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Rhyno posted:I got waaaay too into the Matrix when it came out so my dad bought me a "Philosophy and the Matrix" book and jesus christ the author was so far up his own rear end. I had this assigned in my phil 101 class ages ago it was, predictably, trash
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Apr 5, 2017 05:28
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RandallODim posted:*sprints into thread* OH poo poo HERE'S MY CHANCE I will give this a try. Thanks! Loving punchman comics and thinking about them shouldn't be mutually exclusive
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Apr 5, 2017 09:46
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Thinking too much about media is fine if you're not an idiot who's setting out to come up with a hot take.
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Apr 5, 2017 09:52
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The Newbury Comics place at the local mall is having a buy 1 get 1 for all comics $3.99 and under. Despite not having digital codes. I couldn't resist and bought New-Super Man #2-6 (they didn't have #1) and New Avengers #18 (they didn't have #17).
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Apr 5, 2017 21:34
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OhFunny posted:The Newbury Comics place at the local mall is having a buy 1 get 1 for all comics $3.99 and under. Despite not having digital codes. I couldn't resist and bought New-Super Man #2-6 (they didn't have #1) and New Avengers #18 (they didn't have #17). 
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Apr 5, 2017 21:38
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Yes officer that is correct. Comic books are stealing my money. Please send the SWAT team ASAP.
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Apr 5, 2017 21:47
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OhFunny posted:Yes officer that is correct. Comic books are stealing my money. Please send the SWAT team ASAP. 
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Apr 5, 2017 21:50
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And you thought she was just a comic book character https://twitter.com/saiIupthesun/status/849350436545069056 
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Apr 6, 2017 11:04
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lol mark waid got his twitter account deleted I guess for threatening someone
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Apr 6, 2017 19:01
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"Did I do that?" -Jude Terror
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Apr 6, 2017 19:03
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site posted:lol mark waid got his twitter account deleted I guess for threatening someone You have to try really hard to get twitter's "moderation" to notice you.
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Apr 6, 2017 19:10
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RIP Don Rickles
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Apr 6, 2017 19:12
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Lurdiak posted:You have to try really hard to get twitter's "moderation" to notice you. From what I heard he deleted his own account after going on a fit saying that he will sue BC for libel.
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Apr 6, 2017 19:19
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What a fuckin rear end in a top hat
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Apr 6, 2017 19:47
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I agree, Jude Terror is an rear end in a top hat for deliberately misrepresenting Waid's statements and being a poo poo-stirring fuckgibbon in general.
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Apr 7, 2017 00:45
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Reading Warren Ellis' Exalibur and one of the issues has 4 people listed for pencils, one of those 4 guys vastly over estimates the amount space between people's eyes.
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Apr 7, 2017 01:16
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Senior Woodchuck posted:I agree, Jude Terror is an rear end in a top hat for deliberately misrepresenting Waid's statements and being a poo poo-stirring fuckgibbon in general. Details please?
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Apr 7, 2017 03:48
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Unlucky7 posted:From what I heard he deleted his own account after going on a fit saying that he will sue BC for libel. Twitter has been the worst thing for comic writers, as it proves what giant man children they are.
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Apr 7, 2017 04:16
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CharlestheHammer posted:Twitter has been the worst thing for comic writers, as it proves what giant man children they are. Sounds like a good thing actually
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Apr 7, 2017 04:19
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CharlestheHammer posted:Twitter has been the worst thing for comic writers, as it proves what giant man children they are. Mark Waid did not need twitter to prove that. His hissy fits over the years is all that is needed.
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Apr 7, 2017 07:14
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If he hadn't left in 1991, could Claremont have continued on X-Men indefinitely, or would he have eventually decided to leave on his own terms? I've read about some of his plans for the X books going into the 1990s and I'm curious about how long he could have realistically stuck around.
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Apr 7, 2017 16:23
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Wheat Loaf posted:If he hadn't left in 1991, could Claremont have continued on X-Men indefinitely, or would he have eventually decided to leave on his own terms? I've read about some of his plans for the X books going into the 1990s and I'm curious about how long he could have realistically stuck around. some manga artists continue a series for decades, with weekly releases and doing the writing and the art.
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Apr 7, 2017 16:26
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Wheat Loaf posted:If he hadn't left in 1991, could Claremont have continued on X-Men indefinitely, or would he have eventually decided to leave on his own terms? I've read about some of his plans for the X books going into the 1990s and I'm curious about how long he could have realistically stuck around. If he hadn't left when he did Claremont almost certainly would have been gone inside of two years, I suspect; he left because (IIRC) he was no longer really being listened to, his ideas were being overridden because the artists wanted to do something different, and he saw which way the wind was blowing. Especially given the deathgrip that editorial started exercising over the X-Books after the Image exodus, I don't think Chris could have been the good soldier that they wanted; he'd've quit later or been fired.
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Apr 7, 2017 17:48
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Everything you need to know about Wolverinequote:Across 40 years of comics and six films, this fan-favorite X-Men character has a lot of tangled history. Here’s a primer on Wolverine, so you can sound like a bona fide expert if this classic mutant superhero ever comes up in conversation.
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Apr 7, 2017 18:45
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At least one of those is 100% true. The rest of them would be, in a perfect world.
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Apr 7, 2017 18:49
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I recently read a short story that Chris Roberson wrote about 15 years ago, set in Paris in 1916. The mysterious masked adventurer Judex encounters an American couple visiting France so the husband - the indifferent Dr Wayne - can invest an inheritance he's recently come into while his wife, Martha, who he neglects, spends much of her time away from him at balls and cabarets while he is consumed with his business dealings. Judex resolves to locate a diamond they've lost and in the course of his investigation, discovers that Martha has had an affair with and become pregnant by a dashing American fighter pilot flying with the French air force, but she resolves to return to America with her husband and allow him to believe the baby is his, to ensure it receives the best upbringing possible. And that pilot who fathered the future Bruce Wayne was one Kent Allard. That kind of thing always cracks me up. 
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Apr 7, 2017 21:12
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https://twitter.com/melgillman/status/849981090777505792
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Apr 7, 2017 22:23
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I don't understand why someone can't make a genuine point about something like this without making up a headline like that which has no basis in reality. I mean there's all kinds of actual things that are true that you can say about those comments being wrong without making something like that up.
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Apr 7, 2017 22:34
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Both parts of that headline are true, though?
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Apr 7, 2017 22:58
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CapnAndy posted:Both parts of that headline are true, though? They are true but they don't really relate to one another unless the Hugo Awards are awarded to the best selling titles.
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Apr 7, 2017 23:01
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Madkal posted:They are true but they don't really relate to one another unless the Hugo Awards are awarded to the best selling titles. I bet there's a quantifiable effect on sales when you slap a "Hugo Award Nominee" or even better "Hugo Award Winner" sticker on a trade paperback.
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Apr 7, 2017 23:12
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Skwirl posted:I bet there's a quantifiable effect on sales when you slap a "Hugo Award Nominee" or even better "Hugo Award Winner" sticker on a trade paperback. Possibly. It kind of reminds me of shows like Arrested Development which would get nominated (and sometimes even win) a bunch of awards but were never big ratings winners and were always on the brink of cancellation.
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Apr 7, 2017 23:14
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Skwirl posted:I bet there's a quantifiable effect on sales when you slap a "Hugo Award Nominee" or even better "Hugo Award Winner" sticker on a trade paperback. Yeah, look at Chuck Tingle
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Apr 7, 2017 23:15
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Chuck was popular way before the Hugo nom
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Apr 7, 2017 23:49
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CapnAndy posted:Both parts of that headline are true, though? Nobody blamed sales being low on Black Panther or Ms Marvel. Ms Marvel is constantly cited as one of their big hits and has been reported to sell extremely well digitally and Black Panther is a classic hero and not one of the heroes they're trying to put a new spin on. Also even if it were true I'm not sure what correlation an award has to sales. Is an award supposed to justify that a book with low sales gets to continue? Skwirl posted:I bet there's a quantifiable effect on sales when you slap a "Hugo Award Nominee" or even better "Hugo Award Winner" sticker on a trade paperback. I would think it's a negligible effect. Anyone that would be impressed by that is probably already reading those books if they are interested based on the publicity they've already had.
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X-O posted:I would think it's a negligible effect. Anyone that would be impressed by that is probably already reading those books if they are interested based on the publicity they've already had. Dude, the Hugos are like the Oscars of speculative fiction. Nomination does tend to lead to a spike in sales. Winning tends to lead to a larger spike.
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haitfais posted:Dude, the Hugos are like the Oscars of speculative fiction. Nomination does tend to lead to a spike in sales. Winning tends to lead to a larger spike. Yes, but Ms Marvel already has a Hugo win and multiple Eisner noms under its belt from previous years and there was so much publicity around Coates on Black Panther I'm pretty sure that all of the people paying attention know about that book already. I don't think in this particular case there's going to be much needle moving for those titles. Now Vision might benefit as it was also on the list. Plus I don't think awards really help move singles much at all. Does anyone have any data on that? I'd imagine it's much more effective for trades and collections than it is singles. And while that will help a book it's not going to save something with anemic sales in singles. Of course really all sales stuff is speculation at best these days without any hard digital numbers and knowing how much of a profit difference there is between a physical sale and digital sale. X-O fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Apr 8, 2017 |
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Here are the previous winners of the prestigious Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story: 2009: Girl Genius volume 8 2010: Girl Genius volume 9 2011: Girl Genius volume 10 2012: Digger 2013: Saga Volume 1 2014: This specific xkcd strip 2015: Ms. Marvel Volume 1 2016: Sandman: Overture This kind of of a weird list, and I'd be curious to hear which of these got any sort of bump in recognition based on the Hugos. Maybe I'm just in my own bubble, where everyone ('everyone') already knows that Ms. Marvel (and Saga, and Sandman, and TNC on Black Panther) exists, and alternately have never heard of Digger despite it winning a Hugo. I feel like Eisner Awards have been pretty well demonstrated not to move the needle significantly for anything, but Eisners are for-comics-by-comics, and Hugos is at least a different set of people paying attention. Who knows? Looking at the more established Best Novel category I've barely heard of half of the winning authors, never mind their winning novels (or the nominees) so I'm clearly not in the same demo as the people following Hugos.
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Girl Genius is just the worst thing.
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