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Büge · « **Reply #2080 on:** August 09, 2012, 07:38:32 AM »

http://io9.com/5933085/ben-affleck-to-direct-the-justice-league-movie

It's only a rumour, but a hilarious one at that.

TA · « **Reply #2081 on:** August 09, 2012, 08:03:07 AM »

I am fully supportive of the director of I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney being given Justice League.

Also I never saw Gone Baby Gone but it did win a bunch of directing awards. Also also, anything you might say about Affleck now, you could have said about Clint Eastwood before he turned out to be a genius.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #2082 on:** August 09, 2012, 10:38:40 AM »

Affleck gets ragged on a lot, and I think of a lot of it traces back to the rumor that Matt Damon wrote Good Will Hunting and Ben just put his name on it.

Thad · « **Reply #2083 on:** August 09, 2012, 10:59:17 AM »

I've found that I pretty much can't stand Affleck as a leading man but he's pretty good as a character actor. I haven't seen anything he's directed as yet but I hear it's good.

I also hear is that he's only willing to direct movies he's in, so that's a problem right there. But come right down to it, I think a Justice League movie just might be able to find a role for a smug, hammy Boston liberal known for his working-class attitude despite his vast personal wealth.

Bleeding Cool says it's pretty much all-but-confirmed already that it's not really happening anyway.

TA · « **Reply #2084 on:** August 09, 2012, 11:03:02 AM »

Quote from: Thad on August 09, 2012, 10:59:17 AM

I've found that I pretty much can't stand Affleck as a leading man but he's pretty good as a character actor. I haven't seen anything he's directed as yet but I hear it's good.

I also hear is that he's only willing to direct movies he's in, so that's a problem right there. But come right down to it, I think a Justice League movie just might be able to find a role for a smug, hammy Boston liberal known for his working-class attitude despite his vast personal wealth.

Bleeding Cool says it's pretty much all-but-confirmed already that it's not really happening anyway.

He's not in Gone Baby Gone.

Thad · « **Reply #2085 on:** August 14, 2012, 08:17:54 PM »

I wrote some shit about Action, Batman, Rasl, and iZombie.

I liked them!

Büge · « **Reply #2086 on:** August 23, 2012, 09:03:34 AM »

Rob Liefeld quits DC over "too much BS", "Editor pissing contests"

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #2087 on:** August 23, 2012, 09:21:27 AM »

Quote from: Büge on August 23, 2012, 09:03:34 AM

Rob Liefeld quits DC over "too much BS", "Editor pissing contests"

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When a fan suggested that Liefeld's comments would bring about a positive change at DC, he responded, "I assure you, it will not."

Thad · « **Reply #2088 on:** August 23, 2012, 10:41:47 AM »

Lots of people are going for the low-hanging "lol Rob Liefeld" fruit, but he's not the only guy who's complained about editorial fuckery -- we've seen Rozum, Simone, Perez, and Cornell say all this stuff already, and all of them are actually good.

Bridge-burning's a bit of an exaggeration (unless we keep it in the original context and remember that Homer did in fact get his job back by the end of the half-hour); Liefeld brings in the money and while I can't imagine he's won any friends in editorial, I doubt he's lost many either.

Liefeld's still a name and a draw -- I don't know why, but I accept it -- and I'm pretty confident he'll be back at DC in the next few years.

Anyway. While "Rob Liefeld going away" is not a problem, "editorial shoving people off books through obsessive micromanagement" is.

My favorite books at DC are currently Dial H, Animal Man, Frankenstein, and Demon Knights. It is not a coincidence that all of these books exist on the fringe of DC continuity and not subject to whatever major narrative editorial is trying to construct.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2089 on:** August 23, 2012, 12:26:13 PM »

I actually like the blatant name-names-and-point-fingers thing he's doing.

See, he can actually get away with it pretty much scott free because he IS Rob Liefeld. Other people might have their careers hurt and people would say that the person should be more circumspect or statemanlike or whatever, but Rob'll just sail on through like nothing's happened.

I'm not saying that name-and-shame is what should be done all the time or that that will solve the situation, but I like a little good-cop/bad-cop. This shows DC how messy things can be, given that the boycotts have been fairly quiet so far (even when big names are involved).

Thad · « **Reply #2090 on:** August 23, 2012, 01:08:04 PM »

Well, George Perez can say pretty much whatever the hell he wants, too; he's been more diplomatic than Liefeld but he's also been very clear about his frustrations.

Simone's probably a big enough name to complain without major repercussions too, though she hasn't gone into as much detail as Perez and certainly not as much as Liefeld.

Cornell has the awards but not the sales clout to say whatever he wants, and I think Rozum may very well have burned some bridges.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2091 on:** August 23, 2012, 02:57:43 PM »

It's not so much the clout, but the established personality and attitude.

Rob's already known for that "perpetually 14" attitude, so it actually just adds to that narrative, rather than harming his, er, reputation.

Thad · « **Reply #2092 on:** August 24, 2012, 07:01:20 AM »

Yeah, that makes sense; Perez and Simone might be able to get away with naming specfic people they're frustrated with, but they won't.

Thad · « **Reply #2093 on:** August 24, 2012, 10:18:37 AM »

Quote from: Thad on June 25, 2012, 09:45:13 AM

We've been talking a bit about people leaving DC and Marvel to do creator-owned things. I'd observed that while there are some B- and C-list guys leaving DC and Marvel entirely (Roberson, Langridge) and some A-list guys doing creator-owned stuff in addition to their DC/Marvel work (Ellis, Bendis, Hickman, and really quite a lot of others), there are really only two A-list creators who have gone ENTIRELY creator-owned: Robert Kirkman and Mark Millar. (And Millar still publishes his creator-owned stuff through Marvel.)

Well, Brubaker may make it three. He's staying on Winter Soldier for now but ending his Cap run and not doing any other Marvel books, and he's certainly expressing distaste for the Kirby situation with Marvel and Moore situation with DC.

Apparently he's off Winter Soldier too.

As the article notes, it's not clear whether this means he's off Marvel properties entirely at this point or they made him an offer he couldn't refuse and he's doing some as-yet-unannounced Marvel Now project, but given his past statements I'm more inclined to believe the former. Guess we'll find out soon enough.

EDIT: Brubaker confirms he's leaving Marvel, "But I may return, because Marvel has been my home."

Wonder what changed -- sure doesn't sound like any kind of falling-out with management or editorial.

Zaratustra · « **Reply #2094 on:** August 24, 2012, 11:48:26 AM »

Does Waid count as A-list or B-list?

Thad · « **Reply #2095 on:** August 24, 2012, 12:09:16 PM »

Why, is he quitting Daredevil?

Büge · « **Reply #2096 on:** September 03, 2012, 08:38:35 AM »

Remember, in the '90s, how comic companies would release variant covers for all their books to inflate sales? Well, look what Marvel's doing!

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/09/03/how-marvel-are-ensuring-marvel-now-will-dominate-sales/

What's next for Marvel? Holofoiling, maybe, or trading card inserts?

Mongrel · « **Reply #2097 on:** September 03, 2012, 08:58:34 AM »

Did variant covers ever really STOP being a thing? I mean, they did decrease in popularity, but I can't think of a time ever disappeared completely.

Büge · « **Reply #2098 on:** September 03, 2012, 09:43:32 AM »

There's been variant covers but I don't think there's been as big of a push for them as this.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #2099 on:** September 03, 2012, 09:59:10 AM »

Dude every DC title has like 50 variant covers, and every Marvel has as well. The recent Mars Attacks had 51. That Marvel list is paltry.

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