BSS April Chat Thread - Celebrate Earth-2 Day on April 22

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Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

Earth 2 is like Earth but it blows up every few months.

Zachack posted:

is it "everyone sports a goatee" evil Earth?

Earth 3

# ¿ Apr 2, 2017 20:10

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 05:06

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

Ripley's underpants are still as striking as ever.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2017 20:53

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

Rhyno posted:

They are sadly some of my worst sellers

I told you to stick giant Gerard Way heads in your windows.

Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 11:51 on Apr 12, 2017

# ¿ Apr 12, 2017 11:48

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

Iceman will be bi when they merge.

# ¿ Apr 14, 2017 02:16

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

The Indie thread is mostly Wicked + Divine fans posting black bars, but your kinda stuff should be fair game.
I think I got one person to respond when I went "Hey that new Daniel Clowes is cool, huh?"

# ¿ Apr 18, 2017 10:27

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

Read Scott Snyder's The Black Mirror, which was his run with Dick Grayson as a solo Batman in Detective Comics.
You can then move on to his N52 'Batman' series, which is a mostly solo Bruce (and then Jim Gordon,) but it's several times longer as a full multi year saga. There is a great origin story arc in the middle called Zero Year, if you just want to read a portion of it all.

Then there's Grant Morrison's stuff, but it's a huge commitment across multiple series. It starts here https://www.amazon.com/Batman-Son-Grant-Morrison/dp/1401212417

Edit: What he said. Except...

CapnAndy posted:

basically the only good thing that came out of the New 52 era.

# ¿ Apr 19, 2017 20:54

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

Oh yeah, read Batwoman Elegy too, dude!!

# ¿ Apr 19, 2017 23:36

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

Ha! Scott Lobdell has the task of turning Aspen Comics legit next week.

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# ¿ Apr 20, 2017 18:54

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

Because of two stupid pages you'd probably have to keep it bagged or behind counters in stores.
Other than not doing it digitally, I can't really blame them for not bothering with an adults only edition.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2017 20:31

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

We can all agree they're reprinting it because of the movie, right? It's a mass market movie, so it makes sense to print the mass market version.
Saga and Sunstone would be hugely impacted in cut back Teen rated versions. The books are noted for that stuff and it's intrinsic in the way two pages of pornography really isn't to GITS (I'm guessing.)
It's definitely censorship, but I can't blame them. I think it's completely understandable to not put it out unless there's a real audience for a second special version (again, except in digital form where the extra cost would probably be negligible.)

# ¿ Apr 21, 2017 20:50

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

X-O posted:

So was 9/11 the definitive line in Miller's career where everything before was good and everything after was complete garbage? Has he written anything good since?

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

DKSA and ASBAR

# ¿ Apr 21, 2017 22:59

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

This reply in the Neogaf thread for that article is great.

quote:

Originally Posted by Big One
This is how I would restructure the comic book industry and I'm going to get hate for some of these but whatever:

I'll remove the pre-order problem by getting rid of single issue physical releases (outside of rare occasions). This will make collector's salty as gently caress but in 2017 single issue comics are only bought by a select niche of people. We live in the digital age now, and despite not knowing any of the digital sales I'm willing to bet they're much much better than issue releases.

.99 for digital, 1.99 for physical release for all comics (that is IF you keep physical single issues)

When a new series or volume launches I'll give it a quasi-animated trailer on youtube to promote said series, using a narrator to give you a gist of what you can expect from the comic. Think of the Magic the Gathering promotional videos they have for their sets.

Drastically reduce the amount of spinoffs and mini-series, focus primarily on runs. Mini-series will still exist but will only be done by prolific writers ala Grant Morrison and etc.

Relaunches will be tied entirely to movie releases to get people interested in the comic versions. The relaunches will be released a week or so before the movie to drum up interest for the film as well as get people buying it once they see the film.

For longrunning series like Spiderman, Iron Man, Batman, Superman and etc. there will be a mandate to have entire arcs to be resolved in the span of one tradepaperback's worth of content (sometimes two in bigger arcs). Each trade-paperback will have a beginning, middle, and end, even in long runs with the same writer and artist. Readers should be able to pick up a whole trade paperback and get a full story out of it imo.

Not only will trailers be given to new series but as well as new arcs for long-running series like the stated above. When Batman faces off against Bane in a new storyline, it's going to be promoted as a big deal to build up hype.

No more events, period. They suck. Instead, there will be massive crossover mini-series but they'll be self-contained stories not tied in with ANY of the other comics in any capacity.

This is just my fantasy booking for comics, but this is how I've always wished the model was like.

Edit: Great in the thought that motion comic trailers and killing floppies would save the industry is hilarious, I mean.

Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Apr 22, 2017

# ¿ Apr 22, 2017 06:02

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

Guy Goodbody posted:

American Comics should adopt the Manga distribution system. Instead of every series getting its own monthly print release, there are monthly magazines each with 5-8 series in them.
Like, "Detective Comics" would be a monthly magazine, each issue would be 200 or more pages long, and contain new installments of Batman, Batwoman, Green Arrow, etc.

They do release compilation magazines in other parts of the world.
Or they were during the New 52. I used to see them listed when looking stuff up on comicvine.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2017 08:27

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

Not a bad movie year from what I've seen*

*which is what I've remembered to add to Letterboxd.

Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Apr 24, 2017

# ¿ Apr 24, 2017 16:55

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

Also, I didn't have FF3/6 or an SNES in 1994, but I did get my mum to buy me a Sega 32X :cool:

edit: Never mind. That must've been early '95 over here.

Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Apr 24, 2017

# ¿ Apr 24, 2017 17:04

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

It's worth experiencing an event so transparently designed to shift around continuity over telling a story.

# ¿ Apr 27, 2017 12:05

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

I wouldn't say top, but I was pretty impressed with Pat Gleason doing Robin himself.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2017 10:34

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

pubic works project posted:

Random question: I had a buddy of mine send me a flash drive of digital comics and half of them are in the cbz format. I can't load them onto my Kindle properly. They end up getting converted into black and white. Are there any programs that I can purchase for the Fire that won't do that? I already have Comicat and that doesn't help.

If nothing else, you could rename to .zip and extract the pages as images.
.cbr is also just a renamed .rar, if you ever see that.

# ¿ Apr 30, 2017 05:10

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

Here's your boss thing for the day : a 1978 documentary inside Marvel and DC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsykqt5D8yg

# ¿ May 1, 2017 20:13

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

Eisner noms https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards-nominations-2017

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Best Short Story

�The Comics Wedding of the Century,� by Simon Hanselmann, in We Told You So: Comics as Art (Fantagraphics)
�The Dark Nothing,� by Jordan Crane, in Uptight #5 (Fantagraphics)
�Good Boy,� by Tom King and David Finch, in Batman Annual #1 (DC)
�Monday,� by W. Maxwell Prince and John Amor, in One Week in the Library (Image)
�Mostly Saturn,� by Michael DeForge, in Island Magazine #8 (Image)
�Shrine of the Monkey God!� by Kim Deitch, in Kramers Ergot 9 (Fantagraphics)

Best Single Issue/One-Shot

Babybel Wax Bodysuit, by Eric Kostiuk Williams (Retrofit/Big Planet)
Beasts of Burden: What the Cat Dragged In, by Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, and Jill Thompson (Dark Horse)
Blammo #9, by Noah Van Sciver (Kilgore Books)
Criminal 10th Anniversary Special, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image)
Sir Alfred #3, by Tim Hensley (Pigeon Press)
Your Black Friend, by Ben Passmore (Silver Sprocket)

Best Continuing Series

Astro City, by Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson (Vertigo/DC)
Kill or Be Killed, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image)
The Mighty Thor, by Jason Aaron and Russell Dauterman (Marvel)
Paper Girls, by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang (Image)
Saga, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image)

Best Limited Series

Archangel, by William Gibson, Michael St. John Smith, Butch Guice, and Tom Palmer (IDW)
Briggs Land, by Brian Wood and Mack Chater (Dark Horse)
Han Solo, by Marjorie Liu and Mark Brooks (Marvel)
Kim and Kim, by Magdalene Visaggio and Eva Cabrera (Black Mask)
The Vision, by Tom King and Gabriel Walta (Marvel)
We Stand on Guard, by Brian K. Vaughan and Steve Skroce (Image)

Best New Series

Black Hammer, by Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston (Dark Horse)
Clean Room, by Gail Simone and Jon Davis-Hunt (Vertigo/DC)
Deathstroke: Rebirth, by Christopher Priest, Carlo Pagulayan, et al. (DC)
Faith, by Jody Houser, Pere P�rez, and Marguerite Sauvage (Valiant)
Mockingbird, by Chelsea Cain and Kate Niemczyk (Marvel)

Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8)

Ape and Armadillo Take Over the World, by James Sturm (Toon)
Burt�s Way Home, by John Martz (Koyama)
The Creeps, Book 2: The Trolls Will Feast! by Chris Schweizer (Abrams)
I�m Grumpy (My First Comics), by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm (Random
House Books for Young Readers)
Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea, by Ben Clanton (Tundra)

Best Publication for Kids (ages 9-12)

The Drawing Lesson, by Mark Crilley (Ten Speed Press)
Ghosts, by Raina Telgemeier (Scholastic)
Hilda and the Stone Forest, by Luke Pearson (Flying Eye Books)
Rikki, adapted by Norm Harper and Matthew Foltz-Gray (Karate Petshop)
Science Comics: Dinosaurs, by MK Reed and Joe Flood (First Second)

Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17)

Bad Machinery, vol. 5: The Case of the Fire Inside, by John Allison (Oni)
Batgirl, by Hope Larson and Rafael Albuquerque (DC)
Jughead, by Chip Zdarsky, Ryan North, Erica Henderson, and Derek Charm (Archie)
Monstress, by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Image)
Trish Trash: Roller Girl of Mars, by Jessica Abel (Papercutz/Super Genius)
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, by Ryan North and Erica Henderson (Marvel)

Best Humor Publication

The Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge, Girl Blimp, by Lee Marrs (Marrs Books)
Hot Dog Taste Test, by Lisa Hanawalt (Drawn & Quarterly)
Jughead, by Chip Zdarsky, Ryan North, Erica Henderson, and Derek Charm (Archie)
Man, I Hate Cursive, by Jim Benton (Andrews McMeel)
Yuge! 30 Years of Doonesbury on Trump, by G. B. Trudeau (Andrews McMeel)

Best Anthology

Baltic Comics Anthology �! #26: dADa, edited by David Schilter and Sanita Muizniece (ku�!)
Island Magazine, edited by Brandon Graham and Emma Rios (Image)
Kramers Ergot 9, edited by Sammy Harkham (Fantagraphics)
Spanish Fever: Stories by the New Spanish Cartoonists, edited by Santiago Garcia (Fantagraphics)

Best Reality-Based Work

Dark Night: A True Batman Story, by Paul Dini and Eduardo Risso (Vertigo/DC)
Glenn Gould: A Life Off Tempo, by Sandrine Revel (NBM)
March (Book Three), by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell (Top Shelf)
Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir, by Tom Hart (St. Martin�s)
Tetris: The Games People Play, by Box Brown (First Second)

Best Graphic Album�New

The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, by Sonny Liew (Pantheon)
Black Dog: The Dreams of Paul Nash, by Dave McKean (Dark Horse)
Exits, by Daryl Seitchik (Koyama)
Mooncop, by Tom Gauld (Drawn & Quarterly)
Patience, by Daniel Clowes (Fantagraphics)
Wonder Woman: The True Amazon by Jill Thompson (DC Comics)

Best Graphic Album�Reprint

Demon, by Jason Shiga (First Second)
Incomplete Works, by Dylan Horrocks (Alternative)
Last Look, by Charles Burns (Pantheon)
Meat Cake Bible, by Dame Darcy (Fantagraphics)
Megg and Mog in Amsterdam and Other Stories, by Simon Hanselmann (Fantagraphics)
She�s Not into Poetry, by Tom Hart (Alternative)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material

Equinoxes, by Cyril Pedrosa, translated by Joe Johnson (NBM)
Irmina, by Barbara Yelin, translated by Michael Waaler (SelfMadeHero)
Love: The Lion, by Fr�d�ric Br�maud and Federico Bertolucci (Magnetic)
Moebius Library: The World of Edena, by Jean �Moebius� Giraud et al. (Dark Horse)
Wrinkles, by Paco Roca, translated by Erica Mena (Fantagraphics)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material�Asia

The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, by Sonny Liew (Pantheon)
Goodnight Punpun, vols. 1�4, by Inio Asano, translated by JN PRoductions (VIZ Media)
orange: The Complete Collection, vols. 1�2, by Ichigo Takano, translated by Amber
Tamosaitis, adaptation by Shannon Fay (Seven Seas)
The Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga and Anime, by Toshio Ban and Tezuka
Productions, translated by Frederik L. Schodt (Stone Bridge Press)
Princess Jellyfish, vols. 1�3 by Akiko Higashimura, translated by Sarah Alys Lindholm (Kodansha)
Wandering Island, vol. 1, by Kenji Tsuruta, translated by Dana Lewis (Dark Horse)

Best Archival Collection/Project�Strips (at least 20 years old)

Almost Completely Baxter: New and Selected Blurtings, by Glen Baxter (NYR Comics)
Barnaby, vol. 3, by Crockett Johnson, edited by Philip Nel and Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)
Chester Gould�s Dick Tracy, Colorful Cases of the 1930s, edited by Peter Maresca (Sunday Press)
The Realist Cartoons, edited by Paul Krassner and Ethan Persoff (Fantagraphics)
Walt & Skeezix 1931�1932, by Frank King, edited by Jeet Heer and Chris Ware (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Archival Collection/Project�Comic Books (at least 20 Years Old)

The Complete Neat Stuff, by Peter Bagge, edited by Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)
The Complete Wimmen�s Comix, edited by Trina Robbins (Fantagraphics)
Fables and Funnies, by Walt Kelly, compiled by David W. Tosh (Dark Horse)
Trump: The Complete Collection, by Harvey Kurtzman et al., edited by Denis Kitchen and John Lind (Dark Horse)
U.S.S. Stevens: The Collected Stories, by Sam Glanzman, edited by Drew Ford (Dover)

Best Writer

Ed Brubaker, Criminal 10th Anniversary Special, Kill or Be Killed, Velvet (Image)
Kurt Busiek, Astro City (Vertigo/DC)
Chelsea Cain, Mockingbird (Marvel)
Max Landis, Green Valley (Image/Skybound), Superman: American Alien (DC)
Jeff Lemire, Black Hammer (Dark Horse); Descender, Plutona (Image); Bloodshot Reborn (Valiant)
Brian K. Vaughan, Paper Girls, Saga, We Stand On Guard (Image)

Best Writer/Artist

Jessica Abel, Trish Trash: Roller Girl of Mars (Papercutz/Super Genius)
Box Brown, Tetris: The Games People Play (First Second)
Tom Gauld, Mooncop (Drawn & Quarterly)
Tom Hart, Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir (St. Martin�s)
Sonny Liew, The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (Pantheon)

Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team

Mark Brooks, Han Solo (Marvel)
Dan Mora, Klaus (BOOM!)
Greg Ruth, Indeh (Grand Central Publishing)
Francois Schuiten, The Theory of the Grain of Sand (IDW)
Fiona Staples, Saga (Image)
Brian Stelfreeze, Black Panther (Marvel)

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art)

Federico Bertolucci, Love: The Lion (Magnetic)
Brecht Evens, Panther (Drawn & Quarterly)
Manuele Fior, 5,000 km per Second (Fantagraphics)
Dave McKean, Black Dog (Dark Horse)
Sana Takeda, Monstress (Image)
Jill Thompson, Wonder Woman: The True Amazon (DC); Beasts of Burden: What the
Cat Dragged In (Dark Horse)

Best Cover Artist (for multiple covers)

Mike Del Mundo, Avengers, Carnage, Mosaic, The Vision (Marvel)
David Mack, Abe Sapien, BPRD Hell on Earth, Fight Club 2, Hellboy and the BPRD 1953 (Dark Horse)
Sean Phillips, Criminal 10th Anniversary Special, Kill or Be Killed (Image)
Fiona Staples, Saga (Image)
Sana Takeda, Monstress (Image)

Best Coloring

Jean-Francois Beaulieu, Green Valley (Image/Skybound)
Elizabeth Breitweiser, Criminal 10th Anniversary Special, Kill or Be Killed, Velvet (Image);
Outcast by Kirkman & Azaceta (Image/Skybound)
Sonny Liew, The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (Pantheon)
Laura Martin, Wonder Woman (DC); Ragnorak (IDW); Black Panther (Marvel)
Matt Wilson, Cry Havoc, Paper Girls, The Wicked + The Divine (Image); Black Widow, The Mighty Thor, Star-Lord (Marvel)

Best Lettering

Dan Clowes, Patience (Fantagraphics)
Brecht Evens, Panther (Drawn & Quarterly)
Tom Gauld, Mooncop (Drawn & Quarterly)
Nick Hayes, Woody Guthrie (Abrams)
Todd Klein, Clean Room, Dark Night, Lucifer (Vertigo/DC); Black Hammer (Dark Horse)
Sonny Liew, The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (Pantheon)

Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism

The A.V. Club comics coverage, including Comics Panel, Back Issues, and Big Issues, by Oliver Sava et al., https://www.avclub.com
Comic Riffs blog, by Michael Cavna, https://www.washingtonpost.com/new/comic-riffs/
Critical Chips, edited by Zainab Akhtar (Comics & Cola)
PanelPatter.com, edited by Rob McMonigal
WomenWriteAboutComics.com, edited by Megan Purdy and Claire Napier

Best Comics-Related Book

blanc et noir: takeshi obata illustrations, by Takeshi Obata (VIZ Media)
Ditko Unleashed: An American Hero, by Florentino Fl�rez and Fr�d�ric Manzano (IDW/Editions D�ese)
Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White, by Michael Tisserand (Harper)
The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood, vol. 1, edited by Bhob Stewart and J. Michael Catron (Fantagraphics)
More Heroes of the Comics, by Drew Friedman (Fantagraphics)

Best Academic/Scholarly Work

Brighter Than You Think: Ten Short Works by Alan Moore, with essays by Marc Sobel (Uncivilized)
Forging the Past: Set and the Art of Memory, by Daniel Marrone (University Press of Mississippi)
Frank Miller�s Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism, by Paul Young (Rutgers University Press)
Pioneering Cartoonists of Color, by Tim Jackson (University Press of Mississippi)
Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation, by Carolyn Cocca (Bloomsbury)

Best Publication Design

The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, designed by Sonny Liew (Pantheon)
The Complete Wimmin�s Comix, designed by Keeli McCarthy (Fantagraphics)
Frank in the Third Dimension, designed by Jacob Covey, 3D conversions by Charles Barnard (Fantagraphics)
The Realist Cartoons, designed by Jacob Covey (Fantagraphics)
Si Lewen�s Parade: An Artist�s Odyssey, designed by Art Spiegelman (Abrams)

Best Webcomic

Bird Boy, by Anne Szabla, http://bird-boy.com
Deja Brew, by Teneka Stotts and Sarah DuVall (Stela.com)
Jaeger, by Ibrahim Moustafa (Stela.com)
The Middle Age, by Steve Conley, steveconley.com/the-middle-age
On Beauty, by Christina Tran,  sodelightful.com/comics/beauty/

Best Digital Comic

Bandette, by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover (Monkeybrain/comiXology)
Edison Rex, by Chris Roberson and Dennis Culver (Monkeybrain/comiXology)
Helm, by Jehanzeb Hasan and Mauricio Caballero, https://www.crookshaw.com/helm/
On a Sunbeam, by Tillie Walden, https://www.onasunbeam.com
Universe!, by Albert Monteys (Panel Syndicate)

# ¿ May 2, 2017 19:42

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

purple death ray posted:

Deathstroke? Really?

My theory is that DC submitted the Chicago issue and went "Is the rest of the series like this? Suuurrrrreeeee."

# ¿ May 2, 2017 20:27

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

I'm for Max Landis getting validation for American Alien so DC gives him Action Comics.

# ¿ May 2, 2017 20:45

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 05:06

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

Can he write Superman from the hole?

# ¿ May 2, 2017 20:54

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