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Hey I hope this isn't a question everybody is tired of answering but I've been thinking of getting an e-reader again, I really need to get back into reading. Now that's one thing but of course all reasonable ones are black and white and I'd still like to read comics too. I could just stick to manga but wondered if one of you had a good suggestion for a reasonable book and comic reading experience both?
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NLJP posted:Hey I hope this isn't a question everybody is tired of answering but I've been thinking of getting an e-reader again, I really need to get back into reading. Now that's one thing but of course all reasonable ones are black and white and I'd still like to read comics too. I could just stick to manga but wondered if one of you had a good suggestion for a reasonable book and comic reading experience both? Honestly the Kindle reading experience is so great I use an Oasis for books and then read comics on my Windows tablet. The screen on the tablet just doesn't feel great when reading black and white books, the e-ink is 100% better
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Jan 22, 2023 17:14
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Yeah that's my experience, I hate reading actual books on my iPad. I say tablet for comics and ereader for books
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Jan 22, 2023 17:36
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That's what I do. It sucks having to have multiple devices to read on, but so it goes.
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Jan 22, 2023 17:41
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I have an iPad and really the only thing I use it for is reading comics. It's the perfect size for it. I'm not sure if I would enjoy the experience as much on a smaller, lower resolution screen.
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Jan 22, 2023 17:44
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Yeah not surprised, thanks for the answers!
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Jan 22, 2023 18:32
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I have a Kindle Fire with Google Play side loaded onto it so I can use MU. They're almost disposable cheap and have good screens.
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Jan 22, 2023 23:40
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secretly best girl posted:I guess nobody local ordered [the Kamen Rider Kuuga manga]. Huh. Guess I'll put a Rightstuf alert on it now. Kinda glad this hasn't gone on sale yet as I get forwarded drama over this book's translation and maybe false advertising?? There were deleted tweets from Titan Comics using what might be fansub images. https://twitter.com/MarzGurl/status/1617582297947189248 https://twitter.com/MarzGurl/status/1617018510965866496
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Jan 23, 2023 19:56
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Uthor posted:Maybe your local library? I haven't really looked at mine, but people have said they "check out" digital comics on theirs. Hoopla is a library affiliated digital materials lender that has an insanely good collection of comics. At this point the app is way more usable than comixology too.
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Jan 24, 2023 16:40
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Kamen Rider is doomed in America
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Jan 26, 2023 16:29
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The Gay Who Turned Kaiju is pretty good
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Jan 27, 2023 04:22
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secretly best girl posted:Kinda glad this hasn't gone on sale yet as I get forwarded drama over this book's translation and maybe false advertising?? There were deleted tweets from Titan Comics using what might be fansub images.  This is wild. You'd think if there were fan translations out there they would at least use them as a reference point to clean up their shoddy translation, but I guess not!
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Jan 28, 2023 23:10
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Can anyone give me the rundown on Radiant Black/ Pink? A friend shared some fan art and I really dig the look of the Pink character. What are these books about? \/\/lol Soonmot fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Feb 2, 2023 |
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Feb 2, 2023 04:24
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Soonmot posted:Can anyone give me the rundown on Radiant Black/ Pink? A friend shared some fan art and I really dig the look of the Pink character. What are these books about? black/pink
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Feb 2, 2023 05:29
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Medullah posted:I mean he started with "Not X-Force", Jim Lee and Mark Silvestri had their "Not X-Men", as good as the book became, Larsen had "Not Hulk" (so did Dale Keown). Even Spawn's chains were suspiciously web looking early on. I was just throwing down on this notion in the Funny Panels thread (with that Hulk page), but what is in the Marvel Kool Aid to think Dragon is a "Not Hulk". He's an amnesiac everyman who becomes a cop for a while, a Bruce Willis-esque hard boiled chill funny guy, who is kind of short, is also green. Larsen was drawing him since he was a kid, and had a bunch of self-published Dragon stories in the 80s, long before Hulk had his phase of being handsome and eloquent. They are both green? It's such an odd comparison, and so silly to try and write-off Savage Dragon as being similar to Hulk.
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Feb 2, 2023 09:00
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Heavy Metal posted:I was just throwing down on this notion in the Funny Panels thread (with that Hulk page), but what is in the Marvel Kool Aid to think Dragon is a "Not Hulk". He's an amnesiac everyman who becomes a cop for a while, a Bruce Willis-esque hard boiled chill funny guy, who is kind of short, is also green. Larsen was drawing him since he was a kid, and had a bunch of self-published Dragon stories in the 80s, long before Hulk had his phase of being handsome and eloquent. They are both green? It's such an odd comparison, and so silly to try and write-off Savage Dragon as being similar to Hulk. So you're saying he's Not Hulk?
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Feb 2, 2023 09:01
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He's not Not Not Nulk. Esquire.
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Feb 2, 2023 09:04
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He was strong and tough, but for early image, Pitt was the real Not Hulk
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Feb 2, 2023 09:10
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Heavy Metal posted:I was just throwing down on this notion in the Funny Panels thread (with that Hulk page), but what is in the Marvel Kool Aid to think Dragon is a "Not Hulk". He's an amnesiac everyman who becomes a cop for a while, a Bruce Willis-esque hard boiled chill funny guy, who is kind of short, is also green. Larsen was drawing him since he was a kid, and had a bunch of self-published Dragon stories in the 80s, long before Hulk had his phase of being handsome and eloquent. They are both green? It's such an odd comparison, and so silly to try and write-off Savage Dragon as being similar to Hulk. Yeah I apologized a few posts after that. I haven't read Savage Dragon since the 90s so big strong green guy was all I really thought of
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Feb 2, 2023 12:34
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Hey folks, Barnes and Noble is doing a sale on Image comics for the month of February. All Image comics you buy in the store are buy one get one free. It’s a pretty good deal if you want to buy the last few Saga books
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Feb 2, 2023 19:29
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Soonmot posted:Can anyone give me the rundown on Radiant Black/ Pink? A friend shared some fan art and I really dig the look of the Pink character. What are these books about? They are very much a smattering of ideas Ryan Higgins (and co.) developed during his tenure on Power Rangers without the burden of a corporate IP that’s turned into one of those weird microverses that Image likes to play with. Like how Invincible, Tech Jacket, Brit, Capes, and Astounding Wolf-Man are all technically in the same universe as Savage Dragon or Spawn, but, in actuality, if the book doesn’t have Kirkman’s name on it, you don’t have to worry about it. Radiant Black has control over gravity, which lets him fly and lift things and punch real good. It was originally one guy, then his idiot friend, and now it’s... both? That’s part of the current storyline and might have been fully explained by now but I’m a few issues behind. Radiant Red can absorb material and bulk up into a mech-like form. She robbed a bank. She got coerced into more crime. It’s a whole deal. Her mini is fun but it’s drawn by David LaFuente so the storytelling and action are great, however, the main character, who’s supposed to be in her early-to-mid-20’s, looks like she might only be twelve or thirteen years old. Radiant Yellow can... see through time? Determine probabilities? He’s got that power that the writers on Heroes made sure at least one person had every season so all the folks involved are aware that there’s something bigger and badder on the horizon. Like Doctor Strange’s psychobilly freakout in Infinity War. His solo issue (Radiant Black #17... I think?) is really, really good. Radiant Pink is a streamer. She can teleport. There’s probably a lot more to her but I haven’t read any of her mini yet and her appearances in Radiant Black have been fairly sparse. There’s also the crossover, Supermassive, that introduces (the previous) Rogue Sun and Inferno Girl Red. The Dead Lucky dips into PTSD and combat trauma. There’s also an upcoming series called No One that I know absolutely nothing about. Overall, less than 50 issues worth of material (plus an animated short) that feel more cohesive than most fully-fledged superhero universes going right now. Nothing that will blow your socks off and make you convert religions, but solid comics nonetheless.
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Feb 2, 2023 23:29
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As the former Power Rangers writer you’d think he’d know to market the hell out of a Radiant Green.
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Feb 2, 2023 23:35
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Lmao of all things https://twitter.com/laurapdavison/status/1621610380496699392
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Feb 3, 2023 22:49
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Why on earth would you brag about that?
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Feb 3, 2023 23:03
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Opopanax posted:Why on earth would you brag about that? The man is a moron of colossal proportions.
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Feb 3, 2023 23:55
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Joe Fisto posted:The man is a moron of colossal proportions. He's that kid we all knew growing up who's uncle worked at Nintendo, his other uncle was a backup goalie for the Detroit Red Wings, and he was going to space camp next summer and was actually getting to go to space. He just never grew out of it.
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Feb 4, 2023 00:13
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Is the TV series as unnecessarily porny as the The Boys printed cartoon? Because it's loving childishly porny and people keep recommending the TV series to me.
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Feb 4, 2023 00:20
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Is the TV series as unnecessarily porny as the The Boys printed cartoon? Yep. You see dick all the time.
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Feb 4, 2023 00:25
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Is the TV series as unnecessarily porny as the The Boys printed cartoon? About as much sex and nudity as Game of Thrones, but much less horny
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Feb 4, 2023 01:25
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StumblyWumbly posted:About as much sex and nudity as Game of Thrones, but much less horny Based solely on memory, I can’t think of of any “sexy” nudity in the Boys. It’s all off putting.
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Feb 4, 2023 01:52
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Is the TV series as unnecessarily porny as the The Boys printed cartoon? Imagine if The Boys was actually good and excised about 50% of the gross out stuff. That's the show.
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Feb 4, 2023 02:13
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Soonmot posted:Imagine if The Boys was actually good and excised about 50% of the gross out stuff. That's the show. I definitely like it better than the books, but I started getting bored of the last season. Hope they don't wear out their welcome like the books did.
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Feb 4, 2023 02:45
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I used to collect comics in the '80s and '90s but haven't bought a comic book in about 25 years I have a quick question about autographed comics.... I have a bunch of comics signed by their creators It seems that nowadays, creators sign the cover of the book whereas back when I was collecting, they would sign the splash page inside the comic book I have one book where the cover is signed and it is Punisher #5, signed by Mike Zeck. I remember him asking me if I would mind if he signed only the cover because he didn't do any of the interior pages. I don't plan on selling them anytime soon but I wondered how different the value of these comics may be compared to comic books from the same era that are signed on the cover Thanks
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Feb 4, 2023 16:29
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People like them signed on the cover because they generally get them graded after signature. Unfortunately signed comics actually hurt the value of a book more often than not because you have to have proof that the creator signed it (COA at a modern convention, I've heard CGC will accept pictures of you with the artist for older stuff). Otherwise it's a book with writing damage on it. So good for nostalgia
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Soonmot posted:Imagine if The Boys was actually good and excised about 50% of the gross out stuff. That's the show. Oh, that actually sounds good. I guess they couldn't really do "I spent hours trying to get the correct hatefuck facial expression on the director of the CIA when Billy is doing her from behind" on television if you wanted a wide audience. StumblyWumbly posted:About as much sex and nudity as Game of Thrones, but much less horny Haven't seen it. Mr Hootington posted:Yep. You see dick all the time. Oops better turn my TV on. e: Is there anything kind of like The Boys that wasn't made by perverts? 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Feb 4, 2023 |
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Feb 4, 2023 18:19
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Medullah posted:People like them signed on the cover because they generally get them graded after signature. Unfortunately signed comics actually hurt the value of a book more often than not because you have to have proof that the creator signed it (COA at a modern convention, I've heard CGC will accept pictures of you with the artist for older stuff). Ah, too bad but it makes sense Zeck signed my Secret Wars #1 and I just heard about the blue Galactus variant and that's the one I have C'est la vie
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I've been going to conventions and having creators sign my comics since I was a pre-teen in the early '90s. I don't have any certificates of authenticity for any of them, but I have a lot of photos of myself with them, at least from the past 20 years. I've sold plenty of the signed books over time, and I've never been accused of forging the signatures, but they haven't exactly added much to the value either (except for a few fellow fans of the creators who took me at my word). Still, I love meeting the creators and getting to chat a bit with them, and I have a list of people I still hope to meet at future cons. It is one of my favorite things to do as a collector, especially now that I'm buying fewer new comics but have more opportunities to take short trips to meet lifelong favorite creators.
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Yes, exactly the same with me, I was a young kid just getting into comics and it was fun to meet the people who had actually created them I've never been to a convention but my local comic store would have promotional events for upcoming books and that is where I got them signed over the years I remember Mike Zeck being there for the Spiderman crossover series that he wrote about Kraven killing spiderman, I got those signed by him as well as the Punisher series and Secret Wars. He was a very nice guy John Romita was also super nice and was the first creator I ever met. He signed some Spidermans for me and Fantastic Four books but mostly I remember him talking to my mom who was a little suspicious of my new hobby, she thought it was a waste of my money. But Mr. Romita was so nice and friendly that she seemed to change her mind. He also drew a picture of Spiderman for me that I still have somewhere. I always wanted to get John Byrne to sign some of my comics but the one time he showed up at the store, it was insanely busy and I think I was only able to get him to sign a couple of the Superman books that he had just started drawing. If my memory serves me right, the shop had asked people to limit the number of books you could get signed by Byrne, he was a pretty big star back then. This was The Silver Snail comic shop in Toronto, btw Good memories edit: just remembered that Charles Vess signed a copy of my Web of Spiderman #1 on the cover, so that is another one that might have value jet sanchEz fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Feb 4, 2023 |
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Feb 4, 2023 22:28
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3D Megadoodoo posted:
I don't think people who aren't perverts make things like The Boys.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:I've been going to conventions and having creators sign my comics since I was a pre-teen in the early '90s. I don't have any certificates of authenticity for any of them, but I have a lot of photos of myself with them, at least from the past 20 years. I've sold plenty of the signed books over time, and I've never been accused of forging the signatures, but they haven't exactly added much to the value either (except for a few fellow fans of the creators who took me at my word). Yeah don't get me wrong, it's 100% worth it to get books signed by creators for yourself, and if you're looking to sell it you still can get some value if you try. I'm referring more to actual graded books - if I got my Wolverine #50 signed by Silvestri graded officially it would be marked down based on the signature. But that's not the whole world of selling books
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