Rolling Comic Book thread 2017

ed piskor? that's awesome!
i'd love to see how he handles it

I think it's not a horrible idea? The way different plot arcs fit together, and the way newer writers rely on plot points from stories that weren't that great.

It reminds me of an article I read about how Stephen King originally thought of his early Dark Tower books as a sketch of a book he'd write later as a more cohesive story. I think he decided a revision of only the beginning from a short story collection into a single work was sufficient.

If nothing else, it gives newer readers a starting point without it being the Readers Digest edition

Not going to lie, I thought KFC/Green Lantern was one of the most fun reads this week.

(Col Sanders gets made an honorary GL at the end for his services to suppressing the Orange Lantern. He offered Larfleeze the opportunity to run a KFC franchise because he has been stealing all the zinger burgers the GLC have been firing into space for publicity reasons. Yes, really.)

ok i gotta read these

let me tell ya, it's no batfudd

Absolutely not, but it is fun.

Anyone else think the Flash's costume is really bad? Jay Garrick's hat is kinda nice but I've always thought all the Flash guys had really dorky costumes.

derf's "my friend dahmer" movie has a trailer; could be good, will almost certainly be depressing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX8ajObK81A

did not know that was happening

Maybe the trailer is misleading but I thought Derf would feature more prominently

I got Lent's Asian Comics overview last week. As I feared, it talks about way more comics than it shows and most of the pictures don't really grab me. Should still be very interesting though.

Here's his new book with Xu Ying focusing entirely on Chinese comics, cartoons and animation.
http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/2027

This is very expensive so you might want to wait and hope for a paperback. My copy of Asian Comics was paperback.

http://www.vulture.com/2016/02/stan-lees-universe-c-v-r.html

Nothing most of you didn't already know but I was amused by Lee's Wu-Tang Clan quote and his names for the aborted Playboy characters.

Quite a few questionable claims in there too from the author and some writers.

good article

if you're gonna do a xxx rated cover of your 225th issue and put a censored version on the internet, here's the way to do it i guess
http://www.dreadcentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/savage-dragon-issue-225-1.jpg

Lee cooked up one superhero after another: Thunderer! Oxblood! Imitatia! The Streak!

Stan stole all these from Bob Burden iirc

Odd about the Savage Dragon cover, maybe it's a special order variant to be sold discreetly? At points Larsen seemed to want it to be an all-ages comic but now and again he goes heavy on the sex. The violence never stopped but in the last few years I read it, the sex had mostly disappeared.

yeah it's a limited edition variant cover with an all-white modesty cover on top of it.
as part of my quest to read every book the majors release, i've been flipping through it over the past year; the sex (and OTT violence and language) is most definitely still there.
Larsen was great when i was in high school.

I'm just looking at the cover going "..."

same here

and I bought at least one marvel swimsuit special

...

I never read Savage Dragon and had no idea that it had any sex in it, let alone that

Although somehow it's still no Ant-Man/Wasp

xp to self
I was twelve years old, though

I thought it was kind of funny and I don't think I understood the "people cranking it to cartoon characters" thing until much later in life, long after I'd perused it and thrown it away

it really is hilarious, but for all kinds of reasons I wouldn't have understood at the time

I had no idea such a thing existed and now have to resist searching for it so thx

namor in a speedo

(that's the funniest one, it's no different than namor on most other days)

namor in a speedo

I know, I know; it's serious

haha

http://i.redd.it/janpdeq8h5uy.png

^ this looks suspiciously like what normal people think people who read comic books think sex is like

well I am not psyched that I clicked on that on my work computer

lol, sorry; meant to link. mod?

PLUH!

I bought all those Marvel Swimsuit issues as a teenager. I bought all those crappy pinup gallery comics. The Marvel specials were different in that they did feature a lot of male characters.

Check out the letter from a woman requesting nude Thor.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19446_the-6-most-wtf-special-edition-comics-ever-released.html
http://www.cbr.com/flipping-through-the-weirdly-subversive-marvel-swimsuit-specials/

There was actually a fully naked Ghost Rider but he was just a flaming skeleton on a beach.

I'm not really into Savage Dragon or those type of comics anymore but I still think it did have a sense of consequences that Marvel and DC didn't and it could be very funny and sweet sometimes. Had a lot of problems too but it was fun.
It had a very mixed following with some typical 90s Image artists doing collaborations and backups but also Mike Mignola, Bob Burden, Don Simpson, Michel Fiffe, Jim Rugg, Benjamin Marra and weirder guys like Dieter Van Der Ougstraete.

The X-Men had Jim Lee during the swimsuit special years and they shoehorned in at least a few "Psylocke in the pool" scenes, which is p funny in retrospect, and given I was abt 13 vv ok with me at the time.

I swear half the x-men issues had one of those scenes and they had to majorly retcon the character later to insist her mind wasn't her own and there was subtle psychic manipulation of the other x-men because they were on the verge of having to rename the book The Horny X-Men

Did anyone ever listen to that podcast devoted to trying to explain ridiculous X-Men plots? I never listened but it was supposed to be quite funny.

Just remembered that Stan Lee didn't rate Gil Kane very high and complained his men were too "faggy".

There were so many x-books, and the art was so pin-uppy, it wouldn't have been a huge stretch for there to've been a pg13 "X-Men Nights" or something book, tbh. And yeah retcon mind control otm, lol.

psylocke has always been the most ridiculously broken backed, sexploited x-woman, even more than rogue

http://40.media.tumblr.com/b105f781f4d3281a9063e8e3b92426de/tumblr_nrd5qficfa1r34y4ho3_r1_500.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gKBSaKejhDA/TtoqEqvQuwI/AAAAAAAAAPY/l9AjT72SZPM/s600/x%20men%20wallpaper-bananasprice.blogspot.com-x-men.jpg
http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b0/e6/68/b0e6686c93d08f0cc26684f3194e22af--wolverine-art-deadpool-wolverine.jpg
http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/d1/92/e0/d192e0bef19af7f8bdf855f1f631899b.jpg
http://i.pinimg.com/736x/6b/38/ce/6b38ce558fdc9772847f48bfc6733778--jim-lee-jim-orourke.jpg

grrroosss

Grant Morrison's Doom Force just confused me when I was a teenager

psylocke has always been the most ridiculously broken backed, sexploited x-woman, even more than rogue

I don't really recall seeing Rogue treated that way(?) At least not in the era in which I was reading (pre-"Fall of Mutants" through post-"Inferno"). She was even spared from having to wear a skimpy costume, thanks to "can't-touch-her-skin"...

Yeah, Rogue was a weirdly arbitrary choice from the era when every female character was risking permanent spinal injury in an attempt to show off their quad-D cups.

https://letterpile.com/books/Psylocke-Costume-History

go back to Armored Psylocke IMO

iirc jim lee's 90's rogue was a "look-but-don't-touch" cheerleader fantasy and was regularly depicted in a similarly creepy way but after crawling through the muck to get those psylocke clips, i'm gonna leave a GIS for "sexy rogue marvel" to someone else.

are you thinking of Savage Land Rogue?

prob

yup, a classically sleazy storyline that was. she hooks up with Magneto which is eww

Lee/Liefield/McFarlane, and the "trends" they drove and exemplified, were 90% of the reason I stopped reading comics in the early '90s. (I also went off to college, but that alone wouldn't have stopped me.)

everything they've touched in the past fifteen years (at least) is hot garbage
still angry i bought those damn gold ink spiderman #1s as a teenager; I WAS IMPRESSIONABLE