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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1660 on: December 06, 2011, 04:58:37 PM »

Thank the Maker. Maybe now we can have a series that doesn't include superfluous characters and lengthy dialogue scenes that drag the story down and serve only as a means to pad a story arc to six issues.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1661 on: December 06, 2011, 05:29:39 PM »

Oh hey, the Fourth World omnibi are finally coming out in paperback.

...and cost $10 less than the damn hardcover.

Ah well, I've already got the first three volumes in hardback anyway.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1662 on: December 06, 2011, 07:57:25 PM »

After a delay of 5+ years, they are FINALLY releasing the Pogo collections.

First volume should be in stores before Christmas.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1663 on: December 06, 2011, 09:03:30 PM »

On this side of the border, it's already out (same day as the Barks collection; rather unfortunate timing).

Legitimately loving the Barks collection, BTW; will give it a writeup in the Who Don't Read Comics thread when I get a chance.  tl;dr you're not going to find a better thing to spend $25 on and I'm going to buy two more copies as Christmas presents.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1664 on: December 07, 2011, 09:28:28 AM »

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1665 on: December 07, 2011, 10:03:19 AM »

Not exactly news.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1666 on: December 08, 2011, 02:49:17 PM »

There's a compilation of Bruce Timm's pinups coming out soon. It looks real purdy (and nsfw).
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1667 on: December 08, 2011, 03:08:10 PM »

Not exactly news.
More on the subject, this time from Axel Alonso and Jeanine Schaefer.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1668 on: December 10, 2011, 06:35:38 AM »

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1669 on: December 10, 2011, 07:43:28 AM »

I like how JMS pretends that a statement like "Sales of the book I worked on cratered after I left" does not imply anything bad about the people who took over after him.

Or that "Just Sayin'" means anyone is "just saying".
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1670 on: December 10, 2011, 09:17:24 AM »

It seems JMS was saying "Jack & Jill sucks" and Adam Sandler replies "WHY ARE YOU INSULTING AL PACINO"

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1671 on: December 10, 2011, 10:42:11 AM »

Well, I think we all agree that both parties are pretty retarded.

[Joke that "both parties" means Jack & Jill and Al Pacino]
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1672 on: December 10, 2011, 10:45:45 AM »

Yeah, but even considering the OMD nonsense, does anyone anywhere actually think the book was better when JMS was writing it?
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1673 on: December 10, 2011, 11:00:15 AM »

I don't know, I don't read Spider-Man.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1674 on: December 10, 2011, 12:46:39 PM »

Yeah, but even considering the OMD nonsense, does anyone anywhere actually think the book was better when JMS was writing it?
I dropped the book pretty quickly after OMD, but I liked the JMS run other than OMD. I've heard the post OMD run has gotten better as time has gone on though.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1675 on: December 10, 2011, 04:45:21 PM »

I liked the JMS run other than OMD.

I would like to remind you that he retconned in Gwen giving birth to Norman Osborn's illegitimate children.

I've heard the post OMD run has gotten better as time has gone on though.

OMD was an ugly solution but the aftermath has been positive.  I've been a Dan Slott fan for a very long time; the book's in good hands.

I would generally describe myself as a JMS fan, too; his TB&TB and Thor were both pretty great.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1676 on: December 10, 2011, 05:39:46 PM »

I liked the JMS run other than OMD.

I would like to remind you that he retconned in Gwen giving birth to Norman Osborn's illegitimate children.

Which were originally written as Peter's children, but changed by editorial mandate. Again, ugly solution.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1677 on: December 10, 2011, 05:47:45 PM »

I liked the JMS run other than OMD.

I would like to remind you that he retconned in Gwen giving birth to Norman Osborn's illegitimate children.

I've heard the post OMD run has gotten better as time has gone on though.

OMD was an ugly solution but the aftermath has been positive.  I've been a Dan Slott fan for a very long time; the book's in good hands.

I would generally describe myself as a JMS fan, too; his TB&TB and Thor were both pretty great.

Oh yeah, forgot about the Gwen retcon, I also didn't like the back in black stuff that led up to OMD. Let me say what I did like from his run. I loved what JMS did with Mary Jane. I loved what he did with Ezekiel and the spider totem stuff. I loved the visions of spider-man's future. I really wanted to see where he was going to go with spider-man after he gained his new powers. I loved his Spider-man and Iron Man interaction during the Civil War. I loved spider-man teaching at his old high-school. I didn't see why Spider-Man needed a soltuion to fix it, ugly or otherwise.

I didn't immediately drop spider-man after OMD, I gave it a couple of months. I eventually dropped it because I didn't see anything interesting about any of the characters in it, especially in comparison to what had been there before it. The best thing I can say about the post OMD spider-man stuff I read was that Mr negative seems like he could have become a semi-iconic villain over time.

I liked the JMS run other than OMD.

I would like to remind you that he retconned in Gwen giving birth to Norman Osborn's illegitimate children.

Which were originally written as Peter's children, but changed by editorial mandate. Again, ugly solution.

I didn't know that, that could have been an interesting story.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1678 on: December 10, 2011, 05:48:44 PM »

I liked the JMS run other than OMD.

I would like to remind you that he retconned in Gwen giving birth to Norman Osborn's illegitimate children.

Which were originally written as Peter's children, but changed by editorial mandate. Again, ugly solution.

Spiderman's books have had so much disastrous meddling in the past decade (fifteen years, really), it'll at least take a solid decade of bland non-events to wash the gruesome taste from everyone's mouth.

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1679 on: December 10, 2011, 07:56:11 PM »

Eh.  Name me a book that's been running for the past 15 years and HASN'T been subject to disastrous meddling.

I don't know if I'd even say that about Love and Rockets.

(Because I hate Fritz.)
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