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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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Edge & Christian posted:https://www.newsarama.com/32651-gerard-jones-arrested-for-child-pornography.html "... arrested on suspicision of possessing more than 600 child pornography files and uploading such videos to YouTube." To YouTube? What on earth--? I always hear about this sort of stuff circulating in the deepest, most relatively inaccessible parts of the internet, not the literally biggest and most visible video hosting site in human civilization. What would be the absolute best outcome a criminal would hope to get from uploading that material to YouTube, other than getting extremely and immediately arrested? I always liked Jones's writing, for the record, although I haven't gone back to it since this news broke. Has anyone here? Are there hints of this sort of stuff in what I, as a kid, found otherwise innocent and good?
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Jul 14, 2017 16:33
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X-O posted:I mean yeah, there's some stuff there that makes you go "Oh wait was that... oh" in retrospect. Like Prime and the whole child fantasy part of it really sets of some alarm bells. The child fantasy thing isn't particularly eyebrow-raising: that goes back as far as Captain Marvel, at least, and around the same time as Prime, you had Rage, who actually got kicked out of the Avengers when they learned he was way underage. That said, just outta curiosity I read Prime #1 and literally the very first thing that happens is Prime beating up a gym teacher for molesting one of his students. In theory, people are innocent until proven guilty, but however this shakes out, a smarter and more qualified person than I could probably do a worthwhile reading of Jones's work through this lens. Lurdiak posted:George Romero died, so there's a 48 hour moratorium on complaining about zombies in comics. Marvel's 70s zombie stuff was better than it had any right to be.
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Jul 16, 2017 23:50
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omfg quote:March 28 brings the first issue of The Seeds, which will surely be of interest to comics addicts due to the legendary creative lineup. The writer is former Daredevil and Catwoman scribe Ann Nocenti, and the artist is Hawkeye and Immortal Iron Fist veteran David Aja. The story is set in “an imminent America where fact-based reporting is gasping its last breath” and “flora and fauna have begun to mutate.” In that world is a journalist who comes across a massive story that she, for undisclosed reasons, can’t report on. In lieu of that, she pitches “the biggest myth of her career.” “Ann is a brilliant writer,” Berger says. “And David is an artist’s artist. David doesn’t draw that much, but when he does, it’s like the world stops.” this is going to be so incredibly good
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Jul 19, 2017 12:43
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Teenage Fansub posted:Have you read any recent Nocenti? I have faith. Especially since she's been doing a lot of work as a journalist in recent years, and I'm betting that's going to inform the work. And yeah, David Aja - remember that Daredevil story she did with him a few years back? Magic. Lightning Lord posted:Aja will bring the best out of her and we'll get 80s Nocenti Right, yeah, my fingers are crossed for that pure angry empathy and humanism. And too, I think it's extremely cool that Karen Berger is going to EIC her own line of comics. She's a legend.
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Jul 19, 2017 20:53
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Lightning Lord posted:Good show. Lightning Lord: just a dude that really likes James Garner. (and who couldn't?)
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Jul 21, 2017 12:34
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Fantomah and Stardust are forces of nature. As long as whatever new creator hews to that Wild Whatever, rather than just trying to ape Fletcher Hanks (which can't be done and would feel painfully obvious), they'll be fine. I know I've cheerled the Gumby comics in other threads, but it's the same basic deal: the Gumby comics don't look a thing like the cartoons, but they turned creative minds loose (e.g. Steve Purcell, Art Adams, Bob Burden, Rick Geary, et al) on them and there was that sort of understanding that they'd keep to the spirit of the thing while also making something new. Hell's bells, now I want a Purcell/Adams Stardust comic.
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Jul 22, 2017 04:12
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