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END ME SCOOB posted:As a philosophy minor: those books are half-assed trash that people who couldn't become professors write to justify their mistake of a degree which rarely, if ever, go more than surface level in philosophy so they can justify having spent a year on someone's couch watching/playing (topic) as "research". I always got the impression that it was mostly adjuncts and younger professors knocking out something fast and easy for a little walking around money. I've never read an essay in one of them that was any good but I mean, generally nothing any more offensive than when I'm floundering in a lesson plan and just throw in some facile pop-culture thing because I know it'll get a flash of recognition and make a concept slightly easier to get a handle on. So I mean yeah, I agree that they're pretty bad and/or, at best, geared towards VERY entry level philosophy readers, but I feel a lot of sympathy for the contributors. I'd do one if they did them in my field, I wouldn't be proud of it, but like, if someone wanted to pay me to write about the duality of Nightcrawler's penises I wouldn't hesitate for a second. As far as slightly dubious side-gigs in academia go you could do far worse. How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Apr 4, 2017 |
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Samuringa posted:Not only that but she also came up with some original ideas which might've been the first time a judge decided a case by writing some fanfic I would love to read about Simon Bolivar getting a load of an idealistic young Spawn hot on his heels.
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cubicle gangster posted:Is there a thread for stuff like Adrian tomine & other drawn & quarterly type things in this subforum or is it for superhero comics only? Had a poke in the book barn and didn't see anything there either. There's an indie comics megathread but it still tends to skew significantly towards, if not super-hero comics, then fantasy and sci-fi stuff. Not entirely but I mean if you want to start a conversation about Tomine you might want to start a new thread.
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Jedi posted:Off the top of my head, Waldenbooks, B. Dalton, and Borders no longer exist, and neither do quite a few local mom and pop book stores. To pretend that all of them had incompetent management is disingenuous at best. Amazon was a huge contributor to that - and they sell a Kindle. To pretend that digital sales have no impact also isn't fair. The medium is changing. Just like you'll have difficulty finding a local typewriter repairman - there will come a time that physical books are considered a quaint affectation. Waldenbooks was a subsidiary of Borders though so I'd imagine they went down with that ship. edit: Rhyno posted:
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Lurdiak posted:Reminder that it's been a little over a year since this incident: If Will Eisner's so great than how come Frimme Hersh's rear end isn't out and about to teach us all about getting STEM degrees?
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Schneider Heim posted:Who is Aaron Diaz and why should we care? He does a dumb webcomic where people with shiny butts wax poetic about cyberpunk.
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Ghostlight posted:Everyone burnt the living poo poo out of him on every part of it from suggesting that Eisner was mediocre to minimising being a Jew in the early 20th century, so he deleted it and posted a comprehensive apology that definitely didn't make him look like an even bigger dickhole. This raises more questions than it answers.
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Jesus Wizard, leave Whoopi Goldberg alone.
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Edge & Christian posted:I mean, if you cherrypick things 1994 featured: It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken was also getting serialized, Underwater started, and there was a really good stretch of Bone. And to be totally fair to Marvel Generation X started strong I think.
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I feel like this queston is only tricky if you consign yourself to big 2 superhero comics because otherwise you'll never run out of choices-- tons of manga, tons of small press and indie stuff, a lot of Euro comics from Herge to Moebius, lots and lots of older newspaper strips, etc. But for the sake of argument-- The Spirit, and Kyle Baker's Plastic Man. Edit: Oh, duh. Jack Cole's Plastic Man too. Three cheers for Plastic Man. How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Apr 28, 2017 |
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