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First of all, Happy New Year! That's right, chums: February means Chinese New Year, so here are Great Ten Things to Do in the Chat Thread!
Welp that's the op, let's chat.
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place to post any sort of crap. Have a weird dream? See a terrible movie? Eat a sandwich? Go ahead and tell us.
MUUUUMMIIIIIIEEEES!!!!!!!!!
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Jan 31, 2016 19:59
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Werewolves rule, mummies drool.
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Jan 31, 2016 20:09
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Deadpool hates balls. 
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Jan 31, 2016 20:25
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Madkal posted:Werewolves rule, mummies drool.  I will meet this challenge, on the field of European erotic horror comic covers: (mildly)  Werewolf Mummy ADVANTAGE: MUMMIES quod erat demonstrandum Rhyno posted:Deadpool hates balls. While impressive, that's nothing compared to the level of thrilling ball-handling peril you'll find in mummy comics! 
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Jan 31, 2016 21:09
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Although many cultures practiced mummification, perhaps the most well-known are the Egyptians. Thus, mummies are from Egypt. Konshu is from Egypt. I love Moon Knight. Hence: My vote is Mummies.
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Jan 31, 2016 21:45
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Those Buddhist monks who mummified themselves are way cooler than egyptian mummies
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Jan 31, 2016 22:34
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Feb 1, 2016 00:03
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A well known rivalry.
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I was hoping to discuss Savage Dragon a little more, so I posted in the old thread this afternoon, right before it was closed:Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Well, I just finished Savage Dragon Archives Vol. 3 (collecting #51-75), and I enjoyed it way more than I expected to. It reminded me of the comics I used to write as a teenager (The Super Squadron and The Honor Guard) -- just wild imagination and unbridled id at play, riffing off DC and Marvel and popular culture in general, with a surprising amount of "slice of life"/soap opera-esque character development, some silly humor, and occasional shocking violence and unexpected tragedy to jolt the reader out of a comfort zone.
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Feb 1, 2016 04:14
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The observation that it's like the comics you made as a teenager is exactly on point, because that's exactly what's happening. Larsen is literally drawing a comic he made up when he was a kid, and doing it the way he wants to. It probably helps that he made so much money in the '90s that he can afford not to give a gently caress. The rest of your points are all well stated as well. I hope you manage to turn up a copy of the first two archives, as there's some really good stuff in there, especially now that I know you liked the stuff from 50-75. Of course, 76 is when things get, for better or worse, really crazy.
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Feb 1, 2016 04:25
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I love me some Savage Dragon. Previously I said it's a shame that Larsen doesn't care anymore and I didn't clarify. I feel like he stopped caring about putting the book out in a timely manner because there have been several stretches where the issues came out at a glacial pace. I fell off years ago and keep meaning to get back into it. It's a shame he hasn't released the series in the OS format Invincible and Walking Dead get.
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Feb 1, 2016 04:26
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A perfect example of the kind of humor in Savage Dragon: our musclebound, green-skinned hero walks into a bar full of tough guys, looking for a missing woman. He announces "I'M LOOKING FOR AMANDA LOVE!" Everyone freaks out and runs out of the bar, leaving Dragon confused. Then it slowly dawns on him what that must have sounded like, and he slaps his forehead, looks at the reader with frustration, and says "Oh, Jesus Christ." I admit it, I laughed.
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Feb 1, 2016 04:54
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Savage Dragon has always seemed too dumb & juvenile to me, and that doesn't help.
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Feb 1, 2016 05:04
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WickedHate posted:Savage Dragon has always seemed too dumb & juvenile to me, and that doesn't help. Haven't read it, but based on the above, it sounds dumb and sophisticated. Goofy pop-trash, done with craft.
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Feb 1, 2016 05:45
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That's pretty basic children's playground wordplay, but I'm more secondhand embarassed by the "wha-oh, shame on me, I'm just now realizing my goofy mistake" part honestly.
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Feb 1, 2016 05:51
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So I've been reading some comments on BC about retailers reacting at the idea of Wal-Mart having a Graphic Novel section and it got me curious, it would be too difficult for comics to get again in newsstands and the like? Here in Mexico the localized comics are sold everywhere, newsstands, supermarkets, departmental stores, only libraries don't carry comics. And so far, the market couldn't be more healthier. The selection of comics has gone beyond just Marvel and DC and now we have pretty much every relevant title from small companies like IDW, Image, Dynamite and I think even Zenescope managed to land some titles here. The publisher handling both DC and Marvel has brought variant covers (even a set exclusive for us), every month publishes TPBs and Hardcovers ranging from editing classic stories never published here before (Sandman, Moore's Swamp Thing), to hugely popular stories (Batman Year One, Death of Superman, Maximum Carnage) to full recent events (Court of Owls, Doomed) And while we don't get every title launched in the US -only the most popular ones- we haven't had nothing like this since forever. It would be possible for the industry to find new life returning to its mainstream roots or is Mexico's situation an anomaly?
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Feb 1, 2016 05:57
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I don't want to be Americentric, but I've never seen a newstand in my life. I mean, it's probably different in places like New York, but newspapers are a dying industry as it is anyaway. As far as I'm aware supermarkets still sell some comics, though, like Archie and stuff-don't know about DC and the like.
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Feb 1, 2016 06:01
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I said at some point I'd make it my monthly chat thread gimmick to tie in every post I made to a random X-Men character each month but even ignoring how tedious to read that would be, I also realized there's no good "random X-Men picker" tool I can find, or even a list of every X-Men in a simple list I can copy and paste anywhere so I guess this is me officially saying I'm not going to do that unless I can find that random X-Men picker. Although my other chatthread commitment of reading one backlogged TPB I own a month worked out. Harbinger Vol 1 was pretty good. It's the first volume of a series and is mostly doing setup so it's hard to have too many strong feelings, but I'd totally check out Vol 2 once I have time/have cut down on my existing backlog. Still gotta pick a book for next month.
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Feb 1, 2016 06:21
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I think the problem is that there's too many titles. When nu52 happened, Barnes and Noble, the biggest American chain store, carried all the new DC titles. briefly. Now they're down to like, five.
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Feb 1, 2016 06:22
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DrProsek posted:I said at some point I'd make it my monthly chat thread gimmick to tie in every post I made to a random X-Men character each month but even ignoring how tedious to read that would be, I also realized there's no good "random X-Men picker" tool I can find, or even a list of every X-Men in a simple list I can copy and paste anywhere so I guess this is me officially saying I'm not going to do that unless I can find that random X-Men picker. Do Gambit. Every month. In every thread.
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Feb 1, 2016 06:26
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WickedHate posted:I don't want to be Americentric, but I've never seen a newstand in my life. I mean, it's probably different in places like New York, but newspapers are a dying industry as it is anyaway. As far as I'm aware supermarkets still sell some comics, though, like Archie and stuff-don't know about DC and the like. Where do you live, and how old are you? At least in the '80s and '90s, there used to be newsstands everywhere. I'm from the suburbs of Miami, and it seems like I spent half my childhood in libraries, new and used bookstores, comic shops, and newsstands. I remember buying my first-ever "grownup" comic book (Transformers #5) at a newsstand called The Front Page, and I must have bought hundreds of comics there and another place called Ted's News, which expanded its comic selection during the boom of the early '90s. If there was a new #1 issue, a big event, or a gimmick cover, they had it, and I tried to get it. I miss newsstands, but they're still relatively recent history.
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Feb 1, 2016 06:29
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Where do you live, and how old are you? 19, and I live in a relatively small town in a lovely state, but I've been to much bigger cities a lot and still never saw one first hand. I've always felt towards newstands like how I imagine today's young kids now feel about rental stores(I used to love Movie Gallery...always wanted to work at one...).
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Feb 1, 2016 06:42
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DrProsek posted:I said at some point I'd make it my monthly chat thread gimmick to tie in every post I made to a random X-Men character each month but even ignoring how tedious to read that would be, I also realized there's no good "random X-Men picker" tool I can find, or even a list of every X-Men in a simple list I can copy and paste anywhere so I guess this is me officially saying I'm not going to do that unless I can find that random X-Men picker. I will do it me I can be the picker and this month your character is Buford Wilson aka Beef  Beef
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Feb 1, 2016 06:43
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WickedHate posted:I don't want to be Americentric, but I've never seen a newstand in my life. I mean, it's probably different in places like New York, but newspapers are a dying industry as it is anyaway. As far as I'm aware supermarkets still sell some comics, though, like Archie and stuff-don't know about DC and the like. If you've ever been in a subway system, the modern version of newstands are those little kiosks where they sell papers, magazines and snacks. Also the racks of magazines at bookstores.
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Feb 1, 2016 07:27
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WickedHate posted:Do Gambit. My first, last, and only post of February would be an autobanned thread with a title of "gently caress Gambit"  (for real, he's not the worst X-Person or nothing, and I have read good books with him in them like X-23 and All-New X-Factor. It's just that generally the good stuff I've seen with him seem to just make up new personalities for him on the fly and don't really try to stay within Gambit cannons) Squizzle posted:I will do it Do you just have a list of obscure X-Men on hand for times like these, or did it just come from the top of your head? Either way, even if I don't do a gimmick, I'll at least make sure your effort wasn't in vain and read at least 1 series that features Beef prominently  .
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Feb 1, 2016 07:28
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I don't know whether to be more surprised someone named a character after an old country song I haven't heard since I was a kid, or that Beef actually has a Wikipedia page.
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Feb 1, 2016 07:35
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WickedHate posted:Do Gambit. 
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Feb 1, 2016 07:53
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WickedHate posted:I don't want to be Americentric, but I've never seen a newstand in my life. I mean, it's probably different in places like New York, but newspapers are a dying industry as it is anyaway. As far as I'm aware supermarkets still sell some comics, though, like Archie and stuff-don't know about DC and the like. Rare footage of Wickedhate irl: 
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Feb 1, 2016 08:54
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Have fun with your dusty dead trees while I'm jacking in to the hottest cyber raves this side of the telenet. 
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Lightning Lord posted:If you've ever been in a subway system, the modern version of newstands are those little kiosks where they sell papers, magazines and snacks. Also the racks of magazines at bookstores. Anyway, to answer D_T's question: in the US, monthly comics moved away from news stands (which I'm using as a generic term for "places magazines are sold") and into comics shops in the 90s as Diamond solidified their distribution monopoly (by acquiring the #2 distributor and Marvel attempting to self-distribute by acquiring what became Heroes World, which failed). Because Diamond distributes on a non-returnable basis for most things, it doesn't work with how traditional magazine retailers work, which is with returnable magazines (I believe they get something like 70% of the purchase cost back, but I could be wrong). As such, comics publishers would need to get a secondary distributor for their non-direct market sales, and offer them in a very different way than they've been doing for a couple decades. While I'm sure it's possible for comics to make their return to news stands, I doubt the publishers are really in any hurry to do it. WickedHate posted:Have fun with your dusty dead trees while I'm jacking in to the hottest cyber raves this side of the telenet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLlj_GeKniA
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Feb 1, 2016 14:53
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Anyway robots are better than mummies or werewolves on any day of the week. or have we left that topic behind
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Feb 1, 2016 14:56
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I dunno man, Red Tornado and Original Flavor Machine Man are pretty horribly boring. Even the lamest mummy is cooler than them.
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Feb 1, 2016 16:00
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WickedHate posted:Have fun with your dusty dead trees while I'm jacking in to the hottest cyber raves this side of the telenet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEb4I5y93uA
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Feb 1, 2016 16:14
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One of the many reasons I love Hackers is that none of the technobabble is wrong, but it's almost always irrelevant. So instead of throwing nonsense words around or getting the jargon wrong, they do it exactly right, but in service of describing a really good monitor and then acting like monitors increase processing power or something.
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Feb 1, 2016 16:20
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CapnAndy posted:One of the many reasons I love Hackers is that none of the technobabble is wrong, but it's almost always irrelevant. So instead of throwing nonsense words around or getting the jargon wrong, they do it exactly right, but in service of describing a really good monitor and then acting like monitors increase processing power or something. This clip makes me crack up every time I see it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ4ZJk4lLEI
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Feb 1, 2016 16:28
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Well, I just bought that TMNT bundle that Comixology has on sale. Tell me that's fine.
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Lurdiak posted:I dunno man, Red Tornado and Original Flavor Machine Man are pretty horribly boring. Even the lamest mummy is cooler than them. Anyway, I think March should be robot month. Hackers rules so much.
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