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Rhyno posted:Did we? Source? And the Tom Strong thing was revealed back at NYCC, so more of that wouldn’t be enormously surprising.
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At least that's gonna make me finally read Promethea.
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Barry Convex posted:Source? Whole issue leaked.
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Jan 8, 2018 23:07
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Rhyno posted:Whole issue leaked. What issue? This week's JLA? edit: It'd be hilarious if someone's just mixing up Prometheus, who's been in recently. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Jan 8, 2018 |
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Jan 8, 2018 23:09
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No, the issue in question. A watermarked black and white copy has leaked.
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Wasn't ABC published under Wildstorm? Curious how publishing rights work with that because I thought the whole point of ABC was that it was owned by Moore, and Wildstorm was independent before DC bought them out with Lee.
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Jan 8, 2018 23:19
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Rhyno posted:No, the issue in question. Do you know what number it'll be?
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Jan 8, 2018 23:20
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Teenage Fansub posted:Do you know what number it'll be? This weeks issue.
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Rhyno posted:This weeks issue. You just said no to me asking if it was this weeks! I got the impression retailers always got PDFs early. If they deny them is that when you know there's something juicy?
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Presumably it's JLA #22, which is coming out on Wednesday and is the first part of a storyline about the Queen of Fables. "With her reality-warping power, her intent is to take over the real world and the imaginary and rule over everything—and without Batman, does the Justice League stand a chance against her? Or will reality crumble at the Queen’s whim?" Also Steve Orlando is saying the following on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thesteveorlando/status/950033387774980097 https://twitter.com/thesteveorlando/status/950156723750400002 So all signs would point to Promethea, yeah. I am hazy on the details but the America's Best Comics line was largely created because Awesome Comics (aka Rob Liefeld Fleeing Creditors: The Publisher II) was in the middle of folding right as Moore was prepping to write a bunch of comics based on Liefeld characters (Youngblood and Supreme actually came out, a bunch of other ones were announced and never materialized) that featured most of the ABC creative team on them (Sprouse, Veitch, Ross, I want to say also JHW3 was supposed to do something at Awesome?) and so he basically rejiggered some of those concepts into a 'new' line of comics published through Wildstorm, where he'd had a good WFH relationship with Jim Lee and Scott Dunbier in the 1990s working on Wildcats/etc. I am 90% sure the books were always intended to be WFH so that they could continue when Moore got bored with them, allowing his collaborators and other people to keep them going and letting Lee/Dunbier/Wildstorm handle all of the business end so Moore didn't have to. And then DC bought Wildstorm.
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Teenage Fansub posted:You just said no to me asking if it was this weeks! I was confused! Full pdfs are not very common.
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Madkal posted:Wasn't ABC published under Wildstorm? Curious how publishing rights work with that because I thought the whole point of ABC was that it was owned by Moore, and Wildstorm was independent before DC bought them out with Lee. From what I understand, Moore took League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with him when he severed ties after the Black Dossier debacle, but DC still has the rest.
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I'm alternating between a reread of BPRD with Paul Jenkins/Jae Lee Inhumans for the ESE thread and goddamn is it a great comic. One of the minis that preceded the ongoing John Arcudi/Guy Davis series was one of the few non-DC comics written by Geoff Johns, which is weird.
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There was a period of multiple years where Marvel had a server where retailers/press could download PDF previews of their upcoming comics (usually the first 4-5 pages) and someone figured out that the files had the full issues in them and it was trivially easy to edit the file to let you read the whole thing. Either that or the URL went from like Siege_001_preview.pdf to Siege_001_full.pdf or something, I forget. Either way it was a loophole that existed for multiple years and lasted several months after the fact that someone straight up e-mailed Marvel to let them know that the flaw existed because there was some incident where they were convinced someone was "leaking" the issues out to someone and the whistleblower didn't want [insert editorial assistant here] to get fired on suspicion of leaking. I don't think any big publisher is that dumb about things anymore, though up until recently I was 100% convinced Boom was just uploading scans of their own comics to piracy sites. Also League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was a a creator-owned project in the works prior to any of the ABC stuff and exists in a separate "universe" from the one the ABC comics hypothetically shared, so presumably it was a separate contract from Tom Strong/Promethea/Top Ten/etc. Which is why Moore was able to peel that off and publish it through Top Shelf.
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I think Steve Lieber uploaded scans of both Whiteout comics to torrent sites because he felt it led people to buy the trades?
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Edge & Christian posted:Also League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was a a creator-owned project in the works prior to any of the ABC stuff and exists in a separate "universe" from the one the ABC comics hypothetically shared, so presumably it was a separate contract from Tom Strong/Promethea/Top Ten/etc. Which is why Moore was able to peel that off and publish it through Top Shelf. I want them to put Smax in Red Hood and the Outlaws, feature his wife/twin sister and absolutely no retcons. They can frame it like Janet yelling at Cap for not being down with incest, like they did back in Ultimates 3. edit: Found it! This but with Jason and Artemis 
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Edge & Christian posted:I don't think any big publisher is that dumb about things anymore, though up until recently I was 100% convinced Boom was just uploading scans of their own comics to piracy sites. That sounds like an entertaining story.
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So is Elric a DC character now because Michael Moorcock put him in when he was writing Tom Strong
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good day for a bris posted:I want them to put Smax in Red Hood and the Outlaws, feature his wife/twin sister and absolutely no retcons. They can frame it like Janet yelling at Cap for not being down with incest, like they did back in Ultimates 3. This is the future liberals want.
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good day for a bris posted:I want them to put Smax in Red Hood and the Outlaws, feature his wife/twin sister and absolutely no retcons. They can frame it like Janet yelling at Cap for not being down with incest, like they did back in Ultimates 3. First he didn't get twitter and Nascar, and now he doesn't get incest. Get with the times, Steve.
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Of all the news I'm most surprised that they brought back Queen of Fables, of all the forgettable one-shot villains, let alone to do something important with her. Also does this mean that we could get Supreme in DC too, because I'd kinda like that.
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good day for a bris posted:I want them to put Smax in Red Hood and the Outlaws, feature his wife/twin sister and absolutely no retcons. They can frame it like Janet yelling at Cap for not being down with incest, like they did back in Ultimates 3. This always breaks my brain. Like, does Jeff Loeb think liberals are okay with incest? Is Jeff Loeb pro-incest? Why the gently caress did the editor approve this? WHY THE gently caress IS INCEST BEING LAUDED AS A MODERN VALUE!? DOES NOT COMPUTE! DOES NOT COMPUTE! DOES NOT COMPUTE! *shutting down*
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Covok posted:This always breaks my brain. Like, does Jeff Loeb think liberals are okay with incest? Is Jeff Loeb pro-incest? Why the gently caress did the editor approve this? You don't get it, Mr. Covok, do you? It's more than that, they're in love!
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Covok posted:This always breaks my brain. Like, does Jeff Loeb think liberals are okay with incest? Is Jeff Loeb pro-incest? Why the gently caress did the editor approve this? Well you see, when a brother car loves a sister car....
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I don't think analyzing the thought processes of The Team That Brought You Ultimatum can lead to anything but madness.
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Covok posted:This always breaks my brain. Like, does Jeff Loeb think liberals are okay with incest? Is Jeff Loeb pro-incest? Why the gently caress did the editor approve this? I see you're not in touch with the tumblr crowd.
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That was pretty much Loeb at peak crazy, don't gaze too deeply into the abyss there.
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CapnAndy posted:Of all the news I'm most surprised that they brought back Queen of Fables, of all the forgettable one-shot villains, let alone to do something important with her. Queen of Fables was at least a two-shot villain: she appeared in a Superman story during Gail Simone's short pre-Infinite Crisis run (which was pretty fun because it pitted Superman against some bad guys he didn't ordinarily fight, like Black Adam and Dr Polaris, but had some past-his-prime John Byrne art that I didn't like so much).
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Lurdiak posted:I see you're not in touch with the tumblr crowd. More like the watches streaming porn crowd.
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Lightning Lord posted:More like the watches streaming porn crowd. That venn diagram is a circle.
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Roth posted:That sounds like an entertaining story. Lightning Lord posted:I think Steve Lieber uploaded scans of both Whiteout comics to torrent sites because he felt it led people to buy the trades? CapnAndy posted:Of all the news I'm most surprised that they brought back Queen of Fables, of all the forgettable one-shot villains, let alone to do something important with her. And do you mean Supreme or Mister Majestic? Because Rob Liefeld still owns Supreme and all of those characters. Also on the topic of Jeph Loeb and Odd Proclivities, while I guess he doesn't endorse it, Jeph Loeb has an extreme and repeated interest in turning villains into cannibals; off the top of my head he had Killer Croc, Sabretooth, Ultimate Blob, (I think?) Ultimate Hulk, Tiger Shark, and I think at least one other character? It's a really odd recurring thing throughout his body of work. I only remembered Tiger Shark and Sabretooth by googling "Jeph Loeb cannibal" and finding a review I wrote nine years ago about this exact thing. That review might also have been my first published use of "there are too many farts in the fart machine" as well. Edge & Christian fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Jan 9, 2018 |
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Tbf ultimate hulk eating people started in millars original series
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site posted:Tbf ultimate hulk eating people started in millars original series Same with Wanda Quicksilver romance but that was more them always being together doing date like activities like gondola rides as opposed to flat out “they’re loving!”
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Rhyno posted:I was confused! Whew, got busy right after I posted this! So the way PDF previews now work is pretty simple. To entice retailers, DC and Marvel now send the previews to Diamond. On those books, when you click their entry in the Diamond catalog there is a "generate preview" button. When you do this there is a brief wait and then a pdf of the book downloads to your PC. Sometimes the preview is a full color finished book (Mister Miracle #1) but recently they are just b&w (all the new DC stuff hitting in the coming weeks). When you generate the pdf there is a pattern spread across the pages like puzzle pieces and in each piece is your store diamond code. This way if it leaks they can trace it almost immediately. Now SOMEBODY thought it was a good idea to share the JLoA page in a retailer group this morning and that guy was removed from the group an hour later with the admin explaining that DC's FB guy asked for them to be booted and warning that there was a massive penalty coming to that store.
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Edge & Christian posted:Also on the topic of Jeph Loeb and Odd Proclivities, while I guess he doesn't endorse it, Jeph Loeb has an extreme and repeated interest in turning villains into cannibals; off the top of my head he had Killer Croc, Sabretooth, Ultimate Blob, (I think?) Ultimate Hulk, Tiger Shark, and I think at least one other character? It's a really odd recurring thing throughout his body of work. I only remembered Tiger Shark and Sabretooth by googling "Jeph Loeb cannibal" and finding a review I wrote nine years ago about this exact thing. That review might also have been my first published use of "there are too many farts in the fart machine" as well. When it’s a fetish it’s called vore.
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Rhyno posted:When you generate the pdf there is a pattern spread across the pages like puzzle pieces and in each piece is your store diamond code. This way if it leaks they can trace it almost immediately. lol
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Is Promethea massively popular and I'm the strange one for barely being aware of it? I get Watchmen, that's a well known popular comic, but bringing in Promethea and whoever else just seems like they're specifically trying to get Alan Moore mad.
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Guy Goodbody posted:Is Promethea massively popular and I'm the strange one for barely being aware of it? I get Watchmen, that's a well known popular comic, but bringing in Promethea and whoever else just seems like they're specifically trying to get Alan Moore mad. I stand by the position that the use of anything Moore created over the past few years is Johns sticking back at him after Moore said Johns career was based on his table scraps. I mean, they're going to drop V into the DCU this year, bank on it.
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I wonder what book they’re going to put slutty Dorothy Gale in.
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Guy Goodbody posted:Is Promethea massively popular and I'm the strange one for barely being aware of it? I get Watchmen, that's a well known popular comic, but bringing in Promethea and whoever else just seems like they're specifically trying to get Alan Moore mad. It was at the time, yeah.
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