i'd like to present both of you with an anti-no-prize for this one, smdh
― tacticool spank bank material (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
Yeah, that’s cool...Hey, for anyone who’s been following along — has Marvel revealed the deal behind that mysterious new heroine who was retconned into the Avengers’ entire history a year or so back? I would look it up, but don’t remember her name, the “event” name, or anything else...
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link
during that "no surrender" deal? she was a plant by the grandmaster, actually his daughter. she wasn't part of their history, it was just a mind game so he could get the edge in the battle
― mh, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link
on a "today's comics" note i've got to give jason aaron some credit for having an issue dedicated to setting up an avengers support team ("agents of wakanda" since black panther's done the recruiting) that has a very ewing-esque lineup
i'm a sucker for anything featuring gorilla-man, though
― mh, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 15:55 (five years ago) link
better known by his prior codename "Illa-man"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
Tuomas and OL to the “things you were old when you realised” thread
― sans lep (sic), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 17:19 (five years ago) link
... i never realized that either ;_;
― Nhex, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link
picturing a version where he's wearing a karate gi now
― mh, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:21 (five years ago) link
G.I. Ant-Man
― Love is Scarface (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link
It’s interesting to read the old Sunday “Peanuts” before Schultz had figured out that the first two panels (which some papers omit to save space) should be a separate little gag, and instead was using them to “extend” the main strip... which usually really f’d up the rhythm by sticking this superfluous padding at the beginning.
Bill Watterson discusses his frustration with this practice at some length in the Calvin & Hobbes Anniversary Book. Eventually, he demanded that the strip had to be bought as is or not at all. It caused some outrage at the time but all the papers caved pretty quickly
― Number None, Thursday, 10 January 2019 10:09 (five years ago) link
Schulz, of course, would never rock the boat like that... he even stuck with a name he hated (“Peanuts”) for all those decades
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Thursday, 10 January 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link
I never thought about it before, but is Peanuts meant to signify some kind of "show about nothing" vibe, or is it just a random non-sequitur?
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 10 January 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link
So who decided on the name Peanuts? The credit usually goes to a man named Bill Anderson, a production manager at United Features Syndicate, who submitted Peanuts, along with nine other alternative names to the UFS brass.The appeal of Peanuts was obvious, since as Nat Gertler, author and webmaster of a startlingly detailed guide to Peanuts book collecting, notes: “The name Peanuts invoked the ‘peanut gallery’- the in-house audience for the then-popular Howdy Doody television series.”
The appeal of Peanuts was obvious, since as Nat Gertler, author and webmaster of a startlingly detailed guide to Peanuts book collecting, notes: “The name Peanuts invoked the ‘peanut gallery’- the in-house audience for the then-popular Howdy Doody television series.”
― Number None, Thursday, 10 January 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
Always assumed it was meant to be a loose homophonic allusion to the male organ of generation myself.
― Love is Scarface (Old Lunch), Thursday, 10 January 2019 15:55 (five years ago) link
pea is stored in the nuts
― more ham for me myself and i (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 10 January 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
Shultz thought it sounded diminutive, insulting; “like a name for something worthless, or an animal or child” (I’m making up that quote from memory, tho I think it’s pretty close).
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:08 (five years ago) link
Schulz, of course, would never rock the boat like that
Well at the time that Peanuts was given that name, Schulz was an unknown cartoonist with absolutely no leverage over his syndicate. By the time he did have that kind of clout, the name Peanuts was far too well-established for him to do anything about it. He did however "rock the boat" about plenty of other things, perhaps most notably when he introduced an African-American character into the strip in the late 1960s:
Schulz also recalled a discussion with Larry Rutman, who at the time ran King Features Syndicate (which distributed Peanuts to newspapers). Schulz said, “I remember telling Larry at the time about Franklin—he wanted me to change it, and we talked about it for a long while on the phone, and I finally sighed and said, “Well, Larry, let’s put it this way: Either you print it just the way I draw it or I quit. How’s that?”
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2018/07/50-years-franklin-charlie-brown/
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:13 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I didn’t think about that; he did rock the boat when it counted. (I recall he considered a title change to “Charlie Brown” at some point, but didn’t want to cause inconvenience.)
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:25 (five years ago) link
For the sundays, it carried a "peanuts" in small script with "featuring Good Ol' Charlie Brown" in bigger script for at least a decade
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
In Denmark 'Peanuts' is called what would be 'The Radishes' instead. It's very weird.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:38 (five years ago) link
xp Guess that sort of solved both issues!
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:51 (five years ago) link
(One of the “issues” being those expendable first panels — wasn’t he using a big panel with the title and sort of a sight gag?)
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:52 (five years ago) link
The two "disposable" panels on the Sundays followed the large title panel.
― sans lep (sic), Thursday, 10 January 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
Ah, hmm
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Thursday, 10 January 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
the radishes!
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 11 January 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
If anyone was tempted by Douglas Wolk's Marvel comics Patreon but hasn't joined yet, I highly recommend it. Fun discussion of Master of Kung Fu going on right now; Nocenti's Daredevil next week. It's a dollar a month.
https://www.patreon.com/douglaswolk/posts
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link
In the forthcoming movie "Spider-Man: Far From Home," does Parker fight Wolverine in a graveyard, and then return to his hotel room to find Ned Leeds in a Hobgoblin costume? I'm just gonna assume that's what happens...
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 00:09 (five years ago) link
Sometimes, when revisiting Marvel issues from the ‘80s, I Google the names of the staffers in those “Pro Files” with the little caricatures and data points (Favorite Performers, etc.). Kind of interesting to see what young Assistant Editors and the like ended up doing later in their careers. Tonight I ran across this interesting blog entry on the subject: http://generaleclectic123.blogspot.com/2008/12/marvelous-tales-making-comic-book.html(I’m sure there are entire books about Marvel that talk about this stuff in detail, but I’ve never read them.)
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 07:28 (five years ago) link
Thank you for that very cool link!
― E Pluripubis Unum (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 11:22 (five years ago) link
the Virgil/Matt lineup does not work at allassuming those were just flukes if scheduling though
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 12:18 (five years ago) link
i dunno, the virgil/matt issues of ghost rider were underrated imo
― “I'm the sexy gorilla and I'm going to hell“ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 14:20 (five years ago) link
It was a weird decision for Marvel to do an in-continuity adaptation of the Aeneid, and even weirder to hire Joe Matt for the job, but damn it...it just works.
― E Pluripubis Unum (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 14:28 (five years ago) link
Guys, he's talking about The House That Jack Built.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 15:45 (five years ago) link
The worst Fables spin-off
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:05 (five years ago) link
I just this week learned of the existence of the Third Eye blacklight posters from the early '70s and...I don't think I've ever coveted anything more in my life.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nickderington/sets/72157608615767554/
https://www.coolandcollected.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/marvel_third_eye_poster_blacklight_thor.jpg
― Why have more than 1,000 of my bucks disappearded? (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 03:36 (five years ago) link
I had the Amazing Spider-Man one
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 04:17 (five years ago) link
Omg the Hela one rules
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 04:56 (five years ago) link
very cool
― Nhex, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 05:15 (five years ago) link
i remember hanging at someone's house who had the silver surfer one and it lodged permanently in my brain
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 05:52 (five years ago) link
I've been getting irrationally cheery when it's Immortal Hulk release day
― mh, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 15:17 (five years ago) link
Now that the Conan license is back in their hot little hands, Marvel brings you this:
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/ZHYbXPsI7HZP0Zv4xgmLf87qB9A=/0x0:931x1397/1320x0/filters:focal(0x0:931x1397):format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/13759173/sav_avengers_1.jpg
If this is the price of getting the OG Conan material back in print, so be it.
― The kids call it 'artisinal going to the bathroom' (Old Lunch), Friday, 15 February 2019 01:02 (five years ago) link
I thought most of the OG Conan stuff got republished by Dark Horse over the years?
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 15 February 2019 01:18 (five years ago) link
yeah, it did. Is that Brother Voodoo and Elektra on the left there?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 15 February 2019 01:31 (five years ago) link
Yes, indeed it is.
Dark Horse had been reprinting Conan for years but they've been kinda awful about reprinting the reprints so random collections were selling for stratospheric prices.
― The kids call it 'artisinal going to the bathroom' (Old Lunch), Friday, 15 February 2019 04:12 (five years ago) link
I hope you don’t think Marvel will do a better job keeping things in print
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 15 February 2019 04:32 (five years ago) link
^ since your pal & Trump’s head of veteran affairs’ policy is literally to keep nothing in print
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Friday, 15 February 2019 05:42 (five years ago) link
I'm on top of it this time around and all-too-aware of Marvel's reprint policies. And look, having Perlmutter over occasionally to sup and discuss how we might collectively MAGA does not a pal make, pal.
(Someday in the not-too-distant future he will be pushing up the daisies. Just sit back and meditate with me upon that blessed notion.)
― The kids call it 'artisinal going to the bathroom' (Old Lunch), Friday, 15 February 2019 11:26 (five years ago) link
Wow, that's a whole bunch of random grim & gritty characters in that book! Besides Wolverine and Punisher, do any of them have any sort of history together?
― Tuomas, Friday, 15 February 2019 16:18 (five years ago) link
Punisher and Elektra were teammates with benefits in Thunderbolts.
I think Venom and Conan might be cousins.
― The kids call it 'artisinal going to the bathroom' (Old Lunch), Friday, 15 February 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
Wolverine and Elektra have history too with The Hand, etc.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 15 February 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link