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20 hours ago, bobotski said:

I can guarantee you, in 25 years boardies will still talk about Liefeld's artistic skills.

Or lack there of

On ‎5‎/‎16‎/‎2020 at 11:57 AM, James J Johnson said:

Same storm, different books. Already had been tracking sales on ebay, ComicLink, and other sites, and capturing the images of not only the books he was likely to re-sell on ebay with hyper-inflated grades, the more popular and in demand key books, but more recently started capturing data on the books he was likely to buy for resale once exposure and transparency forced him to expand his choices to semi and non-keys. I got this. Shooting fish in a barrel as the old saying goes.

I'm late to the thread.  But now that you've got him in your sights, don't let up, don't give up, don't let him off the hook.  He's a lowlife scumbag.

LIGHT HIM UP.

3 hours ago, lighthouse said:

DCBS isn’t the new DC distributor. Lunar is.

Common ownership but separate companies. Just like Kay Jewelers, Zales, and Jared are all owned by the same owners. Just like Hot Topic and Staples are owned by the same people. Just like GEICO and Dairy Queen.

DCBS is the largest Diamond account for Marvel product. They’ll be the largest DC account for Lunar. 

It’s an easy tinfoil hat to put on. And it may even fit. But they are two separate companies.

From an official or regulatory standpoint the two companies will have to be separate.  In practice they will do everything in their power to make sure they both are successful by sharing information, costs, discounts, resources, payroll, storage, IT, everything that you can think of to save money to compete and maximize profit.

49 minutes ago, dupont2005 said:

If distributors didn’t deep discount to the consumer then how come DCBS can beat every shops price by a good 40%?

I agree.  It also makes you wonder just how poorly Diamond was run as a business, poor reputation and not able to be profitable as a monopoly?  I think they were either run by a complete idi0t or Diamond was just able to squeeze huge amounts of profit out of the system that lined the pockets of the owners.  If they go out of business, good riddance.

On ‎6‎/‎4‎/‎2020 at 6:07 AM, Hieronymus Bosch said:

There's no question that Liefeld is probably one of the most hated artists in comic books, and yet, he's also one of the most loved. It's easy to pile on - the anatomy, lack of feet, the pouches, the guns, etc. 

But to me, Rob was always more of an idea guy than an artist. He brought a LOT of ideas to Marvel and kick started that whole scene. At first his art wasn't too obnoxious (I was personally never a fan), but man he made his comics like a kid in a candy store. 

He's had some BAD instances of art... without a doubt... but the guy has sold more American comic books than Mike Mignola, Art Adams, and Dave Stevens combined.

Is he one of the worst? Well, he certainly didn't get any better...

If Liefeld was drawing it I wasn't buying it.

The beginning of the end?

16 minutes ago, Lobo1969 said:

 

Meanwhile in Canada, no 2nd amendment, no problems! If that statement upsets you, too bad.

 

In before the lock!

Canada is a great country.  It's not very populated for it's massive size (about 10 times less populated than the US) and probably one of the best places on Earth to live if you are poor. 

On ‎5‎/‎25‎/‎2020 at 11:32 AM, Electricmastro said:

Some of Frank Frazetta’s comic covers:

The neck on the horse from Ghost Rider #4 looks really odd.  Like he was distantly related to a dragon or other mythical creature.  But I do think Frazetta is pretty amazing.

3 hours ago, Jaylam said:

...and this is why the 2nd amendment is so important. The founders of the this country understood the dark side of human nature, something that has been on full display for the last 10 days. 

Couldn't agree more.  I myself bought a firearm in April, stay safe and protect your family (and pets and comics, in that order!)

19 minutes ago, mattn792 said:

Why would you be surprised, look at the cities involved.  And the twerps in my town were stealing whatever they could, including mannequins.  Why wouldn’t they steal comics?

Why wouldn’t they steal comics?

. . .

Because they can't read? (although you would think looking at the pictures would be right up their alley)

28 minutes ago, Bookery said:

Comic shops around the country damaged by riots so far include:

Golden Apple (LA),  Hi De Hi (LA),  JapanLA (LA),  Graham Crackers (Chicago),  Challengers Comics (Chicago),  Top Cut (Illinois),  Laughing Ogre (Columbus),  Vault of Midnight (Grand Rapids),  Dream Haven (Minneapolis),  Crazy Fred's (La Mesa). 

Uncle Hugo's (Minneapolis) -- one of the nation's major science-fiction bookshops, was completely burnt to the ground.

This news in my mind is worse than the pandemic, totally avoidable.  So freaking sad.

38 minutes ago, Ken Aldred said:

On my part, a case of ‘didn’t do the research’, but also that I don’t find most of the Titans and Wonder Woman issues you mentioned to be particularly memorable as runs, apart from some Teen Titans, such as ‘Killers of the Doom Patrol‘, ‘Runaways’, ‘Who is Donna Troy ?’ and, of course, ‘The Judas Contract’.  That said, for me, even those stories don’t feel like they’re up at the consistently all-time classic level of Byrne’s X-Men, and I still believe that Byrne proved himself far, far more as a writer, whether in partnership or alone.

I guess agree to disagree.

I read a some of Byrne's run on Wonder Woman, very basic story telling, phoned in art, when compared to the Perez on the same character, with the way Perez rebooted the character (from a writing standpoint bringing in the Greek mythology, and the detail he put in showing Themyscira was incredible.  it couldn't be clearer which creator was "better".

I like Byrne as and enjoyed his work on X-Men but it was a bit of being on the right book at the right time and having Austin create a very clean line (going back to books we are liked as kids, rose colored glasses as all).  Notice how everyone who talks about him on this thread barely bring up any books he's worked on in the last 30 years (no mentions of his WW, Next Men, Star Trek, etc.)  He just hasn't had much of an impact on the industry where Perez just seemed to care more and kept refining and getting better at his craft over the years (Busiek/Perez on Avengers, JLA/Avengers, his Brave and Bold was well received).

If anything Perez was just a bit slow as he wanted to keep raising his game.  His very detailed work on the Crimson Plague issues had hundreds of individual fans drawn into the backgrounds. (I don't know of another artist that could or would draw that many people so distinctly as to be able to identify them, truly amazing).  

1 hour ago, Ken Aldred said:

Not impossible, but Byrne at his peak was also an excellent writer as well as artist, and there’s a noticeable upswing in quality on X-Men once he’s co-writer / plotter with Chris Claremont.

That’s the level that Perez would’ve needed to reach, but there’s no historical evidence to support it.  IIRC he’s written a couple of short mini-series, but nothing on the classic scale of the interlinked narrative of Savage Land / Alpha Flight / Proteus / Dark Phoenix / Days of Future Past.

 

Perez became a co-plotter or co-writer with Wolfman (and maybe even co-editor) on NTT and rolled off that very successful book to Crisis where he drew the majority of DC characters.  Both were massive hits and then we went on to re-boot Wonder Woman, where he wrote, drew and did covers.  He was THE top artist at DC for multiple years.  The NTT run was the basis of the rebirth of DC and it had a lasting impact all the way to the hit Teen Titans Go! TV show are still being felt today.

I like them both but prefer Perez for the reasons listed above. 

1 hour ago, Robot Man said:

I was a kid at the beginning of the SA of Marvel. I loved Spider-Man, The Hulk and Fantastic Four. X-Men and Thor not to much. I just didn’t get the mythology thing or the mutant thing. Really wish I kept my JIM 83 and X-Men 1. Traded them off for the other guys and Batman. 

Anybody read comics at the barber shop? My shop had a bunch of pretty well worn late ‘40’s/early ‘50’s books. The barber would let me bring in my comics and trade them for his one to one. I still have a couple of Fight and Planets I traded Archie and Ritchie Rich for. All I had to do was blow out the hair with my mom’s hairdryer. 

I remember reading comics at the barber shop!  Good times.

As an adult I have on occasion brought my own book / magazine with me and stealthily left behind some comics in waiting area for kids to find. 

On 4/19/2020 at 7:04 PM, AndrewCup said:

Has anyone mentioned this EPIC series from Ken Follett - Pillars of the Earth?  The Kingsbridge series is outstanding!

Yes, I just asked about this (see page 81)!  Just finished it, it was long but a page turner and hooked be right at the start.  Great read.

26 minutes ago, lizards2 said:

One odd thing I heard last night on the "news" was that smoker's had some type of immunity.  If that is truly the case, that might be why China's case reporting is so low.

I bought some Winstons today, just in case...., 

I have not heard anything about smokers having any immunity, they are probably more as risk if anything.  Older people, people will immune issues and obese people are most at risk and the numbers from China are completely unreliable.

1 hour ago, electricprune said:

New Teen Titans #38 Origin Wonder Girl $5

Great issue as part of a great run.

Just going to do what the Bloodhound Gang do - "Giving myself a mullet, hook the Flowbee to the Kirby"

3 hours ago, Buzzetta said:

His band members both current and former are extremely nice people and have always been gracious.  I've seen Morrissey six times.  However I tried to see him nine times.  Three shows I had tickets to in the local area were cancelled with one being cancelled the morning of the show to which I found out once I arrived at the venue. 

I had no idea he'd cancelled that often, I've seen him 3 or 4 times so I guess I've been lucky.

Great music but he sure is full of himself.

39 minutes ago, kav said:

Best concert I ever went to was back in the era of the super concert- The Police, The Fixx, Madness, Oingo Boingo, Wall of Voodoo, and The Thompson Twins.  It was the Police ghost in the machine tour.  Every band featured it was their top hits at the time.   Would you have enjoyed this one Buzz?

That sounds incredible! 

28 minutes ago, Buzzetta said:

 Then you have not seen Morrissey... 

Roll a pair of dice.  If you do not get a prime number there is a good chance the show will be cancelled. 

Funny story, the only time I've been lucky enough to win something on the radio was the grand prize to see him in Vegas (this was not too many years after The Smith's broke up).  Flew with a friend and the DJ at the radio and his date to Vegas for the show.  The show was awesome but there was such a crush of people that we watched the first half of the show from the 1st row and the second half of the show from the side of the stage (we had back stage passes).  Since it was Morrissey we never did see him backstage, we ran into the band at the airport later that night (they were flying out of the same terminal) but right before the airline started boarding Moz (yeah, I called him that, deal with it Moz) showed up with security and was wisked onto the plane.  He never even made eye contact with the band and the place was not that busy late at night.  I always envisioned him flying 1st class with the rest of his band in coach with him being picked up by a limo and the rest taking a cab, but I flew home to a different city so I'll never know.  The show was fantastic in his defense.

1 hour ago, Buzzetta said:

That was my experience when I saw Van Halen.  I thought it was terrible.  DLR could still sing.  Eddie could still play guitar in a way that mesmerized.  Together, they were out of sync.  Despite the snobbery of this next phrase, I stand by it.  When you go to enough live shows you can begin to tell the difference between glaring imperfections and minor ones that are related to live music. 

For example, I love Billy Joel but Billy skips notes in many of his songs to make them easier to play live.  He even hired the lead singer of the local Billy Joel tribute band to join his touring band to help out on stage.  

Elton John is a far better live piano player than Elton John.

I will still take Billy live over Elton John live every time.   Billy is a rock and roll show.

Have to say the most disappointed I was at a show was New Order back in the day.  They had to pause between every song to get it together (retune and such), forgot lyrics, sounded like , etc.  I think the whole band was drunk/high.  They didn't sound anything like what you would hear on an album, again just terrible, nobody I've seen since has been close.

12 minutes ago, Buzzetta said:

I have seen Beatles Lite (McCartney)  

I have seen the Stones back in 97 at the Meadowlands.

Beatles win and McCartney is still the best I have ever seen. 

Very cool to see people with a wide range of tastes in music.  Live music is great and it's always interesting to see which performers are as good or even better live (and I've seen a few that I wouldn't want to see again as they were so bad).