Senor Candle posted:Did they do the Hickman Avengers Omni right? They're all right, at least Hickman isn't on Avengers anymore.
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Comics are fine (or as fine as they've ever been, probably better in many ways), but the conversations around them have certainly gone to poo poo when you realize the percentage of people talking about them haven't read them nor are willing to read anything over about three hundred words at the absolute uppermost limit* *offer does not apply if it's a *thread* or a twine essay called pssssst hey comics come here and eat poo poo you pieces of poo poo assholes Edge & Christian fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Jul 6, 2017 |
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Jul 6, 2017 15:32
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Old man yells at cloud.
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Jul 6, 2017 15:40
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I also feel like there are less super hot active series right now. Deff not as many as there were a year or two years ago
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Jul 6, 2017 15:41
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Lurdiak posted:They're all right, at least Hickman isn't on Avengers anymore.  I stopped preordering a few months back due to money/other reasons and have also turned in a bunch of books to half priced books. I decided that instead of buying more bookshelves I'll just get rid of books until they fit on what I have. Also by a few months ago I mean right before Secret Empire got solicited so it's probably been a lot longer than I think.
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Jul 6, 2017 15:43
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Aphrodite posted:Old man yells at cloud.
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Jul 6, 2017 15:43
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Edge & Christian posted:Shitposter can't read Yes we can
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Jul 6, 2017 15:44
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Edge & Christian posted:Shitposter can't read That's why we keep the word counts low for you 
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Jul 6, 2017 16:09
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Seriously though I need to know if they put he issues in a reasonable reading order in the Hickman Avengers Omni
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Jul 6, 2017 16:37
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Senor Candle posted:Seriously though I need to know if they put he issues in a reasonable reading order in the Hickman Avengers Omni
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Edge & Christian posted:Comics are fine (or as fine as they've ever been, probably better in many ways), but the conversations around them have certainly gone to poo poo when you realize the percentage of people talking about them haven't read them nor are willing to read anything over about three hundred words at the absolute uppermost limit* I miss Plok's "A Trout in the Milk".
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Jul 6, 2017 16:56
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Edge & Christian posted:It doesn't come out until later this month but it contains the first year (Avengers 1-23, New Avengers 1-12) of the core series, along with the Infinity mini-series and Hickman-written satellite stories. I'm going to assume they're put in the story order Hickman intended and mapped out with charts, since I know they did that for the smaller collections of his run previously released (at least they did for Time Runs Out). The previous TPBs didn't do this, and Avengers and New Avengers were split. Additionally, the Infinity TPB didn't include the A/NA issues, though the omnibus did. Presumably, if they're issuing new omnibu, they're putting them in the correct order. It would be unusual if they didn't, considering the Hickman F4 books did so.
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Jul 6, 2017 18:34
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Edge & Christian posted:It doesn't come out until later this month but it contains the first year (Avengers 1-23, New Avengers 1-12) of the core series, along with the Infinity mini-series and Hickman-written satellite stories. I'm going to assume they're put in the story order Hickman intended and mapped out with charts, since I know they did that for the smaller collections of his run previously released (at least they did for Time Runs Out). The omni came out this week, IST has it for 50% off. I don't know if emailing them about content would be a fruitful path but I've never tried and presumably they are more comic book store oriented than most.
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Jul 6, 2017 18:44
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Zachack posted:The omni came out this week, IST has it for 50% off. I don't know if emailing them about content would be a fruitful path but I've never tried and presumably they are more comic book store oriented than most.
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Jul 6, 2017 18:50
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Riverdale is the nexus of realities that joins Marvel, DC, Glee, Sharknado, and the Predators together. Consequently, it follows that they share a universe with the Flintstones and Elmer Fudd.
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Jul 6, 2017 18:54
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Edge & Christian posted:Huh, Amazon and some other places have it coming out July 18. I didn't see it at the shop I dropped into yesterday either, but I suppose it's not shocking that you don't order a lot of shelf copies of a $125 book. Unrelated, Alex de Campi is tweeting about an unnamed publisher inviting her to a retreat, but being unwilling to pay for her child (she's a single mother), and threatening to remove her from the as-yet unreleased book if she doesn't at least teleconference in to the whole thing. https://twitter.com/alexdecampi/status/882651634018463744
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Jul 6, 2017 18:54
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Endless Mike posted:Amazon and other non-comic retailers use a distributor other than Diamond which is always a few weeks behind. And yeah, your local store just probably isn't ordering many or any $125 books short of special orders. Ugh, I just read that. The thing is also for this weekend, apparently and she just got notified.
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Jul 6, 2017 19:31
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Endless Mike posted:Amazon and other non-comic retailers use a distributor other than Diamond which is always a few weeks behind. And yeah, your local store just probably isn't ordering many or any $125 books short of special orders. Any guesses as to what publisher this is? Refusing to pay for the child is one thing, but expecting her to conform to a schedule she's informed of three days in advance (and threatening to terminate her if she doesn't) is amazingly scummy and unprofessional. This can't be the modus operandi of a major publisher, right? Right?  (Not to say that it's not awful behaviour and a really terrible situation regardless, because it is.)
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Jul 6, 2017 19:45
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Endless Mike posted:Amazon and other non-comic retailers use a distributor other than Diamond which is always a few weeks behind. And yeah, your local store just probably isn't ordering many or any $125 books short of special orders. Jesus gently caress, they're kicking her off a book because they won't pay for a plane ticket and an upgrade to a room with 2 beds? If the kid is too young to stay home it's probably young enough that staying in the same room as mom would be fine.
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Jul 6, 2017 19:46
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JordanKai posted:Any guesses as to what publisher this is? Well, there are endless stories of poo poo like this coming out of a major publisher after they were bought out by Disney and started treating their employees like complete garbage. Maybe you can work out which one I mean...
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Jul 6, 2017 19:49
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Lurdiak posted:Well, there are endless stories of poo poo like this coming out of a major publisher after they were bought out by Disney and started treating their employees like complete garbage. Maybe you can work out which one I mean...  Man, what a disaster. No million dollar operation should act like this.
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Jul 6, 2017 19:55
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Lurdiak posted:Well, there are endless stories of poo poo like this coming out of a major publisher after they were bought out by Disney and started treating their employees like complete garbage. Maybe you can work out which one I mean...
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Jul 6, 2017 19:56
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Maybe they thought Alex was a guy.
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Jul 6, 2017 20:02
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She explicitly mentions Marvel, Valiant, and DC in the thread, so I don't think it's any of them. She says it's work for hire, so that leaves Archie (who she has done work for in the past), IDW, and Dark Horse off the top of my head, though there's probably some others.
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Jul 6, 2017 20:05
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I'm a male single parent and my work doesn't pay for my kid to stay with me if I need to travel. Teleconferencing in is thus an alternative I avail myself of. Maybe I'm not demanding enough of my employer but I think it's weird to bring your kid to a work retreat. Being a single parent means making tough employment choices sometimes and it's not always fair.
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Jul 6, 2017 20:09
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Well it sounds like it came as sort of a threat. We won't pay and you'll have to teleconference in or you're off the book.
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Jul 6, 2017 20:16
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Skwirl posted:It can't be Marvel, because at least this company invited a woman to a writer's conference. Kelly Sue DeConnick was never invited to one despite her husband regularly going and she was writing Captain Marvel during their first big push to make Carol Danvers a big deal. It doesn't make her current situation any less bullshit, but it makes me take some of her broader statements with a grain of salt.
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Jul 6, 2017 20:17
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Jordan7hm posted:I'm a male single parent and my work doesn't pay for my kid to stay with me if I need to travel. Teleconferencing in is thus an alternative I avail myself of. She's not arguing that they would have paid for the kid if she was a man, she's saying it's an unfair stipulation and something that affects women way more frequently than men and thus has a sexist result even if it's not intentionally sexist.
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Jul 6, 2017 20:22
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Aphrodite posted:Well it sounds like it came as sort of a threat. "We won't pay to bring your kid and you still need to attend work, we will set up teleconferencing for you". This is not unreasonable unless they won't pay her for her time.
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Jul 6, 2017 20:27
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Jordan7hm posted:"We won't pay to bring your kid and you still need to attend work, we will set up teleconferencing for you". She's a freelance comic writer, so she's probably just being paid per page, maybe a per diem for the conference, but I doubt she's getting that if she teleconferences.
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Jul 6, 2017 20:30
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Jordan7hm posted:"We won't pay to bring your kid and you still need to attend work, we will set up teleconferencing for you". Right, and that's reasonable if that's how they presented it. But it doesn't sound that way. (That and potentially because of the freelance position, it's unpaid.)
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Jul 6, 2017 20:37
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Aphrodite posted:(That and potentially because of the freelance position, it's unpaid.) I mean, if it's this then obviously gently caress those guys. I didn't read it as necessarily being this though. And even if it is, that's a different issue about not paying creatives for their time.
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Jul 6, 2017 20:41
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I think it also speaks to a larger entertainment industry issue that employers often don't want to deal with the responsibility of having employees but not deal with the drawbacks of treating freelancers like freelancers. At least comics don't seem to run on the bullshit notion of permalancers that TV and film do.
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Jul 6, 2017 21:22
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Argue posted:Riverdale is the nexus of realities that joins Marvel, DC, Glee, Sharknado, and the Predators together. This is why nobody gets to say comics are terrible right now. The breadth of new material has never been greater, archival material of pretty much everything is readily available, and every so often, companies do wonderfully daffy poo poo like this. (For readers, anyway. For freelancers, everything is still poo poo.)
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Jul 6, 2017 23:19
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Stan Lee's wife, Joan, passed away. She was a year younger than him and they had been married longer than most people live (70 loving years). Godspeed to him and his remaining family.
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Paging Rhyno https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3825161
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Jul 7, 2017 00:51
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RevKrule posted:Stan Lee's wife, Joan, passed away. She was a year younger than him and they had been married longer than most people live (70 loving years). Godspeed to him and his remaining family. Oh man, that's a bummer. Listening to his stories about her a few weeks ago, it was abundantly clear he's been incredibly in love with her from the moment they met. The story of them meeting is pretty great, actually.
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RevKrule posted:Stan Lee's wife, Joan, passed away. She was a year younger than him and they had been married longer than most people live (70 loving years). Godspeed to him and his remaining family. 
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Benito Cereno posted:Did you show this to Ryan and Erica? They would love it, for real. Yeah! They loved it! 
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I'm with Alex that publishers should throw parents, especially single parents, a bone, but she needs to lay off of Valiant. *huffy nerd mode* Valiant is a sausage party, sure, but don't discount the contributions of Jen Van Meter, Marguerite Sauvage, Amy Chu, and Patricia Martin (off the top of my head) just because another company wouldn't comp travel and hotel for your baby. Keep firing shots at other publishers, that's a great job security strategy.
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