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Madkal posted:Isn't one more of a bludgeoning weapon than a novel? Yeah--I've read most of Voice of the Fire and I actually think it's pretty cool. I've been a little gun shy with his other one, since it's so long and it's already pretty difficult for me to tackle huge books.
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May 4, 2018 00:01
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Is Waid's Archie any good? I grabbed the first trade from Half Price Books based on it having Fiona Staples art.
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May 13, 2018 20:46
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Endless Mike posted:Have you considered reading the thing you purchased and forming your own opinion? Of course, but I buy a dozen trades at a time, often before I've finished reading the last dozen I bought because I'm a consumerist whore and find it difficult to pass up discount books that I might like. Asking the thread is to figure out if I should make it one of those I get to before the next influx of books buries it.
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May 13, 2018 21:38
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I did really like new Archie--is Chip's Jughead equivalently good?
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May 14, 2018 23:02
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:I met him in 2014, and he was the nicest guy, but kind of like what you'd expect -- a man of few words, like an old-timey G-man or a dad from the early '60s. Woah, I've never had any desire to get anything signed, but does it really work like that? You just show up with a dozen books and he signs them all one by one? And a bunch of people are doing this, each carting a dozen trades in their backpack?
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May 15, 2018 03:46
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I'm realizing I've never been to a comic convention and have no idea how they work. I've gone to the gaming convention Origins at least a dozen times, but there's an implicit playing of board games and RPGs that happens there and even playing demos of forthcoming games is a social and active kind of consumption or advertising. What's a comic convention like? I'm imagining a bunch of vendors selling back issues, some auctions for rare stuff, writer / artist time slots for signings, panels maybe about industry stuff, lots of people in costumes (maybe even a costume contest/parade), and previews of new comic related media, like a movie trailer.
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May 16, 2018 13:07
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Does anyone know if you can read Bone's Tall Tales without having read the whole main series? I lent the first Bone trade to a coworker's son and he loved it, but the only other one I have is Tall Tales and I don't want to accidentally spoil anything for him by giving it to him.
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May 17, 2018 11:45
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There was some talk about the JLA/Avengers books a bit earlier--just wanted to report back. I found #2 and #3 at Half-Price books for $2.98 each, so I picked them up. I tracked down #1 on Amazon for ~$10, and then I just needed #4. Minimum I could see on Amazon was $30, which seemed a lot--on eBay, I found a Buy It Now for $25, and an open auction for a copy signed by Perez. I ended up winning the signed copy for $12 somehow--so all told, it wasn't too bad, but I got lucky with finding half of the issues for basically cover price. There were bundles on eBay for $60 for all 4--the hardcover or trades I saw were all outrageously more expensive than that.
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May 19, 2018 12:54
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hup posted:I should just get singles, looks like. I was trying to track trades and oof Yeah, my default is a trade too but in this case it would have been crazy. I'm not sure what bonus stuff is in the trade that wouldn't be in the 4 single issues, but I can't imagine it being worth the vast difference in cost.
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May 20, 2018 01:52
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Skwirl posted:I wouldn't worry too much, Disney will probably buy Warner Brothers in the next decade and then the rights issues with a reprint will be a lot easier. You're probably right but by that logic, I should have waited 15 years for Miracle Man to get reprinted with a "The Original Author" credit or whatever, instead of tracking down the Eclipse trades.
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May 20, 2018 23:00
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Covok posted:Not yet, no. But you never know. And with strange aeons even death may die. Fixed that for you!
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May 21, 2018 04:50
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Skwirl posted:Joe Shuster drew bondage porn, which is especially amazing since he didn't have a lot of range in faces and hairstyles, so it all looks like Lois Lane having kinky sex with Clark Kent. I guess there's no chance of well-known comic artists' private commissions ever seeing the light of day in a published volume? I think it'd be kind of fascinating--just imagine seeing footless Liefeld porn between the 90s Image heroes.
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May 22, 2018 04:53
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Mine might have been their Simpsons appearance where they sing for Mr. Burns's birthday. But I suspect I heard I Wanna Be Sedated on alternative radio (between Creed and other horrendous alternative bands) before that.
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May 25, 2018 12:59
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Servoret posted:I think my first Ramones might have been watching the video for the song they did for the movie Pet Sematary. I believe the chorus goes “I don’t wanna be buried/In a pet sematary”. "I don't want to live my life again" still strikes me as kind of interesting and deep for the chorus of a Ramones song written for a mediocre Stephen King film.
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May 26, 2018 03:37
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Guy Goodbody posted:Really? I mean, the story is literally about coming back to life and that being bad. It seems kinda obvious and fitting to me. I mean, yeah. It's very obvious on a literal level (and no doubt, given the verses about goblins and warlords, a literal level is how it was intended) but the forlorn way it gets sung makes it sound like the singer has reflected on his own life and sadly realizes he would not want to live it again. To me, anyway, the implicit assumption would be if your life is good, you'd want to live it again. So it's tragic that he doesn't want to live it again, and that register isn't what I normally associate with the Ramones. Speaking of the Ramones, there was a boxed set several years ago that came with a Ramones comic book with a sweet EC inspired cover. Has anyone read it?
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May 26, 2018 13:54
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Stuff like that always makes me sad because it seems to imply that comics work isn't fulfilling creative work and if they could, most creators would rather work in the more popular, lucrative fields of television and Hollywood. Hard to blame someone from wanting a bigger audience and more money, but if you love comics for comics' sake, it's a little disheartening.
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May 29, 2018 11:22
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Edge & Christian posted:This is one of the tensions of the production side of the comics industry and I imagine a source of frustration for a lot of creators. Do comics need to be serialized to be economically viable or is it just a holdover/nostalgia? I know there's complete stories that get published, but usually in the Fantagraphics sphere. I never buy floppies or follow ongoing series generally because I don't like reading a story in 10 minutes of content every month.
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