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Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003





Welcome to October, the spoooOOoooOOookiest month of the year. Let's talk about ghosts and devils and Batman's dick for the next 31 days!

Also, sign here if you want the forum name changed for the month.

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pubic works project
Jan 28, 2005

No Decepticon in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.
I'm signing here

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

What name? gently caress Batman's Dick?

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

Batman's dick was the greatest thing DC (Dickless Cucks) had done since Rebirth. Them walking it back shows how cowardly and awful they are.

Wheat Loaf
Feb 13, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Mr Hootington posted:

Batman's dick was the greatest thing DC (Dickless Cucks) had done since Rebirth. Them walking it back shows how cowardly and awful they are.

Does anyone else think that "Dickless Cucks" is the sort of name a character would be given in a story set in one of those fabled "more innocent times"? Like, the male lead in the novel/play/musical/film Show Boat is an 1890s riverboat gambler called "Gaylord Ravenal", a name you'd not see today. Could you imagine a Jack London novel about a grizzled Alaskan gold rush prospector called "Dickless Cucks"?

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

Wheat Loaf posted:

Does anyone else think that "Dickless Cucks" is the sort of name a character would be given in a story set in one of those fabled "more innocent times"? Like, the male lead in the novel/play/musical/film Show Boat is an 1890s riverboat gambler called "Gaylord Ravenal", a name you'd not see today. Could you imagine a Jack London novel about a grizzled Alaskan gold rush prospector called "Dickless Cucks"?

It should be Batman's after DC airbrushed his hog away.

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
DICK FLOOR



Edit: Carlos Ezquerra died god drat it.

Rhyno fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Oct 1, 2018

Oracle
Oct 9, 2004

Mr Hootington posted:

What name? gently caress Batman's Dick?

They already did that in issue #55 keep up.

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

It all makes sense as to why he is Rick Grayson now.

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
remember, it's important that you only read spooky comics this month

site
Apr 6, 2007

Trans pride, Worldwide
Bitch
It's October already? :(

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

Guy Goodbody posted:

remember, it's important that you only read spooky comics this month

Spooooooooooooooooooooooooky comics.

pubic works project
Jan 28, 2005

No Decepticon in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.
Spooky Sushi?

Argue
Sep 29, 2005

I represent the Philippines

Guy Goodbody posted:

remember, it's important that you only read spooky comics this month

Okay I'll get things started

Sentinel Red
Nov 13, 2007
Style > Content.

Rhyno posted:

Edit: Carlos Ezquerra died god drat it.

Ah, poo poo.

GenderSelectScreen
Mar 7, 2010

I DON'T KNOW EITHER DON'T ASK ME
College Slice
First thing I said when I saw the name change was "Why not gently caress Batman's Spooky Secret"?

signed

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.
So I started re-reading Hellblazer and kinda really liked Jamie Delano's stuff, then just finally hit Dangerous Habits and I'm like, nope, Ennis is the master.

Sentinel Red
Nov 13, 2007
Style > Content.
The only bad thing I'd ever say about Dangerous Habits is the art/colouring. As far as the story goes, it's just perfect, be it on its own terms, or as an introduction to the character, all of it.

That whole scene - sharing a drink with the Devil > loving him up with magic Guinness > gloating and laughing about saving his mate > I've made a huge mistake - is probably my favourite ever.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Sentinel Red posted:

I've made a huge mistake

Hellblazer in a nutshell.

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.
Spider-Ham confirmed for Spiderverse film.

https://twitter.com/Sony/status/1047111124288770049

Wheat Loaf
Feb 13, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
A strange piece of trivia I learned today: a bunch of fairly big name comics creators all had stories published in an erotic comic series called "Penthouse Comix" because apparently it had the highest ever page rate at the time ($800 per page).

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.
didn't Joe Schuster draw NotSuperman erotica?

Servoret
Nov 8, 2009



Samuringa posted:

didn't Joe Schuster draw NotSuperman erotica?

Yep, and Craig Yoe put a book out full of it called Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman's Co-Creator Joe Shuster.

Wheat Loaf posted:

A strange piece of trivia I learned today: a bunch of fairly big name comics creators all had stories published in an erotic comic series called "Penthouse Comix" because apparently it had the highest ever page rate at the time ($800 per page).

And speaking of NotSuperman erotica, Curt Swan did illustrations for a reprint of Larry Niven's essay "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" for Penthouse Comix.

Wheat Loaf
Feb 13, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
I was reading about these small publisher that sprang up amidst the 90s boom and it perplexed me a bit: who was backing up this softcore porn comic that it could pay top dollar to get Keith Giffen writing stories about superheroes loving?

TV Zombie
Sep 6, 2011

Burying all the trauma from past nights
Burying my anger in the past

I really wish that they had finished Afterlife with Archie. That was an entertaining series.

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas

Wheat Loaf posted:

I was reading about these small publisher that sprang up amidst the 90s boom and it perplexed me a bit: who was backing up this softcore porn comic that it could pay top dollar to get Keith Giffen writing stories about superheroes loving?

Presumably Bob Guccione, the same multi-billionaire who was behind every other Penthouse thing.

Benito Cereno
Jan 20, 2006

ALLEZ-OUP!
Here's a spooky comic coming out soon that you guys might enjoy if I do say so myself

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

Wheat Loaf posted:

A strange piece of trivia I learned today: a bunch of fairly big name comics creators all had stories published in an erotic comic series called "Penthouse Comix" because apparently it had the highest ever page rate at the time ($800 per page).

Penthouse Comix did pay top dollar and Dave Johnson did some killer covers for them.

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.
Halloween comics

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

Samuringa posted:

Halloween comics



Why would you do this.

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

Entrapta fucking loves robots




Grimey Drawer

Benito Cereno posted:

Here's a spooky comic coming out soon that you guys might enjoy if I do say so myself

Link doesn't work

Edit: oh yeah, I was posting to say I'm poo poo posting on Twitter again until I get sick of it. Post your tags

Benito Cereno
Jan 20, 2006

ALLEZ-OUP!

Soonmot posted:

Link doesn't work

Ah, weird. Site seems to be down at the moment. Here it is on Comixology in the meantime.

Wheat Loaf
Feb 13, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Rhyno posted:

Penthouse Comix did pay top dollar and Dave Johnson did some killer covers for them.

I have now looked some of these comics up and all I can conclude is that people must have been really, really loving desperate before they could get Internet porn. Blegh.

Servoret posted:

And speaking of NotSuperman erotica, Curt Swan did illustrations for a reprint of Larry Niven's essay "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" for Penthouse Comix.

I once saw an example of "noteworthy artist did erotica comics" which was a Russ Heath pirate story which ended with the female pirate captain protagonist sword fighting the male pirate captain villain; since it's a porn comic, they are both fighting in the nude, and the fight ends when she chops his cock off and it falls into the sea and his reaction is approximately, "IT CANNOT BE!" then jumping overboard after it crying, "COME BACK, MY PRECIOUS!" while the crew laughs heartily. I wasn't entirely sure if it was supposed to be comedic.

Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 10:19 on Oct 3, 2018

Big Bad Voodoo Lou
Jan 1, 2006

Wheat Loaf posted:

I have now looked some of these comics up and all I can conclude is that people must have been really, really loving desperate before they could get Internet porn. Blegh.
Didn't Kevin Maguire and Adam Hughes both draw some of those? I was the perfect age when JLI was coming out, with art from both of them (late elementary and middle school, in the late '80s and early '90s), so as a young teenager, I vaguely remember hearing about them drawing comics for Penthouse and wishing I could see them.

Wheat Loaf
Feb 13, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
I know Hughes did. No idea about Maguire.

From what little I have seen there is a HUGE amount of Milo Manara but that probably shouldn't come as a surprise. That's where he made his bones (excuse the pun) after all.

The Question IRL
Jun 8, 2013

Only two contestants left! Here is Doom's chance for revenge...

Wheat Loaf posted:

I have now looked some of these comics up and all I can conclude is that people must have been really, really loving desperate before they could get Internet porn. Blegh.


I once saw an example of "noteworthy artist did erotica comics" which was a Russ Heath pirate story which ended with the female pirate captain protagonist sword fighting the male pirate captain villain; since it's a porn comic, they are both fighting in the nude, and the fight ends when she chops his cock off and it falls into the sea and his reaction is approximately, "IT CANNOT BE!" then jumping overboard after it crying, "COME BACK, MY PRECIOUS!" while the crew laughs heartily. I wasn't entirely sure if it was supposed to be comedic.

Well after reading that description, I certainly laughed.

The only way it could have been funnier would have been if it was two pirates sword fighting using the urban dictionary term.

al-azad
May 28, 2009



Is there a review thread or something?

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.
I'm doing a Hellblazer readthrough again and I just realized Chas came up with Ubereats/Caviar 27 years ago.

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.
https://twitter.com/StephenWacker/status/1048282991879831552

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Open Marriage Night
Sep 18, 2009

"Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"


I remember hearing about that.

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