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Bay Kemal said:
I used to think it was funny but I am currently rereading Preacher and it got annoying fast. I wonder when he gave up and became so lazy.
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It's sad comparing even Preacher to some of his last work, like his Punisher run with Jason Aaron. Later, his work just got so stiff and boring, a lot of the same faces but even the same poses. Compare that to Preacher where his work actually has some life and energy to it.

Unfortunately, a lot of artists just start to coast after a while. They get bored with the industry, get annoyed that they were never allowed to do the big run they wanted, hate that they got pigeon holed, or their ego just told them they don't need to try hard any more.
 
Ooo is Nat in your epic collection @Stab You in the Back?

I was interested in the Amaglam dc marvel omnibus but the art is unfortunately so painfully mid 1990s (speech bubbles and everything) that to be honest it strains the eyes a tad too much.
 
Scarlett Johansson said:
Ooo is Nat in your epic collection @Stab You in the Back?

I was interested in the Amaglam dc marvel omnibus but the art is unfortunately so painfully mid 1990s (speech bubbles and everything) that to be honest it strains the eyes a tad too much.
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Not in the ones I read. Marvel has been deliberately avoiding publishing popular runs in their Epic line so people keep buying the omnibuses.
 
Clyde Cash's Left Teste said:
I think I'm going to drop GL, not because the book is bad but because they keep doing story issues outside of the core book that I'm starting to get burnt out
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Was it any good initially, I heard that they were blowing up central batteries again and just skipped it. Wasn't really impressed by Adams Flash either.
 
Gunter x Gunter said:
Was it any good initially, I heard that they were blowing up central batteries again and just skipped it. Wasn't really impressed by Adams Flash either.
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Without going into a detailed synopsis, the United Planets led by Lord Premier Thaaros took over the Green Lantern Corps after the Guardians disappeared at the end of Thorne's run. He has since turned it into his personal militia, quarantined Sector 2814, and destroyed the other Central Power Batteries because he wants full control of the Emotional Spectrum. However, the Guardians had built a backup CPB on Earth as a contingency plan. That's changed with the "Civil Corps" storyline and I'm omitting some details like Sinestro going red, but those are the most important points.
 
Since nothing has been said is this thread for 10 days I'm just gonna throw this random thought.


Anybody else feel like the spider-man comics changed the font on the logo in 1994 because of the animated series?
Take this issue published Sept 94 just a month prior to episode one of tas Nov 19th 1994 airdate.
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And the logo of said animated series which had been in development and promoted for at least a year at that time.

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Yes I know the cover date says Nov but those are always are a month ahead of the actual date of publication.
 
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A Grey Cat said:
Since nothing has been said is this thread for 10 days I'm just gonna throw this random thought.


Anybody else feel like the spider-man comics changed the font on the logo in 1994 because of the animated series?
Take this issue published Sept 94 just a month prior to episode one of tas Nov 19th 1994 airdate.
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And the logo of said animated series which had been in development and promoted for at least a year at that time.

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Yes I know the cover date says Nov but those are always are a month ahead of the actual date of publication.
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yknow, i never looked into it but i always felt it was the opposite: that the tv show just used whatever the currrent logo was. i would guess that instead it's maybe a mix of both: i could imagine that they got a marvel artist to design the logo, but that it was the choice of higher ups to get them to do that so they could use it for everything spider-man in order to encourage comic sales. it's a good logo tbf, as 90s as it is i think it really captures what i think spider-man's character is all about: controlling the chaos. The other logos I think of with spider-man is the overly-friendly rounded 60s logo and the raimiverse logo which got used for the PS3 if you remember that. both are decent logos for a superhero property, they emphasis the heroism and a bit of the prestige of spider-man but other than the raimi logo being quite thin i dont think they emphasis the weird quirk of the character and the action as much as this logo does
 
BetterFuckChuck said:
yknow, i never looked into it but i always felt it was the opposite: that the tv show just used whatever the currrent logo was. i would guess that instead it's maybe a mix of both: i could imagine that they got a marvel artist to design the logo, but that it was the choice of higher ups to get them to do that so they could use it for everything spider-man in order to encourage comic sales. it's a good logo tbf, as 90s as it is i think it really captures what i think spider-man's character is all about: controlling the chaos. The other logos I think of with spider-man is the overly-friendly rounded 60s logo and the raimiverse logo which got used for the PS3 if you remember that. both are decent logos for a superhero property, they emphasis the heroism and a bit of the prestige of spider-man but other than the raimi logo being quite thin i dont think they emphasis the weird quirk of the character and the action as much as this logo does
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The thing about marvel, especially back in the 90s, is that if one thing is popular and it's not the actual comic books. Then the higher ups will try to make the comics more like the popular thing. I definitely see some influence not just in the logo, but also consider that the story is a two part spider vs venom story, albeit it's the ben Riley spider man since the clone saga (a can of worms in its own right) was going on at the time.


Then remember even though the alien costume/venom saga was still months away from airing, the promotional material for tas including the season 1 opening used venom heavily to market the show.


You see this in the second biggest money maker marvel had in the 90s the x-men. While tas initially took influence from Jim lee/Chris Claremonts run on the series including the top selling x-men #1. The comics definitely tried to ape the tas in the later half of the decade. Especially when it came to Larry hammas run on wolverine or Scott lobdells run on uncanny. With both of them trying to keep the designs, teams, and writing styles almost consistent with what the writing was like on tas just with the obvious differences. Ex: wolverine having bone claws till 99, Scott and Jean despite being married still written like a young dating couple, ect ect.
 
BetterFuckChuck said:
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This is winning awards
In Canada
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The garbage that wins awards or gets multiple nominations for sequential art these days, indeed for years is often the most poorly drawn and boring crap. Like "Mooncop" ohhhh, it's so minimalist, it's drawn by some artist for the Guardian so it must be good, let's nominate it for three Eisners!


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It's either stuff like this or phone book-sized weepy weep graphic novels about how sad someone's childhood was or something.
 
Commander X said:
The garbage that wins awards or gets multiple nominations for sequential art these days, indeed for years is often the most poorly drawn and boring crap. Like "Mooncop" ohhhh, it's so minimalist, it's drawn by some artist for the Guardian so it must be good, let's nominate it for three Eisners!


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It's either stuff like this or phone book-sized weepy weep graphic novels about how sad someone's childhood was or something.
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It's a way of finding a way to celebrate mediocrity, because to look for talent within the working classes would involve uplifting people from poverty. Like the comic i posted is an excellent example, the author already has a comfortable middle class life as a cartoonist but decides to slum it as an oil worker to win awards, whereas if the men that actually have to be oil workers that she condescends as sexist noble savages drew a comic of their experiences nobody would care. it's roleplay porn for limousine liberals. except they dont even have limousines, so it's ubereats liberals
 
BetterFuckChuck said:
It's a way of finding a way to celebrate mediocrity, because to look for talent within the working classes would involve uplifting people from poverty. Like the comic i posted is an excellent example, the author already has a comfortable middle class life as a cartoonist but decides to slum it as an oil worker to win awards, whereas if the men that actually have to be oil workers that she condescends as sexist noble savages drew a comic of their experiences nobody would care. it's roleplay porn for limousine liberals. except they dont even have limousines, so it's ubereats liberals
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Also, if you give the awards to people with the same background as you, they're less likely to have views that may contradict yours and cause you to think you might be wrong.
 
Any of my Kiwis reading Power Fantasy?

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Kieron Gillen's latest project. Basically, it takes a Cold War approach to "superheroes" where the term "Superpowers" specifically refers to six people on the planet with destructive capacity equivalent to a nuclear arsenal, among millions of other, much, much lesser superhumans. The thing is, the Superpowers are so powerful, any actual slugfest between them will probably end the world. Tension ensues. I've really been digging it. Issue #4 is probably my single favourite comic of the year.
 
White-Kettle Shufflepunk said:
Any of my Kiwis reading Power Fantasy?

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Kieron Gillen's latest project. Basically, it takes a Cold War approach to "superheroes" where the term "Superpowers" specifically refers to six people on the planet with destructive capacity equivalent to a nuclear arsenal, among millions of other, much, much lesser superhumans. The thing is, the Superpowers are so powerful, any actual slugfest between them will probably end the world. Tension ensues. I've really been digging it. Issue #4 is probably my single favourite comic of the year.
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Yes, and Same. The timeline at the end of the 4th issue has me salivating for the rest.

Gillen isnt a perfect writer, but I really liked his Uber books and I'm excited for more of this.
 
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