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Alexander Thaut said:
iirc they were gonna reprint all of the Gerard Jones Justice League stuff until he got arrested for uh. . .

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Gerard Jones Sentenced to 6 Years in Jail on Child Pornography Charges

Gerard Jones, long-standing comic book writer, was sentenced yesterday by a San Francisco court to six years in federal prison on child pornography charges.
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. . . for child porn charges ofc.

apparently DC ain't gonna print his stuff? It's a shame because Green Lantern: Mosaic was a fun idea, his JLA stuff had interesting moments, his Martian Manhunter stuff was decentish iirc, and whatnot.

THough I do wonder if any pedophilic shit is in his old work now that I think about it.
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Isn't he the guy who had Hal fuck a character who looked like a child but "was totally thousands of year old, trust me" or something like that?
 
PrincessHomura said:
Isn't he the guy who had Hal fuck a character who looked like a child but "was totally thousands of year old, trust me" or something like that?
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That was Arisia. She looked like a 15 year old girl (and acted like it) when she first debuted, and she had a mad crush on Hal.

Hal, however, was like "15 gets me 20" and kept his distance....until she used her ring subconsciously to make herself look like a 25 year old woman. That's when her and Hal started getting biz-zay.

Eventually, a lot of readers were like, "But isn't she still a minor on Earth?" Which then got hand waved away with, "Sure, she LOOKED 15, but she's really 150 years old on her planet! So it's A-OK!". Nevermind that she had the build and maturity of a minor originally!
 
Water-T said:
That was Arisia. She looked like a 15 year old girl (and acted like it) when she first debuted, and she had a mad crush on Hal.

Hal, however, was like "15 gets me 20" and kept his distance....until she used her ring subconsciously to make herself look like a 25 year old woman. That's when her and Hal started getting biz-zay.

Eventually, a lot of readers were like, "But isn't she still a minor on Earth?" Which then got hand waved away with, "Sure, she LOOKED 15, but she's really 150 years old on her planet! So it's A-OK!". Nevermind that she had the build and maturity of a minor originally!
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tbh i kinda forgot about it.

let's just forget it. it's just cringey but at least it wasn't a loli.
Fromtheblackdepths said:
How good is Walt Simonson's Thor?
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very good.

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Thor Ragnarok pissed me off because they didn't do respect to the man who stood alone at Gjallerbru.
 
Alexander Thaut said:
very good.

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Thor Ragnarok pissed me off because they didn't do respect to the man who stood alone at Gjallerbru.
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Anyone who enjoys Thor comics should be majorly pissed off at Ragnarok for basically everything about it. But yes, this is one of many problems with it.
 
Alexander Thaut said:
Skurge's characterization was the singular thing that ruins it for me.
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It's bad, but only to the extent that everyone's characterisation is bad because it's all the same. Thor is wildly out of character the entire film too. The only one who retains a semblance of who they're supposed to be is Loki, but even he is sidelined because there's actual fart humour taking center stage. Re-reading Walt Simonson's Thor just makes it all the more obvious what a disaster it is that a movie like this actually got decent reception.
 
Boston Brand said:
Honestly damned little of anything from the 90s gets reprinted, even popular stuff like Lobo or Steel, even Aquaman, Flash and Green Lanturn only got a TPB or two each. And cult stuff like Sovereign Seven? Forget it, you can't even get digitals sometimes.
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They did a 90s Legion of Super Heroes omnibus recently, but it's weird how little material from the 90s gets reprinted. I'll never understand DC trade paperback policy.



Alexander Thaut said:
iirc they were gonna reprint all of the Gerard Jones Justice League stuff until he got arrested for uh. . .

bleedingcool.com

Gerard Jones Sentenced to 6 Years in Jail on Child Pornography Charges

Gerard Jones, long-standing comic book writer, was sentenced yesterday by a San Francisco court to six years in federal prison on child pornography charges.
bleedingcool.com

. . . for child porn charges ofc.

apparently DC ain't gonna print his stuff? It's a shame because Green Lantern: Mosaic was a fun idea, his JLA stuff had interesting moments, his Martian Manhunter stuff was decentish iirc, and whatnot.

THough I do wonder if any pedophilic shit is in his old work now that I think about it.
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Some of his work has been reprinted in the Justice League International omnibuses, bit they didn't call a lot of attention to it . I think there's going to be a third omnibus, but other than that, I don't think they have any plans to reprint anything else.
 
I had this kind of thing screenshotted for just such an occasion.

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Okay, I'm reading it right now:
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This got a chuckle outta me.
 
Boston Brand said:
Honestly damned little of anything from the 90s gets reprinted, even popular stuff like Lobo or Steel, even Aquaman, Flash and Green Lanturn only got a TPB or two each. And cult stuff like Sovereign Seven? Forget it, you can't even get digitals sometimes.
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In what universe Steel or 90s Aquaman are popular?
 
I wanted to gauge people's opinions on Tom Taylor.

I'm just asking because he recently attempted to roast noted lolcow Jeremy or the Quartering over the latter's comments on Superman: Son of Kal-El on Facebook. TL:biggrin:R, Tommy-boy is making claims that his Special Ed Superman title is seventh on the Amazon best-seller list (comics wise) and a best-seller on Comixology. However, he doesn't back it up with numbers as DC distributor, Lunar, and Amazon do not disclose units shipped/sold. It made me wonder, if Tom Taylor is such a big deal, then why is he even giving a neck bearded fool like Jeremy the time of day?

Then I looked at Jeremy's channel. He has 1.18M followers and I have seen his videos get as high as 400K views in the last few weeks. Could it be that the great Tom Taylor is butthurt that a seeming nobody can get more eyes on his videos than Tommy-boy can for his shitty comic? My opinion of Tom Taylor is that he is a mediocre-to-shit writer who is easily the most overrated in the industry. Hell, I just watch Arris at Variant Comics or Rob at Comics Explained if I want to know what's happening with DCeased.

Frankly, I see some lolcow potential in him if he's going all Mark "King Baby" Waid on Jeremy. For all his bluster and the comics media backing his books get, it must sting knowing that more people would rather watch an idiot with a camera than read your shitty book.
 
Jetpack Himmler said:
I wanted to gauge people's opinions on Tom Taylor.

I'm just asking because he recently attempted to roast noted lolcow Jeremy or the Quartering over the latter's comments on Superman: Son of Kal-El on Facebook. TL:biggrin:R, Tommy-boy is making claims that his Special Ed Superman title is seventh on the Amazon best-seller list (comics wise) and a best-seller on Comixology. However, he doesn't back it up with numbers as DC distributor, Lunar, and Amazon do not disclose units shipped/sold. It made me wonder, if Tom Taylor is such a big deal, then why is he even giving a neck bearded fool like Jeremy the time of day?

Then I looked at Jeremy's channel. He has 1.18M followers and I have seen his videos get as high as 400K views in the last few weeks. Could it be that the great Tom Taylor is butthurt that a seeming nobody can get more eyes on his videos than Tommy-boy can for his shitty comic? My opinion of Tom Taylor is that he is a mediocre-to-shit writer who is easily the most overrated in the industry. Hell, I just watch Arris at Variant Comics or Rob at Comics Explained if I want to know what's happening with DCeased.

Frankly, I see some lolcow potential in him if he's going all Mark "King Baby" Waid on Jeremy. For all his bluster and the comics media backing his books get, it must sting knowing that more people would rather watch an idiot with a camera than read your shitty book.
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honestly tom taylor's stuff is mediocre at best and garbage at worst. at least Mark Waid's got some decent runs here and there.
 
@Jetpack Himmler

i think tom taylor is extremely good at writing dark/depressing stories and injecting actual hope and emotion into them.

he can write characters well and he can make you actually care for them a lot of the time.

but he also seems to have a strong SJW kinda lean, which he has been leaning into more lately which I don't super care for.

for example his Superman run so far has just been kinda okay? sorta meh? His Nightwing seems pretty good but that's also entirely possible due to it being residual of being the first actual Nightwing we've had since Ric, so in comparison anything would look good.

I've read Injustice and DCeased and I stand by my statement that he can take dark hopeless moments and inject them with actual meaningful emotion though.

overall i've read a lot of tom taylor's stuff, Injustice, DCeased, Rise and Fall, his Suicide Squad, his Spider-man, his Superman, his Batman.

I like more of it than I don't, but I still wouldn't consider him a *great* writer or anything, but he is one I do not personally mind and will read if I see his name.
 
JimiHendrix said:
@Jetpack Himmler

i think tom taylor is extremely good at writing dark/depressing stories and injecting actual hope and emotion into them.

he can write characters well and he can make you actually care for them a lot of the time.

but he also seems to have a strong SJW kinda lean, which he has been leaning into more lately which I don't super care for.

for example his Superman run so far has just been kinda okay? sorta meh? His Nightwing seems pretty good but that's also entirely possible due to it being residual of being the first actual Nightwing we've had since Ric, so in comparison anything would look good.

I've read Injustice and DCeased and I stand by my statement that he can take dark hopeless moments and inject them with actual meaningful emotion though.

overall i've read a lot of tom taylor's stuff, Injustice, DCeased, Rise and Fall, his Suicide Squad, his Spider-man, his Superman, his Batman.

I like more of it than I don't, but I still wouldn't consider him a *great* writer or anything, but he is one I do not personally mind and will read if I see his name.
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i get tom king and tom taylor mixed up often tbh.
 
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