixes problems when they crop up. I don't think there's a lot of collecting/grading going on here. Good luck on getting help with that.
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May 12, 2014 23:34
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To be fair, I am curious how insurance would cover my comics after a fire. I don't have anything rare, but there are a few things that would be hard to replace or some expensive hardcovers. My policy covers $xx,xxx in personal belongings (electronics, CDs, DVDs, books), but it'd be a bit hard to prove my loses with just a list of books.
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May 15, 2014 04:45
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That's for a "collection" and not too applicable to a pile of Marvel comics from the last five years and a full set of Hellboy and Cerebus TPBs. It would be pointless to have an appraiser come out. Though a rough calculation says it might be a few thousand dollars to replace and I should really make sure my policy is up to spec between comics, computers, and other crap I own (been a few years since I looked at it).
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May 15, 2014 04:55
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zoux posted:p.s. do I have to buy comics through Comixology on their site and then it will DL through the app or what? On iOS? Yes. Amazon just bought them and got rid of the in app store so Apple doesn't get a cut. On Android, you can buy through the app. They changed the store to bypass Google Wallet, but we're able to stick their own store into the app.
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May 15, 2014 19:48
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Skwirl posted:Batwoman was going to get gay married to a cop but DC nixed it and did it so abruptly the writer and artist quit, and it looked like DC was objecting to the gay thing at first. Most annoyingly, they said they would finish the arc (2-3 more issues), but DC told them not to bother and put on a new team and started a new arc before it could be wrapped up.
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May 15, 2014 20:24
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bobkatt013 posted:Weren't they also building up Killer Croc in the book, and then told them they could not use him? They wanted to use him in one of those "evil" books that month. There were other changes, too. The marriage thing was the last straw, and they were most annoyed by DC changing their minds last minute after approving the initial ideas.
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May 15, 2014 20:32
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Is there an Earth-001 in Marvel? Why does Beast almost always turn evil and/or crazy in alternate realities?
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May 24, 2014 02:29
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Rhyno posted:I don't think so. When was Marvel Universe the End published? 2003
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May 30, 2014 03:26
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I'm reading the new Nightcrawler series and am learning new things. Who decided it was a good idea for him to be "lovers" with his adoptive sister??? (!)
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Jun 2, 2014 17:57
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Is it the guy writing the current series, explaining why it's not being aggressively ignored?
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Jun 2, 2014 18:06
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AXE COP posted:I dunno if this is the right thread for this but Comixology has become an incredibly lovely app since the last big update. Does anyone know of another comic store/reader for the iPad, preferably free or cheap? Ask here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3611527 Short answer: depends on what you are looking for. (Even shorter answer: don't ask about  )
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Jun 5, 2014 14:18
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zoux posted:There's a Morrison run after that right? They all good? Ellis' run is great, I give Millar a pass because of Frank Quietly art, nothing else is especially memorable. Read Ellis' stuff on Stormwatch beforehand if you want more Wildstorm, but it's not necessary to get Authority. HitTheTargets posted:That said I don't really remember it. Maybe I never read it? I know I read the Midnighter solo stuff and that was a little uneven in my eyes. There's an arc built around him punching Hitler, then a bunch of one-shots by various creative teams (BKV's story told backwards in time is totally worth checking out), then a long and boring couple of arcs that I stopped reading where he tries to learn about his past.
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Jun 7, 2014 05:12
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I forgot: read Sleeper!
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Jun 7, 2014 05:28
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Reading my way through X-Statix and have a couple of geography questions. One of the characters mentioned "51 states" in respect to America. It was really off hand and confused me. Also, why do the characters keep saying "Europa". I'm assuming they were talking about Europe? Couldn't really find anything via Google.
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Jun 17, 2014 16:10
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notthegoatseguy posted:I don't know about X-statik but Europa is one of Jupiter's moons. It is most notable for having an atmosphere of oxygen and is almost entirely covered in ice. The theory that that leads to is there is water under the ice and that it could be a place where life has been in the past or currently is. The non batshit crazy conspiracy theories are that the life found there, or evidence of past life, would likely be similar to life found in the deep ocean on Earth. In this case, Europa sure looks a lot like generic "England" and is home to a pop celebrity. Though the moon explanation did pop into my head at one point.
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Jun 17, 2014 20:58
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No, she knows they were a couple and that he's Spider-Man. Their relationship stayed the same minus them being married. Everyone else remembers everything they've known about Peter and/or Spider-Man except for his secret identity. Uthor fucked around with this message at 03:41 on Jun 26, 2014 |
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Jun 26, 2014 03:38
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In story their entire history was rewritten to them never having been married. If anyone knows, they'd have to be aware of outside the 616 universe. Maybe Deadpool?
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Jun 26, 2014 03:51
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greatn posted:So does Peter have any new girlfriends? He ever try getting back together with Betty Brandt? He's dated a few people. Also, he's had someone pretending to be him make out with his roommate and had someone else take over his body and get engaged. Safe to say, he still has relationship issues, and this time with creepy overtones!
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Jun 26, 2014 14:27
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poo poo, that happens to me sometimes now. I turn the page of an X-Men comic and wonder what Iron Man is doing there. And why he's trying to sell me a car.
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Jul 28, 2014 17:44
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bobkatt013 posted:God died. http://youtu.be/4BuZamufWAs
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Jul 29, 2014 22:26
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I would bag and board, stick the stack into a grocery bag or wrap with newspaper (so it stays as a single bundle), maybe sandwich between two pieces of cardboard if you think it's necessary, and chuck it into a box. Just need to make sure the individual issues don't slide around and the corners don't get banged up.
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Aug 1, 2014 19:17
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BadAstronaut posted:There is no thing that can not start a fight on the Internet... Shut up, you!
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Aug 6, 2014 13:53
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Were there 2013 or 2014 editions of Hero Comics (for the Hero Initiative)?
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Working my way through TMNT and I come across this scene: That's Frank Miller, right? I don't recognize the other dude. He's calling "Corbin" on the next page. Is he anybody?
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