Topic: Funnybooks (Read 170049 times)

Royal☭ · « **Reply #1600 on:** October 25, 2011, 11:15:34 AM »

Paul Pope is getting a new collection of his hard to find stuff from between 1993-2001. Doesn't include THB, but that stuff isn't hard to find:

OTRO by ernest.borg9, on Flickr

Royal☭ · « **Reply #1601 on:** October 25, 2011, 12:46:49 PM »

Other exciting comic news!

'King City' writer Brandon Graham and artist Simon Roy to revitalize Prophet

Look at that spread. Looks to only barely resemble the original Image Comics book, which is fine by me. Also part of a larger effort to revive Rob Liefield's Extreme Studios line from the 90s, but with Alan Moore and others involved.

Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan to do new Conan series for Dark Horse

Not really much I can add to that sentence.

Büge · « **Reply #1602 on:** October 25, 2011, 03:24:39 PM »

Man, what is it with Lobdell and sexualizing female characters? This time, Wonder Girl.

Lottel · « **Reply #1603 on:** October 25, 2011, 03:54:31 PM »

The "They're real" comment wasn't even necessary! Even if he WAS staring at her chest, she's not a Power Girl or Wonder Woman in the chest department. That was just added to emphasize she's "all woman" or whatever.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1604 on:** October 25, 2011, 03:59:12 PM »

Yeah, that scene might've been sorta okay without that horrible second dialogue balloon. Cheesy and lame, but not HAY GUYS HOW ABOUT THAT SEXXXXXXXX? AH? AH?

I mean, it saddens me to realize that Curling Flower Space is actually a realistic depiction of Superhero Comics writers' real knowledge of women.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1605 on:** October 25, 2011, 05:03:39 PM »

Wow, that art looks like something from 1996.

Zaratustra · « **Reply #1606 on:** October 25, 2011, 05:54:47 PM »

I have to admit something

I

I have always thought Jim Lee is kind of a shitty artist

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1607 on:** October 25, 2011, 06:20:22 PM »

Quote from: Zaratustra on October 25, 2011, 05:54:47 PM

I have to admit something

I

I have always thought Jim Lee is kind of a shitty artist

Michael Jackson - You Are Not Alone

Mongrel · « **Reply #1608 on:** October 25, 2011, 08:55:36 PM »

Hey guys... I have to admit something.

Sometimes I drink water.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1609 on:** October 25, 2011, 09:12:55 PM »

Quote from: Mongrel on October 25, 2011, 08:55:36 PM

Hey guys... I have to admit something.

Sometimes I drink water.

Michael Jackson - You Are Not Alone

Lottel · « **Reply #1610 on:** October 25, 2011, 09:45:02 PM »

Sorry, you can't repeat a karma action without waiting 12 hours.

Thad · « **Reply #1611 on:** October 26, 2011, 07:07:45 AM »

Quote from: Teddy Bearmont on October 25, 2011, 05:03:39 PM

Wow, that art looks like something from 1996.

This is pretty much the most alarming thing about the DC reboot: they want to pull in new readers, so they go for guys like Lee, Liefeld, and Lobdell (which I believe is a law firm in the Marvel Universe).

I like a lot of what's going on in the New 52, I really do. But the spectre of the 1990's bubble is all over it. As we've often remarked here and elsewhere, you can't go in a new direction if you keep the same damn people in charge.

Thad · « **Reply #1612 on:** October 28, 2011, 08:50:55 AM »

Nat Gertler's started abuckforjack.com, where he's soliciting people to donate a dollar for every movie they've seen featuring Jack Kirby characters, which he'll then pass on to the Kirby Museum. (He hopes at some point to pass a share on to the Kirby heirs, too, but hasn't been in touch with them as yet.)

On the whole it may be a more attractive solution than Bissette's boycott; the boycott isn't hurting Marvel in any substantial way, it's certainly not helping the Kirbys, and meanwhile I haven't seen Captain America or read any of Mark Waid's well-received Daredevil run.

(Let's see, I've seen...4 X-Men movies, 2 Iron Man movies, 2 Fantastic Four movies, 2 Hulk movies, Daredevil, and Thor. And did any of Kirby's work make it into Blade, Ghost Rider, or Spider-Man?)

Seriously considering signing on for this in lieu of Bissette's boycott. And maybe starting to pick up Daredevil and contributing now and again for that (but a buck for a $3 monthly series is a bit different for a buck for a few $9 movie tickets a year, so I'd go with some lower value per-issue).

Royal☭ · « **Reply #1613 on:** October 28, 2011, 09:07:17 AM »

Does Masters of the Universe count? How about Superman/Batman: Apocalypse? Or even Star Wars?

Thad · « **Reply #1614 on:** October 28, 2011, 09:18:48 AM »

in the case of MotU and Star Wars, I think we should probably delineate between stuff that's a DIRECT use of Kirby's work and stuff that is clearly influenced by it but legally distinct from it. If we're going to go for "obvious Kirby influence" then we'll be bankrupt in a hurry.

No need to contribute extra money for his DC work, as his estate DOES get royalties from that. (At least, the stuff from 1969 onward -- I dunno about, say, the Guardian or the Newsboy Legion.)

Mothra · « **Reply #1615 on:** October 30, 2011, 08:17:43 AM »

That there has not yet been made a Thundarr the Barbarian movie is The Greatest Crime.

Thad · « **Reply #1616 on:** October 31, 2011, 09:33:35 AM »

Busiek's blogging again!

It's all worth reading, but in particular check out the Astro City pic on his mailbag post. Looks like we won't just be seeing the Samaritan/Confessor World's Finest teamup that he'd previously alluded to, but indeed he's still got the Trinity bug. Good stuff.

Thad · « **Reply #1617 on:** October 31, 2011, 10:30:03 AM »

Hm -- apparently Chris Sims has written a Dracula comic which he's pitched as a tongue-in-cheek all-ages adventure that contrasts Dracula's depiction as the ultimate badass in such media as Castlevania with his rather pathetic portrayal in the original novel and indicates that the latter was sort of a low point in his career. Should be fun, the art by Steve Downer looks like a good fit, and they're selling it DRM-free for a buck.

Thad · « **Reply #1618 on:** November 02, 2011, 08:53:53 PM »

Deadpool is one of those books that was awesome two years ago and has since been coasting on just good enough to keep me from dropping it.

Well, it finally got good again! Not quite meat-suit good, but the best I've seen it since the pirate arc. (Not including the mini by Chris Hastings.)

The evil twin idea is one that's obviously so totally played in the genre but actually works really well for Deadpool. Because his whole deal is that he's GOT a moral compass, it's just broken. He so desperately wants to be the good guy.

So, you put him up against a twin who doesn't have that at all, who really IS just literally soulless, and hilarity ensues.

Even the "Check out these other Deadpool books" page at the end was hilarious.

This is the only Marvel book I've been buying for months now. That's partly due to my earlier comments about not buying books with Kirby characters, but it's also partly because of stuff like this.

Thad · « **Reply #1619 on:** November 04, 2011, 07:49:53 AM »

Welp, Steve Rude's gone and gotten himself in trouble again.

Via Tom Spurgeon, who's been in touch with Jaynelle:

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* Monday night's incident was as reported the latest development in a longstanding dispute between Rude and his neighbors. This includes the barking dogs cited in some reports. This also includes Rude stating at some point during a previous permutation of their encounters that he'd like to kill the neighbors, which was apparently enough for them to secure a restraining order.

* the incident in question from Monday night concerns the aforementioned barking dogs, which were out again where Rude could hear them as he handed out Halloween candy in costume. Rude responded to the barking dogs by throwing rocks at the fence behind which the dogs were barking in an attempt to silence them.

* one of the dog-owning neighbors confronted Rude verbally, followed by the other when the first one retreated inside. Rude says this quickly became verbally abusive, and included an invite for Steve to come over to where the second neighbor, a male, was standing. This ends with Rude ripping the neighbor's shirt and shoving him backwards, causing the second neighbor to also go indoors. This would be the basis of the assault charge.

* Rude returned to handing out Halloween candy. The cops -- Rude says in four police cars -- found him at his candy-dispensing station and asked after a concealed weapon. When the cop to whom he was speaking asked him to turn around and put his hands behind his back, Rude at first tried to ascertain if he was being arrested and then complied.

* Rude suffered some physical abuse during the arrest and later at the jail, the latter of which will be looked at by a doctor.

There are, of course, two sides to every story and we haven't heard the neighbors'.

But in any disagreement between Steve Rude and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department, I am inclined to side with the former until given sufficient reason to do otherwise.

Upshot is, discounted Rude art on eBay to help pay his legal bills.

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