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It's Winter 2021, not Fall 2020. Shoot the poo poo here instead of there.
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I finished R.E.B.E.L.s in the fall and it's likely to be spring before I reach the Nu52 version...
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Jan 12, 2021 16:10
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I just recently read the Wolverine collection The Return of Weapon X. Man that guy just can't get a break. But it did remind me of something I hate about Wolverine. At one point Wolverine dies, and is met in heaven by and/or hallucinates Jean Grey. That unrequited love of Jean Grey part of his character absolutely sucks rear end. Wolverine at this point is supposed to respect and trust if not exactly get along with Scott, and Jean is dead, but still he just can't get over her, the one woman he wanted to gently caress but didn't get to. It's made even worse by the fact that the collection highlights that Wolverine has actually had mutual romantic relationships with women before. He was loving married! But when he dies he doesn't meet his wife, it's Jean Grey. It's terrible and makes Wolverine look like a lovely guy in a way that I don't think the authors intend.
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Jan 12, 2021 18:19
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I apparently bough the Harley Quinn/Betty & Veronica crossover at some point, and decided to take a look at it and... the letterer is doing something that makes sense but is really jarring. Most speech is in all caps as per usual, but they're going to regular upper-and-lower case to represent whispers and... it weirds me out. I think it would bug me less if it was ALL lower case. And I don't think I've ever seen this done before.
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Jan 12, 2021 22:28
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Gaz-L posted:I apparently bough the Harley Quinn/Betty & Veronica crossover at some point, and decided to take a look at it and... the letterer is doing something that makes sense but is really jarring. Most speech is in all caps as per usual, but they're going to regular upper-and-lower case to represent whispers and... it weirds me out. I think it would bug me less if it was ALL lower case. And I don't think I've ever seen this done before. I've seen it used before, typically with the mixed case text a bit smaller. Not very common, though.
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Jan 12, 2021 22:30
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Gaz-L posted:I apparently bough the Harley Quinn/Betty & Veronica crossover at some point, and decided to take a look at it and... the letterer is doing something that makes sense but is really jarring. Most speech is in all caps as per usual, but they're going to regular upper-and-lower case to represent whispers and... it weirds me out. I think it would bug me less if it was ALL lower case. And I don't think I've ever seen this done before. How’s the actual story. I only know of it because it was all I could find for Dini to sign at my local shop. Bless sketch covers.
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Jan 12, 2021 22:48
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It seems... fine... I only managed about one issue so far because that lettering quirk plus the clash of having just watched the Kaley Cuoco Harley show made it a little hard to reconcile. The latter is especially notable because Dini and Andreyko have a very specific TAS voice for these characters, and it's very odd seeing that when my brain wants Lake Bell's Ivy, and I also can't get the show's jokes in the college episode out of my mind when the big hook of the mini is apparently 2 16 year old girls in Halloween costumes being indistinguishable from 2 grown women in their mid 30s.
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Jan 12, 2021 22:55
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Incidental mixed case lettering used to be a lot more common, especially with hand-lettering. Tom Orzechowski used it frequently in Uncanny X-Men, both for whispers and vocalized pauses (oh, uh, um, etc.). Archie was a pretty artistically conservative publisher until fairly recently. It was the last publisher to move to digital lettering, and the same old-school look is still used across their publishing line. If the book's letterer (the great Deron Bennet) didn't do that stuff on his own, the Archie editors likely requested it.
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Jan 12, 2021 23:18
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Si Spurrier's recent comics do it too. The Spire, Coda, and Alienated.
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Jan 13, 2021 03:05
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Issue 2 and I don't know why I was surprised when Mr Lodge announced the entertainment for his gala: It's Zatanna
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Jan 13, 2021 22:24
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https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1349553898172928002?s=21
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Jan 14, 2021 05:00
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I'm glad to report that the Batman Beyond opening still totally whips.
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Jan 14, 2021 20:06
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Vincent posted:I'm glad to report that the Batman Beyond opening still totally whips. Is it on HBOMax yet?
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Jan 15, 2021 01:48
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Jan 15, 2021 01:52
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Jack Kirby killed four nazis?  That's a better day's work than I've ever put in.
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Jan 15, 2021 02:42
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Happy Hippo posted:Jack Kirby killed four nazis? He hated Nazis.
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Jan 15, 2021 02:43
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Him and Christopher Lee, doin' God's work.
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Jan 15, 2021 02:44
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Skwirl posted:Is it on HBOMax yet? Yes, it and B:TAS are now on HBO Max.
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Jan 15, 2021 14:52
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muscles like this! posted:Yes, it and B:TAS are now on HBO Max. Awesome, I knew about B:TAS but last I checked Superman and JL/JLU weren't on there yet, so I didn't know about Beyond.
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Jan 15, 2021 19:28
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They also added the Green Lantern CG animated series which is better than it looks.
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Jan 15, 2021 20:18
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Happy Hippo posted:Jack Kirby killed four nazis? Hey, it doesn't say it was the same four nazis in every story. He killed at least four.
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Jan 15, 2021 22:29
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On the topic of Jack Kirby, just started reading Destroyer Duck and man is this some absolutely vicious writing on his end, the infamous Cogburn page is just a taste of how savage it is
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Jan 16, 2021 05:16
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All roads lead to the four nazis Jack Kirby killed.
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Jan 16, 2021 10:18
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Yvonmukluk posted:Hey, it doesn't say it was the same four nazis in every story. Yeah, they're all different stories that just happen to all end with 4 dead Nazis. Can you imagine being his wife and asking "so honey, how was your day?"
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Jan 16, 2021 10:21
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Didn’t he go on some dangerous scouting missions because he could draw maps?
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Jan 17, 2021 01:15
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Skwirl posted:Yeah, they're all different stories that just happen to all end with 4 dead Nazis. Roz was the inspiration for Big Barda, so I imagine her response was "Oh, only 4 this time? You'll do better nice time, hon"
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Jan 17, 2021 01:46
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Gaz-L posted:Roz was the inspiration for Big Barda, so I imagine her response was "Oh, only 4 this time? You'll do better nice time, hon" It's so weird Kirby wrote a book about a loving married couple based on his wife and Jim Steranko.
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Jan 17, 2021 01:57
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In the last thread there was talk about Giffen/DeMatteis's Justice League collections and how they stopped. Wasn’t it because they decided they did not want to pay sexual predator Gerard Jones residentials? It’s also why they have removed almost all his work from its streaming services and comixology
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Jan 17, 2021 20:02
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Did Kirby ever tell any of his Nazi killing stories in interviews or is it all just him telling friends and colleagues over cigars and whisky sort of thing? I’d love to hear them but I’m sure if he wanted them told in public he would’ve.
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Jan 17, 2021 22:42
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Bulgaroctonus posted:Did Kirby ever tell any of his Nazi killing stories in interviews or is it all just him telling friends and colleagues over cigars and whisky sort of thing? I’d love to hear them but I’m sure if he wanted them told in public he would’ve. The quote I posted was from the guy who created Usagi Yojimbo, which Fantagraphics was publishing in the late 80s so this was happening toward the end of Kirby's life.
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Jan 17, 2021 22:47
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Oh, I know who Stan Sakai is, that’s what I meant by friends/colleagues. I was just wondering if there’s anything that isn’t second hand. I also realize most vets will be reluctant to talk about that poo poo with anyone not a peer or whatever. I’m assuming if he was comfortable with anything specific being on the record it would’ve been released by now. Maybe Mark Evanier has tapes or something (it’s been a looooong time since I read his Kirby book but I think he eluded to some things).
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Jan 17, 2021 23:06
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Bulgaroctonus posted:Oh, I know who Stan Sakai is, that’s what I meant by friends/colleagues. I was just wondering if there’s anything that isn’t second hand. I also realize most vets will be reluctant to talk about that poo poo with anyone not a peer or whatever. I’m assuming if he was comfortable with anything specific being on the record it would’ve been released by now. Maybe Mark Evanier has tapes or something (it’s been a looooong time since I read his Kirby book but I think he eluded to some things). I just meant Stan Sakai was hearing these stories when Kirby had age related mental problems.
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Jan 17, 2021 23:15
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Oh, I got it, sorry. Day drinking is bad for reading comprehension. I was also under the impression that Kirby didn’t really have a serious cognitive decline til like his last two or three years (so early ‘90’s) and that he’d been telling the same stories up until the end (where your joke comes from). I didn’t know he was getting bad mentally that early.
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Jan 17, 2021 23:25
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bobkatt013 posted:In the last thread there was talk about Giffen/DeMatteis's Justice League collections and how they stopped. Wasn’t it because they decided they did not want to pay sexual predator Gerard Jones residentials? It’s also why they have removed almost all his work from its streaming services and comixology They stopped printing the hardcovers of their original attempt to collect the series in 2009 and stopped the TPBs in 2011, so that wouldn't be the reason.
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Jan 17, 2021 23:43
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bobkatt013 posted:In the last thread there was talk about Giffen/DeMatteis's Justice League collections and how they stopped. Wasn’t it because they decided they did not want to pay sexual predator Gerard Jones residentials? It’s also why they have removed almost all his work from its streaming services and comixology Lord it feels awkward having gotten a copy of one of his books for Christmas this year(I had put it on my Amazon Christmas wishlist years ago before that whole mess happened and I had forgotten it was still on there, and my mom bought it as one of my presents this year)
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Jan 18, 2021 01:53
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Also this came out last year
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Jan 18, 2021 02:25
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bobkatt013 posted:In the last thread there was talk about Giffen/DeMatteis's Justice League collections and how they stopped. Wasn’t it because they decided they did not want to pay sexual predator Gerard Jones residentials? It’s also why they have removed almost all his work from its streaming services and comixology Jones didn't start writing JLE until after the Giffen-DeMatteis run, so that's not it. They've just started collecting the comics and stopping a couple of volumes in multiple times now.
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Jan 18, 2021 03:06
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Random Stranger posted:I finished R.E.B.E.L.s in the fall and it's likely to be spring before I reach the Nu52 version... The old REBELS? The newest REBELS has a surprise arc with multiple surprise reveals. When you get to it remember this post and post your reaction.
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Jan 18, 2021 03:11
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Uthor posted:They stopped printing the hardcovers of their original attempt to collect the series in 2009 and stopped the TPBs in 2011, so that wouldn't be the reason. I know they announced Justice League: Breakdowns and then cancelled it around the time the arrest occurred
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Mr Hootington posted:The old REBELS? The newest REBELS has a surprise arc with multiple surprise reveals. When you get to it remember this post and post your reaction. Speaking of which, I just finished Legion of Super-Heroes and Legionnaires putting me at 2000 in my Legion read through. Unfortunately, the cut off of those two long series is also the mid-point of another Legion series, Titans/Legion: Universe Ablaze, because there can't be anything straightforward about reading Legion of Super-Heroes. It's weird that the series end where they started: the Earth being reduced to ruin by an invasion. Reboot Legion started strong but I feel like it fell into a rut around the time of the Mordru story arc and there were a lot of things that felt like they should develop into something that didn't. Legion's always had a problem with a huge cast and the last few years of the series never slowed down and focused on anything. Even two series weren't enough to let anything have room to breathe and there always seemed to be a struggle between trying to give each book a distinctive cast and trying to tell all encompassing stories. After twelve publishing years of reading at least two, more often three and occasionally four, Legion series simultaneously, I'm looking forward to just having one book to read. At least once Titans/Legion is complete. I'm less than 50 issues away from threeboot and considering I'm roughly six hundred comics into my Legion read through, that's nothing.
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