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JUNE! Comics OT Before Four Dollar Books and Toasters!
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I like your style.
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
Just an update on Orc Stain brahs but Amazon will have the first trade back in about a week or so. What was up with the paper type in this week's Invincible?
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
Whhaaaaa???
WascallyWabbit
Member
Dunno why, but I've had an irrational distaste for scalped and I've refused to read it, but now that it's wrapping up, I can see myself getting the first couple of trades
pock3tmonster
Banned
Hey guys, just in regards to Comixology's 'Father's Day' sale, as someone who has read next to nothing of Superman/Action Comics, are Superman: Last Son and Superman: Brainiac recommended? I have really enjoyed Geoff Johns' run on Green Lantern but I don't know if that's enough to gauge enjoyment of his other work.
BuddyJoeHooker
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I highly recommend Superman: Brainiac, the Gary Frank art is amazing. I haven't read Last Son. Too bad the legion of super-heroes arc isn't up.
Thanks man.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Paolo Rivera is leaving Marvel/Daredevil
So why am I leaving? The short answer: ownership. With the exception of just a few published pieces of art (which belong to other companies), Marvel owns the copyrights to my entire professional portfolio. And why shouldn't they? I was, of course, compensated fairly for it, and for that Im grateful but the sum total of that work is not enough to support me in the distant future. My page rate is essentially the same as when I started at 21, so I've decided to invest in myself. What I create in the next decade needs to pay dividends when my vision gets blurry and my hands start to shake (and who knows what else). Now is the time to make that choice, while Im still young, possess "great power," but have few responsibilities.
Good for him. Don't want to end up like Gene Colan, drawing hundreds of DD/Tomb of Dracula pages and not shit to show for it when his skills started to erode, and you gotta ask for hand-outs from your fans while Marvel kinda twiddles it's thumbs until you pass away.
Still, sucks about Daredevil. That book launched with Marcos Martin and Paolo Rivera, and they're both gone in under a year. Chris Samnee is great, sure, but he can't replace those guys, and you just know they're gonna put some shitty Khoi Pham fill-ins to replace him.
So why am I leaving? The short answer: ownership. With the exception of just a few published pieces of art (which belong to other companies), Marvel owns the copyrights to my entire professional portfolio. And why shouldn't they? I was, of course, compensated fairly for it, and for that Im grateful but the sum total of that work is not enough to support me in the distant future. My page rate is essentially the same as when I started at 21, so I've decided to invest in myself. What I create in the next decade needs to pay dividends when my vision gets blurry and my hands start to shake (and who knows what else). Now is the time to make that choice, while Im still young, possess "great power," but have few responsibilities.
Good for him. Don't want to end up like Gene Colan, drawing hundreds of DD/Tomb of Dracula pages and not shit to show for it when his skills started to erode, and you gotta ask for hand-outs from your fans while Marvel kinda twiddles it's thumbs until you pass away.
Still, sucks about Daredevil. That book launched with Marcos Martin and Paolo Rivera, and they're both gone in under a year. Chris Samnee is great, sure, but he can't replace those guys, and you just know they're gonna put some shitty Khoi Pham fill-ins to replace him.
AWESOME. His work on Daredevil has been revelatory! The character and story really lent themselves to him coming up with some incredibly novel visual tricks. I'm really looking forward to seeing what he can do on his own.
Affeinvasion
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It is hard to be a comic artist. That's for sure. I can't imagine going into that profession without having a great understanding of investment or having something else to fall back on. It's just not something you can retire on.
Extra Sauce
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Comic book creators either end up with nothing, or millions of dollars at the end of the career. Crazy how there isn't a whole lot of in-between.
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
I need to contact that brah on working with my comics.
Koi Pham is not a good artist, I dropped Scarlet Spider as soon as he was solicited as an artist. Marvel, I want to buy 3 dollar books from you, why you gotta mess it up?
Koi Pham is not a good artist, I dropped Scarlet Spider as soon as he was solicited as an artist. Marvel, I want to buy 3 dollar books from you, why you gotta mess it up?
Is he still on an arc for later this year ?
I got Joe Hill's The Cape for Father's Day. I really don't like the dialog or main character, but the artwork and story are fantastic.
I didn't see
I'd recommend it if you can find it on sale.
I didn't see
the main character being the villain, so that was a nice twist, even tough there have been a lot of books where that happens. He's such a piece of shit though, I didn't care about him at all. I wish they would have expanded on his father a bit more or where his Cape powers came from but oh well.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Nope. He's gone. Chris Samnee is doing that later story arc as well.
Kinda puts into perspective how recent this decision was. Rivera was very excited about doing Daredevil for a good, long run, and now he's done a 180 on that.
Its why i cant blame Tony Daniels for moving to writing. Sure, he sucks at it, but theres a reason for it.
At least Francis Manapul is good at both!
Affeinvasion
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I was looking on marvel.com for captain marvel subscription but it wasn't up. I have a subscription to uncanny xforce from them. Anybody already subscribed somewhere else?
yeah I knew he was leaving but I thought it would be in another year or two. Samnee seems to be crazy fast though.
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
Hack/Slash omnibus brahs or 100 Bullets Deluxe Edition? Is Hack/Slash mostly comedy or does it have suspense? Wish DMZ had some deluxe editions.
100 bulllets brah. It's actually good
EDIT: Actually brah, order the first volume of Fear Agent
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1616550058/?tag=neogaf0e-20
parrotbeak
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Haven't read 100 Bullets yet but I don't really recommend Hack/Slash. It's one of those comics I really wanted to like but found it stale. It's mostly comedy horror; hard to really be suspenseful since it's in the horror movie genre and you know the main characters are in the ongoing series.
Also, Fear Agent OHC vol 1 is $24.99 at dcbs if you pre-order. Yay half off!
my name is ed
Banned
Rivera is easily one of my favorite artists, whatever he puts out, I'll buy.
Seems like a few comic creators are leaving the big 2 to focus on their own properties or work.
Seems like a few comic creators are leaving the big 2 to focus on their own properties or work.
SpiderJerusalem
Banned
oh 100 Bullets beats it
I just like that hack/slash is 99cents whenever I want to read some
Extra Sauce
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I am so excited for this. I read the first trade a few months ago, then stopped because the second one was out of print. As it turns out, that was a blessing in disguise.
I NEED THE REST OF THIS SAGA IN MY HANDS NOW
Sorry.
Nah man, its cool. I need to spread the Fear Agent love around
i finally got Android on my touchpad thanks to a really easy to follow guide and it's like a whole new tablet ( or like the Acer Iconia tablet i had for a week and returned). The black task bar at the bottom of the screen even hides the speck of dust that looks like a black dot, ocd-ness saved! First thing i downloaded...Comixology!
Tizoc
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GET EVERYTHING!
GET EVERYTHING!
GET EVERYTHING!
...and subscribe to this twitter-
http://twitter.com/#!/Dr_Dinosaur
I like Danger Club and Invincible.
Haven't read Danger Club but I'm willing to give the bro-est bro-hug of all the internets ;D
I reread that story and no he was not killed, he was sent to STAR Labs.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Not quite, he was buried in a coffin by Joker. But you don't see a body, and he is technically immortal, so who knows? He could still be buried in the Wayne Manor gardens!
Where'd you get STARLabs from?
First issue of vol 1 was free, really liked it. Only read two other random issues before, one being last years FCBD and that dinosaur was amazing. I am debating between digital sale, buying used trades when i find them, and waiting for an OHC. Digital seems like the best bet, then OHC since i don't know if that will even get made, then used trades since i would feel slightly bad buying this used when it's special.
ended up buying them through dcbs' comixology link to try to get 5% back on my next dcbs order. first time trying this, apparently there is a day delay between when you can link the purchase.....we'll see!
Creator owned is pretty hit or miss from what I have seen. Some strike it big like Kirkman or Millar, while others barely make enough to scrape by and end up going back to the big 2. Seems like even less of a sure thing if you are only the artist. Perhaps Rivera wants to try his hand at writing.
Mac the KNife
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I may have to indulge. Comixology is gaining my favor with these sales, though I'm still not 100% hooked.
i'm only sold on things that are really cheap AND hard to find in print. I jumped on that Seaguy Slaves of Mickey Eye sale since they didn't even put that series into a trade, and Atomic Robo is well-priced and that vol 3 tpb is out of print and it's probably not getting an oversized hardcover in the near future. I still prefer print/trades/used trades over strictly digital though, or l Marvel including digital codes with 3.99 print books.
Mac the KNife
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Yeah, while I love having print trades to enjoy & lend to friends, digital really appeases my desire for cheaper comics and less clutter around my house.
Spike Spiegel
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Welp, that didn't take long:
Who wants to bet it'll still be Hal Jordan and not Alan Scott?
Source: Bleeding Cool
Who wants to bet it'll still be Hal Jordan and not Alan Scott?
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Heroes Con!!
It's like in a day! Where's the thread!!
Should there be a thread?? It's better than that SDCC garbage...
It's like in a day! Where's the thread!!
Should there be a thread?? It's better than that SDCC garbage...
my name is ed
Banned
It's pretty tricky for sure. Dude could make a living becoming a cover artist and doing commissions though. Selling original art also makes artists tons of money. That page rate they get isn't how comics artists, especially the bigger ones, really get their money.
Spike Spiegel
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That's also one of the reasons listed why page counts have fallen, and why so few artists now appear capable of maintaining a monthly schedule.
Anticitizen One
Banned
I might have asked this before but does Mark Waid's Daredevil run spoil the previous volume? (The legendary Smith/Bendis/Brubaker/Diggle run) or does it kind of do its own thing.
Was it you who linked to the random food blog that had Cb Cebulski talking about that very thing?
I've read all of Brubaker's run and the first 9 issues of Waid's run, but i haven't gotten around to reading my bendis ultimate tpbs yet.....Brubaker's continued off of Bendis' ending i think, then Waid's run started off with " forget that crap, let's roll" and went in a new direction. Unless it's massively spoilery and i am not remembering right
Outside of the ongoing theme of "Is Matt DD?" There is nothing carried over. Ill go reread Waid's run to see if there is, but i dont remember a single thing
Spike Spiegel
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"Random food blog"? No clue.
Cebulski runs a food blog called eataku.
Must of been TToB than. But i found it after some digging into google
http://porkosity.blogspot.com/2012/03/fed-122-comic-scout-cb-cebulski.html
Here the part that mentions that
Spike Spiegel
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Had no idea about the blog, but the article you posted is pretty much what I was talking about. An artist isn't going to spend a whole lot of time churning out an excess of pages each month for per-page rates when he can put more effort into fewer pages and sell them as "high art" to private collectors. You didn't have that option two decades ago, one decade even, so the only recourse for an artist to make money was to meet those deadlines and turn in more pages, which resulted in higher page counts.
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