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COMICS!!! |OT| June 2020 | How are you going to adapt that into a thread title?
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I think you can easily toggle maintenance mode with a plugin if you have problems taking it down
Edit: Nvm, I see it's already down
Just got to this arc in Red Hood that is basically them going into space to help Kori protect her homeworld from an invasion by the Blight, and man this is exactly what I want to see more of. Sadly after flipping through the omni, it doesnt look like there is lol, AND to make matters worse, its the last arc Rocafort worked on lol. I think he probably started working on Ewing's Ultimates, which I get it.
Its straight up GotG, but with DC characters, and Starfire/Kori is Star Lord lol.
Its straight up GotG, but with DC characters, and Starfire/Kori is Star Lord lol.
look if that's the level at which big names are operating we can certainly beat the shit out of them at running a biz
That would bring a whole new meaning to getting high off your own supply.
You know, if anyone still read comics
We might laugh at both sites (atomicavenue and milehighcomics) but they are the best, and sometimes only, options to find reasonably priced older issues. -_-
And tbh, I find them easier to navigate than instocktrades or cheapgraphicnovels or midtowncomics.
And tbh, I find them easier to navigate than instocktrades or cheapgraphicnovels or midtowncomics.
I just recently used MyComicsShop.com because I couldnt find the issues I needed anywhere else. Not sure how the shipping is though, im still waiting on them lol. I also used Midtowncomics because they had a 70% off deal, but there was a bunch of stuff I couldnt find on their site.
Waiting on like 4 or 5 crossover issues for the Young Justice run, then im ready to send them out to be bound! Super excited. Curious to see how much itll end up costing after everything is said and done. If its still pretty cheap, I might start buying trades to bundle up and have bound for series I want.
Waiting on like 4 or 5 crossover issues for the Young Justice run, then im ready to send them out to be bound! Super excited. Curious to see how much itll end up costing after everything is said and done. If its still pretty cheap, I might start buying trades to bundle up and have bound for series I want.
I wouldn't even go so far as to call that "design."
Design is a thing that site is desperately in need of.
I've seen cave paintings more aesthetically pleasing than pre-2012 comic art.
Why don't you two narrow it to like 1997-2012. Everyone can agree on dunking on all the bad anime influence and gradient coloring.
My wallpaper:
That Slack icon hints at something beneath.
I can't read anything from before then either. Except manga. Manga is timeless.
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Tell me one book pre 2012 that has good art and I'll tell you it's bad and I bet its because of the coloring.
Shonen Jumps are in black and white thus timeless. Plus they generally have more energetic art.
If they had Photoshop back then, they'd have basically been coloring everything with the paint bucket tool. 😐
A modern presentation of golden/silver age art looks like that because the texture inherent to the printing process and rough paper is gone. That's why modern folks paying tribute to that stuff use half-tone dots and grain n stuff.
Digital/glossy versions of comics that old should have actual vintage paper scans.
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We could make a huge list of endless works, but if I'm playing to you as judge, it's still easy. Batwoman: Elegy was 2010.
Anything pre-2012 drawn by Carlos Pacheco. Hes actually somehow gotten worse as time goes on lol.
Im also a big fan of the Ed McGuinnes art around that time. Same with Andy Kubert, BUT he has been colored pretty poorly in the past. Basically everything after digital coloring/birth of Image comics, I enjoy.
Oh oh, Ed Benes!
Im also a big fan of the Ed McGuinnes art around that time. Same with Andy Kubert, BUT he has been colored pretty poorly in the past. Basically everything after digital coloring/birth of Image comics, I enjoy.
Oh oh, Ed Benes!
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What I've read has nice lines and the coloring does it a disservice. I do like Kirbys lines though. They could still pass today.
Manga is timeless
A classic for the ages
You got a problem with tall people? They look like fine strapping lads.
Jh is one of the exceptions like Conner and Cooke. Some people's art is just timeless
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Ed McGuinnes not even once. His art on Avengers is just bad.
Just went to my LCS for the first time in three or four months. The owner was SUPER pumped about DC taking Diamond out of the equation. He said he had switched to UCS as soon as he was able to. He showed me on his computer how he paid $75 shipping on one box of comics from Diamond, whereas for TWO boxes of comics from UCS he pays $12.50 shipping.
I know this is just one shop's experience but damn that's nuts.
Jose luis garcia lopez, Jack Kirby, Art Adams, Mike Golden, George Perez, Bernie Wrightson, Mike Mignola, tim sale, jim steranko, john buscema,, alex toth, norm breyfogle, stuart immonen, Bill Sienkiewicz, Paul Gulacy, Chris Bachalo, Frazer Irving, Walter Simonson, Joe Kubert, Tony Moore, Francis Manapul, Francesco Francavilla, Jon Bogdanove, Marcos Martin, Mike Zeck, Bob Layton, John Romita Sr, John Romita Jr, David Aja, Joe Quinones, Greg Smallwood, dave gibbons, Barry Windsor Smith
Is a pretty solid list for me of pre 2012 comic artists
Is a pretty solid list for me of pre 2012 comic artists
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Bachalo, Immonen and Quinones you can keep the rest. Quinones draws in a very post 2012 way too. Bachalos style went from something I couldn't stand to loving the new stuff.
Maybe Aja but he doesn't do enough work anymore for me to care.
He is hit or miss for me, but his issues of Superman/Batman with Supergirl will always have a place in my heart.
Yea that was my only real work of his that I read. I owned some of the Fathom books, but those were just handovers from a friends collection that I bought as a kid.
His faces and body proportions are hot or miss with me. Still extremely talented just not always my taste.
Oh I lied, I enjoyed his Superman arc called Godfall. The one where Superman was a motorcycle cop lol.
But your right, his bodies are either hot or miss lol...
So... I got to reading Birds of Prey.
I expected the racism.
What I didn't expect was some of the worst dialogue I've read in years.
If there's a Razzie Award for comics, this book should be nominated for worst comic.
I expected the racism.
What I didn't expect was some of the worst dialogue I've read in years.
"...pasty-ass ass."
"It feels good to be good."
"Then let's warm you up ending a few bad ones."
It was cringe inducing. Like the polar opposite of Far Sector.
The structuring of the monologuing was all over the place. When you get confused as to which person is doing the dialogue, you're doing it wrong.
Also, there's a lot of dumb shit going on. Why didn't Renee pistol whip Harley when she managed to get close enough to put the gun to her head? Why didn't Canary simply do the cry a second time on the Joker's goons?
I don't mind that Dinah's a lot more promiscuous is this book, but there's no way you can convince me that any version of her would ignore someone asking for help. This is someone who tended to Roy and his drug addiction when Ollie didn't.
The use of panels makes the fights hard to decipher in general. Even simple techniques such as using angles to note which side a character is are abandoned completely.
And WFT was that ending. We don't even get a resolution to it all? It might be because DC pulled the cord on it, but I've seen cancelled books pull it off much better (RIP Future Foundation). But seeing how the book played out, they would have probably messed that up even with all the time in the world.
"It feels good to be good."
"Then let's warm you up ending a few bad ones."
It was cringe inducing. Like the polar opposite of Far Sector.
The structuring of the monologuing was all over the place. When you get confused as to which person is doing the dialogue, you're doing it wrong.
Also, there's a lot of dumb shit going on. Why didn't Renee pistol whip Harley when she managed to get close enough to put the gun to her head? Why didn't Canary simply do the cry a second time on the Joker's goons?
I don't mind that Dinah's a lot more promiscuous is this book, but there's no way you can convince me that any version of her would ignore someone asking for help. This is someone who tended to Roy and his drug addiction when Ollie didn't.
The use of panels makes the fights hard to decipher in general. Even simple techniques such as using angles to note which side a character is are abandoned completely.
And WFT was that ending. We don't even get a resolution to it all? It might be because DC pulled the cord on it, but I've seen cancelled books pull it off much better (RIP Future Foundation). But seeing how the book played out, they would have probably messed that up even with all the time in the world.
If there's a Razzie Award for comics, this book should be nominated for worst comic.
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