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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1880 on: May 03, 2012, 07:26:51 AM »

BATTLE SCARS: THE ABRIDGED EDITION

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1881 on: May 06, 2012, 10:32:13 AM »

http://joshreads.com/?p=13534

Josh Reads is a blog where a dude gently makes fun of the funny pages, and one of the funnies finally caught wind of this fact.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1882 on: May 06, 2012, 11:12:04 AM »

Archie sometimes references Comics Curmudgeon jokes about it being written by a computer that barely understands humor.

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1883 on: May 07, 2012, 03:36:14 PM »

And the artist from Slylock Fox gave the Curmudgeon a piece of merchandisible artwork.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1884 on: May 08, 2012, 10:08:29 AM »

Sweet Tooth will end with issue #40.

It's not a Roberson/Wood situation; Lemire is ending it himself because it's the end of the story.  Good to hear.

Sweet Tooth is one of my favorite books of the last few years and is highly recommended.

I also can't help wondering if this means Lemire will be able to draw Animal Man himself.  I'd love to see that, even for an issue or two.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1885 on: May 09, 2012, 06:47:37 PM »

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1886 on: May 09, 2012, 07:15:23 PM »

I don't remember Siegfried ever picking a fight with Odin...
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1887 on: May 09, 2012, 07:28:40 PM »

Hey, I still have the first book of that comic. Never saw the rest, though I could probably order them.

Of course, I'd probably have to go to a comic store again for that.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1888 on: May 11, 2012, 01:12:03 PM »

Latest to leave the Big Two: Roger Langridge.

He cites Bissette's boycott call specifically.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1889 on: May 12, 2012, 06:52:42 PM »

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"Time Man and Oil Man [..] were rather powered up compared to the other six!"

Quote from: Air Man
"You should've known you can't beat me!"

 :glee: The Mega Man comic is pretty good.

depending on how much you like stupid inside jokes about mega man maybe

i'm an easy sell
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1890 on: May 12, 2012, 06:55:47 PM »

depending on how much you like stupid inside jokes about mega man maybe

i'm an easy sell

Next up Archie is releasing a comic about a guy who buys every version of a Nintendo console even if he already owns it.

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1891 on: May 12, 2012, 07:13:25 PM »

hey hey hey hey hey hey

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i don't own a dsi xl
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1892 on: May 12, 2012, 07:27:48 PM »

Hey, I still have the first book of that comic. Never saw the rest, though I could probably order them.

Yeah, except now it's in a real language!
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1893 on: May 12, 2012, 07:29:41 PM »

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"You should've known you can't beat me!"

 :glee: The Mega Man comic is pretty good.

depending on how much you like stupid inside jokes about mega man maybe

i'm an easy sell

Cut Man's pun obsession <3
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1894 on: May 17, 2012, 05:12:50 AM »

Quote from: http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/JoshWildingNewsAndReviews/news/?a=59734
A new five issue limited series this August will reveal that it was in fact Wolverine who assembled the first team of mutants in the Marvel Universe. Written by Christos Gage and with art from Neal Adams, The First X-Men takes place before X-Men #1 and it sees Logan attempt to recruit both Xavier (who turns him down) AND Magneto to his team. Rather than a school, Logan will put together a team of soldiers which includes Sabretooth, Magneto, Bomb and a new female character. The series is set firmly in continuity and will feature a cameo from Namor the Sub-Mariner before he regained his memory in the pages of Fantastic Four. So, the first mutant team was put together by Wolverine (who Adams strongly hinted funded the X-Men). And who said Marvel was running out of ideas?

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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1895 on: May 17, 2012, 06:53:22 AM »

I preferred First Class's approach.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1896 on: May 17, 2012, 09:59:04 AM »

Daniel Best has a great post on a 1970's theft of DC art, including some of Joe Simon's work.

300 pages appeared on the market in 1997; the dealer originally claimed that Simon had gifted those pages to his father, and then, when Simon disputed that, claimed that Simon's daughter had sold them to him for $100.

Simon sicced the FBI on the dealer, but eventually settled for 55% of the proceeds from auction.  Toward the end, he acknowledged that it was POSSIBLE his daughter had sold the art, but it's unclear why he would; if this art was stolen from DC, then neither he nor his daughter would have had it in the first place, and even if his daughter was estranged from him and desperate for money, she would have known those pages were worth far more than $100.

Best has covered the theft of Kirby's artwork from Marvel before; Greg Theakston has a rundown as part of a pretty extensive series called Jack Magic.  Shooter has his own take, which I believe he believes to be true but which I consider highly suspect; the comments there are more interesting than the post itself (and have some less-than-friendly back-and-forth with Best).

It violates Hanlon's Razor, but I personally believe that somebody at Marvel deliberately put the box of Kirby's art in a spot where it was likely to get up and walk away, not merely so that they would be off the hook for returning it to him but also because there was unpublished work in there that Kirby was never paid for -- in other words, evidence that he worked on spec, not for-hire, at least some of the time.

I'll grant that nobody's produced any hard evidence of this -- they can't; that's kind of the point -- but I'm not the first person to suggest it.  Indeed, the Theakston post makes much the same argument (though he doesn't mention the spec issue):

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A lot of what follows is speculation so please indulge me. There is no proof or evidence I can offer, only conjecture. Seems that the week of the theft, one of Marvels editors had been fired and decided he wanted an unannounced severance package and moved it out on the weekend. His name was uttered by more than one dealer as the root source for the pages.

The editor was rehired shortly thereafter.

There has been some rumor that the editor was in league with Marvel and Cadence in an effort to keep Kirby from ever getting those pages back. Ensuring that he would have no leverage in that department: they wouldn’t have to return what they no longer had.

And, as the copyrights to the characters were about to come up for renewal this was a good thing for management. The return of the pages might have been misconstrued in court as an admission that Kirby owned a part of the characters. Stuck between a rock and a hard legal place, the lawyers might well have conceived a plan to avert this.

But this is all just speculation.

A little too much innuendo and "I won't say who, but everybody knows who I'm talking about" for my tastes.  (I don't have my early-1980's Marvel editors straight, so I'm not sure who he's referring to.)  But at any rate, that art theft certainly seems to have worked to Marvel's advantage.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1897 on: May 21, 2012, 06:25:34 AM »

Prominent DC character will be outed as gay

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Wait, why is this big news, exactly?
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1898 on: May 21, 2012, 08:02:32 AM »

Weeeell, there still aren't that many prominent openly gay superheroes.

And there's a segment of the population that freaks the fuck out every time anyone suggests it's okay to be gay.

And there's a rather large segment of comics readership that freaks the fuck out every time an existing character is altered in any way.

That said, if it's Wonder Woman I don't think many fans will be upset, and even the talking heads at Fox News are going to have a hard time saying "Wonder Woman was never supposed to be gay" with a straight face.  (They WILL, of course, but I'm just saying it might take a couple rehearsals.)

CA had rather a good op-ed on the subject just a couple of weeks ago.  It makes a pretty good case for Tim Drake.
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Re: Funnybooks
« Reply #1899 on: May 21, 2012, 08:34:52 AM »

That said, if it's Wonder Woman I don't think many fans will be upset,

Are you joking? That'll stir some serious backlash. It'd be logical from an in-universe perspective, but outing their most prominent female character would send the message that a female character can't be strong without also being gay.
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