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CopywrightMMXI posted:Thanks for the recommendation of Maniac of New York. I read the first issue and it’s great. I’ll have to order 2 and 3 soon. Just read the first two issues myself, and it's definitely a well made comic in terms of both art and writing, but it suffers from that common ailment that all but cripples most modern indie comics in the US, it's WAY too cynical and depressing for it's own good(Ultramega is another recent example of this phenomenon*) to the point that it saps out ANY form of possible enjoyment or entertainment from reading them that it makes reading them in the first place meaningless *both are also very shameless about blatantly ripping off their inspirations to such a degree that it's honestly amazing that neither has gotten sued yet for copyright infringement
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 15:53 |
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Got to ship a set of comics across the continental US. What's the cheapest way, Media Mail with USPS? Thinking of packing them in a few storage bins like this one from Lowes.
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# ? Mar 30, 2021 18:07 |
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FilthyImp posted:Got to ship a set of comics across the continental US. What's the cheapest way, Media Mail with USPS? I doubt they'll check, but you can't technically ship singles as media mail since they have ads.
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# ? Mar 30, 2021 18:14 |
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Would it be possible to get this as a canvas print poster somewhere? https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Batman_Vol_1_222
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# ? Mar 30, 2021 23:54 |
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Has InStockTrades just become really slow to ship orders? It took about 3 weeks to get something over Xmas (understandable) and my latest order has been "waiting to process" for a week so far. I'm sure they're running on a skeleton crew, but I'd hate to have to go back to Amazon if I need something in a timely manner (this was a gift that I'm probably going to not get in time).
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 17:07 |
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Uthor posted:Has InStockTrades just become really slow to ship orders? It took about 3 weeks to get something over Xmas (understandable) and my latest order has been "waiting to process" for a week so far. That was my experience this past February. Took a week and a half to "process" then it sat for another week and a half at "pulled, waiting to ship" or something like that.
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# ? Apr 1, 2021 03:52 |
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Yeah, IST has been really slow for a while, although I don't know if it's better if you pay for faster shipping (I always spend over $50 for the free shipping). Pandemic slowed them down a lot, then the ice storm messed them up. I still order 95% of things from them because of the price and I don't really care when I get things so long as I get them eventually, but there have been a couple orders where it sat in processing for over two weeks and I started to worry that the order got messed up. Bigger issue for me is that they seem to be missing things - I had to order the last BPRD omni from Amazon because IST didn't seem to get it in, and there was something else recently (possibly also from Dark Horse) that IST never got in. I don't mind waiting for my books but there's (seemingly) no way to see what they're getting - the Coming Soon section doesn't show everything. I probably should just start ordering from DCBS.
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# ? Apr 1, 2021 04:42 |
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They're the same company and DCBS is dying for warehouse workers. I wouldn't expect anything better when they pay less than local gas stations. Source: they moved the dcbs side back to my town and advertise heavily that they are hiring.
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# ? Apr 1, 2021 04:47 |
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Zachack posted:Bigger issue for me is that they seem to be missing things - I had to order the last BPRD omni from Amazon because IST didn't seem to get it in, and there was something else recently (possibly also from Dark Horse) that IST never got in. Yeah, I got Bone from Amazon cause IST didn't have it. And I've been trying to get Slaughterhouse-Five the last two times to no avail. I remember in the past (maybe 10+ ago) they would charge your card when you placed the order and I've had them take my money, try and fail to get a book for weeks, send what they did have with a note saying they will send me the missing book when they can. I had to specifically ask them for my money back for the book they didn't send me. I think that's what got me to stop using them for a few years.
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# ? Apr 1, 2021 05:05 |
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My wife and I closed on a house today. That's right. I'm moving to Krakoa to be with my people. Edit: Well, I should say we closed on a house yesterday, I lost track of time. I also want to add in a comics related aside-- I wound up reading a bunch of Tijuana bibles while I was down a work-related rabbit hole (I will clarify here that the rabbit hole was about how queer physicality was represented in pre-1930s visual media) and I think they're actually a really amazing resource. As kind of the lowest of the low in terms of cultural prestige, they could really get away with showing stuff that even prose porn or early photo/film stuff couldn't about how people in the early 20th century actually imagined and fantasized about sex. There's one about Donald Duck that kind of like-- and this will sound outlandish-- reflects elements of the period's gay subcultures that are almost never mentioned in print outside of private diaries and letters that we happen to have preserved. There is also a surprising amount of rear end-eating, cunnilingus, even threeway sex with two male participants, stuff that a historian dealing strictly with print and film would say was absolutely nonnegotiably taboo for many American men in the early parts of the 20th century-- stuff they maybe did, but rarely talked or wrote about (a lot of men were very circumspect and bashful about going down on their female partners even in letters and private journals or diaries). And here it all is just happening to Popeye in these stupid gross little things! How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Apr 1, 2021 |
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How Wonderful! posted:My wife and I closed on a house today. That's right. I'm moving to Krakoa to be with my people. Yeah, the idea we are getting more coarse as a culture is built upon lies/
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# ? Apr 1, 2021 07:19 |
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Congrats on the house! Homeownership rules/sucks!
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# ? Apr 1, 2021 08:16 |
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At least now we know that Popeye fucks
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# ? Apr 1, 2021 08:22 |
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Is there a good academic collection of Tijuana Bibles? I don't know how that works with copyright holders and stuff, given the characters are clearly getting up to stuff that would presumably damage the brand, and they were made illegally in the first place, so reprints seem tricky.
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# ? Apr 1, 2021 13:41 |
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Bob Adelman edited a pretty good sampling of them in 1997 which I think is still in print. Otherwise as far as I know you can scrounge around online or book a visit to the special collections of a university that has some. Duke University has over 370 if you are ever up for a hot and shoddy time in North Carolina. There are many at tijuanabibles.org but hm, how to put this. They are not really.... "good." And they are not really sexy, and I don't know if they were ever really meant to be sexy. Like I don't know if any young bachelors were tossing and turning in their sheets in 1937 thinking like "ohh I just gotta see Fibber McGee's nut, rendered so poorly." I read them as more like a physical token of a particular kind of dirty joke a la Chaucer's scatological scenes or the x-rated limerick. It's less like-- oh my god, Barney Google is so beautiful right now, more like "ha, sex really is just earthy and common and weird, even Barney Google does the drat thing." So of course a lot of them are rough chuckles from the perspective of 2021-- full of racial and ethnic stereotypes, misogyny, weird homophobia (often concurrently with surprisingly frank scenes of gay sex), and dubious acts of consent. Another big problem is that like, practically none of them have solid textual histories, in part because they were printed cheaply and distributed covertly. It seems really rare to me that anybody can be like, "this one was drawn by <x> and came out in such and such a year." People can kind of guess, I think, from the drawing styles, printing techniques, and which characters feature, at vaaaaguely when a given bible was published, but it's a lot of just "and here's this weird thing." thetoughestbean posted:At least now we know that Popeye fucks Popeye is not a gentleman. How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Apr 1, 2021 |
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Uthor posted:Yeah, I got Bone from Amazon cause IST didn't have it. And I've been trying to get Slaughterhouse-Five the last two times to no avail. If you're okay paying full price, the Vonnegut Library website has Slaughterhouse-Five in stock. Congrats on the house How Wonderful! I cannot afford to buy here, so now I am waiting to see what post-pandemic telework is like and may end up moving to Baltimore which I'm not particularly in to, but at least I can afford a house there.
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# ? Apr 1, 2021 14:40 |
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How Wonderful! posted:Bob Adelman edited a pretty good sampling of them in 1997 which I think is still in print. Otherwise as far as I know you can scrounge around online or book a visit to the special collections of a university that has some. Duke University has over 370 if you are ever up for a hot and shoddy time in North Carolina. There are many at tijuanabibles.org but hm, how to put this. They are not really.... "good." And they are not really sexy, and I don't know if they were ever really meant to be sexy. Like I don't know if any young bachelors were tossing and turning in their sheets in 1937 thinking like "ohh I just gotta see Fibber McGee's nut, rendered so poorly." I read them as more like a physical token of a particular kind of dirty joke a la Chaucer's scatological scenes or the x-rated limerick. It's less like-- oh my god, Barney Google is so beautiful right now, more like "ha, sex really is just earthy and common and weird, even Barney Google does the drat thing." So of course a lot of them are rough chuckles from the perspective of 2021-- full of racial and ethnic stereotypes, misogyny, weird homophobia (often concurrently with surprisingly frank scenes of gay sex), and dubious acts of consent. This review of the Adelman book made me chuckle:
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# ? Apr 1, 2021 15:10 |
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How Wonderful! posted:"ohh I just gotta see Fibber McGee's nut, rendered so poorly." new thread title
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# ? Apr 1, 2021 17:02 |
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I hate to be too enthusiastic about an upcoming superhero movie, but the new Suicide Squad trailer showed Arms Fall Off Boy and now I am there.
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# ? Apr 2, 2021 17:32 |
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Random Stranger posted:I hate to be too enthusiastic about an upcoming superhero movie, but the new Suicide Squad trailer showed Arms Fall Off Boy and now I am there. Suicide Squad is going to give me some manner of sexual awakening I am fairly certain.
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Rhyno posted:Suicide Squad is going to give me some manner of sexual awakening I am fairly certain. I imagine John Cena has that effect on a few people
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I imagine John Cena has that effect on a few people I was talking about Starro
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# ? Apr 2, 2021 21:39 |
So I follow @PepitoTheCat on twitter, a twitter account that automatically informs followers when a black cat named Pépito goes in and out through his cat door, accompanied with a freeze frame from the security camera. Last February, an impostor cat was spotted by everyone on the tl: https://twitter.com/PepitoTheCat/status/1360938844649000966 And last night the little fucker showed up again! https://twitter.com/PepitoTheCat/status/1378664141578194945 Who is this cat???
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# ? Apr 4, 2021 21:44 |
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My friends and I are doing a little comic-book reading club, and this week's book was I Kill Giants, and I noticed a neat little reference to All Star Superman.
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# ? Apr 4, 2021 22:11 |
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I kill giants is a great way to get kids to start thinking/processing their trauma. I love that book to hell and back.
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# ? Apr 4, 2021 22:18 |
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FilthyImp posted:I kill giants is a great way to get kids to start thinking/processing their trauma. I love that book to hell and back. gently caress that book. It made me cry.
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# ? Apr 4, 2021 22:36 |
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I love I Kill Giants. How's the movie? Worth watching?
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 00:46 |
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The movie's a solid adaptation, but it adds basically nothing.
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https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1379404412771254273?s=20
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 18:05 |
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Have I been the villain all along?
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 18:10 |
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Is Dr. Doom parroting my ideas? Because that's awesome!
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 18:24 |
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I mean, what do you think about RICHARDS?
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 18:28 |
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Uthor posted:I mean, what do you think about RICHARDS? I am pro-launching any building where he resides into space.
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Random Stranger posted:I am pro-launching any building where he resides into space. I mean, so is Richards probably.
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 18:35 |
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https://twitter.com/THR/status/1379419372297523206?s=20 The details in this story about Joss basically line up with everything we've learned about the guy recently. But goddamn does Geoff Johns come across really loving bad too. The whole thing is worth reading but here are the Johns-related passages quote:Once Whedon got involved, Fisher says that Johns told him that it was problematic that Cyborg smiled only twice in the movie. Fisher says he later learned from a witness who participated in the investigation that Johns and other top executives, including then-DC Films co-chairman Jon Berg and Warners studio chief Toby Emmerich, had discussions in which they said they could not have "an angry Black man" at the center of the film. Johns' rep responds that once the chairman of the studio mandated a brighter tone for the film, all further discussions centered on "adding joy and hopefulness to all six superheroes. There are always conversations about avoiding any stereotype of race, gender or sexuality." quote:Johns' rep denies that he ever dismissed any comments, adding that Fisher knew Johns — whose spokesperson requested that he be identified as Lebanese American — "had evolved traditionally all-white DC properties like Shazam, Justice Society of America and others into diverse groups of heroes" in his extensive work as a comic book author. quote:The tension only escalated when the issue of having Cyborg say "booyah" arose. That phrase had become a signature of the character thanks to the animated Teen Titans shows, but the character had never said it in the comics or in the original script. Fisher says that Johns had approached Snyder about including the line, but the director didn't want any catchphrases. He managed the situation by putting the word on some signs in his version of the film, as an Easter egg. But Johns' rep says the entire studio believed the booyah line was "a fun moment of synergy." quote:Two individuals who worked on Syfy's Krypton TV series talked to Fisher about events that had taken place on the series. quote:Several sources who spoke to Fisher around this time were willing to talk to a Warners investigator. Among them was writer Nadria Tucker, who tweeted Feb. 24: "I haven't spoken to Geoff Johns since the day on Krypton when he tried to tell me what is and is not a Black thing." Tucker tells THR that Johns objected when a Black female character's hairstyle was changed in scenes that took place on different days. "I said Black women, we tend to change our hair frequently. It's not weird, it's a Black thing," she says. "And he said, 'No, it's not.' "
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 00:13 |
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drrockso20 posted:more Marvel Comics time; just realized that it's been the better part of two months since I last did one of these posts, so back to my project of semi-chronologically reading through all of Marvel from Fantastic Four #1 onward with another five or so issue dump of my inane opinions; Tales to Astonish #39: so this one is a weird one even by early Marvel standards, the Scarlet Beetle is one of the oddest villains of the era and yet another one defeated by vaguely unethical means(in his case the radiation that mutated him and granted him human intelligence is removed turning him back into a regular mindless beetle), also notably this is the first Ant-Man story where we see that his "growth gas" can grow things beyond their normal size, overall this story is continuing the trend where Ant-Man tend to be more interesting for the villains than for Ant-Man himself Strange Tales #105: the Wizard makes his return in this "solo" Human Torch story(in truth Invisible Girl plays a big role in this one too) and you can tell Jack Kirby was having a wonderful time drawing this guy's goofy mug(some great potential avatars in this issue), overall a fun if relatively middle of the road story(Johnny is really starting to pull off some goofy tricks with his fire in these stories) Journey Into Mystery #89: lord this issue has a ridiculously generic cover for an early Silver Age comic, just Thor making a pose, also this story has a very goofy start where in order to distract people so he can switch back to Donald Blake without getting noticed he dresses up a mannequin like himself and sends it flying over Manhattan, overall that's probably the most notable thing that happens in this issue, otherwise a fairly humdrum story about Thor taking on some mobsters Fantastic Four #11: this issue starts off with some downright astoundingly shameless shilling of the very comic itself and a downright adorable scene with the FF hanging out with some young fans, and then we have the FF open some fan mail(and Thing gets pranked once again by the Yancy Street Gang) and then after testing out a new formula to turn Ben human again(which in it's favor does last more than a couple panels) we get some backstory on how Ben and Reed met in college and their activities during WW2(Ben as a Fighter Ace in the Pacific and Reed as an OSS agent in Occupied Europe) as well as some drama regarding Reed & Sue's romance due to doubt sown by Namor over the past few issues, as well as yet another recap of the FF's origins followed by a semi-Fourth Wall breaking bit where Reed & Ben confront reader accusations about Sue being useless(it doesn't really work but you can give them a couple points for trying) and then Ben goes back to being the Thing and we move on to the main story after celebrating Sue's birthday, which introduces The Impossible Man, which is interesting in that while he's definitely a destructive rear end in a top hat, a lot of the trouble happens because everyone else acts like an rear end in a top hat to him first, and indeed he's beaten by everyone on Earth engaging in a whole different form of assholery entirely, overall a fun issue Tales to Astonish #40: not a bad story but really not much of anything to discuss about it beyond the novelty of Ant-Man faking a burst appendix as part of his plan to beat the villain of this story so overall a decent crop of stories to make my return to this series of mine, though FF#11 is the only real standout story
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 09:44 |
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Just learned that the guys who run my LCBS have COVID. Judging by how many times I've seen them chatting with customers without a mask on, I'm hardly surprised! But that means I'll be a month behind on books by the time I get back in there.
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 19:37 |
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Uthor posted:Just learned that the guys who run my LCBS have COVID. Judging by how many times I've seen them chatting with customers without a mask on, I'm hardly surprised! But that means I'll be a month behind on books by the time I get back in there. I've books when Diamond hosed up shipping and my pull list was a day or two late. I went in and bought them when they were available, so I don't feel guilty.
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 20:51 |
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I've been working through X-Men books on Marvel Unlimited with some friends for a book club, so I have a lot to tide me over. I also have like half of the Humble Bundle that I bought a year ago to read. I'm mostly glad I didn't stop in before Easter like I was planning on. Especially since I came to my parents house.
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Comic Book Confidential is on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs4cj2_I9p8
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