i am seen!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 03:52 (five years ago) link
i somehow knew it was you posting that list long before hitting the bottom, forksbadge of honor!
― Nhex, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 08:18 (five years ago) link
i'm a media guy
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 15:08 (five years ago) link
Had no idea Mike Allred was working on a Dick Tracy thing! Was The Hidden the plot with the secret christians?
Really need to get on that Lisa Hanawalt, her podcast is always great.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 20 December 2018 10:24 (five years ago) link
The Dick Tracy book is with Rich Tommaso doing art and they're an excellent match for each other's styles:https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/exclusive-preview-artist-rich-tommaso-on-idws-new-dick-tracy-dead-or-alive
Yep, that's the story for Usagi Yojimbo: The Hidden. It's an interesting storyline with a dollop of little-known historical truth but the reason to get absolutely anything by Sakai is his utter mastery of the form. Even at this stage in his career and when his stories feel a bit overworked, he's one of the best pure comic creators in America.
Hanawalt is always a joy. While I'm glad she's found Hollywood success, I'm secretly stupidly selfishly annoyed she isn't able to devote all her time to comics anymore. It'll likely even out in that she has a good paycheck and the makings of a lifetime career.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 20 December 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link
Vader and Aphra but not Star Wars seems a little perverse :)
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 20 December 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link
I like the solo Star Wars comic! It's just gotten a little byzantine and overly self referential within their own sub-universe. The spin-off comics felt more contained, story-based and interesting to me this year.
https://www.cbr.com/dc-border-town-cancel-abuse-allegation-writer/Border Town had good art and a story that felt like it might be going somewhere so it's is a qualified bummer that it got blown up, but i appreciate the principles of the co-creators to get out if they have reason to believe they would otherwise be supporting an abuser.
Did you guys talk about the Snagglepuss book on here this year? It's noteworthy and great.http://www.comicsbeat.com/review-exit-stage-left-the-snagglepuss-chronicles-offers-heartbreaking-tenderness-within-the-satire/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/dc-reviving-hanna-barberas-snagglepuss-as-gay-playwright-1048870
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 20 December 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
forks, u gonna have to hook me up with the fella from whom you buy your time in bulk. I don't know how you do it, my man.
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Thursday, 20 December 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link
i'm nervous and vaguely out of sorts all the time is the answer. but thanks! taking the past year off from ILX helped!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 20 December 2018 16:04 (five years ago) link
*scribbles furiously*
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 20 December 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
I have the 'nervous and vaguely out of sorts' part down but it could be that I'm putting the cart before the horse.
I've bought a ton of 2018 comics but (as is my slowpokey wont with respect to most media) I'm not sure if I have yet to read a single comic that was published in 2018.
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Thursday, 20 December 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
oh man, i've got PILES of backlog to read myself! it's a never ending backlog for sure.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 20 December 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
At the begining of this year I decided not to buy any new comics and to rearead my entire collection instead.
I'm still at the As -_-
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 20 December 2018 16:56 (five years ago) link
It's the same conundrum I face every year: I've read a ton of stuff, watched a ton of movies, heard a ton of music, etc. but it's all pretty much exclusively from years prior to this one, so I can never participate in any of the fun year-end discussions.
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Thursday, 20 December 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
xpost oh man Tommasso is an old friend and I am super psyched to learn about that gig w/Allred! Fuck yeah!
(you can see how good I am at keeping in touch with old friends)
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 20 December 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
the Snagglepuss book was great, like the Flintstones he did the year before
― Nhex, Thursday, 20 December 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
Russell is writing a few other things now, including a good looking Lone Ranger book
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 20 December 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
So here's an interesting thing I noticed about this week's new Marvel comics (and I say this with the caveat that I'm looking at these digitally and not in the store, though i'm inclined to believe this holds true for the physical books as well): all of the superhero series releases - though, notably, not the Star Wars books, kiddie books or the presumably earlier cover-finalized miniseries - have been redesigned in honor of Stan Lee's death so that the top of the cover is dominated by a simple, horizontal black band with Lee's years of birth and death. The book's title and issue number have been shunted to the lower left corner with (of course) the Marvel logo. Here's two sample covers so you can get a clear idea what I'm talking about:
http://i.imgur.com/w97POF3.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/Jq563d7.jpg
Two things jumped immediately to mind when I saw these:
1) - It's amazing how much cleaner and more effective this looks from a graphic design perspective. It also unifies and brands the books in a comprehensive and recognizable way that almost certainly will appeal to OCD weekly comic buyers (are there any other kind?) and people who want to see and clearly display the cover art. Modern comic covers are an unnecessary riot of clutter and extraneous detail; minimizing word balloons, indica, titles and blurbs greatly improves and modernizes them visually.
That said:
2) - For several years now, Marvel has pretty consistently put the names of a book's creative team on the cover, often (as Image generally does, but DC generally does not) including both the first and last names of the creators. I assume the rationale for making the call as to when full names or just last names are used is likely due to space considerations, contractual obligations, name recognition if it helps sell the book (so weird to me that DC just lists "MORRISON" on the front of the new Green Lantern, as if his name isn't the main reason many if not most new readers will buy it), or even (GASP! CHOKE!) editors recognizing that anyone who writes and draws a book deserves to have their complete names on the work they made. I don't really know for sure.
However, with the Death of Stan commemorative redesign, for the first time in a long time there are _no_ creator names on the covers. Just Stan's band, the cover image, the name and issue number, the indelible MARVEL logo and that's it. So there's the most immediate public way that Marvel chose to celebrate Lee's passing: by pulling the names of the people that write and draw their books off the cover.
Excelsior?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
It stinks.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 21 December 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
Seems especially sucky to have that band at the top of characters/titles that Stan did not co-create.
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 21 December 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
^ they're doing this again this week as well btw
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 21:57 (five years ago) link
Rereading Gail Simone's Atom, which I first got into due to this very forum. Representation in comics having come a long way since it was released (on the page at least) some parts now feel very clunky and outside-looking-in; a bigger problem for me this time around is John Byrne's art is absolutley garish, and the colours do it no favours. But I'm getting to the part where tiny aliens fight Cthulhu worshipping pilgrims, and that's still jolly good fun.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 10 January 2019 10:56 (five years ago) link
there's a 2019 thread
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 10 January 2019 14:48 (five years ago) link