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Pastry of the Year posted:I miss Plok's "A Trout in the Milk". The golden age of comic blogs is certainly over. 
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Hello, thread! Do any of you know how to resubscribe to Marvel Unlimited in the UK? I was trying to take up the free month offer, but UK postcodes are too long to fit into the zip code field which is mandatory to fill in.
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Space Fish posted:I'm with Alex that publishers should throw parents, especially single parents, a bone, but she needs to lay off of Valiant. Marvel and DC have lots of female writers and artists too. But they never really invited them to retreats until KSD called it out.
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Aphrodite posted:Marvel and DC have lots of female writers and artists too. But they never really invited them to retreats until KSD called it out. Exactly. KSD called out her employer's actions. Alex called out her employer then called out unrelated parties, unless Valiant is also unwilling to comp a child's travel expenses.
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Jul 7, 2017 18:36
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The Warren Ellis Castlevania anime is on Netflix now
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Skwirl posted:The Warren Ellis Castlevania anime is on Netflix now Any good? G.I. Joe resolute was pretty terrific.
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Doe anybody know what it means that the most recent release of Barbaella is an "adaptation" by Kelly Sue Deconnick instead of a translation? Did they just have her make up words to fit the pictures instead of translating it?
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Guy Goodbody posted:Doe anybody know what it means that the most recent release of Barbaella is an "adaptation" by Kelly Sue Deconnick instead of a translation? Did they just have her make up words to fit the pictures instead of translating it? Haven't read it though.
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Timeless Appeal posted:By adaptation they mean it's not a literal translation. It's trying to get the spirit of the book for an English audience without just being a rigid direct translation. She's working from the original French. Isn't that called a translation?
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joehonkie posted:Any good? G.I. Joe resolute was pretty terrific. Only watched the first episode it's not bad but the name Belmont didn't come up until the last minute.
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Guy Goodbody posted:Isn't that called a translation? It can be, but they presumably want to be upfront about it in this case.
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Skwirl posted:Only watched the first episode it's not bad but the name Belmont didn't come up until the last minute. You've seen the last of Dracula, congrats. I went "4 episodes, I'll binge a show for once!" and got angrier at every episode. That show is cheap as gently caress and has nothing to recommend it. Trevor Belmont swears more than I do. When I realized how it was going to end I got mad. They find Alucard in an underground totally-not-the-clock-tower stage, and Sypha, Trevor, and Alucard go "well let's go do something offscreen"
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I have bad news, everyone on the Castlevania hashtag loves the show.
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I'm already the dissenting voice in TVIV, I'm okay feeling like Cassandra here.
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joehonkie posted:Any good? G.I. Joe resolute was pretty terrific. It's pretty great! Netflix Castlevania is basically "What if Trevor Belmont was Spike Spiegel?"
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Guy Goodbody posted:Isn't that called a translation? Have an interview where she explicitly talks about some of the stuff she's changed in translation.
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So it's specifically adapting Castlevania III?
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Senior Woodchuck posted:So it's specifically adapting Castlevania III? Pretty much kind of.
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Like, a prequel to it, yes.
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I watched Castlevania show yesterday, and it was so bad. It was like they sucked out everything fun about the Castlevania games, and replaced it with a boring rear end in a top hat that mopes around about how he doesn't want to save people, and then in the final episode suddenly goes "Huh, you know, maybe this genocide thing is kinda bad???"
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Yeah I couldn't get past episode 3. It's really loving bad. Plus I was kinda hoping for a Lords of Shadow spin and was disappointed.
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Happy Birthday Corto Maltese. Born on July 10, 1887 on Valletta and debuted in July 10 1967 in Una ballata del mare salato on Sargeant Kirk Magazine.
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pubic works project posted:Plus I was kinda hoping for a Lords of Shadow spin and was disappointed. Are you from hell or something.
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Lurdiak posted:Are you from hell or something. Not that I know of. It would explain a lot though.
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Lords of Shadow might be the worst thing that happened to a franchise that didn't involve Michael Bay.
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Lurdiak posted:Lords of Shadow might be the worst thing that happened to a franchise that didn't involve Michael Bay. Eh, I liked it. 
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Lords of Shadow was dumb but nowhere near that bad. Lords of Shadow 2 on the other hand is awful depressing as the last true Castlevania game.
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ImpAtom posted:Lords of Shadow was dumb but nowhere near that bad. I kinda feel the reverse. LoS1, no exaggeration, put me to sleep playing it twice, and then I got a gift copy of 2 and enjoyed how incredibly stupid it went over the top. "Y'know, just hunting down Marilyn Manson, Satan's biochemist son, in a city that humans built in honor of the castle God scourged off the earth millenia ago, no big deal."
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Stealth sections in the most generic-looking Warhammer 40k future ever are not what I think of when I think "Castlevania".
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END ME SCOOB posted:I kinda feel the reverse. LoS1, no exaggeration, put me to sleep playing it twice, and then I got a gift copy of 2 and enjoyed how incredibly stupid it went over the top. If the entire game was actually over the top I might agree but all of that insane stuff is bookended by boring segments in a crappy mind-castle or generic uninteresting city environments.If they'd go full batshit with it like the sequence where Dracula rides a missile it would have been a way better game.
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Years and years ago, the first time I ever went into a comic shop, I found this comic where the front cover featured "Green Sinestro, Bat-Penguin and Super-Luthor" but never bought it or read it. I've recently looked it up and that cover is for a "Silver Age No. 1" one-shot from 2000 by Brian Bolland. But was that itself based on a real comic with "Green Sinestro, Bat-Penguin and Super-Luthor"? Was it a reprint? It might just be the passage of time (i.e. almost 15 years) but I'm almost convinced that the comic I saw must have been a legit Justice League issue from the 1960s.
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 The brick wall is definitely recalling this.  edit: As far as I can tell without reading them, the stories in the Silver Age crossover were original, just done in homage to the style. https://comicvine.gamespot.com/silver-age/4045-56684/issues/ Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 12:15 on Jul 11, 2017 |
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Jul 11, 2017 12:06
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I really like the 395 cents price!
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Silver Age is a pretty great Mark Waid project! It's the perfect length for a good-sized trade, too 
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Well, 10 year old me was convinced that it was an authentic 1960s back issue so it obviously worked.  One other thing I remember from an early trip to the comic shop was Dragon Ball Z comics in the American comics format; left-to-right, A5 (?) paper size etc. Now that is something I've definitely mistakenly remembered. EDIT: I love getaway driver Batman at the bottom here: 
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Wheat Loaf posted:One other thing I remember from an early trip to the comic shop was Dragon Ball Z comics in the American comics format; left-to-right, A5 (?) paper size etc. Now that is something I've definitely mistakenly remembered. These existed, I had some. Viz published them in the late 90s to early 2000s. They were right to left, and I think they got to the end of the Frieza saga before Viz stopped publishing single issues in the American format.
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American format isn't A anything. They're 10 1/8 by 6 6/8s which isn't even a paper size either.
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My son just started calmly explaining to me who Starscream, Megatron, Bumblebee, and Soundwave are. I have never really exposed him to Transformers (I assume he picked it up at school). It was very amusing. I guess this is the nerd equivalent of your kid discovering the "unknown" band you listened in in High School.
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If your unknown band was a modern billion dollar franchise.
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Lurdiak posted:If your unknown band was a modern billion dollar franchise. I mean, he's not quite five so might as well be the same thing to him. It was more his earnestness in telling me about something totally new and cool to him I'm thinking of.
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