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In defence of Corto Maltese, its incoherence comes from it being very dreamy. Whereas Holbrook's is just pants-on-head level incoherence. On that note... (Spoilers for old-timey term for Romani peoples) Corto Maltese     Blueberry   
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A little bit of yelling as Guffie passes that message to the absolute worst possible person to receive it.  Great fever dream sequence for Corto!
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Cowslips Warren posted:i just want to say how much loving Lavender Jack rocks. its sick!!! saying again that you gotta go read Lavender Jack!! even if the UI is a bit rear end!! https://www.webtoons.com/en/super-hero/lavender-jack/episode-1/viewer?title_no=1410&episode_no=1
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The Family Upstairs/The Dingbat Family(October 26, 1910) Bob Fitzsimmons Baron Bean(April 26, 1916)  Polly and Her Pals(March 26, 1913)  Gasoline Alley(December 17, 1919)  Us Boys(April 24, 1912)  The Gumps(May 23, 1917)  Spoilered due to porter. Bringing up Father(January 7, 1913) Abie the Agent(February 10 - 11, 1914)   "Cap" Stubbs(March 6, 1918) 
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I'm still a week behind on the proper thread but I saw enough replies to the last post that I realize I should clarify, translating The Wandering Culinarian isn't a drain on my mental health. If anything, it's the exact opposite, I'm just not sure that alone makes it a worthwhile use of my time. This is really more of an issue of my personal time management lately than it is anything to do with the comic itself. I'm not going to pretend like positive enforcement doesn't influence me, though.   
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a few pages behind, but while I hate Holbrook's comics and don't read them I'm weirdly hooked on reading people yell about them. It's fun! also: Crab Dad posted:Corpulent is taking it a little far. I recall her being much more active, adventurous and daring than her boring rear end daughter.     
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LvK posted:a few pages behind, but while I hate Holbrook's comics and don't read them I'm weirdly hooked on reading people yell about them. It's fun! gently caress
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LvK posted:a few pages behind, but while I hate Holbrook's comics and don't read them I'm weirdly hooked on reading people yell about them. It's fun! Ok ok enough. I didn’t recall ever seeing those hosed up Jimbo feeder comics. Holy poo poo that’s vile.
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LvK posted:a few pages behind, but while I hate Holbrook's comics and don't read them I'm weirdly hooked on reading people yell about them. It's fun! Jesus Christ
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LvK posted:also: I only remembered "Does this dress make me look fat?" "Sadly, no." which was at least somewhat amusing. These are just horrible.
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We Are Reproducingquote:  I really like Uchida’s instinct to turn things into teachable moments (as we say in the Ed Biz). Not showing him the smashed cup as some kind of punishment, but just because he should see what happens when you drop a cup. Haraiso Days quote:Countblanc posted:Why isn't the host club guy who has a crush on her at Rie's party. What the gently caress.   (I think it's safe to say they're dating.)
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Pogo 10/23-25/52   Archie 3/23-25/50    The Virtue of Vera Valiant 7/17/77  (the numbers are right, but by most statistics Christy Mathewson was the best NL pitcher in 1909.)
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Selachian posted:The Virtue of Vera Valiant 7/17/77 Sounds like Herbert is a hack!
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So after some thought, I figured I might as well finish posting Allison's REDACTED: The Blood Egg. I was worried that it might get the thread in legal trouble with CPI, but then I figured something like that would have happened long ago with some other creator or syndicate. I'll be posting in t'img format, since the images I pulled from the pdf are huge. I'll also stick to the M-W-F schedule. John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Forward Slash Scare website for Allison's side comics Also, regarding Allison's decision to work with characters that aren't his, he addressed this in a Patreon post. Partially it was an attempt to get new readers, which Allison admitted didn't work but I could see his reasoning – fans of Batman / Wolverine / Conan might read his stories with those characters and, if they like them, look into other works by Allison. The other part had to do with Allison wanting a change up from the more grounded stories he had be writing thus far, and working with these characters gave him a springboard to do so. Allison did state that when he used these characters he would try to write them they way they had always been written; Batman would still be Batman, Conan would still be Conan, etc. I think that if Allison had just made up his own versions of these characters these diversions might not have worked as useful exercises in exploring other styles. That's the gist of it at least. I'm probably not explaining as well as I should. Allison has admitted that he's in a creative slump. It's not that he doesn't have ideas, it's just that he's not sure those ideas are marketable. His decision to end Steeple mostly came from Dark Horse declining to print a fourth volume of the comics. The_Other fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Apr 24, 2024 |
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Is it my imagination or was there a story where he was actually secretly feeding her fatty foods? F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Transmodiar posted:Thanks! I thought you had full access to the archives, not the current drip feed. A different story that drew you in would be much appreciated. If I remember right it took a little while for me to get into this one because of 70s gender role stuff, but after a bit I got to like the characters and got invested. Plus that's what you get with 70s A3G anyways. There's a bit of overlap with the previous Newton Figg story, so I'm posting two today because of that.  
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The_Other posted:The other part had to do with Allison wanting a change up from the more grounded stories he had be writing thus far, and working with these characters gave him a springboard to do so. Allison did state that when he used these characters he would try to write them they way they had always been written; Batman would still be Batman, Conan would still be Conan, etc. I think that if Allison had just made up his own versions of these characters these diversions might not have worked as useful exercises in exploring other styles. I dunno. There have been dozens of mighty-thewed barbarian heroes in fiction, many of them barely disguised Conan knockoffs. I don't see why Allison couldn't have gone the same route. Plus, to be honest, "The Blood Egg" so far doesn't feel like a Conan story to me. It's more like someone's D&D game where the party is mostly expies of Allison's characters.
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Murdstone posted:The Phantom This seems really noisy. I guess Phantom's off taking a poo poo?
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LvK posted:a few pages behind, but while I hate Holbrook's comics and don't read them I'm weirdly hooked on reading people yell about them. It's fun! mods ban this sick filth
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Transmodiar posted:I'm a huge fan of Bad Machinery and even posted "Wen-TACK" and "The Great Unboxing" but I have not found his recent material anywhere near as engaging. Didn't like Solver, didn't like the post-print run of Steeple, and just started scrolling when it got to the Batman and Conan stuff. Allison feels like he's spinning his wheels. I was completely unfamiliar with Allison until I started reading this thread and caught a reposting of The Case of the Good Boy. I thought it and the later story with the selkie were both really excellent ...and that nothing else of Allison's (that I've seen) has been anywhere near as good. Steeple did come close at points, though. Selachian posted:Plus, to be honest, "The Blood Egg" so far doesn't feel like a Conan story to me. It's more like someone's D&D game where the party is mostly expies of Allison's characters. Honestly, yeah. I know Conan has however many decades of comic stories I'm unfamiliar with, but the original Howard stories have a very clear voice that The Blood Egg doesn't really try to imitate. Schwarzwald fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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Selachian posted:Plus, to be honest, "The Blood Egg" so far doesn't feel like a Conan story to me. It's more like someone's D&D game where the party is mostly expies of Allison's characters.
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Selachian posted:I dunno. There have been dozens of mighty-thewed barbarian heroes in fiction, many of them barely disguised Conan knockoffs. I don't see why Allison couldn't have gone the same route. Yeah, I feel like it would be more meaningful as a creative exercise if he weren't just writing Conan with the usual Allison cast around him; it doesn't actually feel fresh at all as a reader, and I can't imagine it's as valuable as it would be if he were going for a full clean-slate pastiche. Dude really needs to just do something completely novel and leave the old stories behind him.
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Follow my lead: Have a friend who only drinks coffee with multiple creamers and sugars in it, decide that taking yours black would be a great way to one-up him in some vague masculinity contest that only you're playing. Murdstone posted:Mary Worth Oh my God DO SOMETHING. HAVE SOMETHING HAPPEN. ANYTHING. ANYTHING OTHER THAN HAVE THIS FREAKIN HUMP MOPE AROUND FOR AN ENTIRE G-D WEEK
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