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    Seen Constanteen ? Talk about it in here!

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    Keanu as John: His shirt was too clean. Seriously though, he did seem to be trying awfully hard to modulate the tone of his voice. He tried a lot harder than I expected.

     

    Themes: Is John's family Catholic in the comics? I'm not sure it was ever really specified. I might be forgetting.

     

    Lucifer: Give me a break.

     

    There were some very good touches, from time to time. John putting his cigarette out in a pool of his own blood. Some of his lines were pretty funny. But overall it was so uneven an muddled (I think I would have had trouble following the plot if I'd not read the truly horrible comic adaptation of the film first). And it looked like Keanu was on the verge of injuring himself with that huge cigarette lighter.

     

    So, was it supposed to be inferred that Chaz had been an angel all along?

     

    Bleh.

    The Introduce Yourself Thread

    in Site Feedback & Announcements

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    Get your arse in gear!

     

    Heh, I borrowed a little from the script to issue #1 for my intro here.

     

    I somehow acquired Hellblazer #1 back near the beginning, but am not sure how it survived in my collection all those years without my being aware of it. I started reading monthly a couple years ago at the behest of our friend absinthe, when he pointed out that it would be a good idea to supplement my general indulgence in All Good Comics with one of the major titles deserving of the classification. I have all the trades and am working my way through the uncollected issues as I find them and have time.

     

    I've sort of drifted away from my white-knuckled insistance that Neil Gaiman's J.C. was the pinnacle of Hellblazer writing (or at least, the bits where he appeared in the first Books of Magic mini) -- I can't get over how... GOOD... Fear & Loathing is.

     

    It may be apparant that I'm an American, and perhaps less apparent that I currently hail from the deepest, darkest recesses of the midwest. But please don't let that color your view of my general negative attitude and starchy demeanor.

     

    Glad to have found this place.

     

    -sl

    Fuckbiscuitshitangels (Warren Ellis)

    in Comics

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    It took me a really long time to warm up to Ellis, having encountered him online before actually getting around to reading any of his work. After some initial distaste with the first few stories I tried out, I've grown to really enjoy Planetary and Transmet; and now Iron Man, Ocean, and the Aparat stuff. I've been buying Ultimate Fantastic Four but I'm not sure how much longer I'll continue.

     

    Anyway, I've had to rescind previous oaths about the quality of his writing. He has at least earned a little rope.

    The Introduce Yourself Thread

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    Every year I lie to myself that I will submit inking samples to comic

    companies in an attempt to scam some real paying work that will allow me

    to quit my job and concentrate on other shit all day long (I could churn

    out inks on other people's stuff pretty quickly). Then I never do it.

    Something about the transition from 11:00am optimism to 5:00pm

    frayed-ends usually has me twirling fast enough I don't even remember

    most of what I had planned for "after work" until "right before bed" --

    much less which way is up or why I originally intended to color that one

    background to that one CD cover orange.

     

    I've also avoided writing down the several stupid script ideas I

    have for mainstream comics, knowing that my cultivated lack of facility

    in stroking the egos of other human beings (and particularly meritless

    authoritarians of the corporate comic book editor mold) (have I just

    permanently severed any hanging thread of a hope?) severely limits the

    likelihood of my getting real paying work. I still entertain the

    consolatory pretension that I am a writer.

     

    When I was eight years old, and first started working on _Actron_

    with my thrice removed cousin Brandon, I doubt that I would have

    been convinced by this picture of my future self mentally constructing

    manuscript paragraphs while sitting at the desk of my glorified data

    entry job typing pouty e-mails to friends to complain of the absurdity

    implicit in my plans to pass my twenty-sixth birthday still living in

    Evansville, Indiana. But you see, the world I dreamed of conquering

    never really existed. The picture, however transient the nature of

    perception may be, is nevertheless the one which refracts through

    my adult cornea and prints upon my adult retina as I squint to

    focus its brilliance.

     

    History's little Napoleans, more than half-blind or perhaps even

    willfully ignorant, never acknowledge this humiliating image, and thus

    they succeed for a time.

     

    -- sl, early 2003

    stanleylieber

    in Voices of the Forum

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    James:

     

    Thanks for the welcome. The pic in my avatar is from the comic story I'm working on now, called 'Oh Christ'.

     

     

    Rogan:

     

    Thanks. I've been inking a bunch of printouts of John Byrne pencils for practice, and so have ended up with a handful of ideas for Superman that will never get out of my moleskine (if I can help it!). That's what I get.

     

     

    -sl

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