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WickedHate posted:Squizzle is right. People hate on you constantly and I don't get it, man. You're cool, I like you too. He's the lesser of two evils. I'm sure he appreciates you taking the heat off him.
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Isn't Lurdiak Canadian? What are you afraid of, it's not like the book is about Native Americans.
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Aphrodite posted:Isn't Lurdiak Canadian? First Incognations.
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Grayson is a pretty fun comic book. I like the running joke about his butt.
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Aphrodite posted:Isn't Lurdiak Canadian? We have black people and racism here too. Vincent posted:Grayson is a pretty fun comic book. I like the running joke about his butt. It's nice to see comics catch up to the fan jokes.
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Lurdiak posted:We have black people and racism here too. WHAT
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Alaois posted:WHAT It's true, though moving to Canada from South Africa is a bit of a culture shock. Also I was going to make a joke about reading Incognegro while listening to Turbonegro but I couldn't make it work.
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Madkal posted:It's true, though moving to Canada from South Africa is a bit of a culture shock. just sittin on the bus, reading Incognegro, listening to Turbonegro and wearing my Jean-Michel Basquiat "Irony of the Negro Policeman" print t-shirt
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Alaois posted:WHAT Montreal has a lot of Haitian and ex-french-colony African immigrants, to the point that in the Quebec version of the Simpsons, Carl has an African accent implying that he's an immigrant. That's not really a racism thing but I think it's kinda interesting anyway.
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Alaois posted:just sittin on the bus, reading Incognegro, listening to Turbonegro and wearing my Jean-Michel Basquiat "Irony of the Negro Policeman" print t-shirt This is during your vacation in Montenegro, right? Where you carried that flask full of pre-mixed negroni?
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So after talking praises of the mexican comic industry yesterday, I find that the oldest comic book store in the country (as in one of the few that import their product directly from Diamond) has decided to stop selling the local versions of the comics because is simply not profitable for them. But the reasons the owner gives for it, well, I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around it. Here are they, translation is mine.quote:1. Cover price are, without exception too low. It seemingly they have so little confidence in their product that they're bent on selling them at the lower price possible in hopes of the reader will buy them and reduce returnings. That's not how comics work. If the story and the art aren't good, the comic won't sell no matter how low is the price. They shouldn't make everyone lose their time and money by publishing low quality comics even if the license is so cheap that is pretty much a steal. All the contrary, they should publish comics of good quality and highly demanded by the public, with a good MRSP so the profits can be shared among everyone involved in the distribution: Editorial-> Distribution->Stores->Collectors. That they don't see things this way is truly a shame because paper and printing quality on national comics generally are better than in the original editions. Some clarification is in order. Saying that they're trying all kinds of comics with no real criteria is misleading, the criteria are simply popularity and demand. Take for example DC, the books they publish are GL, WW, Flash, Aquaman, JL and "digest" editions for Batman (that includes both Batman and Detective Comics) and Superman (usually Superman/Action Comics but lately they've put two Superman issues a once). From here there a few other books that are more or less fan demanded: Harley Quinn (Formerly Batman/Superman), Earth 2 (formerly JLA) and Batman Eternal (the only weekly book). All the books took the start of the N52 as starting point and there's roughly ten months of dlay between the original publication of the books with the date we got them, we're just hitting Convergence this month. Quality of the comic aside, all of those books are DC's heavy hitters and the ones with the biggest fanbase around, making them kind of a safe bet for the publisher. Now, when editorials go to conventions they carry most of their stock there and yeah, they sell them either at discount or offering incentives, like promotional items or the chance to get new books in advance before they get wide release. I dunno, from my perspective as consummer the current direction of the market is fantastic and this guy is just butthurt about not being able to jack up the prices at his leisure as is the norm with the imported books but maybe he does have the reason.
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Squizzle posted:This is during your vacation in Montenegro, right? Where you carried that flask full of pre-mixed negroni? the flask, of course, features the artwork of Johnny Negron. Edit: Also, I heard that Fantagraphics released the complete Eternauta in english and I highly recommend it. It's one hell of a book.
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Lurdiak posted:We have black people and racism here too. Yeah but nobody will notice you reading the book because there's a hockey game on.
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Can you post some covers for your local editions? I saw some French DC digests a little while ago and they looked awesome. \/ Yeah. I meant the bundled monthlies. The French N52 Batman one I saw had a really unique, clean trade dress with dope logo. I'll see if I can find it again when I'm home. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 09:47 on Feb 3, 2016 |
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Teenage Fansub posted:Can you post some covers for your local editions? I saw some French DC digests a little while ago and they looked awesome. Not Dark_Tzitzimine, but I can share some of my stuff:      Prices are pretty decent I think. Hardcovers from the big 2 are something like $16-18 USD (and both Marvel and DC are published by the same company). Softcovers are usually $6 or $7 USD, except for big ones like the Preacher books, those are $12 USD. I don't collect floppies so I can't really comment on those.
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Lurdiak posted:Montreal has a lot of Haitian and ex-french-colony African immigrants, to the point that in the Quebec version of the Simpsons, Carl has an African accent implying that he's an immigrant. How did they handle Carl being an Icelander (albeit adopted)?
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hup posted:How did they handle Carl being an Icelander (albeit adopted)? I'd have to look that up, because I haven't watched a new Simpsons episode in like 8 years. I think the show might've abandoned the pretense of not being set in the US at some point. The guy who voices Quebec Mr. Burns was my friend's teacher, he loves doing that voice in lectures.
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Teenage Fansub posted:Can you post some covers for your local editions? I saw some French DC digests a little while ago and they looked awesome. Is nothing fancy I'm afraid, they're just pick the cover for the main title (Batman and Superman) with the cover for theother title being included in the inside   They did had a special set of variants during november though    
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Now I just want to replay Grim Fandango.
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Nice to see DC animation willing to go outside of their house style, even if I'm not sure this is the best fit for The Obsidian Age.
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Mummies: The Most Versatile Characters Mummies work in all genres. Superhero:  Comedy:  Romance:  Science fiction:  Crime:  Military action:  Child's adventure:  Sword & planet:  Mystery:  Pulp noir:  Giant fetish:  Medical drama:  Man:  Things written in devanagari:  As you can see, there is no type of fiction that cannot be improved by adding one or more mummies. Squizzle fucked around with this message at 06:57 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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Squizzle posted:Science fiction: Someone once described Star Trek as "serious sci fi" to me.
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Lurdiak posted:Someone once described Star Trek as "serious sci fi" to me. To be fair to Star Trek, the people who made those comics literally never saw the show(which is why Spock is wearing red). But to be fair to Gold Key, the Original Series was terrible.
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I just don't know why people are afraid of admitting their favorite space show is pulp.
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Lurdiak posted:Someone once described Star Trek as "serious sci fi" to me.
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The same reason bronies insist MLP is for "everyone". People are insecure.
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WickedHate posted:But to be fair to Gold Key, the Original Series was terrible. Ghostlight posted:That person has literally no idea what they are talking about.
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Man lots of choice butts on those mummies. They should start making bandages with JUICY printed across the rear end.
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WickedHate posted:To be fair to Star Trek, the people who made those comics literally never saw the show(which is why Spock is wearing red). It wouldn't be the first famous 1960s TV series to have space mummies either.
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Travis343 posted:Man lots of choice butts on those mummies. They should start making bandages with JUICY printed across the rear end. Except, you know, mummy butts are the exact opposite of "JUICY" Doctor Spaceman posted:TOS has the gangster planet, a wild west episode, and Lincoln fighting Genghis Khan. You can watch the show and think that cover makes perfect sense. TOS didn't have a great budget so they had to continually visit planet backlot. Like one episode where the planet's set was just Mayberry shot from a different angle.
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By far the stupidest Star Trek episodes were the one where there's a planet that has its own united states constitution and US flag, and the one where a bunch of romans find jesus. Oh and the one that's just the taming of the shrew.
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muscles like this? posted:Except, you know, mummy butts are the exact opposite of "JUICY" Right youd think theyd be all dried out but check out those covers. Several surprisingly well-preserved mummy butts.
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Travis343 posted:Right youd think theyd be all dried out but check out those covers. Several surprisingly well-preserved mummy butts. It's true. You actually distinguish the greater Middle Kingdom mummification versus the declining art of the Late Kingdom by the quality of the badankhadankh.
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Mr. Maltose posted:It's true. You actually distinguish the greater Middle Kingdom mummification versus the declining art of the Late Kingdom by the quality of the badankhadankh. 
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Lurdiak posted:I just don't know why people are afraid of admitting their favorite space show is pulp. They don't read books. That kind of statement is usually a Star Trek vs Star Wars thing. Lightning Lord fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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Feb 4, 2016 16:35
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Lurdiak posted:Someone once described Star Trek as "serious sci fi" to me.
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It's serious scifi in that it comes from that golden age where scifi stories were thinly veiled morality plays that used fantastical premises to do thought experiments about human nature.
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Original recipe Trek is Twilight Zone with a steady cast of characters. —an observation I stole from a friend
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Squizzle posted:Original recipe Trek is Twilight Zone with a steady cast of characters. Ehhh, I'd disagree with that, otherwise you're going to be lumping a lot of shows into the same observation. ST and TZ had morality play episodes but TZ focused far more on subverting expectations while ST did a lot more of the modern societal conflict but in space stuff. And I'd argue that this holds even more true when the most popular episodes from both series are put up against each other.
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The twist was one of the TZ's stylistic signatures, but it was almost always in service of an episode's larger exploration of the shape of our humanity. Trek was all about that exploration, with some fun asides for like gangster world or a lady who turns into a cat, but saved time on character introductions by coming at you every week with the same Dr. Pathos, Mr. Logos, and Captain Ethos (+ supporting cast like Drunk Mechanic).
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