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If you want to talk about the Marvel/Defense Contractor thing there's a thread for it and other similar topics now. Please use that the read for any future behind the scenes comic related controversies.
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Lurdiak posted:Y'know I've got a 40 years of Avengers DVD sitting around somewhere, and the PDFs in that scanned the ads in. I could probably make a thread about weird comic book ads sometime. Post a link if you do that here. I bet some other goons would post weird ads as well, it could be a pretty decent thread!
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Oct 7, 2017 00:02
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I'd read the hell out of a comic book ad thread.
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Oct 7, 2017 00:03
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Lurdiak posted:Oh yeah, those were golden. The delicious treat you'd have to be crazy to hate!
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Oct 7, 2017 00:03
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The short was TOO loving accurate to how those ads would always go. Also, it was 90s as gently caress to have a cartoon short each episode that was just "Captain, Hulk, and Dazzler merged with Thor get an apartment together."
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Oct 7, 2017 00:09
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Lurdiak posted:I can't really answer that, since they're not the kind of things I pick up. I guess the one where Superman and Jared from Subway team up is funny in retrospect. Oh my god lol I forgot about that
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Oct 7, 2017 03:34
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I'm reading Deadly Class and it really went off the rails. It's hitting a lot of check-marks on the edgy comic list.
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Oct 7, 2017 05:19
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Roth posted:I'd read the hell out of a comic book ad thread. I made one years ago! Where were you!?!?!
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Oct 7, 2017 06:21
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edit: didn't spot this being discussed somewhere else.
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Oct 7, 2017 06:26
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RevKrule posted:https://twitter.com/austin_walker/status/916527028400283648 This is being discussed in the other thread I mentioned earlier, not here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3836728
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Oct 7, 2017 06:27
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Rhyno posted:I made one years ago! Where were you!?!?! Not here yet!
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Oct 7, 2017 06:29
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Roth posted:Not here yet! I still blame you!
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Oct 7, 2017 06:35
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Rhyno posted:I still blame you! If you made it before my reg date then you wasted your time.
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Oct 7, 2017 07:00
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Just read the first six pages of the Doomsday Clock thing, man. Why can't they just let Watchmen be its own thing? The Before Watchmen stuff at least kept it in its own continuity, now I guess it exists in a world with Batman and Superman and freaking Gorilla Grodd.
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Oct 7, 2017 13:43
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Beyond the insidious nature of this, I dunno, I feel like the real life Vision is a much dorkier experience.
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Oct 7, 2017 13:49
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I actually tracked down and read a bunch of the modern industrial comics (Marvel and I think Dark Horse and DC have whole separate departments for them) and they're all pretty generic cut-and-paste, but the ones that really stuck out to me were the two ones commissioned by Triple A Baseball. The story of most of them is either HEROES: Oh hey, better stop these supervillains! [generic fight scene] HEROES: We won using teamwork! You know who else loves teamwork? Western Union! Go to them for a payday loan! -or- HEROES: Better stop these supervillains! [generic fight scene] HEROES: We always stop evil, just like new Hanes technology stops your undershirts from stinking! There's a secondary vein which is basically "oh no, there's some sort of supervillainy, we'd better stop it -- say, fresh-faced young adults who work for [Harley Davidson/Cisco/LG/Siemens/Gillette], I hear your company's innovative technology is almost as good as our superhero stuff!" and then the Avengers stop the Wrecking Crew from destroying the United Nations with the help of Cisco Telepresence or something. I kind of assume that's what this NGEN one is. The Triple A Baseball ones are exceptional because it's almost literally just heroes watching baseball and spouting marketing statistics. "I'm glad you talked us going to this TRIPLE A BASEBALL game, Ben! It's *Fantastic* family fun enjoyed by over three million households annually!" "And with an average ticket price under $25, even a struggling photographer for the Daily Bugle can afford to take in a game with his favorite aunt." "Why Peter, did you know that over one hundred and seventy Major League Hall of Famers have played for Triple A teams? I remember seeing those legends play as a child!" "And I'm Tony Stark! I am a successful businessman and I am impressed by how Triple A baseball has grown by over thirty percent in the past decade! That is good business!" "I'm Captain America, and as an AMERICAN I love that 74% of Americans live within sixty miles of a Triple A Baseball park!" "HULK CANNOT COMPLAIN THAT AVERAGE BEER COST UNDER FIVE DOLLARS AT A A A PARKS, THAT SMASHING DEAL" etc.
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Oct 7, 2017 17:49
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Man those secondary ads were the best. Anyone could churn out 'you know what gives me the power to punch Ultron in the face? Hot Pockets!' ads but it took a real gift to spend a full page where Batman and Superman in full costume hang around AT&T headquarters and explain how if you think about it the REAL super hearing comes from the new affordable family plan offered at your local AT&T store.
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Oct 7, 2017 18:04
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Edge & Christian posted:I actually tracked down and read a bunch of the modern industrial comics (Marvel and I think Dark Horse and DC have whole separate departments for them) and they're all pretty generic cut-and-paste, but the ones that really stuck out to me were the two ones commissioned by Triple A Baseball. The story of most of them is either Uh, can you post some panels from those baseball ones? That sounds hilarious! Or post them in the funny panel thread, honestly, that's probably a better home.
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Oct 7, 2017 19:58
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The best one is the Marvel one where various characters talk about their profits, acquisitions and losses for the year. I think it was aimed at shareholders?
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Oct 7, 2017 21:58
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El Gallinero Gros posted:The best one is the Marvel one where various characters talk about their profits, acquisitions and losses for the year. I think it was aimed at shareholders?
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Oct 7, 2017 22:18
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Edge & Christian posted:That was literally part of the quarterly and annual reports for Marvel from the point they went public in 1992(?) until the bankruptcy/restructuring in 1997(?). I have a bunch of those too, though I can't remember how or why I got them, as a non-stockholder/child. One of the neighborhood dads was a stockbroker, maybe he got them for me. They were really boring as a youth, weirdly fascinating now. Those sound really interesting, too. If you get any time, post some! Edit--Here's a link if anyone's interested, they are pretty darn weird. http://www.cbr.com/i-love-ya-but-youre-strange-that-time-wolverine-really-needed-to-learn-about-marvels-consumer-products-group/ A Strange Aeon fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Oct 7, 2017 |
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Oct 7, 2017 23:24
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https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/916522128811413504 https://twitter.com/dril/status/660644922744262656?lang=en Marvel posted:“The activation with Northrop Grumman at New York Comic Con was meant to focus on aerospace technology and exploration in a positive way. However, as the spirit of that intent has not come across, we will not be proceeding with this partnership including this weekend’s event programming. Marvel and Northrop Grumman continue to be committed to elevating, and introducing, STEM to a broad audience.” https://twitter.com/dril/status/831805955402776576?lang=en https://twitter.com/TransComics/status/916656709082460160 https://twitter.com/dril/status/134787490526658561?lang=en
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Oct 7, 2017 23:28
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Come on now Lurdiak, I know you just saw me tell someone that posted the same tweet about it being cancelled to go to the other thread.
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Oct 7, 2017 23:50
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X-O posted:Come on now Lurdiak, I know you just saw me tell someone that posted the same tweet about it being cancelled to go to the other thread. Yeah my bad, I considered posting that in the other thread but it felt kind of too stupid for the tone of it. I can edit it out if you want.
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Oct 7, 2017 23:55
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Lurdiak posted:Yeah my bad, I considered posting that in the other thread but it felt kind of too stupid for the tone of it. I can edit it out if you want. It's fine, we just don't need this clogging up three different threads.
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Oct 7, 2017 23:58
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My brother went to NYCC and decided to get me a present. I'm a big Atomic Robo fan so these was a pretty awesome surprise tonight.
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Oct 8, 2017 03:28
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Now that's some good swag. We didn't go to the con proper, but we did go to the "Rainbow Rowell: In Coversation" event and I high-fived her over Runaways #1.
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Oct 8, 2017 14:12
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Saints row 5 going for that photorealistic look https://twitter.com/zdarsky/status/917007114538704897
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Oct 8, 2017 18:28
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Oct 8, 2017 22:43
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Here are my cosplays for this year's NYCC. Note: my body did NOT handle it very well when I got a chest waxing. I had it done two weeks ago. 
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Oct 9, 2017 02:45
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What are they cosplaying as, climbing walls?
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Oct 9, 2017 02:49
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Synthbuttrange posted:What are they cosplaying as, climbing walls? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6_cj35ZMnk
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Oct 9, 2017 02:52
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grosssssssssssss
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Oct 9, 2017 05:28
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You're cosplaying as an ad from 2 years ago? That's a really deep cut.
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Oct 9, 2017 10:03
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I'm moving this topic here, because it's a very interesting idea to me, but way off topic for the thread I started talking about it in. We were talking about the idea of making comics that were physically similar to what someone in the 30's would be holding in their hands when they bought one new.FilthyImp posted:The big impediment would be finding a 4 color halftoning printing press similar to what was used in the era, right? Then you have to get a way to authentically prep the plates or however the hell you get a page printed, and finally you track down the pulp pages similar to the quality or composition of the time. You can't get sued for copyright until you try and sell the final product. Reprint something in the public domain if you want to mass print it. And again, it's been done before with vintage products like jeans or for something more recent, polaroid film. There has to be schematics for old printing presses, and some actual ones in physical storage somewhere you could restore.
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Oct 9, 2017 10:51
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It's not necessarily the press mechanics per se, a lot of what became the modern web press is similar to what was used back then in a mechanical sense. What changed was the film used for repro, the inks and how they were applied, and the half tone screen to deal with the former. There's some interesting advances outlined here, but they mostly focus on when certain fonts were introduced: https://printinghistory.org/timeline/
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Oct 9, 2017 11:03
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Skwirl posted:You're cosplaying as an ad from 2 years ago? That's a really deep cut. I mean, I've still seen it as of this year.
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Oct 9, 2017 15:53
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hey guys I wonder what the writer of Identity Crisis is up to these days https://twitter.com/bradmeltzer/status/917399865226821632
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Oct 9, 2017 16:25
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SMUTS HAD THREATED GANDHI
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Barry Convex posted:hey guys I wonder what the writer of Identity Crisis is up to these days That's sure a thing.
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