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#179529
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Comics Fans
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/179529/action/topic#179529
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Originally posted by: JediSage
OK, Just finished Infinite Crisis #2. I have to say, I'm very, very impressed so far. The art is fantastic...like nothing I've ever seen except for maybe Dark Knight Returns. The paper quality is great (I think that gets overlooked), and the story so far is excellent. I like where they're going with Kal-L and Power Girl. Very cool. Quite glad I read COIE again...


From what I browsed on the racks the other day I was pleased to see the return of what I consider a much better caliber of comic art. I think I mentioned elsewhere that I really think the trend of huge panels with single character poses and no background detail except a wash of computer generated color is well past its time. One of the reasons I stopped enjoying comics as much was the rise of the unskilled, stylized artists. I think this really began with the start of Image Comics- it seemed that other than Jim Lee all the artist/creators thought "Screw those publishers and editors making me drawbackgrounds! I'll do 'convention sketches' and pass them off as sequential art!". Even Jim Lee at the time took to putting in superfluous lines to make his art seem detailed. Eventually he got back to his roots though which is good.

George Perez is someone I long consider to be the pinnacle of comic art. His work is comic-booky yet realistic and detailed. He has a knack for bringing out emotion in character's faces and body language. I'm glad he's a part of the current 'Crisis' and that the others involved seem to be following his lead.
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#179253
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Comics Fans
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/179253/action/topic#179253
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Originally posted by: JediSage

I only recently discovered Gaiman by starting the Sandman library about a year ago. Got his book American Gods in late October and finished it about a month ago. Great, great book. I've got some of his others waiting to be read. Have you read any of his books? He has a gift, that's for sure.


LOL- I'm halfway through 'American Gods' right now! Previously read 'Good Omens', 'Neverwhere' (and bought the BBC TV mini-series) and his short story collection 'Smoke and Mirrors'. Looking forward to 'Anansi Boys' and 'Stardust'. Not many other authors- comics or otherwise- get the idea of myth like Gaiman does.

Check out his spoken word CDs too if you get a chance. The one I have is called 'Warning: Contains Language'.
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#179246
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Star Wars Holiday Special on Conan
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/179246/action/topic#179246
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It was a very funny clip but I tend to believe that the reactions were pre-arranged. I don't know, Ford's reactions just seemed a little *too* over-the-top- like Conan had told him that he'd be showing it and asked him to be all distraught. Maybe he really was- I just can't see why at this point in his career he'd care about it much one way or another and I certainly don't believe Lucas has any power over him to make him deny the existence of the special. Heck, maybe Ford *brought* the clip to Conan.
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#179239
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Comics Fans
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/179239/action/topic#179239
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Originally posted by: JediSage

I just finished the Sandman series...The Wake was fantastic. I think the best story of all of them was Rhamadan (sp?). Awesome. It's the one where a sultan asks Morpheus to make Baghdad a city of dreams. Think it was in the Fables and Reflections TPB. Great, great story. Did you read Endless Nights? I've heard some not good things about it, and I don't want to ruin my Sandman experience by reading it.


Ahhh yes, Ramadan... issue #50. Great, great tale.

Endless Nights was a good read but far from the best out there. It feels more like it should have been backup features in the main Sandman book rather than its own mini-series. But if you've enjoyed what you've read so far than by all means give it a go. A couple of the tales are 'meh' but others are gems. Plus it gave Gaiman a chance to work with some artists he liked but that he didn't see doing a full story arc. (Gaiman always hand-picked his artists rather than having them assigned to the book by DC, or so the story goes.)
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#179209
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Comics Fans
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/179209/action/topic#179209
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Originally posted by: JediSage

David: Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman, Straczynski: Amazing Spiderman, Fantastic 4, Squadron Supreme (shipping in a few months, pick up the Supreme Power: Hyperion mini, if you can), and Book of Lost Souls (very dark, in the vein of Sandman)


Cool thanks- I'll look for them. Did you ever read the Squadron Supreme maxi-series from the 80s? Good stuff then I thought- kinda interesting doing the Marvel take on the JLA. Lost Souls sound good as well and I'm certainly a Sandman fan!

LOL!! I think GI Joe (the 80's version) is better than what they're doing now...


I agree. Its so NOT difficult to do better animation than they're doing now. Its really odd.
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#179206
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Comics Fans
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/179206/action/topic#179206
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Originally posted by: JediSage
I think the more titles J. Michael Straczynski writes, the better off Marvel is. He is one of the best things going for them right now, along with Peter David.

I'll have to check some out- recommendations?

I too, am amazed at the crappy animation of Marvel's tv products. Heck, even the Teen Titans series, which was heavily influenced by Anime, was VASTLY superior to anything Marvel's got going. My goodness, the other day I was watching X-Men and couldn't believe it was made in 1999. Thought it was something from 1983. Very poor.


It seems as though Marvel animation at some point said, as a company, "Aha- we have made G.I. Joe and our skills are complete! We shall progress no further!"
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#179195
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Unorthodox Star Wars Beliefs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/179195/action/topic#179195
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Wow what a mixed bag of a thread. On one hand I'm incredibly impressed with the length and breadth of the posts in this thread. On the other hand it has become more of an intelligent 'you suck, no YOU suck' back and forth than an actual discussion of the ideas brought up.

Please keep in mind folks that opinions, like they say... well you know- we all have them.

As for the ideas themselves there could be some overthinking going on here. After all SW *is* just fiction, a fiction initially created by one man but fed and grown by hundreds or thousands of others so there are bound to be almost as many interpretaions.

I think the principle of Occam's Razor is applicable here.
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#179146
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Comics Fans
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/179146/action/topic#179146
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I just ordered several of the IC lead-ins but haven't read any yet. Which leads me to couple of other thoughts-

1) I've read and been a fan of both Marvel and DC but after browsing the racks I have very little interest in the stuff Marvel is putting out these days. It seems like they took what was already a segmented universe and made it even more convoluted by re-vamping series with the 'Ultimate' lines while still maintaining some semblence of original continuity. On the other hand the DCU seems to be the place to go for good reads.

2) The impending release of the 'Ultimate Avengers' direct to DVD animated film sounded like a good idea when I heard about it but the clip here: Ultimate Avengers clip on SHH just looks like the same old cruddy animation that Marvel Productions has been cranking out since the late 80s! Wow they added some motion blur but why can't they add some different layout artists or *gasp* someone who knows perspective?!?!
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#179138
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The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/179138/action/topic#179138
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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter

There are only two ways to deal with the disrespectful: one is to rebuke them, and the other is to ignore them. Anything else is going to fuel their flames.


Absolutely.

And I hate the timing of all this. You'd think that these cartoons were just published last week or something. But no. From the BBC:

30 Sept: Danish paper publishes cartoons
20 Oct: Muslim ambassadors complain to Danish PM
10 Jan: Norwegian publication reprints cartoons
26 Jan: Saudi Arabia recalls its ambassador
30 Jan: Gunmen raid EU's Gaza office demanding apology
31 Jan: Danish paper apologises
1 Feb: Papers in France, Germany, Italy and Spain reprint cartoons
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4675462.stm

Anyone want to wager a guess as to WHY this is happening NOW instead of, oh say... a few months ago?