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RobotRocker
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I evangelized about the new Avengers series before, but there is something endearing about the absolute whiplash pace they are going at along with the hints of where they are going next. There has been the Masters Of Evil so far and a possible Loki plot, but the next one they seem to be barging headlong into the Kree-Skrull war (And they got Ms.Marvel's origin in. Also miracle of miracles, they made Carol likable and compelling in 20 minutes. Eat it Bendis) with a twist at the end of the last episode that was absolutely audacious and floored me (No spoilers, you gotta see this yourself). Seriously, between this, Batman: BATB and Young Justice, its like a new age of great comic related cartoons post JL: U and Spectacular Spider-Man.
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Dracko
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 4:28 pm |
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Loki Laufeyson
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| Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 4:34 pm |
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so i hear that the reason guardians of the galaxy and nova were cancelled was so that bendis could introduce a new cosmic character.
and i move ever closer to abandoning marvel.
also: what should i start reading after the (excellent) knight and squire miniseries ends?
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Dracko
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| Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:40 pm |
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| Matt Seneca wrote: |
Let's consider time for a second. Experiential time, the passage of moments in reality as we perceive them, is one single flow, neverending from birth to death. Though we forget things or misremember them or even, in serious cases like amnesia or senility, find them completely erased from our brains, we know there was always something happening, that the progression of time is and has always been extant. (If you wanna argue with that feel free, but go find yourself some postmodern literature to read because it's not what this is about.) Film, animation, and video games are all able to replicate this constant flow with a rapid pulse of tightly linked images. Anything higher than 16 frames projected per second and the human eye can't tell the difference between flicker and perpetual motion. The usual speed these days is between 24 and 30, though it can go up to 300. It's important to remember, though, that at their most basic all these media are comics: sequential progressions of single images. They just move faster on the screen than the page.
Now watch this, and see where it starts getting interesting.
Finished? That's a little excerpt from 3D Monster Maze, the first 3D video game created for home computer systems. Six frames per second. Your eye can do comics that fast if, they're drawn simple and intuitive enough. The difference is that in Monster Maze the speed is unwavering, a constant march forward with no possibility of variation in the time taken on each individual frame. And here's where comics jump into the fray. |
| Tucker Stone wrote: |
| You're most likely going to be told to work hard as if it's the secret key to unlocking your fortune. Here's something from the secret box: it's morally irresponsible bullshit for a pro to suggest that hard work is all it takes to make it in comics. That's up there with the same kind of empty sloganeering as "believe in yourself and all will take care of itself" or "follow your dreams and you'll see them come true." Suggesting that hard work is the sole ingredient for success is a slap in the face to those who work their asses off and are still struggling, as well as those who are simply trying to stay afloat. That "work hard" card is essentially a dick measuring contest, telling everyone what a workhorse one is while ignoring the other major components of success: timing, talent, and luck. Sometimes it's random luck, sometimes not so random luck. The cliché "being at the right place at the right time" certainly applies, but ultimately there's no guarantee. That's how the grown up world works! |
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Toto
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Dracko
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 12:10 pm |
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Yeah, I posted about it in the Axe.
You could blame nerds, but it's quite transparent that the folks bitching about this sort of stuff aren't familiar with the material at all, so it's just xenophobic pundits in action once more.
Nightrunner's origin story is far more interesting than the actual annuals he's introduced in, funnily enough. I could certainly see writers tackling social issues proper with him, but this is DC, so it's more likely he'll just be forgotten before getting killed off in yet another major cross-over event.
Also: "political correctness gone mad". |
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Dracko
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 1:38 pm |
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On a related note: The Hole in the Centre of the World
An essay on Jack Kirby, Final Crisis, Salò and fascism.
| Tim O'Neil wrote: |
| It bears repeating: for Kirby, fascism was real. It was a menace that was all the more insidious because it relies on the victims' willing complicity: a fascist state wilfully abjures its own ethical well-being, abdicating individual responsibility to the fetish of state authority. Because this authority is absolute, those who function with the state's imprimatur are absolutely free to exercise their will. Fascist regimes invariably produce (or, in another formulation, are produced by) powerful oligarchies, wealthy industrialists and financiers who have helped to construct the apparatus of the state and have been, in turn, rewarded by privileged access to these same apparatuses of state power. The four libertines in Salò are representative of just such an oligarchy. Although it is not explicitly stated, it is heavily implied that they are all war profiteers who are fully aware that the war is in its final days: it would have been difficult for any well-informed Italian in late 1944 not to know that the regime's days were numbered. They retreat to their secluded castle in order to spend their power while they can - but the movie's great masterstroke is never to actually show the end of their power. For all the viewer knows the entire castle is be destroyed by a bomb two seconds after the final scene, but we don't see that. We don't see the Allied forces cutting up through central Italy before finally reaching the last outposts of Mussolini's government - long since a German puppet state. We just see the corruption and destruction of eighteen children, forced to eat their own feces, raped on a pile of broken glass. |
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Renfrew
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| Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 1:19 pm |
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So, in a time when constant gimmicks are being met with ever plummeting sales numbers, Marvel decides to promote X-men editor Bob Ha, I mean Axel Alonso to the EIC position.
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Loki Laufeyson
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| Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:41 pm |
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i was shocked when i read the newst issue of thor today, and it actually had things happening and was an entertaining read for the first time in months. it's like they knew i was planning to drop it if i didn't like this issue.
in a few months time, it's going to be changing it's name to journey into mystery, and becoming "marvel team up starring kid loki", or so they say.
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Dracko
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Dracko
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:14 pm |
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Darren Arofnosky's next comic is going to be illustrated by Nico Henrichon, and is an adaptation of the story of Noah.
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shrugtheironteacup
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:26 pm |
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That must have been the thing he was talking about when he said the thing that made people think he might get to make his Batman Year One after all
Even though he did not at all seem to be saying that about his Batman Year One at all
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rabite gets whacked!
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 10:08 pm |
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Looks like it's still running for another month?
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Dracko
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| Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 5:43 am |
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I know, but I can't make it back to Paris.
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Winona Ghost Ryder
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:03 am |
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Mr. Mechanical
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 3:20 pm |
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You were surprised?
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Winona Ghost Ryder
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 7:39 pm |
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| I knew he held neocon views on foreign policy. I didn't know he was right wing enough to follow Breitbart. |
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Loki Laufeyson
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Dracko
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:44 pm |
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lol
The true gold - as ever - is in the comments, though.
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Dracko
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| Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 10:24 pm |
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| Sean Witzke wrote: |
| While we’re talking about influence and homage – it would be impossible to talk about The Airtight Garage and not talk about Frank Quitely’s extended tribute to it in his New X-Men contributions – as well as several other times over the course of his career. In NXM alone, Casandra Nova’s first appearance her design is based on Major Grubert, and the Master Mold scene explicitly quotes from both The Airtight Garage and it’s precursor Major Fatal. The images inside Professor X’s brain are based on the Entrance in Armjourth. And his emergence from the Cerebro chamber is Lark Dalxtrey entering the teleporter. The now-famous opening image of Cyclops and Wolverine fighting the sentinel is from the Archer and Barnier taking down the plane. There are probably more I’m not catching. Quitely attempted to bring not just the artistic merit of one of Moebius’ definitive works, but he also saw that Morrison’s take on the X-Men was a lot closer to the chaos of Airtight. Aside from the notion that Casandra Nova is an explicitly Cornelius-like character, there is an assaulting quality to the X-Men as a concept that can take on a kind of dream-logic in the right hands. |
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Loki Laufeyson
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RobotRocker
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special blend
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| Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 8:52 pm |
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ive been reading new xmen and somewhere on wikipedia it mentioned that astonishing xmen is intended as a follow up to new xmen
i hate huge marvel crossover events, is astonishing any good? and does it stand alone as a book or do i have to buy the whole fucking x line to understand it?
my friend read second coming and it looked stupid, by the way
also, could someone explain how cyclops, frost, magneto, and namor got to be on a team for me?
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Dracko
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| Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 9:06 pm |
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It's bloody awful and spits all over what New X-Men achieved. Skip it without reservation.
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special blend
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| Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 9:10 pm |
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sooooo all star superman?
or should i go with the invisibles?
hows ultimate comics faring? is millar crackin' it off? i heard ultimate x was actually good
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Tulpa
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| Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 11:14 pm |
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go with all star superman without reservations
go with invisibles with some reservations particularly with the early issues of vol. 2
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Dracko
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 12:09 am |
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special blend
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 2:20 am |
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one third of the way through new x-men
i liked it! i love frank quitely and hate igor kordey. really, his stuff in this is awful and no one seems to be able to properly set the tone in this book other than quitely.
will start vol 2 tomorrow ( reading the ultimate collection books )
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Loki Laufeyson
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 2:22 am |
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i shouldn't really like peter bagge's hate, as it is clearly hipster garbage. but i do really like it!
also, i love ross campbell's wet moon in many different ways. i should buy my own copies instead of just borrowing my friend's
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Tulpa
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 3:17 am |
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peter bagge's hate existed before 'hipster' was a meme.
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extrabastardformula
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 3:24 am |
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hipster has been a meme ever since any subculture placed a premium on authenticity
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JamesE
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 3:51 am |
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| special blend wrote: |
one third of the way through new x-men
i liked it! i love frank quitely and hate igor kordey. really, his stuff in this is awful and no one seems to be able to properly set the tone in this book other than quitely.
will start vol 2 tomorrow ( reading the ultimate collection books ) |
Kordey and EVS REALLY fuck the book badly. So much of the mid-section is full of muddy, grim art when it needs to be bright and neon and overdriven. Fantomex's first arc is really hamstrung by this - it needed to be very 1960s and Danger: Diabolik, but it's the polar opposite.
It starts well and ends well but the midsection has (for my money) some of Morrison's worst character writing. Later on Chris Baccalo sets the tone for Assault On Weapon + perfectly IMO and Phil Jimenez's beautiful people artwork gives it the kind of soap opera atmosphere Morrison was shooting for.
The last arc is perfectly complemented by the style of art - it's not pretty or even well drawn, but it works well in spite of that thanks to the tone. I don't want to say any more in case I spoil you. |
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protoblax
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| Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 3:48 pm |
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Have any of you encountered tradereadingorder.com? It's a truly phenomenal resource.
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Dracko
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 7:49 pm |
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special blend
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 8:31 pm |
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i ran across a couple new x-men trades, numbers 2 and 5. the cover art is pretty classy.
the covers on the first two ultimate collection books that i own are god damn hideous.
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protoblax
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:38 pm |
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Here is a kickass website I volunteered to help with a little when it was just starting out:
http://www.tradereadingorder.com/home/
As you could surmise from the title, it is an exhaustive aid on reading trade paperbacks for any character or continuity in the order which makes the most sense.
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Dracko
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| Justin Giampaoli wrote: |
| LIVE FROM THE DMZ is a site dedicated to the book and will be presenting a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the series and its cultural significance. For the remainder of 2011, we’ll be offering the equivalent of a Director’s Commentary Track on your favorite DVD for each volume of the DMZ saga, including interviews with writer Brian Wood. Beyond the final year of publication, LIVE FROM THE DMZ is designed to remain a destination resource. The functional intent is for the books to lead readers to the site, enhancing their reading experience, and for the site to lead readers to the books, enhancing sales figures and driving wider recognition of this contemporary classic helmed by one of the most important indie creative voices of the last decade. |
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Dark Age Iron Savior
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| Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 4:59 am |
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so nobody cares about Brightest Day (or most DC superhero stuff), but apparently it's culminating in the mainstream DC universe return of.... *drumroll* .... *Swamp Thing*.
I probably shouldn't have put that in spoilers.
But with Death having a fairly lengthy conversation with Luthor a few months back in Action Comics, it looks like certain walls are coming tumbling down. I have to wonder who else might trickle in.
(edit: of course, this apparently necessitated canceling a reboot series by China Mieville) |
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Dracko
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DAIS, I am bemused and intrigued that Richard K. Morgan's return to comics is in the form of a Crysis 2 tie-in mini published by IDW.
return of huge guns to comics #90swillneverdie
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Loki Laufeyson
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| Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 1:03 pm |
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| Dark Age Iron Savior wrote: |
so nobody cares about Brightest Day (or most DC superhero stuff), but apparently it's culminating in the mainstream DC universe return of.... *drumroll* .... *Swamp Thing*.
I probably shouldn't have put that in spoilers.
But with Death having a fairly lengthy conversation with Luthor a few months back in Action Comics, it looks like certain walls are coming tumbling down. I have to wonder who else might trickle in.
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they should just have vertigo and dcu characters mingling willy nilly like back in the golden age of vertigo
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