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Faust

Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 11, 2013, 01:03:19 PM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on December 09, 2013, 11:52:00 PM
I mean it seems like he could do more damage to lexcorp reporting on things he sees as superman. he regularly busts up his lairs, he can just write about stuff he sees, and then cite himself as a source since everyone in the world thinks clark kent and superman are two different people anyway. Hell, if he just kept a smartphone in those spandex undies and took a moment to take pics of the stuff Lex Luthor gets up to, Lexcorp would be a memory. See also, Wayne Enterprises and Batman Inc. having far more potential for dogooding than batman alone.



The last panel is how they pretty much hand waved away his criminal past when he became president.
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hooplala

Celebrity nipples?  I need to get that issue...
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
— Walt Whitman

Faust

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hooplala

Quote from: Faust on December 12, 2013, 01:54:17 PM
That and Superman being blackmailed with a sex tape:

http://www.comicvine.com/articles/off-my-mind-what-happened-to-superman-big-bardas-s/1100-144019/

Sleez exists in the real world.  His name is Terry Richardson.

And why does the image of Darkseid with a porn video in his hand make me giggle so much??
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
— Walt Whitman

Faust

Quote from: Hoopla on December 12, 2013, 02:04:07 PM
Quote from: Faust on December 12, 2013, 01:54:17 PM
That and Superman being blackmailed with a sex tape:

http://www.comicvine.com/articles/off-my-mind-what-happened-to-superman-big-bardas-s/1100-144019/

Sleez exists in the real world.  His name is Terry Richardson.

And why does the image of Darkseid with a porn video in his hand make me giggle so much??
Or the fact that he shows up in Mr Miracles apartment at all.

"I was in the neighbourhood and I thought I might pop by, oh by the way I have this sex tape of your wife"

It might be less odd if he wasn't in a hulking monster, in full armour and all powerful regent of his planet.
I mean what does he mean to accomplish with this nefarious scheme, get hush money out of them?
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hooplala

Quote from: Faust on December 12, 2013, 04:38:33 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on December 12, 2013, 02:04:07 PM
Quote from: Faust on December 12, 2013, 01:54:17 PM
That and Superman being blackmailed with a sex tape:

http://www.comicvine.com/articles/off-my-mind-what-happened-to-superman-big-bardas-s/1100-144019/

Sleez exists in the real world.  His name is Terry Richardson.

And why does the image of Darkseid with a porn video in his hand make me giggle so much??
Or the fact that he shows up in Mr Miracles apartment at all.

"I was in the neighbourhood and I thought I might pop by, oh by the way I have this sex tape of your wife"

It might be less odd if he wasn't in a hulking monster, in full armour and all powerful regent of his planet.
I mean what does he mean to accomplish with this nefarious scheme, get hush money out of them?

I think it just proves how much of a true villain he is.  All he wants to do is cause trouble.
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
— Walt Whitman

Bobby Campbell

#276
Millions of Screaming Yahoos was awesome! Seriously great work! I love the local/Tucson mythology aspect.  I would like to read more stuff like this. If you ever want a hand prepping a digital edition for sale, lmk!

Went on a Hellblazer binge recently.  I'd only ever read Delano & Ennis' runs before.  Started w/ Ellis, which looked like it might have been the definitive take, but when it ended so abruptly I read straight through Azzarello's run to combat withdraw symptoms.  The prison arc was good, Richard Corbin's art is great, Marcelo Frusin's too, but everything else seemed a bit sloppy.  I liked the beginning of Mike Carey's run, but my interest has fizzled out a bit.


Revisited The Dark Knight Strikes Again which was shockingly worthwhile. A decade of derision probably lowered my expectations significantly, but there also seemed to be a lot of really prescient and inventive raw material.

The consensus on Miller seems to be that 9/11 drove him crazy, which is certainly part of it, but I suspect the rejection of DK2 hit him hard. I think he thought people were going to love it.  Afterwards in All Star Batman & Robin he began asking the audience: "What, are you dense? Are you retarded or something? Who the hell do you think I am?" and then everyone hated that and The Spirit movie too, and then we get Holy Terror which is basically just pure aggression and hostility.

FM seems to me like the Ezra Pound of comics, in the best & worst of ways.

I prepped the digital edition of Rushkoff's Vertigo series Testament, (The rights reverted to the creators) re-reading it in the process, and that too has aged extremely well. I hope it gets another chance in the digital age.

For a Mcluhanesque nerd like me it was extremely fun to get to work with original DC files, and to get a behind the scenes look at how the books are put together.

The Image Revolution documentary was outstanding! I'm a sucker for all those sequart movies.  I hated all those original Image books when I was a kid (except for Savage Dragon), and was too young to realize the importance of what those guys were doing for creator rights. After 6 years of self-employment the Image story seems much more compelling. Make fun of Liefeld's art all you want, but running a successful studio w/ 60 employees at 25 years old!? It's pretty impressive.

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Bobby Campbell on December 20, 2013, 03:16:39 AM
Millions of Screaming Yahoos was awesome! Seriously great work! I love the local/Tucson mythology aspect.  I would like to read more stuff like this. If you ever want a hand prepping a digital edition for sale, lmk!


Thanks.  The project is dead, but there's about 33 chapters in prose format.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Faust

Quote from: Bobby Campbell on December 20, 2013, 03:16:39 AM
Millions of Screaming Yahoos was awesome! Seriously great work! I love the local/Tucson mythology aspect.  I would like to read more stuff like this. If you ever want a hand prepping a digital edition for sale, lmk!

Went on a Hellblazer binge recently.  I'd only ever read Delano & Ennis' runs before.  Started w/ Ellis, which looked like it might have been the definitive take, but when it ended so abruptly I read straight through Azzarello's run to combat withdraw symptoms.  The prison arc was good, Richard Corbin's art is great, Marcelo Frusin's too, but everything else seemed a bit sloppy.  I liked the beginning of Mike Carey's run, but my interest has fizzled out a bit.
It's quality dipped, it's actually one of the few Azzarrello comics I'm not a huge fan. The Bruce Wayne BDSM story was bizarre. Peter Milligan wasn't the strongest of writers for the series to end on BUT he did progress John's life in interesting ways, and I really loved his ending.

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Revisited The Dark Knight Strikes Again which was shockingly worthwhile. A decade of derision probably lowered my expectations significantly, but there also seemed to be a lot of really prescient and inventive raw material.

The consensus on Miller seems to be that 9/11 drove him crazy, which is certainly part of it, but I suspect the rejection of DK2 hit him hard. I think he thought people were going to love it.  Afterwards in All Star Batman & Robin he began asking the audience: "What, are you dense? Are you retarded or something? Who the hell do you think I am?" and then everyone hated that and The Spirit movie too, and then we get Holy Terror which is basically just pure aggression and hostility.

FM seems to me like the Ezra Pound of comics, in the best & worst of ways.

It's because hating Frank Miller is easy. Dark Knight strikes again goes into weird new places but so did the Dark Knight Returns. Fan's embraced the slightly unusual take but when it went to far from what they were familiar with they hated it.

That said I couldn't stand the Spirit Movie, all the way through I was wishing it was a Robert Rodriguez film because I loved Sin City.

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I prepped the digital edition of Rushkoff's Vertigo series Testament, (The rights reverted to the creators) re-reading it in the process, and that too has aged extremely well. I hope it gets another chance in the digital age.

For a Mcluhanesque nerd like me it was extremely fun to get to work with original DC files, and to get a behind the scenes look at how the books are put together.

Wow that's really cool, what was the process like or are you allowed to talk about it? Did they send you the original prints or just scans?

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The Image Revolution documentary was outstanding! I'm a sucker for all those sequart movies.  I hated all those original Image books when I was a kid (except for Savage Dragon), and was too young to realize the importance of what those guys were doing for creator rights. After 6 years of self-employment the Image story seems much more compelling. Make fun of Liefeld's art all you want, but running a successful studio w/ 60 employees at 25 years old!? It's pretty impressive.

Will have to check it out.
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Bobby Campbell

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Quote from: Faust on December 20, 2013, 10:37:59 AM

It's quality dipped, it's actually one of the few Azzarrello comics I'm not a huge fan. The Bruce Wayne BDSM story was bizarre. Peter Milligan wasn't the strongest of writers for the series to end on BUT he did progress John's life in interesting ways, and I really loved his ending.

Yeah I normally like Azzarello too.  I suspect he was putting his real time and effort into 100 Bullets.  His run was the first time I noticed that Constantine's magical abilities are intentionally obfuscated for quick and easy deux ex machinas. I may stick it out to the end though. I tend to get a kick out of Peter Milligan.

Quote from: Faust on December 20, 2013, 10:37:59 AM

It's because hating Frank Miller is easy. Dark Knight strikes again goes into weird new places but so did the Dark Knight Returns. Fan's embraced the slightly unusual take but when it went to far from what they were familiar with they hated it.

That said I couldn't stand the Spirit Movie, all the way through I was wishing it was a Robert Rodriguez film because I loved Sin City.

Sounds about right! It's so weird to see comic fans hate on both Frank Miller & Alan Moore nowadays.

I hated the trailer for The Spirit so much that when I actually saw the movie several years later it easily surpassed my dismal expectations.  I'm a huge Will Eisner fan so even just seeing a glimpse of his style in a movie was pretty cool. Though I really can't imagine what FM was thinking trying to turn The Spirit into Sin City.

Quote from: Faust on December 20, 2013, 10:37:59 AM

Wow that's really cool, what was the process like or are you allowed to talk about it? Did they send you the original prints or just scans?

I think it's probably okay to talk about it.  It was a really fun project. I didn't work with any original art, but I got all of the original files from the individual issues and the trade paperbacks. So I could, for example, open up the unlettered artwork, and turn off the color layer to reveal the original black & white page, etc.  Or as I had to do for all the covers, open up the file and delete all of the DC/Vertigo logos.

I basically just had to clean up the mess of files they had so that I could recreate the quarkxpress layouts of the 4 trade paperbacks, export the individual pages, format them to comixology spec, and then put them back together as pdf manuscripts. 

I also put together the series' title card, using a collage of Liam Sharp's art:


Now back to Fun Home! Alison Bechdel's cartooning is the best thing I've seen in a good long while.  I got the book after it was recommended to me by one of my English professors last spring, and was reminded to actually check it out by your recommendation in this thread. Neat connection, the prof in question was sci-fi writer Samuel R. Delany, who once upon a time wrote 2 issues of Wonder Woman.

Faust

A comic I posted about a while back called The Private Eye by Marcos Martin and writer Brian K. Vaughan(Y the last man) Just released issue five which is the half way point for the story.

It's excellent, and weird sci-fi to boot.

The issues are pay what you want (including 0), so even if you don't feel like paying check it out.

http://panelsyndicate.com/
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"The only way we can ever change anything is to look in the mirror and find no enemy." - Akala  'Find No Enemy'.

Faust

Bobby, I've more questions for you but I've been run ragged since before Christmas.
Hopefully I'll get a chance to post them later.

There was a pretty good interview with Alan Moore where he goes into more detail of his creative process than I've seen him do before.
Sadly the context of the interview is depressing. Alan's defending his use of a blackface childrens character in the league of extraordinary gentlemen (which he shouldn't have to do), and gives a lot if insights into the process of how he the characters in the league are created.

He also answers questions on the role of sex in his comics and accusations of permissive sexual violence in his work, which seems to follow comic book writers about if their portrayal of sexual violence is anywhere above zero.

It's long but it's a really interesting read.
http://slovobooks.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/last-alan-moore-interview/
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Bobby Campbell

Right on, Faust!

No rush at all, I enjoy slow burn convo  :fnord:

This Alan Moore interview is outstandingly eloquent and delightfully baffling!

His side of the Grant Morrison feud seems somewhat more pathological than GM's to me, but he seems to relish the hate w/ such exquisite rhapsody that I figure he's more than earned the benefit of the doubt.

Currently obsessively reading Bechdel's "Are You My Mother."

Faust

Quote from: Bobby Campbell on December 21, 2013, 05:21:05 AM
I think it's probably okay to talk about it.  It was a really fun project. I didn't work with any original art, but I got all of the original files from the individual issues and the trade paperbacks. So I could, for example, open up the unlettered artwork, and turn off the color layer to reveal the original black & white page, etc.  Or as I had to do for all the covers, open up the file and delete all of the DC/Vertigo logos.

I basically just had to clean up the mess of files they had so that I could recreate the quarkxpress layouts of the 4 trade paperbacks, export the individual pages, format them to comixology spec, and then put them back together as pdf manuscripts. 

I also put together the series' title card, using a collage of Liam Sharp's art:


I've been feeling really guilty about this, I wanted to get around to reading Testament before responding to you but a month has gone by and I haven't yet.

That's really cool, I'd love to be able to just turn off the lettering and captions on a lot of pages and just breath in the raw material. I've always hated how much rubbish got dumped onto the covers of the singles, they are often the most beautiful part of the issue and it really irks me.

It's why planetary 26 is one of my favourite covers



It sill has the ISBN box and the wildstorm logos, but otherwise it's a ballsy cover. They know the story is coming to an end so it doesn't require anything else, it doesn't even have the title of the series on it.

The funny thing is that I'd say they allowed that because they assumed on the second to last issue that if people were going to buy it they would have already... But this cover stood out from everything else on the shelves because of it's colour, the fact that they didn't need to promise anything in text, it was all summed up in the image, it's the one that got me reading the series.

I don't know enough about the art process to really ask proper questions, but do you get really high res versions of the original files, if so have you ever been tempted to blow any up for a poster sized image for your wall. Testament has some gorgeous artwork so I'd say that would be a treat.

What kind of conversion for the digital files do you have to do? I've seen some of these comic aps that bring you panel by panel through the issue, is it that kind of thing or is it the cbr full size page files? for the panel by panel  I find them a little disconcerting but my housemate loves them, he uses his phone to read them and says it works really well.
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