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I kept refreshing BSS and didn't see one, so thought I'd take the initiative. As a first topic, does anyone have examples of really good wordless comic panels?
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A Strange Aeon posted:I kept refreshing BSS and didn't see one, so thought I'd take the initiative. 
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Jun 3, 2018 00:34
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Maybe my favorite three pages of all time.   Pretend I also posted GI Joe 21.
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Jun 3, 2018 04:21
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Jordan7hm posted:Pretend I also posted GI Joe 21. Oh yeah, that sick Snake Eyes infiltration issue! If I remember correctly, Marvel did like a whole month of silent issues--I'm guessing few achieved the heights of the Steranko you posted or the GI Joe issue, though.
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Jun 3, 2018 05:17
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The X-Men issue has some goooood art by Quitely.
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Jun 3, 2018 06:26
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I dont have any examples pages on hand, but when I was a kid they had a month at marvel called 'Nuff said' that were mostly silent issues. I vaguely remember the Exiles issue but past that I dont recall the rest. http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/%27Nuff_Said
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Jun 3, 2018 08:50
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Not on topic, but thought y'all might enjoy this page with Captain Caveman clobbering modern fascists (with the comic straight up calling them Nazis) in a backup from this week's Aquaman/Jabberjaw crossover.
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Jun 3, 2018 10:50
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Speaking of punching Nazis, I’ve been reading Sparky Woods lately. It’s a golden age comic by Boody Rogers. This thing is wild. It’s a superhero parody but the art is fantastic and the story swings wildly from ridiculous to sad and back again. It’s free on the digital comic museum (which archives old golden age stories) but I’ll post some pages when I get back home. It is amazing.
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Jun 4, 2018 00:02
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Agent_grey posted:I dont have any examples pages on hand, but when I was a kid they had a month at marvel called 'Nuff said' that were mostly silent issues.  oh god when did we get so old? I finally got around to listening to [url+http://apocrypals.libsyn.com/website]Apocrypals[/url] With Chris Sims and Benito Cereno. Good stuff, also does what I want most from a podcast: Has hosts with good voices.
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Jun 4, 2018 02:32
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Nuff Said was almost 17 years ago. Count yourself lucky to be posting with people even born by then.
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Jun 4, 2018 02:55
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Soonmot posted:
I'm not really a fan of Sims's voice. Well, not so much his voice, as his tone. For some reason, he always sounds like he's trying not to laugh.
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Jun 4, 2018 02:55
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He sounds very similar to a friend of mine who is always cheerful, so it's a comforting voice to me.
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Jun 4, 2018 03:53
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A Strange Aeon posted:As a first topic, does anyone have examples of really good wordless comic panels? It's been a couple of years now, but I feel like Ales Kot's metafictional near future spy thriller, Zero, was pretty good at letting the art speak for itself when necessary. Part of that willingness likely stemmed from the conceit of having a different illustrator each issue — and thus the desire to highlight each's art to some extent. Well, that and having quite a few action scenes — which lend themselves well to little or no dialogue. It's a bit lengthy, but take this sequence from issue #4 as an example; it's thirteen pages of nonstop nearly nonvocal action, only abbreviated by brief respites of tenderly whispered profundities. I cheated and kept a couple of preceding pages for some context. But to set the scene a little more, the Agency has sent the titular Edward Zero to Rio de Janeiro to kill a cyclopean rogue-agent-turned-benevolent-favela-boss by the name of Gareth Carlyle. Carlyle also happened to be the senior agent who oversaw Edward's first mission at the age of 8. Even though the style used by this issue's particular artist doesn't necessarily convey expression as well as some others', I think the pages still capture a lot of power and intensity, and their brevity only amplifies the impact of both the art and the few words that are present.
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Jun 4, 2018 04:06
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Soonmot posted:
poo poo, I was 7 when that event happened and I'm almost 24 now. 
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Jun 4, 2018 10:05
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I'm going to assume no one mentioned Hawkeye #11 because it's too obvious
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Jun 4, 2018 17:17
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Archie thread's dead, but it looks like the Archie reboot is going on hiatus (not sure about other companies but it seems to be code for "cancelled" with Archie) with issue 32 in July. I've been reading all their stuff but the main Archie is the only title left that I would wholeheartedly recommend (previous titles I enjoyed were the Sacasa horror titles and Jughead) from their slate, though I appreciate them trying all sorts of weird unexpected titles (which have tended to be inoffensive but unremarkable). And speaking of unexpected titles, Mark Waid is still going to be writing a title for Archie afterwards, so I'll still be picking up something from them in the future, but this one is just a miniseries; it's about Archie in 1941, set as they graduate on the verge of wartime. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/archie-1941-comic-book-series-sends-riverdale-gang-back-1940s-1116558?utm_source=twitter
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Jun 4, 2018 17:43
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drat, that sucks. I've enjoyed the hell out of Archie.
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Jun 4, 2018 18:06
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 From the Funny Panels thread recently.
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Jun 4, 2018 23:35
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hey who hasn't hated being alive yet today? I got you
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Jun 5, 2018 01:20
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Ok, so I said I'd post something about this book I'm reading. Sparky Watts is a comic from the 1940s written and drawn by Boody Rogers. It was originally a newspaper strip apparently, then was reprinted in Big Shot Comics and had its own title for a very short while. It was a superhero parody without the costume, and with a fair amount of madcap physical comedy. Subsequent issues aren't quite as good, but issue #1 is loving wild. I guess they assumed you knew the characters already, because they jump you right in to the story in progress, kind of like if you were to pick up a random Action Comics issue off the rack. The story starts with Sparky inviting a general down from Washington to view the demonstration of a new blackout light technology. The general invites his daughter to join him, which is a good way to introduce Sparky.  The deal with Sparky is that a weird old scientist blasts him with cosmic rays that make him super strong and super tough (and able to fly).  He's not particularly interested in Dotty... though the line with Sue really threw me because this happens when the lights turn off, and Sparky seems ok with it:  From reading other issues it seems like Sue isn't actually his sister, but rather a formerly paralyzed girl who is living with him until he falls in love and marries her. Not sure what the deal is in this one, as the familial relationship definitely changes the meaning of some of the jokes. But the romantic comedy continues as Dotty gets a hold of a Glamour Ray, which is just like the cosmic rays that Sparky gets his superpowers from, except instead of giving superpowers it makes Dotty completely irresistible to men.   The old guys manage to stop the glamour for a bit and get Sparky out from under the spell. They send him off before her dad can get back. This is where the newspaper origins of the book really show through, as he seems to be heading off to enlist in the army, but instead ends up joining an oil company, because quote "I promised to build an oil line from Texas to New York". Meanwhile, poor Dotty is left alone with these creeps and never heard from again.  Sparky spends the next several pages building an oil line from Texas to New York, taking advantage of his super strength to both do good and get paid.  Partway through all this, we get something of an origin story recap, with some awesome American's Enemies art.  And then several more pages of building the oil line, and the story takes a turn as Sparky finishes the oil line and then decides to go deal with Germany once and for all.   Definitely the sister then... Anyway he flies over to Germany, at some point losing his pants as he gets shot at by American soldiers who mistake him for the enemy. This causes him to black out, whereupon he falls into the ocean...  ...and fights an octopus. When he finally gets to Germany he happens to land at the same camp where Goering and Hitler are. He beats up Goering   ...and gets himself arrested so that he can find Hitler...   ...who he also beats up. While the whole plan was to take Hitler back to England, it seems like getting away with a captive is a bit beyond the superpowers of Sparky, so he does the next best thing: attempts to kill Hitler.  Hitler is saved by the bell (that announces the camp is being bombed), and then we get a strange sequence where Sparky and Hitler parade around camp. When some nazis find them, Sparky pretends that Hitler was just out for a romp, at which point we get the best moment in the whole comic:   Escaping from Hitler's bed is as simple as turning the fuhrer into a ventriloquist dummy with some well positioned adhesive tape.  Anyway all's well that ends well, as Sparky escapes to England with Hitler as his captive. Or not, as it turns out this is merely one of thousands of body doubles.  I love Sparky's reaction here. Oh, and also Churchill just showing up out of nowhere. Given the number of body doubles, Sparky gives up on the plan and decides to return to America. At this point we're now 35 pages into the comic and I'd say we've gotten our money's worth, but the story isn't over. Sparky still has time to find a poor British girl in the middle of the Atlantic, have some weird comedy moments with her, and return to his sister. They try to figure out what's going on with her, and it turns out she's an orphan.   What the hell golden age comics. Pick a tone. Anyway, this is all available for free on Digital Comic Museum. Old comics can be surprisingly awesome. Another amazing book I read recently was Uncle Sam Quarterly, a Will Eisner creation. The first issue deals with an horribly evil Senator who introduces a bill to make kids into slaves, upon which our hero comments: 
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Guy Goodbody posted:hey who hasn't hated being alive yet today? I got you I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
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Jun 5, 2018 23:39
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https://twitter.com/zdarsky/status/1004165629916663808
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Jun 6, 2018 02:12
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Most of the wedding variants are horny as hell. https://twitter.com/JorgeJimenezArt/status/1003388920950919173 I'd do a super wholesome one for fun.
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Jun 6, 2018 02:40
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Teenage Fansub posted:Most of the wedding variants are horny as hell. I'm surprised none of them are just Selina and Bruce dancing their wedding dance in front of the Justice League in casual clothes looking on with joy for their friend's special day. I mean, they're getting married. It should be a little bit more Regal and less PornHub.
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Soonmot posted:I finally got around to listening to [url+http://apocrypals.libsyn.com/website]Apocrypals[/url] With Chris Sims and Benito Cereno. Good stuff, also does what I want most from a podcast: Has hosts with good voices. Hey, thank you. Hopefully I can buy a higher quality microphone soon so my audio quality is a little closer to Sims's. I hope you enjoy our four-part series on the canonical Gospels. Get ready to learn about two-source theory, four-source theory, the Farrer hypothesis, and the Marcionite Gospel, because all that's coming up. Once we get the boring old canon boys out of the way, we can dig into the really wild stuff.
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Jun 6, 2018 06:14
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Covok posted:I'm surprised none of them are just Selina and Bruce dancing their wedding dance in front of the Justice League in casual clothes looking on with joy for their friend's special day. I mean, they're getting married. It should be a little bit more Regal and less PornHub. They are a couple of thrill-seekers who get off on jumping from roofs in tight, black leather outfits designed after animals. They are bdsm furries.
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Jun 6, 2018 08:24
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So... https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/06/05/gamestop-monthly-comics/#.WxfpPqiLmss.facebook quote:GameStop to Trial Selling Monthly Comics in Ten Days The LCS FB group is freaking the unholy gently caress out and a few guys are like "How can we force Diamond to stop this" and other insanities. Looks like I picked a good year to get out of comic retail.
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Jun 6, 2018 18:48
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Do people even go to gamestop any more
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Jun 6, 2018 19:00
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site posted:Do people even go to gamestop any more Clearly not since they're trying to draw more people in.
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Jun 6, 2018 19:03
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Gamestop is already half a ThinkGeek shop anyway, why not start selling comics.
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Jun 6, 2018 19:21
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Rhyno posted:So... A chance for more people to get exposed to comics? gently caress that. comics.txt
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Jun 6, 2018 19:48
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site posted:Do people even go to gamestop any more They're sometimes the cheapest option.
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Jun 6, 2018 19:51
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site posted:Do people even go to gamestop any more For video games: less and less in most major markets. Which is why any branch larger than a closet in a mall is now turning into a generic geek merch store and more than a few branches went from being Gamestop locations to Thinkgeek locations.
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Jun 6, 2018 19:52
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Rhyno posted:Clearly not since they're trying to draw more people in. Nice, bringing two dying media together so they have some company in the end
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Jun 6, 2018 19:54
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Rhyno posted:Looks like I picked a good year to get out of comic retail. If only you'd do something about your glue-sniffing habit.
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Jun 6, 2018 21:08
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Rhyno posted:So... I hate comic book retailers so much but I also hate gamestop, so I'm neutral on this.
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Jun 6, 2018 21:16
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Im on vacation right now at a resort out in the english countryside. Its mostly for old folks but a pretty nice place to take the kids and do arts and crafts. (I made a frame for a poster feeling super Manley) But hidden away in the darkest depths of the resort is an arcade cabinet set up with 600 games. Me and my kid played Cadillacs and Dinosaurs for ages. To my delight it also has the Punisher arcade game. Ive not played that in what might be 24 years and has been my nostalgic wistful daydream whenever I think of arcades. Punisher arcade is just Cadillacs and Dinosaurs. It also has the grampa-iest Nick Fury ever. What were your arcade comic related games you played as a kid?
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Jun 6, 2018 22:15
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Lurdiak posted:I hate comic book retailers so much but I also hate gamestop, so I'm neutral on this. NEUTRAL GROUND
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Agent_grey posted:What were your arcade comic related games you played as a kid? Just the Capcom fighting games. I never saw the Avengers or X-Men beat-em-ups.
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