April thread brings May Dredd

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claw game handjob: Mar 27, 2007; pinch pinch scrape pinch
ow ow fuck it's caught
i'm bleeding
JESUS TURN IT OFF
WHY ARE YOU STILL SMILING

Covok posted:

Gotcha. I assumed it was on a 10 scale, but I guess it must mean 5.1 million.

Nah. The scale is 100%. That means an estimated 5.1% of US televisions were watching it.

In the old days, before cable took off, a show being anything below double-digits on a network meant death, but now the market is so fragmented that things like this are roaring success.

# ? Apr 2, 2018 23:21

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# ? Apr 25, 2024 21:02

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

A given rating is the percentage of homes that can access a show watching it. For broadcast television, that equates to something approaching every home in the US. Cable ratings will show a higher rating meaning fewer homes viewing (and varies even by channel). But yeah a 5.1 is really good in 2018

# ? Apr 2, 2018 23:38

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

I was a Rosanne watching kid. I was into checking it out, but the whole "live audience" thing came off as so phony I couldn't stand it for long.
I should check out one of the original episodes to see if it really did feel more natural.

# ? Apr 3, 2018 04:10

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

Digital comics alert: Amazon's gone crazy again and priced 278 Marvel graphic novels at a dollar.

They're clearly feuding with Disney (you can't pre-order physical copies of any of their movies anymore; for contrast, Ready Player One already has a preorder page up and that came out literally five days ago), I wonder if these constant price slashes are another symptom of it.

# ? Apr 3, 2018 19:44

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

It's a consolidation of their 99c new trades sales that have been running on Comixology all last month. It's Marvel's promotion.
https://www.comixology.com/Recent-Marvel-Collections-Sale/page/18094

Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Apr 3, 2018

# ? Apr 3, 2018 19:53

Covok: May 27, 2013; Yet where is that woman now? Tell me, in what heave does she reside? None of them. Because no God bothered to listen or care. If that is what you think it means to be a God, then you and all your teachings are welcome to do as that poor women did. And vanish from these realms forever.

CapnAndy posted:

Digital comics alert: Amazon's gone crazy again and priced 278 Marvel graphic novels at a dollar.

They're clearly feuding with Disney (you can't pre-order physical copies of any of their movies anymore; for contrast, Ready Player One already has a preorder page up and that came out literally five days ago), I wonder if these constant price slashes are another symptom of it.

I would like to coin a new law: Nicholas' Law. Whenever something happens, someone on the internet will assume it's being done out of malice and spite.

Just having a little jest.

# ? Apr 3, 2018 23:15

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

Covok posted:

I would like to coin a new law: Nicholas' Law. Whenever something happens, someone on the internet will assume it's being done out of malice and spite.

Just having a little jest.

Naw, fair enough. I made an assumption and now I am a dummy in public.

They really are pulling that bullshit with Disney pre-orders, though! It pisses me off!

# ? Apr 3, 2018 23:24

El Gallinero Gros: Mar 17, 2010

Covok posted:

I would like to coin a new law: Nicholas' Law. Whenever something happens, someone on the internet will assume it's being done out of malice and spite.

Just having a little jest.

You made that jest out of spite!

# ? Apr 3, 2018 23:29

Samuringa: Mar 27, 2017; Best advice I was ever given?

"Ticker, you'll be a lot happier once you stop caring about the opinions of a culture that is beneath you."

I learned my worth, learned the places and people that matter.

Opened my eyes.

Teenage Fansub posted:

It's a consolidation of their 99c new trades sales that have been running on Comixology all last month. It's Marvel's promotion.
https://www.comixology.com/Recent-Marvel-Collections-Sale/page/18094

Wow, that's a very massive - and very random - sale. I'm going to need some opinions here.

First of all, this artist hates Wolverine:

Now that that's out of the way, I'd like some details on these:

New Mutants by Zeb Wells: The Complete Collection
Collects New Mutants (2009) #1-11, #15-21 and material from X-Necrosha #1 and Marvel Spotlight: New Mutants.

It says Complete but I guess that's just a complete run, which is okay with me, but I'd like to know both how good it is and how much someone who has never faithfully read any X-men will be able to appreciate it. I know Sunspot(He's brazilian!) and Magik(She's Collosus weird sister) but that's it.

New Mutants: Back To School - The Complete Collection

Now, since this one was released before, I guess it would help me learn about the characters, but Christ, that's some terrible art. Unless it's absolutely mandatory I'd rather just read a wiki summary about them or something.

Jubilee by Robert Kirkman

This looks like it's totally my poo poo, except for the "By Robert Kirkman" bit. I have The Astounding Wolf-Man, which is pretty much gore porn and I've avoided Invincible for the same reason. I don't know how you could turn something like Jubilee into that but I'm still wary.

Thor by Walter Simonson Vol. 1

There's a 99.9% chance I'm getting this and Vol.2 but 3 ain't on sale and that's a no-go for me. How much am I going to miss?

# ? Apr 4, 2018 00:27

Random Stranger: Nov 27, 2009

Samuringa posted:

Thor by Walter Simonson Vol. 1

There's a 99.9% chance I'm getting this and Vol.2 but 3 ain't on sale and that's a no-go for me. How much am I going to miss?

You're going to miss some of the greatest comics ever, that's how much you're going to miss. Those issues are awesome, but it's mostly set up for the really amazing stuff that's coming up. And without the next set of books, you won't find out what's going "DOOM DOOM DOOM".

# ? Apr 4, 2018 12:40

JordanKai: Aug 19, 2011; Get high and think of me.

Samuringa posted:

New Mutants by Zeb Wells: The Complete Collection
Collects New Mutants (2009) #1-11, #15-21 and material from X-Necrosha #1 and Marvel Spotlight: New Mutants.

It says Complete but I guess that's just a complete run, which is okay with me, but I'd like to know both how good it is and how much someone who has never faithfully read any X-men will be able to appreciate it. I know Sunspot(He's brazilian!) and Magik(She's Collosus weird sister) but that's it.

Zeb Wells' New Mutants is quite good, but it very much builds on stuff that came before it. I think you can still enjoy it all on its own, but I think you'll get more out of it if you've read the original New Mutants as well as Legion.

# ? Apr 4, 2018 13:21

irlZaphod: Mar 26, 2004; Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

Samuringa posted:

New Mutants: Back To School - The Complete Collection

Now, since this one was released before, I guess it would help me learn about the characters, but Christ, that's some terrible art. Unless it's absolutely mandatory I'd rather just read a wiki summary about them or something.

Which art are you saying is terrible? The cover above is just from, I think, the last issue of the series (and isn't terrible). The interiors are all pretty different from what I remember. Anyway, it was a pretty decent series but it probably won't help you much with the 2009 New Mutants series. The 2003 one (above) was about a new class of students who were being taught by some of the original New Mutants characters. Most of the rest show up later (although Magik was still "dead" at this point iirc).

Also holy crap I don't remember Bachalo doing interiors on that series (although I personally wasn't too familiar with him at the time).

irlZaphod fucked around with this message at 15:48 on Apr 4, 2018

# ? Apr 4, 2018 15:44

Samuringa: Mar 27, 2017; Best advice I was ever given?

"Ticker, you'll be a lot happier once you stop caring about the opinions of a culture that is beneath you."

I learned my worth, learned the places and people that matter.

Opened my eyes.

irlZaphod posted:

Which art are you saying is terrible? The cover above is just from, I think, the last issue of the series (and isn't terrible). The interiors are all pretty different from what I remember. Anyway, it was a pretty decent series but it probably won't help you much with the 2009 New Mutants series. The 2003 one (above) was about a new class of students who were being taught by some of the original New Mutants characters. Most of the rest show up later (although Magik was still "dead" at this point iirc).

Also holy crap I don't remember Bachalo doing interiors on that series (although I personally wasn't too familiar with him at the time).

I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but this is some CAD-level art to me

Does nobody have any opinions on the Jubilee mini? Aside from Thor, that's the one that piqued my interest the most.

# ? Apr 4, 2018 22:22

moths: Aug 25, 2004; I would also still appreciate some danger.

According to today's THRILL MAIL, Judge Dredd Complete Case Files 31 is out now.

So April thread delivered May Dredd.

# ? Apr 4, 2018 22:31

Guy Goodbody: Aug 31, 2016; by Nyc_Tattoo

Does anybody have a link to that video where Alan Moore is speaking Spanish or Italian or something, and he's in a comic shop and talks about using pages of Green Lantern as rolling papers?

# ? Apr 5, 2018 02:04

Autism Sneaks: Nov 21, 2016

https://twitter.com/JHickman/status/981641429960314882?s=19

the others I get but not the Kieron Gillen joke

# ? Apr 5, 2018 02:34

Random Stranger: Nov 27, 2009

Check this out:

The Hulk is supposed to be grey in all the panels. Something went wrong with the coloring in Incredible Hulk #1 . I'm not sure I buy the official line that the grey was inconsistent and that panel was the worst of it since the jeep is colored exactly as the Hulk should be, but that's the panel that made Lee go, "Hey, that could work..."

# ? Apr 5, 2018 02:37

Air Skwirl: May 13, 2007; Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

Autism Sneaks posted:

https://twitter.com/JHickman/status/981641429960314882?s=19

the others I get but not the Kieron Gillen joke

They tease each other on twitter a bunch.

# ? Apr 5, 2018 02:39

Autism Sneaks: Nov 21, 2016

oh thank goodness, I thought they had beef

# ? Apr 5, 2018 02:55

A Strange Aeon: Mar 26, 2010; You are now a slimy little toad; The Great Twist

Guy Goodbody posted:

Does anybody have a link to that video where Alan Moore is speaking Spanish or Italian or something, and he's in a comic shop and talks about using pages of Green Lantern as rolling papers?

Woah, I'd never heard of this before but now I need to see it as well!

# ? Apr 5, 2018 03:59

Benito Cereno: Jan 20, 2006; ALLEZ-OUP!

Gaz-L posted:

Uh.... Has Chris just given up on sleep as a concept now? How does his wife feel about him podcasting for 21 hours out of every 24?

Yeah, I feel pretty bad about this, especially since he's also editing this one (his first time editing). I think we're probably going to go bi-weekly after the new episode this Sunday.

# ? Apr 5, 2018 04:36

Autism Sneaks: Nov 21, 2016

A Strange Aeon posted:

Woah, I'd never heard of this before but now I need to see it as well!

that's really bad for your health, may Glycon protect him

# ? Apr 5, 2018 04:48

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Autism Sneaks posted:

oh thank goodness, I thought they had beef

Nah, Gillen, McKelvie, Zdarsky, Hickman, and some others all like to gently caress with each other on Twitter. No beef that I can tell.

# ? Apr 5, 2018 14:10

Jedi: Feb 27, 2002

Samuringa posted:

Does nobody have any opinions on the Jubilee mini? Aside from Thor, that's the one that piqued my interest the most.

It's been a really long time since I've read it, but I seem to recall it being an all ages book that was alright. I don't recall anything particularly gory in it.

# ? Apr 5, 2018 23:49

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

Todd McFarlane visited Stan and put this on Facebook. Nothing hard-hitting ('cept to your heartstrings.)
https://www.facebook.com/liketoddmcfarlane/photos/a.171300292914061.37183.160535290657228/1871196022924471/?type=3&theater

quote:

MY RECENT VISIT...

"Stan Lee. I wonder how he�s doing?�

It�s a question, I think, many of us in the comic industry have been asking ourselves recently. With a handful of news articles swirling on the internet about Stan, it has led to lots of questions. Through all of it, I really have focused on just one crucial question�

�I wonder how Stan is doing?�

With that in mind, I want to post about my recent visit to see my dear friend Stan at his house last week (March 29th). To be clear, what I am writing is strictly about the one hour visit I had with him. What Stan does with all the rest of his personal time was not something we talked about during my visit.

When I entered the room where Stan was seated he welcomed me and asked that I sit next to him (since his hearing is far from perfect these days). And�how did Stan look you may ask? Like a 95-year-old man. I think we tend to forget that fact, at times, since he�s become so iconic and seemingly timeless. He�s a man who has been around for nearly a century.

For the next 60 minutes, we talked about things like his growing up in New York, his love of comics, his even bigger love of his late wife Joanie and how he was doing health wise. He told me that getting old kind of sucked but said, �what are you going to do?� His stories told me how obvious it was that he missed his wife and, how every day, a pair of ducks come swooping down from the sky to land in his pool and then come up to the glass windows begging for food (which his wife would oblige every time). We talked baseball, movies and he asked what it was it like for me to live next to a giant natural desert preserve in Arizona. Basically, it was every day, normal banter mixed with a few fun stories.

But soon it was getting late and I had to get going. As I got up to leave, Stan grabbed my hand and said, �Todd, thanks for coming by. Your visit is much better than any medicine I could take.�

So, what did I observe on my visit for that one specific hour? I saw a 95-year-old friend.

And for me, at least, that was comforting.

TODD

# ? Apr 6, 2018 01:14

Madkal: Feb 11, 2008; I believe in all the ways that they say you can lose your body; Fallen Rib

Teenage Fansub posted:

Todd McFarlane visited Stan and put this on Facebook. Nothing hard-hitting ('cept to your heartstrings.)
https://www.facebook.com/liketoddmcfarlane/photos/a.171300292914061.37183.160535290657228/1871196022924471/?type=3&theater

I saw McFarlane do an interview thing with Stan last year at Emerald City and it was one of the best things I had ever witnessed. Stan was riffing on Todd and Todd was taking it all in good humour. They had a great understanding between the two and it was like watching old friends riff about the good old days. The jokes and banter was great and it really looked like Todd though of Stan as a mentor and father figure more than anything else. I am glad that he still keeps in touch with Stan and visits him.

# ? Apr 6, 2018 01:27

Guy Goodbody: Aug 31, 2016; by Nyc_Tattoo

https://twitter.com/UweBollRaw/status/982400865850961920

# ? Apr 7, 2018 01:02

Gaz-L: Jan 28, 2009

Guy Goodbody posted:

https://twitter.com/UweBollRaw/status/982400865850961920

A Good Tweet

# ? Apr 7, 2018 15:49

Scuba Trooper: Feb 25, 2006

I'm ready for that fight.

# ? Apr 7, 2018 17:49

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

Guy Goodbody posted:

https://twitter.com/UweBollRaw/status/982400865850961920

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTO_zNnzSs0

# ? Apr 8, 2018 10:23

Covok: May 27, 2013; Yet where is that woman now? Tell me, in what heave does she reside? None of them. Because no God bothered to listen or care. If that is what you think it means to be a God, then you and all your teachings are welcome to do as that poor women did. And vanish from these realms forever.

Got drunk and bought all of Bruce Tim Justice League on Blu-ray. That poo poo really holds up and is a pro loving watch.

It made me realize there's a lot of Bruce Tim content. You got four seasons of Batman the Animated Series, a season of Superman the animated series, two seasons of Batman Beyond, four seasons of Justice League, two seasons of static shock, and one season of Project Zeta.

That's a lot of loving episodes.

Oh, also movies. You got mask of the Phantasm, the mr. Freeze one, I think Superman had one, and the Joker one for Batman Beyond. That's pretty loving good.

Oh, also that Harley Quinn movie that proves that you should never return and make a sequel to something after it's finished. If Frank Miller had awareness heat agree with me and I'm sure Alan Moore would agree with me. It's never a good idea, you will never match up to what you originally did. The expectation in their mind is too hard to match.

Also, I just got to stop getting drunk and buying things. I mean, it wasn't too expensive but it's a really bad habit to have. I'm not made of money. Also, my liver.

# ? Apr 8, 2018 23:23

Air Skwirl: May 13, 2007; Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

Superman has 2 seasons.

# ? Apr 9, 2018 07:11

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

McDuffie deserves far more credit for JL/JLU than he gets (and Dini / Timm get more than they should).

Skwirl posted:

Superman has 2 seasons.

# ? Apr 9, 2018 07:33

Air Skwirl: May 13, 2007; Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

Doctor Spaceman posted:

McDuffie deserves far more credit for JL/JLU than he gets (and Dini / Timm get more than they should).

Yeah, most of the good episodes are written by him and the first season of JL was pretty bad (stories being longer didn't do it any favors, at least half of the two parters didn't need to be)

quote:

3

Dammit, were there only 2 DVD sets, or has my mind just completely fail me?

# ? Apr 9, 2018 07:43

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

I thought there was a Superman for all seasons :rimshot:

# ? Apr 9, 2018 08:12

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Doctor Spaceman posted:

McDuffie deserves far more credit for JL/JLU than he gets (and Dini / Timm get more than they should).

Andrea Romano deserves approximately 10 thousand times more credit than she gets for making those shows great.

# ? Apr 9, 2018 08:35

Mr Hootington: Jul 24, 2008

Teenage Fansub posted:

I thought there was a Superman for all seasons

https://youtu.be/53VUs8dlUt4

# ? Apr 9, 2018 12:26

Air Skwirl: May 13, 2007; Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

Lurdiak posted:

Andrea Romano deserves approximately 10 thousand times more credit than she gets for making those shows great.

While she was important to the success of those shows, casting isn't everything. The Killing Joke had Conroy and Hamill and was still god awful.

# ? Apr 9, 2018 18:06

Vincent: Nov 25, 2005

Skwirl posted:

While she was important to the success of those shows, casting isn't everything. The Killing Joke had Conroy and Hamill and was still god awful.

She didn't just cast the thing, she voice directed it. All those great performances were directly influenced by her work on those shows.

# ? Apr 9, 2018 20:39

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# ? Apr 25, 2024 21:02

Covok: May 27, 2013; Yet where is that woman now? Tell me, in what heave does she reside? None of them. Because no God bothered to listen or care. If that is what you think it means to be a God, then you and all your teachings are welcome to do as that poor women did. And vanish from these realms forever.

Wait a minute, the Superman animated series had 3 Seasons? How do I have them all in one box set?

# ? Apr 10, 2018 01:47

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