RedRaven

Hi Randall et al. I still read/check the magazine thread almost daily. I just don't post much as I have made a concerted effort to change my online behavior in regards to social media. However, I do still enjoy discussing comic magazines, more specifically, the history and the people behind them. I think I will start participating a bit more on the forums but solely in the context of the magazine forum. It is an oasis on these boards IMO. I don't collect anymore as I have almost everything I wanted from comic magazines with the exception of a Blazing Combat 1 (and the collecting drive is much diminished at this point anyway). I've been thinking about doing some data analysis and visualizations based on my local copy of the GCD database. I may share those on here If I can find time to muck with a few side projects. This is an older video I put together years ago on Frank Frazetta. It utilizes a GIT code commit visualization library in which I transformed Franks output into what looked like code commits. I have much better tools and skills for this sort of thing now just no time to do it. I am five years in with a German startup which I helped start and time constraints are insane. Data visualization of Frank Frazetta's credited work in comic books from 1947 through 1970. Data is culled from the Grand Comics Database. Selection was based on Frazetta's name as a wildcard match as penciler on any comic book before 1970. A strict chronology is not guaranteed as missing months or dates are defaulted to 01 in both cases.

The Grand Comics Database has a very powerful query engine where you can derive this sort of data. Frazetta Warren Query

The major selling point for me is that I cant play Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 at any sort of a reasonable FPS and graphics settings without one.

Waiting on a new RTX video card. Same issues as the PS5. Just going to be patient.

Back doodling while I work.

Twister. What an absolute disaster.

The weekend joys of being a young teenage boy, casting arcane spells with the TV antennae in order to commune with the dark lady of horror over UHF on a Saturday night. Great times.

Absolutely beautiful ink illustration. RIP sir.

You would submit to a calculation, an equation would just be something to ponder.

Have not. I'd have to buy Disney+ to watch it and I'm not interested in another subscription for just one show. If it is eventually offered per season or episode as a purchase I will give it a shot.

I occasionally try to get angry about Star Wars and the current direction but then I remember that Star Wars has been terrible since 1983 and I stop caring (exception of Rogue One which I thought was an excellent bit of Sci-Fi)

I am a huge Conan fan and this movie really disappointed me. What did not was the Solomon Kane movie. I thought that was excellent.

Vampirella is so dang campy. Sexy alien space vampire, not sure how to make that play to a wider audience. Most likely shouldn't even try. A character designed to sell books to teenage boys with raging hormones will have to be reworked immensely, especially in todays cultural climate. Here is something I'd love to see. One of the streaming services buys the rights to all Warren intellectual properties and starts producing a horror/sci-fi anthology series of short segments taken from Eerie, Creepy, Vampirella, 1984, Rook etc. Vampirella could play as a serial within the series.

That is a great story. Thanks for sharing.

Well now that I think about it, not so much a bald spot as his bald head.

Phil Collins once blinded me with his bald spot back in 1998.

Soundtrack please...

The Bezos Four.

Love those covers. I'm impressed, walking around scaffolding and on beams in high heels! Plus, not a good choice of clothing for that windy environment.

Yep. My daughter and I both enjoyed the Movie. It was good fun.

...and yes @Flee-Marquette that is a none-too-subtle request for a Tupperball-Z composition.

@TupennyConan has super saiyan'd up mentally and now spends his time mocking his inferiors in the WC.

It's psychology, apart from a few studies based on a handful of well established psychometrics, nothing is consistently reproducible and you can prove anything your heart desires. I'm sure there is another study proving video games promote feelings of depression and alienation.

It's all relative. I bought mine for $400 each back in 2000. Seemed expensive then. $3000 may not seem so bad 20 years from now