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Air Skwirl posted:Jack Kirby is an amazing story teller. I read Fantastic Four from the beginning until like four or five issues after Kirby left and it sucked. the art isn't worse, it's JRSR, and Stan Lee is still writing all of the dialogue and exposition, but it's just not much. Stan seemed pretty hands off with FF and Thor as time went on. Thor got real weird near the end, and it was a lot better than when they tried to make him do standard super hero fare. Donald Blake doesn’t even really factor into the book while Thor is spending all his time either on Asgard or in space.
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Open Marriage Night posted:Stan seemed pretty hands off with FF and Thor as time went on. Thor got real weird near the end, and it was a lot better than when they tried to make him do standard super hero fare. Donald Blake doesn’t even really factor into the book while Thor is spending all his time either on Asgard or in space. That's sorta my point. As I understand it Stan and Jack would have conversations about story ideas for FF, then Jack would draw a comic with notes on the side to explain the story, then Stan would write dialog and captions, so Jack was doing the majority of the storytelling, and despite JRSR being a great artist, the book lost a lot when Jack Kirby left it.
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Open Marriage Night posted:Stan seemed pretty hands off with FF and Thor as time went on. Thor got real weird near the end, and it was a lot better than when they tried to make him do standard super hero fare. Donald Blake doesn’t even really factor into the book while Thor is spending all his time either on Asgard or in space. There's like two years where Don Blake doesn't appear just because there's no room in the stories for him. When Buscema takes over after Kirby on Thor, there's some dramatic tone shifts, too. Kirby's Thor is constantly stoic and heroic while Buscema's is freaking out all the time.
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May 6, 2024 20:58
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Actually you know what I’m going through my ratings of those issues and I think I liked Conway’s run more than I remember. I thought Thor stayed great through the early 70s. Kirby leaves after 179, 180 goes right into a couple great Neal Adams issues. Buscema takes a few issues to get into it, but by 187 I was fully back on board. Stan hands off the Conway in 193 but it stays pretty consistent. Part of it is probably just that I liked the big god stuff they were doing, and Buscema was one of my favorite 70s artists. There’s some rockiness when Stan leaves as EIC in late 72 and Perlin comes in for the art assist, but they pull it back and I love all the cosmic god stuff and weird Asgard storylines. e: around 229 it falls off and that basically brings me to where I’m at in my reading - 237 is my next unread Thor. Reading the synopses it looks like they hosed up and started setting stories back on earth and putting Hercules in the books. Dumb waste of a great character and cast. Jordan7hm fucked around with this message at 01:20 on May 7, 2024 |
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May 7, 2024 01:14
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A lot of heavy lifting vis-à-vis the art back then and also later was, of course, done by Sinnott. I think he always brought out the best in the draughtsmen.
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May 7, 2024 07:27
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The Last Call posted:There needs to be a lot more beating up nazi's in comics, on TV or in movies. JMS's Captain America recently revealed that one of teenage Steve Rogers's pastimes was going to German-American Bund meetings and heckling the speakers. (It's not gratuitous, this actually figures into the plot, but I'd love it no matter the context.)
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May 7, 2024 14:01
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looking at the Kickstarter for the new Zombie Tramp comic, the number of variant covers is getting really out of hand. I can't imagine many people buy multiple copies to get different covers, right? So wouldn't you end up just making, like, single digits of all but the most popular covers?
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May 8, 2024 14:17
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I think a lot of people only buy those kinds of books for the covers.
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May 8, 2024 21:18
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Open Marriage Night posted:I think a lot of people only buy those kinds of books for the covers. I tried reading a couple of those Zenoscope Grimm Fairy Tales comics and they're just kinda mediocre horror retellings of fairy tales, no where near as horny as the covers would indicate, they still sell well enough that the company keeps making them so I have to guess a huge chunk of the buyers never even open the books.
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At C2E2, I saw a huge booth that seemed to only sell Taylor Swift comics. Pretty sure it was these people. https://tidalwavecomics.com/index.php/biography-non-fiction-titles/ No idea how they could sell enough to afford that.
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May 8, 2024 21:59
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While I was looking at comics on Kickstarter I saw they also have a campaign going for an anthology of dinosaur vore comics. It has already surpassed its goal. The art actually looked pretty good.
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May 8, 2024 22:03
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Gripweed posted:While I was looking at comics on Kickstarter I saw they also have a campaign going for an anthology of dinosaur vore comics. I have questions. I do not want the answers to them, though.
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Random Stranger posted:I have questions. I do not want the answers to them, though. Edit: on second thought, I will not post a direct link to the vore porn comic. It’s on Kickstarter, it’s called Jungle Dangers, you can find it. They’re offering possibly the most upsetting titty mousepads I’ve ever seen. Gripweed fucked around with this message at 17:38 on May 9, 2024 |
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May 9, 2024 17:33
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Gripweed posted:They’re offering possibly the most upsetting titty mousepads I’ve ever seen. Okay, wow. I was going to say that I saw an uncomfortable amount of titty mouse pads at C2E2, but those were all so much more chaste. On other hand, I could use a mouse pad at work...
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May 9, 2024 17:56
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Book Four?
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Gripweed posted:Edit: on second thought, I will not post a direct link to the vore porn comic. It’s on Kickstarter, it’s called Jungle Dangers, you can find it. They’re offering possibly the most upsetting titty mousepads I’ve ever seen. BSS 2024 Chat Thread: the most upsetting titty mousepads
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Anyone planning on going to Thought Bubble this November? I'm looking to get some stuff signed by some of the attending artists and I'm willing to pay a finder's fee (mule fee, I guess) to make it happen.
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May 17, 2024 15:36
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I hope you're not bringing Drake
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May 17, 2024 15:51
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No More Drake
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Saoshyant posted:No More Drake 
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May 17, 2024 16:17
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It's Magic cards, a Judge Dredd comic, and maybe an issue or two of Heavy Metal depending on who shows up from 2000AD. I'm surprised Drake hasn't grown up to become a Batman-lite or Marvel knockoff like other Robins. Definitely not bringing him.
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May 17, 2024 17:44
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I got some new Marvel comics at the store, what the heck happened to the ads? They’re all ads for other Marvel comics! What’s the deal? When I was a kid, comics had ads for reasonably priced hatchbacks, or extreme foods that made your hair stand up. When did they switch over to all in-house stuff?
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There haven't been ads in comics that weren't for other comics or comic related paraphernalia (like a Captain America watch, but not a cheap one for a kid) in like decades.
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