Tony B.

Huh? Why? Christian was kidding. And the scans are funny as hell.

"These novels, pioneered by Will Eisner, have gone much further in their attempts to explore more difficult issues like the politics of immigration, race, sex, and authoritarianism. "

"The novels, with their parallels with movie storyboards, are popular choices for conversion by Hollywood: Alan Moore's V for Vendetta being a recent example. "

Yep. Just like Shia TheBeef said. These comics are actually in a graphic novel, so it's a novel and it's more complex and, like, stuff.

This article is crap, by the way.

From Hell 26-26=0

Hellblazer:Dangerous Habits11-11=0

Sandman:Seasons of Mist 26-26=0

Invisibles:Say You Want a Revolution (vol. 1) 14-14=0

Uncanny X-Men:The Dark Phoenix Saga 13-13=0

Signal To Noise 9-9=0

And the winner is the Compleat ManThing with 8000 points. That I just added.

Yeah and most of the guitar solo in Dani California is a complete ripoff of the main riff in Purple Haze.

I'm feeling quite sorry for myself cos I'm chockfull o' cold, and I say there ain't enough topless men in this damn thread. :icon_evil:

 

I have been drinking, yes. It's medicinal.

Here you go, Pooks. This is me sometime last year. Before my huge sideburns and for some reason with glasses. and that is my real hat.

That's why people are still singing "We Shall Overcome" and "The Times They Are A-Changin' at political rallies.

This strikes me as monumentally silly. Have the times not a-changed enough yet? I suppose there will always be new things to overcome, so that is still applicable as well. My point is, those songs were meant to make people aware and perhaps bring about some sort of change for the better, but they are still needed decades after they were made. Sad, really.

I check the 'last click' thing to see what everyone's doing, and I sometimes check out the threads that guests are looking at. And I had a snarky comment for this one. Sorry.

"Back, and to the left. Back, and to the left. Back, and to the left."

Christian, I am interested as to what you have to say about Castro's Cuba.

You didn't know that mail doesn't move on holidays?

You never figured out why you never got any mail on Christmas Day?

:D

It's how I learned Santa wasn't real!

When I think of how tiny and fragile my daughter was at 13 months, I couldn't imagine leaving her with almost anyone for any length of time over 30 seconds.

The reason comics are delayed a day due to holidays is that the mail doesn't move on holidays.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??

Hell with pants on the outside

What the fuck, Mick? Do you mean underpants on the outside? Oh no, that guy has his pants on the outside! What a weirdo!!

"I am quite proud that I never did go and kiss the Maharishi's goddamn feet, you know?" - Keith Richards

This is precisely what I was getting at.

Ouch. Also, the Stones didn't need no stinkin' Maharashi.

Only Within you without you is really shite, the rest are OK.

That one's my favorite! :icon_cry:

Ok, how to begin....

The only Superman comics I've read have been the very first issues of Action Comics and Superman from the '30s-40's, a lot of late 50's Silver Age stuff, the three Affable Alan Moore Supes stories, the whole Death of Superman whathaveyou, some JLA stuff, the excellent Hitman issue, the Power of Hope, and the Elseworlds stuff like Red Son and Kingdom Come. I watched the Fleischer cartoons when I was about 4 or 5 and have loved them ever since. Oh and of course the Chris Reeve movies.

With that as my Superman background, I present this opinion: To me Superman represents and almost indescribable mix of awe, comfort, mystery, struggle, and wonder. He is the one that everyone looks up to, literally and figuratively. You know that if he is doing his best, everything will turn out ok. He cannot be stopped, because of his powers but more importantly because of his sheer willpower and determination to help people. He can be kind of oblivious to things sometimes, but that seems to be part of his Clark Kent persona. He has genuine care and concern for all the people of the Earth, and if he could, he would help every single one of them. I mean come on, look at this guy:

For me, this says it all:

No I didn't talk to Lou about it, I just read it in the old thread. Very old thread. :)

And Stu is Stu Sutcliffe, John's friend who was supposed to play bass but later died.

There was a second print of the first trade, but that's it. There are still only 32 more issues left untraded. More than half the series. Dirty shame.

Star Wars Knights Of The Old Republic #5

Is this good? I don't usually like Dark Horse Star Wars titles, but I read a synopsis of the first issue of this and it sounded fun enough.

I think it's a fine picture. You do have quite a lot of happiness to go along with your lack of pigmentation in that picture.

From an April '06 interview:

(Claudio) Sanchez also has a soft spot for comic books -- so much so that he published two comic books and one graphic novel to offer clues to their fans about the hidden meanings in their concept albums -- The Second Stage Turbine Blade and Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV. The comics (The Second Stage Turbine Blade 1 and 2) are written by Sanchez and illustrated by Wes Abbott, and revolve around the main character -- Coheed Kilgannon -- who confronts his repressed memories of his deadly parents and ponders the larger idea of cosmic destiny. The Good Apollo graphic novel was illustrated by Christopher Shy. Sanchez debuted his comic at San Diego Comic-Con International in 2004, and returned the next year to promote the graphic novel. The comic was published independently at first, but Sanchez recently started a comic book company called Evil Ink, and the comics are distributed by Diamond Comics. But as a fan himself, he also made a point to wander around the convention checking out Star Wars comics and collectibles.

"I had a booth at Comic-Con the last two years, so I was there on business first but I also enjoyed walking around and checking out all of the other booths," Sanchez says. "A few years ago I went to the L'expo in France and got to see all of the Star Wars models there, which was amazing."

http://www.comicspriceguide.com/p-issues.a...=27833&pub=2185

http://www.comicspriceguide.com/p-issues.a...=29408&pub=2185

They are hella expensive on eBay, Amazon, whatnot.

Oh well the version I read was crappy then.

It seems almost as if it was done on a dare.