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I bought three hundred Ultimate Guard comic bags and stuffed all my Marvel comics from the late seventies on to the late nineties in them. Only afterwards did I notice that the "current size" bags aren't actually meant for the older comics (according to their web site). They fit perfectly, however: what gives? Seems to me the "regular size" width of 18.4 would be too wide, and allows the funny paper to slide around inside the bag unnecessarily.
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Sep 25, 2014 21:02
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Leperflesh posted:The bags are typically sized so that you can stick a board in them, and then the comic will fit against the board without the edges being squeezed too much. The board generally prevents too much movement inside the bag. Ah OK with a board it would probably be a tighter fit. Or at least it would be a bit difficult to stick the comic books in there without damaging the corners. xK1 posted:By "older" comics they probably mean silver/golden age stuff, anything from about 1965 onward counts as current size. They have golden age, silver age, regular (a pretty drat stupid name), and current. Since the "regular" comics easily fit in the "current" bags I guess I don't really have a problem  Early 70s and earlier won't really fit but they were already in suitable bags when I bought them.
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Sep 26, 2014 10:16
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Here's a question that pooped into my mind today at the flea market when I saw a stack of Youngblood comic books for 4€ (the stack, not per issue): do people who grew up reading that stuff have some kind of attachment to it? Do people wax nostalgic over Rob Liefeld comics?
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Sep 27, 2014 18:34
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Madkal posted:I wax nostalgic on Spawn. Is that the same thing? Meeeeh maybe? I remember kind of liking Todd McFarlane poo poo back in The Incredible Hulk and The Amazing Spider-Man just because it was so different but... no, wait, he was never nearly as abysmal as Liefeld so I guess it isn't the same thing. (I've never read Spawn so I don't know about the stories though.)
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Sep 28, 2014 11:27
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WickedHate posted:Has the Punisher ever been much of a detective? I'm reading The Punisher MAX*, and Frank's getting information is literally just sitting at the crime scene eavesdropping on the police. Not that I expect him to have a Batcave to do forensics in, but that's just lazy. Let's not forget that Shaft found the headquarters of the mafia by running into every Italian bar in the city and shouting "Where the gently caress is the headquarters of the mafia?!?". (In the book, I've never seen the movie.) Not all fictive detectives work solely by using their little grey cells. (And I never understood how you could do any detecting with your balls anyway )
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Sep 28, 2014 11:30
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bobkatt013 posted:He has met The Black Racer I refuse to believe Jack Kirby was neither wrong in the head nor doing drugs.
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Sep 29, 2014 12:22
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Inkspot posted:Is there a Batman arc where some shady businessman establishes 24/7 daylight in Gotham? I think it might have had something to do with crystals. Doesn't sound familiar but there's been at least one Donald Duck story like that. (Well, Duckburg, not Gotham.)
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Sep 30, 2014 01:50
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Inkspot posted:Go on, ... Well that's about it, I can't remember if it used the "Scrooge's scheme ruins everything and he gets his comeuppance and takes it out on Donald/Gyro/whoever gave him the idea" or the "Scrooge's scheme ruins everything but then he redeems himself (monetarily) by implementing it in Foreigncountrystan" template. It's an Italian story and I just put all of the 200 or so books in storage so I don't think I'll be digging it up, sorry. Dr. Hurt posted:You'd think some enterprising villain would set that up in St. Canard, not in Duckburg. When you think about it Scrooge is a villain.
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Sep 30, 2014 10:42
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Aphrodite posted:White Events are also in Hickman's Avengers, but that's a direct reference. What, like Frasier fan conventions?
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Sep 30, 2014 15:22
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WickedHate posted:It was Tomar Re, the orange dude with the beak. He probably thought "Eh, I'll do it tomarre *squawk*" 
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Oct 6, 2014 07:58
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http://www.metla.fi/silvafennica/full/sf44/sf444681.pdf It's not easy.
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Oct 8, 2014 08:24
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CapnAndy posted:Darkseid isn't a cryptofacist. He's the ur-facist. He is facism given form. Yeah he rules with his face.
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Oct 17, 2014 19:36
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redbackground posted:Wait, who's calling Superman's dog a Nazi?! Have you ever seen a police cat? 
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Oct 17, 2014 19:37
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Unmature posted:Just read all of Planet Hulk and World War Hulk. What happens to the Hulk after that? Wikipedia jumps right from the end of WWH to him doing things with Skaar. How does he get out of that tank thing? All the Red Hulk business started after that right? The inter-dimensional crossroads stories by Mantlo. e: For single-issue story: the one with Mogol.
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Jul 8, 2015 12:14
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Lurdiak posted:But I'm told that's how all the pros do it! That's literally what Wally Wood would have done if he could have.
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Jul 9, 2015 13:03
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CapnAndy posted:She would have gotten Mephisto-magicked out of existence along with the marriage, presumably? I haven't read the Tex Willer - Marvel crossover. 
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Jul 18, 2015 02:18
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Jack Gladney posted:And Aunt May was completely unaffected by her years spent in European prison? That sounds slightly worse for her heart condition than the shock of learning that Peter is Spider-Man. Since I don't know what "European" means here I'm just going to guess her heart condition would be better off after years of prison in Europe than it would be after years of no prison in the US 
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Jul 20, 2015 07:34
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ecavalli posted:Oh, gently caress off. They're not scare quotes you loving idiot; I don't know where in Europe she was in prison. EDIT: DivineCoffeeBinge posted:So, yeah. As monstrous a fuckup as "oh, May's just been in a Turkish prison or whatever" was, that's one of the few problems that can't be laid at the feet of the folks responsible for the Clone Saga. Make that "didn't know". (Sorry about the scary quotes again.) 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 08:10 on Jul 20, 2015 |
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Jul 20, 2015 08:07
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ecavalli posted:I can't stop you from responding with Internet-typical outrage at someone insulting you Hmm yes I totally remember the bit where I was outraged.
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Jul 20, 2015 08:29
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Maybe it's because I originally read the Claremont X-men in Finnish, objectively a better and more succinct language altogether, but Claremont never struck me as wordy. (Then again I started with Lee and Thomas so )
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Jul 31, 2015 09:30
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Now Alan Moore's later stuff is another matter entirely. He really likes the sound of his own droning senile Tolkien syndrome-addled voice.
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Jul 31, 2015 10:25
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Cyphoderus posted:Oh, man. Promethea is a tough challenge to get through. Speaking of Swamp Thing, here's an actual question: is any of the later Swamp Thing worth reading? I'm mostly concerned about not needing to know
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Jul 31, 2015 12:06
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prefect posted:I don't know how "later" you mean, but the New 52 Swamp Thing was pretty darned good. (I stopped reading it after a few years, but I've been doing a general reduction in all my reading.) Later than Moore.
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Jul 31, 2015 12:13
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Does the art in Manhattan Projects ever get beyond mind-warpingly lovely? Because I kind of want to see where the story goes but it literally makes me queazy to read it.
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Aug 2, 2015 04:10
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Wheat Loaf posted:I like the story I've heard about one of Kirby's Fourth World ideas he never got to use, namely that Superman would eventually fight Darkseid and it would turn out that Darkseid is actually weak; he's all smoke and mirrors. That doesn't sound far-fetched and would explain a few odd scenes. Not that there are non-odd Fourth World scenes.
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Aug 5, 2015 12:16
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10 Beers posted:Thanos is just an 80's kid at heart. We all wanted to be MJ. Mary Jane?
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Aug 5, 2015 21:24
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10 Beers posted:Thanos is just an 80's kid at heart. We all wanted to be MJ. I wanted to be Max Headroom.
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Aug 5, 2015 21:25
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The best part of this story is that the reason they were fighting is Johnny just decided "hmm I'll go be a dick to Namor and fight him that'll show everyone I'm cool!"
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Aug 8, 2015 06:39
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Rob Liefeld was the main reason why a lot of people simply stopped reading/buying American costumed hero funny papers in the nineties. e: His (and, more importantly, his copy-cats') utter lack of skill probably ties with the fact you couldn't even read your shittily-drawn fantasy stories without buying at least five titles per month. (Not necessarily the same titles every month.) But the rear end art was still a major reason. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Aug 12, 2015 |
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Aug 12, 2015 05:00
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Besides Byrne (as Cogburn), did Jack Kirby draw any other comics industry giant as a comic book supervillain? (Cameos and one-offs not included.)
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Aug 12, 2015 11:13
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Senior Woodchuck posted:There was Stan Lee as Funky Flashman and Roy Thomas as his lackey HouseRoy. (I actually think HouseRoy was the nastier portrayal of the two.) I've read that and I never made the connection 
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Aug 13, 2015 05:22
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Has Grant Morrison ever written anything where he isn't a character?
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Aug 16, 2015 17:20
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Uthor posted:How was The Mighty Thor 382 the 300th issue of Thor? Because they continued the numbering from Journey into Mystery. Thor was introduced in #83 so they're counting from that (even though the name of the paper wasn't changed until later).
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Aug 16, 2015 17:21
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Senior Woodchuck posted:Not to my knowledge. Really it was just Animal Man and (kinda) Seven Soldiers, as far as I know. Flex Mentallo.
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Aug 16, 2015 18:01
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Does Grant Morrison even... exist?!?!?!?!?!?
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Aug 17, 2015 06:35
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Aphrodite posted:It is, except the signs are French. In Quebec, milk comes in le bags.
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Aug 17, 2015 16:36
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Skwirl posted:"Felt red to me!"
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Sep 8, 2015 15:55
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Of course, if you go by costume design, you'd think the OG Daredevil was the blindest.
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Sep 8, 2015 15:57
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Endless Mike posted:Why is Captain SS fighting Hitler? You can see the same question on Hitler's face.
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WickedHate posted:
I thought The Claw was Chinese but maybe not e: I guess all Asians look the same to you, huh?
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