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I just read the "Alicia Masters is a SKRULL! And she's PRREGANTE! issues of FF from back in the day and... man do they suck. I don't remember early 1990s Marvel being so dour but I guess it mostly was.
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RevKrule posted:Doesn't Heroes Reborn have some incredibly infamously bad art? Like Captain America and his weird bulgey chest bad art? I seem to remember another artist who's name starts with L being more well known for Heroes Reborn than Lee. Eww Larsen? e: Is there a good (read: not loving expensive as gently caress) source for back issues of American comic books shipping in the EU? I seem to be missing some issues in between.
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Soonmot posted:lol Leifeld. Larsen is good and one of my favorite Spider-Man artists It was a joke. When I first bumped into Larsen's Spider-Man back in the day I thought "this guy tries to be McFarlane even though he draws in a completely different style". I was not impressed.
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Jan 19, 2023 15:14
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All superheroes are just sparkling Phantom.
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Gripweed posted:https://twitter.com/Java_jigga/status/1616526450315915265?s=20&t=6nzPTfqH1xWvbkItUGKCkA For only 225€, you can!  when I were a lad it wasn't uncommon to turn down your Nokias. No idea why  
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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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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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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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Oh gently caress I meant to fly to Syldavia.
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Most of the comics people I'd like to meet are dead. e: Is Byrne still kicking? I wonder if he'd sign a Destroyer Duck panel with his spine slithering out of his body... ee: Huh, seems like Aragones, Thomas, and loving Jaffee (at 101 years) are still alive. Byrne isn't even that old - I guess he started young. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Feb 5, 2023 |
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I saw a Jim Woodring album in a bargain bin for 5€ at the bookstore once. It was an autographed copy with a drawing on the front leaf. I guess he'd been at the store and signed more than were sold, or something, IDK? I think it was this one: 
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Feb 5, 2023 22:39
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drrockso20 posted:The whole Cogburn thing might just be the most savage jab anyone has taken at someone else in the history of the industry that wasn't literally Hitler loving Jack Kirby drawing the book is just  like it's the same as if Orson Welles played a Transformer or something.
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Feb 5, 2023 22:43
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Oh wow I just finished "Herogasm". The idea is poo poo, the script is poo poo, the art is poo poo that has been eaten and reshitted. I know in my liver that I should just stop reading "The Boys" and watch the moving pictures, but I'm already three albums in and want to know what happens.
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Soonmot posted:it's not worth it, watch the show instead I finished the third album and am really veering towards just eating the sunk cost. I mean it's not like I don't have other comics to read (two phone-books of Cerebus, lol).
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I had a nightmare where I was looking at my bookshelf (I did a lot of book re-arranging last night so that was only natural) and I kept finding more and more volumes of Cerebus. Like, dozens and dozens. e: Darkhawk was one of the 90s capeless batmen, right?
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Medullah posted:How dare you, they're nowhere near the same! I guess Daredevil isn't Batman with a spiked belt then, either?
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Medullah posted:Of course not, Daredevil is blind as a.......crap No I meant Daredevil. 
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drrockso20 posted:I'm still kind of amazed Marvel hasn't used that version for anything considering he's A) public domain so they don't have to pay anyone and B) they own the trademark for the Daredevil name He's too cool for Marvel. Also I think even Marvel will tend to abide by "sero venientibus ossa" in cases of resurrecting PD characters.  e: Also, do they actually "own the trademark for the Daredevil name"? It's a generic phrase (not that I'd imagine that matters as a rule in the US). ee: Checked the trademark registry and yes, they do. (I forgot there's actual useful websites on the https://www.) 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Mar 3, 2023 |
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They'd remove the rasters and add gradients to Lichtenstein paintings if they could.
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DigitalRaven posted:Lichtenstein deserves it, the thieving bastard. OK Valérie.
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DigitalRaven posted:Says someone who's clearly never heard of Russ Heath or Tony Abruzzo or Jack Kirby or Joe Kubert or Mike Sekowski or any of the other actual artists whose work Lichtenstein badly traced and never credited. He's worse than Greg Land. 
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Mar 11, 2023 15:18
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drrockso20 posted:You aren't a real Grant Morrison fan until you've read the Marvel UK Zoids comic he worked on back in the 80's that for some reason he's deeply ashamed about and pretends it doesn't exist even though it's the best thing he's ever made for Marvel by a country mile Zoids were the cat's pajamas. Robotix can suxit.
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Im pretty sure I'm speaking for about 100% of people currently alive when I ask: what the gently caress is/was google reader? Which leads me to conclude: no, it didn't.
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Uthor posted:I feel like Google Reader going away ruined so many things. Ah, I used to use RSS but when Netscape... you know what, nevermind. 
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Mr Hootington posted:Picked up a little rough, but complete issue of Tales of Suspense #78 for $2.00 today. Oh gently caress they're fighting woke?
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Frog Act posted:I am going to drive myself to complete madness trying to locate a copy of Corto Maltese: The Secret Rose. I just spent a completely absurd $200 buying The Golden House of Samarkand and Tango which leaves me with only one missing. I feel like they might be the best adventure/"real world" comics ever written and it is just so frustrating how difficult they are to find. While I'm at it, it is completely bonkers that Lone Wolf and Cub has a 28 volume reprint from 2016 and the only ones actually available anymore are 1-10. I don't understand why so many important classic historical comics are so utterly neglected ACTUALLY Corto Maltese is (and I can't believe I'm using this phrase) magical realism. 
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How Wonderful! posted:Corto Maltese is such a masterpiece. It's also frustrating to learn that the back half of Lone Wolf and Club is difficult to find these days-- it becomes something so interesting and thorny by the end, I think if the first couple volumes are all that's available to an English audience they're really getting cheated out of something special. The post-Pratt albums are kinda poo poo. The "art" looks like it was made 100% with a computer, which obviously means it's unviewable.
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Frog Act posted:A few of them aren't so bad, instead of IDW I bought an eighties version of The Ethiopian printed when it was still called In Africa and a 1996 Harvill edition of The Celts and they're both pretty much as good as the newer ones. But yeah a ton of the various English editions and other random European collections look like they are of extremely poor quality or insufficient size or both. This panel is from the 1996 one and the only real problem is there's a bit of bleedthrough but I don't really notice in practice For Corto Maltese, my favourite "editions" will always be from Non Stop magazine (because that's where I first saw the series). The colours I've not seen surpassed in any album edition - the only weird thing is the sometimes lack of speech bubbles which doesn't bother me personally.    e: I'm assuming it looked the same in whatever Continental magazine it was from. Of course the paper quality does effect the colours a lot so who knows (not me). 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Mar 31, 2023 |
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Very disappointed they didn't at least try to recreate the cat's sublime facial expression.
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Gripweed posted:I was looking for a TMNT thread but there isn’t one so I’m gonna leave this here. OK?
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Vincent posted:All the Corto Maltese talk made me realize I'm missing a bunch as well...and also some Asterix...and some Mampato...and Valentina and... What's Mampato and Valentina. (NUFFIN MUCH WHATS MAMPATO AND VALENTINA WITH YOU) Anyway if you want printed cartoons from Europe, check out Tardi, Comes, Buzzelli, and especially Altan.
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It's Spring.
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Uthor posted:It snowed this morning. Oh poo poo it's Midsummer already?
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Joe Fisto posted:There's a winter storm warning around here today. Must be Mr freeze.
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I bought the new Asterix album and it was a loving picture book. I guess I bought a swine in a sack by not peeking at the pages at the store, so shame on me.
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 I guess: https://i.imgur.com/Gp1Fc3h.pngbut the interesting part is  "Im skating, come get me. BR, Pet?" (Probably Pete) Such disrespect for old comics. Something I was certainly guilty of as a kid. I would've loving wiped on a "Mafia" comic book because it wasn't Vihreä mies Hulk or Ryhmä-X. e: I've got so many coverless issues of Tex Willer, because I tore them off to make my bicycle go BRRRRRRRRR.
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I just go to the comic book store and buy the albums I want. It's pretty handy.
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Frog Act posted:Every day I feel better about my thing for physical comics. Just got the last 11 Dorohedoro books and a bunch of Strontium Dogs for 50% off I usually go in on payday (unless I'm buying for someone else as a present) and buy two or three albums. I don't know how much a subscription to something would cost so I can't do a cost comparison When I die I'm pretty sure someone younger will read them at least once, and nowadays I keep everything in decent nick so they can sell it off. e: or I can, when I get old.I know it's not like a great gift to posterity but it also doesn't suck.
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site posted:Getting the latest audiocomics on vinyl I didn't know such a thing existed. But according to Google it's some
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