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Rhyno posted:It does seem kind of insane, do artists on top 10 selling books even make that much? I have to assume the writer is being paid as much too and I'm trying to figure out how many issues you need to sell to pay 20,000 plus the colorist and the letterer and all of the publishing costs, and make a profit for the company.
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Madkal posted:My buddy and I were having a few drinks the other night and the question was asked "if you could be any Batman villain's henchman, who would you chose?". I ruled out Joker because he is pretty likely to kill you for no reason at all. Mr. Freeze would require you wear something warm everytime and you would have to deal with his terrible puns. Two-Face seems very vindictive and will also kill you. I was leaning towards Riddler because at least he isn't homicidal and you just have to let him think he is smarter than you all the time, but you would also have to settle for his stupidly over complicated schemes. In the end I picked the Penguin because while he can be vicious, he is more of a traditional mob boss kind of guy and not as homicidal as others. Since I missed this whole conversation when it was happening: I'd want to find a version of the Wrath who was way committed to the "Batman of Crime" thing, and join his inverse Bat-Family as the Jason Todd figure. Where Jason fights some crimes by doing other crimes, I'd interfere with the Gotham police and Batman through legitimate, above-board means: vexatious lawsuits, embarrassing/burdensome Freedom of Information requests, staging (properly permitted) parades and protests that impede police activity, generally being a public advocate for to-the-letter procedural propriety—that sort of thing. My villain name would be the Red Tape.
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FilthyImp posted:The real money is in the licensing deal they'll make for movies/motion comics/merchandise. Yeah, but the character has already been in movies and was popular. I don't know why a Hit Girl comic needs to exist for a Hit Girl movie to happen.
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Squizzle posted:Since I missed this whole conversation when it was happening: About a billion percent chance you'd be killed by Red Hood in a fit of adolescent rage.
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Skwirl posted:Yeah, but the character has already been in movies and was popular. I don't know why a Hit Girl comic needs to exist for a Hit Girl movie to happen. Even if they change some of the beats or whatevs.
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FilthyImp posted:Maybe there's a clause in the Miller works that states any sequels have to be based off existing books. I'm assuming some kind of top-level IP farming. Or some kind of comic books Robin Hood thing? The studio offered Millar a ton of money and he decided to redistribute the wealth to the poor (artists)?
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I would guess this is largely being paid for by the Kick-rear end licensing money and Millar is expecting good trade sales
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Toxxupation posted:About a billion percent chance you'd be killed by Red Hood in a fit of adolescent rage. He'd never get near me, after I get a restraining order against him.
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Would the larger forums be too disrupted if we got a filter on the word 'Jason'?
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Rhyno posted:Keith David will do your kid's birthday party for $100. Worth every single penny
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Teenage Fansub posted:Would the larger forums be too disrupted if we got a filter on the word 'Jason'? I want mods to be able to set subforum-specific wordfilters so badly.
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My friend and I once agreed that a GTA style game where you bounce around as a henchman for various Gotham villains until reaching a crucial decision at the end where you can side with Batman after one too many betrayals or become your own supervillain would be a pretty darn good game. For the record I'd work for Bane. He's not as likely as most of the others to murder you for no reason, and while he is likely to just sacrifice you as part of some plan of his, at least his plan has a pretty good chance of succeeding for a while. I'd rake in the dough while things go well and just run out the back door once someone informs him Batman survived after all.
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Lurdiak posted:My friend and I once agreed that a GTA style game where you bounce around as a henchman for various Gotham villains until reaching a crucial decision at the end where you can side with Batman after one too many betrayals or become your own supervillain would be a pretty darn good game. My idea for GTA: Gotham City was that as your Wanted level rose you'd get chased by progressively more dangerous vigilantes, culminating with Batman himself, who would be pretty much impossible to evade for very long. 1 star would be normal cops, 2 stars would be like, Spoiler, 3 stars would be Huntress, 4 stars would be Robin, 5 stars would be Nightwing, and 6 stars would be Batman.
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Bane is probably the closest thing to a reasonable choice. Pretty much everyone else loves torturing and killing people for no reason too much. And if you're someone who usually doesn't go kill/torture crazy (Catwoman, some versions of Penguin or random mobsters) then you know that like the all-new hardcore version of the Ventriloquist or Crazy Quilt will slaughter a warehouse full of you in order to prove they're on the scene. Or some cult/drug/demon/corrupt mayor will make the police murder you in a jail cell. Basically there is no escaping a gruesome death in Gotham City.
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Just to prove I'm still working on the Battleworld thread, even if it takes way longer than holds anyone's interest, here's a picture of Psyklop, the Sexy One:
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I just made what I think was a major life mistake but I have this video so I'm calling the day even. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW3WnE3d32s
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Jeez, I didn't expect to see Plaza St. Hubert of all places in a music video this morning, let alone whatever Zoobizarre is now.
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:Did anybody else apply for the DC Talent Workshop?
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Unbelievably Fat Man posted:I know a shitload of indy cartoonists desperate for work/recognition and I only know one who applied to that. Yeah I also have those friends who complain about not having a job but won't apply for anything.
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Squizzle posted:Just to prove I'm still working on the Battleworld thread, even if it takes way longer than holds anyone's interest, here's a picture of Psyklop, the Sexy One: Oh sure you do drawings AFTER Wrestlevania.
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FilthyImp posted:Maybe there's a clause in the Miller works that states any sequels have to be based off existing books. I've heard that the one trait setting Millar apart from a lot of other comics creators is that he's meant to be very good at the business dimension of it. (I think he quit an economics degree to write comics, didn't he?)
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Seeing that Millar's entire gameplan is "make comics that get optioned for films" I think he is a pretty successful creator.
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Madkal posted:Seeing that Millar's entire gameplan is "make comics that get optioned for films" I think he is a pretty successful creator. Warren Ellis tried that years ago but but it didn't really pan out for him.
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Endless Mike posted:Oh sure you do drawings AFTER Wrestlevania. If the angles look all hosed-up on the sword, it's because Psyklop has but one eye and so is v. bad at generating a mindsword with any sense of perspective. And if it looks like I took the Psyklop head cameo from Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends, the mind-butterfly effect from Psylocke's one appearance in Wolverine & the X-Men, and a piece of Kanjar Ro concept art from Brave and the Bold and edited them in Inkscape, GIMP, and paint.net before putting the result onto an old Filmation Original Ghost Busters painted cel background, well, I guess you've just got brain problems!!!!!
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What do you mean, it looks like it was done on an eight-year-old Thinkpad with overheating problems? Haha, another classic BSS joke, you comedical jokesman!!!!!!
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Rhyno posted:Warren Ellis tried that years ago but but it didn't really pan out for him. That probably comes down to writing style. Ellis' writing has been many things, but "lowest common denominator" is not among them.
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Please do not disparage the pure revelation of Saint Martha Comicbooks, it is very important to me. 
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Chaos Hippy posted:That probably comes down to writing style. Ellis' writing has been many things, but "lowest common denominator" is not among them.
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Aphrodite posted:I supported you before you hit it big, Squizzle. I better be getting something here. X-O can confirm that in the secret subforum for mods and top-level best posters, Forums Business and Cybersex, I've been advocating p. strongly for you to receive the Mod's Cup Blue Ribbon Poster award (bantamweight subforums division) in recognition of your posting in BSS.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Literally the only two things I know about that show is that it had Keith David & Summer Glau in it.
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Madkal posted:Seeing that Millar's entire gameplan is "make comics that get optioned for films" I think he is a pretty successful creator.
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Wasn't Millar also employed by 20th Century Fox as a creative consultant for their Marvel films for a while? He may well still be (though after Fant4stic, who knows?).
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Wheat Loaf posted:Wasn't Millar also employed by 20th Century Fox as a creative consultant for their Marvel films for a while? He may well still be (though after Fant4stic, who knows?). I believe he was hired on to try and help them create their own cinematic universe that bridged the X and F4 franchises but we all know how that's turning out.
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Aphrodite posted:Bantamweight?! Excuse me but that is in honor of the Sensational Character Find of 1993, the Battling Bantam, and his ceaseless struggle against literal Nazi bigot Steve Rogers.
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