|
I watched the movie version of From Hell and always wanted to rewatch/read the comic. Maybe this is the year! Uhhh.. wtf. The Walking Dead comic is over? I feel like I woke up from a 5 year sleep. This must be what it's like when people go "oh there's a new Star Wars/Marvel/Nerdbait?"
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2020 03:07
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 29, 2024 17:46 |
|
|
Guy Ritchie's first Sherlock Holmes movie felt like it owed a fair bit to From Hell.
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2020 03:29
|
|
|
Doctor Spaceman posted:Guy Ritchie's first Sherlock Holmes movie felt like it owed a fair bit to From Hell. Maybe, there's also multiple tv movies and books where Sherlock Holmes takes on Jack the Ripper that I'm sure Guy Ritchie saw or read when he was 12.
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2020 03:35
|
|
|
Skwirl posted:Maybe, there's also multiple tv movies and books where Sherlock Holmes takes on Jack the Ripper that I'm sure Guy Ritchie saw or read when he was 12. Here's a good video about the history of depictions of Jack the Ripper in fiction, for the interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-3gmyEluKk
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2020 03:44
|
|
|
i dont remember anything about the ritchie movie except for that one scene where he does a slo-mo slap on a guy. was it about jack the ripper?
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2020 03:45
|
|
|
site posted:i dont remember anything about the ritchie movie except for that one scene where he does a slo-mo slap on a guy. was it about jack the ripper? No it was about a completely different and fictional serial killer from the end of the 19th century.
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2020 03:50
|
|
|
The occult stuff in Ritchie's film felt like it bore more than a passing relation, and plenty of film critics noted the similarity to the aesthetic of From Hell's adaption.
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2020 03:57
|
|
|
Doctor Spaceman posted:The occult stuff in Ritchie's film felt like it bore more than a passing relation, and plenty of film critics noted the similarity to the aesthetic of From Hell's adaption. Pretend I did the old, stale joke about denying the existence of a really terrible movie move with the Johnny Depp From Hell. I'm reading Sandman Mystery Theatre at the moment after years of putting it off. After one story arc, I'm not really sure if it's grabbing me. I don't hate it, but I'm not really finding it enthralling either. The mystery in that first arc wasn't great, either; it was convoluted to the point that I wasn't certain why anyone was doing anything at any given moment in the arc.
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2020 04:28
|
|
|
Doctor Spaceman posted:The occult stuff in Ritchie's film felt like it bore more than a passing relation, and plenty of film critics noted the similarity to the aesthetic of From Hell's adaption. I would like to read a single review that mentions the similarities.
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2020 04:48
|
|
|
Skwirl posted:I would like to read a single review that mentions the similarities. Mark Kermode posted:[Ritchie] wisely reins in the irritating visual tics of yore, looking instead toward the shadowy pantomime of Hammer to evoke a smoggy netherworld which is one part Conan Doyle's London to two parts Hughes brothers' From Hell.
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2020 05:02
|
|
|
lmao https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1214581207083569154
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2020 05:29
|
|
|
I'd kill for a From Hell with a letterer or computer typeface going back and redoing all the text. I have such a hard time reading that scraggly handwriting that I can never get into the god damned story.
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2020 07:04
|
|
|
Madkal posted:I first hear about Blake from Batman: TAS which had an episode titled Tyger Tiger, and quotes the poem in the episode itself. I thought I was so smart for knowing that poem (thanks to the show). Also, did you know that you can't read in dreams? There's a section in Uncharted 3 that, while basically homaging the lost-in-the-desert sequence from Lawrence of Arabia, has the antagonist recite some of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," without attribution. I have often wondered how many students in the intervening years have gotten in trouble with an English teacher for not realizing it was a quotation.
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2020 06:20
|
|
|
Anyone who likes Campbell's art or at least finds it tolerable should check out The Years Have Pants, a collection of his basically autobiographical Alec comics. He's actually a super good writer and covers lots of interesting topics, including numerous encounters with Moore and Gaiman. If that one is too much of a commitment, at least read After the Snooter which is included in Years but is pretty accessible on its own.
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2020 23:04
|
|
|
A Strange Aeon posted:Anyone who likes Campbell's art or at least finds it tolerable should check out The Years Have Pants, a collection of his basically autobiographical Alec comics. He's actually a super good writer and covers lots of interesting topics, including numerous encounters with Moore and Gaiman. I have that and keep meaning to try again but the beginning always bounced me off, although now that I've read Puma Blues I think I've built a temporary tolerance to navel gazing. Another option would be Bacchus which is now collected in two big books.
|
|
#
?
Jan 10, 2020 05:33
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1215730008213245954?s=20
|
|
#
?
Jan 10, 2020 21:37
|
|
|
Compiled from https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-award-recipients-2010-present:quote:
Notice anything? All the past winners have been monographs, or in other words, books. Last year, my 56-page scholarly article about Daredevil was published in a periodical law review. That means this is probably the only year in my life I'll ever have created something that is eligible for an Eisner Award, so I'm going to submit it for consideration in the Best Academic/Scholarly Work category. If I'm lucky, the Eisner Awards Nominating Committee will take a publication from a periodical seriously alongside all these monographs. Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Jan 11, 2020 |
|
#
?
Jan 11, 2020 05:46
|
|
|
Yes! Do it!
|
|
#
?
Jan 11, 2020 05:53
|
|
|
Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Compiled from https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-award-recipients-2010-present: Hell yeah! Do it!
|
|
#
?
Jan 11, 2020 06:14
|
|
|
If you win I want a special mention in your acceptance speech. Or at least thank all goons everywhere.
|
|
#
?
Jan 11, 2020 06:24
|
|
|
My new pet IW/Endgame theory is that Strange picked a timeline where both Thanos and Tony die because every timeline he saw where they won, Stark wound up doing something else down the road to end the world instead.
|
|
#
?
Jan 11, 2020 07:08
|
|
|
Retro Futurist posted:My new pet IW/Endgame theory is that Strange picked a timeline where both Thanos and Tony die because every timeline he saw where they won, Stark wound up doing something else down the road to end the world instead. I mean...I could see it.
|
|
#
?
Jan 11, 2020 10:59
|
|
|
Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Last year, my 56-page scholarly article about Daredevil was published in a periodical law review. That means this is probably the only year in my life I'll ever have created something that is eligible for an Eisner Award, so I'm going to submit it for consideration in the Best Academic/Scholarly Work category. If I'm lucky, the Eisner Awards Nominating Committee will take a publication from a periodical seriously alongside all these monographs. While you're destined to lose to someone's published thesis about minority representation in comics, it really is an honor to be nominated.
|
|
#
?
Jan 11, 2020 14:48
|
|
|
Random Stranger posted:While you're destined to lose to someone's published thesis about minority representation in comics, it really is an honor to be nominated. A lot of comics scholarship is about exploring and showcasing minority creators because it's a really glaring gap in the records that does urgently need to be filled (a lot of them are also anthologies-- I wonder if that's the more determinative factor, allowing a bunch of contributors to be honored at once?). I don't think it's worth being snarky about-- yeah, that's what a lot of the Eisner winners are about, but it's important work and the texts I know from that list are excellent. Still rooting for BBVL though!
|
|
#
?
Jan 11, 2020 16:38
|
|
|
Archyduchess posted:A lot of comics scholarship is about exploring and showcasing minority creators because it's a really glaring gap in the records that does urgently need to be filled (a lot of them are also anthologies-- I wonder if that's the more determinative factor, allowing a bunch of contributors to be honored at once?). I don't think it's worth being snarky about-- yeah, that's what a lot of the Eisner winners are about, but it's important work and the texts I know from that list are excellent. I'm not complaining at all about that since it is a pretty big problem. I was just noting that they have a definite type that they want for winners.
|
|
#
?
Jan 11, 2020 16:40
|
|
|
Random Stranger posted:I'm not complaining at all about that since it is a pretty big problem. I was just noting that they have a definite type that they want for winners. Sorry, just touchy about it! I do think it's encouraging that the last few years have opened up a little from the anthology. That Anne Elizabeth Moore book in particular is not only in theory a single-artist study but also really really weird.
|
|
#
?
Jan 11, 2020 16:46
|
|
|
Archyduchess posted:Sorry, just touchy about it! I do think it's encouraging that the last few years have opened up a little from the anthology. That Anne Elizabeth Moore book in particular is not only in theory a single-artist study but also really really weird. It's fine. I thought that someone might take the wrong way when I posted, but I also thought it was a bit amusing that the category was so narrowly focused and went for it. Honestly, I probably should read some of those books since I'm positive they would be illuminating. Edit: I went ahead and ordered Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics since that's a topic I haven't seen anyone do anything more than a cursory touch on. Random Stranger fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Jan 11, 2020 |
|
#
?
Jan 11, 2020 17:05
|
|
|
Thanks for your interest and support, folks. I was up late composing the perfect(?) cover letter, and I mailed it out today!
|
|
#
?
Jan 11, 2020 19:21
|
|
|
I'm super excited for you!
|
|
#
?
Jan 11, 2020 19:27
|
|
|
Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Compiled from https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-award-recipients-2010-present: Good luck!!!
|
|
#
?
Jan 11, 2020 19:28
|
|
Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Thanks for your interest and support, folks. I was up late composing the perfect(?) cover letter, and I mailed it out today! I'm gonna use this depleted cosmic cube to wish you get the nom.
|
|
|
#
?
Jan 11, 2020 20:49
|
|
|
I picked up a couple books last night with Christmas gift cards. Super looking forward to digging into the Junji Ito stuff (I grabbed Fragments of Horror and Uzemeki), but what I’m reading first is a book called Bizarre Romance by Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell. Apparently they’re married, and this is a collaboration of weird little short stories in mostly graphic form. The first story is about a couple that gets married but the guy needs his wife to leave him alone from 6-8 pm every Thursday, and is the reason I bought the book. It’s adorable and I highly recommend that story in particular, though I like the weirdness from the rest of the book too. Not sure if the link works, but the whole first story is up on google books preview of the book: https://books.google.ca/books?id=Vs1FDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y
|
|
#
?
Jan 12, 2020 18:08
|
|
|
Sheldon Vella has a sale on his original art over at Cadence, everything 30% off with all proceeds going to fire relief in Australia. He has pages from the Dazzler/Daughters of the Dragon short we did ages ago (my first Marvel job!) as well as some other cool stuff!
|
|
#
?
Jan 13, 2020 03:37
|
|
|
New chat thread just in case we are still doing the quarterly thing.
|
|
#
?
Jan 14, 2020 17:26
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 29, 2024 17:46 |
|
|
Madkal posted:New chat thread just in case we are still doing the quarterly thing. Thank you, I was just thinking that this one was looking a bit long in the tooth. It's been a hell of a long quarter.
|
|
#
?
Jan 14, 2020 17:34
|
|