The one review I read of Bitch Planet talked about how odd and inauthentic the use of ersatz Ben-Day patterns was - some guy has recoloured a bunch of pages with an actually 70s-reminiscent style, and not only does it look GREAT, but wow at how ugly the original colouring is generally:
http://jonathanbogart.tumblr.com/post/110308310125/aintgotnoladytronblues-twiststreet-schwabco-i
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Monday, 9 February 2015 05:32 (nine years ago) link
Felt like the whole comic was kind of a letdown after the title -- found it quite difficult to follow -- ODY-C too. Maybe I don't have patience for comics that involve effort.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 9 February 2015 11:42 (nine years ago) link
I'm really appreciating this coloring talk! I think it's something that bothers me in some titles but not at a conscious level.
Some of the art where the colorist work is obviously a collaboration with clearly defined palettes definitely is a strength of some titles. The Hellboy/BPRD titles, with their limited colors and shading, or most of the titles drawn by Mike Allred (notably often colored by his wife) are very appealing in this regard.
― mh, Monday, 9 February 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
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definitely felt ODY-C was difficult to follow--had to read a few pages a few times--but idk had no trouble following BP. a bunch of people i've heard say they were lost at the climax though
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 9 February 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link
I haven't had a problem understanding BP; my only problem is understanding why people are thinking it's great. ODY-C is a hot mess.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 9 February 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link
http://instagram.com/p/y5W5dqpeGQ/
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 9 February 2015 23:15 (nine years ago) link
never heard of eternauta, interest piqued
These are GORGEOUShttp://50watts.com/Okamoto-Kiichi
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 February 2015 23:26 (nine years ago) link
Wow, love those
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 13:10 (nine years ago) link
Just grabbed 1 & 2 of They're Not Like Us to see what all the fuss was about, so far not really doing it for me. Feels like a Wanted-style spin on like "what if X-Men were. . .bad"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link
to see what all the fuss was about
literally heard of this for the first time in the words immediately preceding that quote
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 03:50 (nine years ago) link
El Eternauta has always sounded pretty cool and way ahead of its time (a mature, long-form sci-fi/political allegory originally published in the 1950s), I hope one someone will translate it to a language I can read...
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 13:03 (nine years ago) link
"I hope some day someone will translate it"
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 13:04 (nine years ago) link
There are some English scanlations here, but the translator seems to have abandoned the project. Still, even those pages make it clear it's quite unlike any comic published in the US or Europe at the time.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 13:10 (nine years ago) link
I haven't explored too widely, but Scribd is a service that appears to be offering a brief trial right now (although they do hold your credit info in case you don't cancel) and they have a bunch of comics from a few different companies. I looked at some Marvel stuff but the image quality seemed lower than Marvel Unlimited. However, they have a lot of the recent Valiant stuff.
― mh, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 22:12 (nine years ago) link
And lots of Top Shelf, too
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:30 (nine years ago) link
can you download drm-free files from scribd or are they 'on loan' so to speak?
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:37 (nine years ago) link
on loan
― mh, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:38 (nine years ago) link
Ah. Off topic for this thread but I saw they're the only ppl who seem to offer an ebook of England's Hidden Reverse.
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:51 (nine years ago) link
hm. i will check that out.
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 February 2015 01:38 (nine years ago) link
https://www.comixology.com/Powers/bundle/160?tid=E150212001&utm_source=comiXology+Digital+Comics+Newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=E150212001_Icon_Powers_Sale
Powers collection on sale for 50% off at Comixology
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 12 February 2015 14:15 (nine years ago) link
This is fascinating:http://www.tcj.com/working-stiff-working-loose-the-1950s-career-of-john-stanley/who among us knew that John Stanley revived Krazy Kat seven years after Herriman's death? Or that it looked like THIS?!?!?http://images.tcj.com/2015/02/6-IgnatzPanelsFromKat-650x500.jpg
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 14 February 2015 00:26 (nine years ago) link
Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca's Darth Vader #1 was a really good read. I quite liked Larroca's artwork on Iron Man, but he seems to be a kid in a candy store drawing this Star Wars series. I'm definitely not a Star Wars geek but I am a fan, so it is cool to see a scene between Vader and Jabba. It was a pretty well done 'licensed' comic by filling in the blanks on scenes for the comic.
― earlnash, Saturday, 14 February 2015 14:58 (nine years ago) link
Anyone else notice that the minute Dark Horse lost the Star Wars license, Marvel instantly published their entire catalog in digital format with Marvel logos on it?
― mh, Saturday, 14 February 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
Licensed comics makes strange bedfellows. One of the weirder ones I have seen in the past few years was DC putting out a showcase of the 1975 Marvel black and white magazines
― earlnash, Saturday, 14 February 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link
Which ones?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 14 February 2015 18:43 (nine years ago) link
I was kind of referring to how certain comic properties would go from one company to another. Back in the mid 70s to come out along a terrible Doc Savage movie, Marvel comics did two Doc Savage comic book series. One was a regular comic book and the other was in their black and white magazine like Savage Sword of Conan. A few years ago, DC still with the rights of Doc Savage reprinted those black and white magazine issues. This year Dynamite is reprinting the same 70s Marvel comics issues in a hard cover. Quite a few of the characters that came out of the pulps have been with multiple publishers in comics also like the Shadow, Elric and Conan.
― earlnash, Sunday, 15 February 2015 13:13 (nine years ago) link
http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/dreadstar-tv-series-jim-starlin-universal-cable-productions-benderspink-1201435486/
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 07:19 (nine years ago) link
That seems like a bad idea
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 08:11 (nine years ago) link
I'm pleased that Starlin is getting a payday, and it serves as another reminder about the importance of retaining the copyright to your creations. Whether it will actually happen is anyone's guess.
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 08:30 (nine years ago) link
Cartoon or live action? I think I'd prefer the former.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, February 18, 2015
i choose to hope
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 21:33 (nine years ago) link
I'm all for starlin getting paid, just think dread star is one of the weaker properties he could forward
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 February 2015 03:10 (nine years ago) link
The Kaluta art book is the most delayed item I've ever waited for. I think that book was promised over 5 years ago.
Anybody rate Frank Thorne's Red Sonja? The recent collections were coloured so badly Thorne was horrified and the "art editions" are huge and expensive.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 19 February 2015 03:44 (nine years ago) link
xpost here's the thing about Starlin: i always pictured him looking exactly like Vanth Dreadstar, and he kinda does!
http://rivista-cdn.hvmag.com//Hudson-Valley-Magazine/February-2009/Comic-Book-Heroes/Starlin_3522.jpg
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 19 February 2015 04:09 (nine years ago) link
Should we start a thread for that? Comic book creators who look like their (fictional) characters? I'm sure there are loads of examples, like Liefeld, Morrison, etc.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 19 February 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
I blame Morrison and Bendis for the sudden preponderance of bald characters in the 2000s
― Nhex, Thursday, 19 February 2015 16:01 (nine years ago) link
Warren Ellis wasn't bald but Transmetropolitan.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 19 February 2015 17:53 (nine years ago) link
it seems impossible for liefeld to look like any of his characters. unless he is irl covered in pouches?
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 19 February 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
whoa whoa whoa
http://scontent-b.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xpa1/t51.2885-15/925660_957389617624459_317203352_a.jpg
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 19 February 2015 18:39 (nine years ago) link
http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/thumb/e/ee/Rob_Liefeld.jpg/250px-Rob_Liefeld.jpg " class="noborder">
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Thursday, 19 February 2015 19:00 (nine years ago) link
lol ew
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 19 February 2015 19:09 (nine years ago) link
there's a recent-ish instagram of Liefeld doing the Liefield face and it allll makes sense now
― Nhex, Thursday, 19 February 2015 22:35 (nine years ago) link
You mean this one?
http://www.comicsbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/170328333-db08f4250ab64f490ca4f8586cf12e3b.4ca4de30-scaled.jpg
I remember the first time I saw photo of Liefeld, it was pretty evident why all of his male heroes have the face they do:
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Robliefeldpic_4678.jpg
― Tuomas, Friday, 20 February 2015 12:00 (nine years ago) link
heh that may be it!!
― Nhex, Friday, 20 February 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 20 February 2015 17:44 (nine years ago) link
matt wagner and kevin matchstick from mage.
http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/9/99019/1862439-mage1.jpghttp://www.co2comics.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/booth_2.gifhttp://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/14/148518/3034418-mattwagner.jpg
― sleepingsignal, Friday, 20 February 2015 18:07 (nine years ago) link
oh jeez that's more exact than I ever suspected
― a date with density (Jon Lewis), Friday, 20 February 2015 22:22 (nine years ago) link
the drummer from planetary was john cassaday drawing himself:
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070311134416/marveldatabase/images/b/be/John_Cassaday_001.jpghttp://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/3/38919/987024-drummer.jpg
― bizarro gazzara, Saturday, 21 February 2015 22:57 (nine years ago) link
Ha!
― earlnash, Sunday, 22 February 2015 01:20 (nine years ago) link
drummer + matthew lillard = cassaday imo
― mh, Sunday, 22 February 2015 01:47 (nine years ago) link