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COMICS! |OT| May 2015. Those things your favorite movie/show/game/etc. was based on.

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Zombine

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Messi said:
Wada is such an amazing artist. Anka I am hit or miss with. But more hit than miss.

But who am I to judge as the talentless hack that I am
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I get kind of confused...some artist we all like who only does random covers and a page here and there worked on like...X-Men Evolution as an intern. I think it was Anka???
 
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frye

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KoruptData said:
Inking and coloring in the 80s was not done digitally like it is today. Colors in a lot of 80s comics were flat and looked generic. Lighting didn't seem too important. The green palette and high vegetation really lends itself to making the scenes very dramatic. Also, out of all the 80s art I have seen, they do scene blurring really good, could pass for digital.
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Digital inking vs traditional is mainly a choice for the artist and I've never felt one was inherently better than the other. Totleben would be one of the great inkers of American comics in any era. Digital colouring is... it can be great for sure. But it can also be so goddamn ugly (see: early 2000's superhero comics, hell probably the first 20 years of digital colouring in general) and fucking ruin the art when people are in photoshop and just don't understand restraint. Of course there were ugly comics in the 80s, but there are now too and it has nothing to do with the process that goes into making them.


The Bisette/Totleben/Wood Swamp Thing stuff is probably my favourite art on a monthly superhero comic ever tbh
 
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Rafa=FedKilla

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Kipp said:
HAH. You expect too much.

Asked the girl from the bouldering gym out to coffee. :D

I kiiinda choked and didn't end up asking her to coffee when I was at the bouldering gym with her, but she asked me if I had Facebook and added me, then when I got home (well, just a few minutes ago actually) after making some conversation on Facebook I asked her if she wanted to get coffee this weekend and she said "Yeah!!!"
I feel slightly dumb for not getting myself to ask her in person, but the end result is the same, so whatever. Haha
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Congratulations Kipp. Just this once, I'm going to live vicariously through you.
 
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KoruptData

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frye said:
Digital inking vs traditional is mainly a choice for the artist and I've never felt one was inherently better than the other. Totleben would be one of the great inkers of American comics in any era. Digital colouring is... it can be great for sure. But it can also be so goddamn ugly (see: early 2000's superhero comics, hell probably the first 20 years of digital colouring in general) and fucking ruin the art when people are in photoshop and just don't understand restraint. Of course there were ugly comics in the 80s, but there are now too and it has nothing to do with the process that goes into making them.


The Bisette/Totleben/Wood Swamp Thing stuff is probably my favourite art on a monthly superhero comic ever tbh
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I guess I disagree. I feel on a whole, scenes look better today with digital coloring and lighting and most stuff pre digital can't match the dynamics the digital process provides. Give the same art team the tools of the 80's and then the tools of today and I say their work would look better today.
 
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ViewtifulJC

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KoruptData said:
For early 80s, the art in Saga of Swamp Thing is incredible.
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gketter said:
welp this morning i went down a bizarre video game impulse buying/collecting spree. *shrugs* it happens
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Steam Summer Sale coming soon man
 
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Messi said:
How we are the other Earth One books? Really enjoying Teen Titans.
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Only read the first Batman one, it was a pretty different take on Batman. Much more grounded and some of the character dynamics are changed. I'd go into them with an open mind, it's definitely not traditional.
 
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Schweinehund said:
Only read the first Batman one, it was a pretty different take on Batman. Much more grounded and some of the character dynamics are changed. I'd go into them with an open mind, it's definitely not traditional.
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I saw a review for Vol 2 of Batman complaining it wasn't more like normal Batman...
 
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frye

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KoruptData said:
I guess I disagree. I feel on a whole, scenes look better today with digital coloring and lighting and most stuff pre digital can't match the dynamics the digital process provides. Give the same art team the tools of the 80's and then the tools of today and I say their work would look better today.
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See, I think 95% of the time it would look demonstrably worse. You can look at recolouring jobs of old comics to see that modern isn't necessarily *better* and for every Steve Oliff Miracleman you have 10 Brian Bolland Killing Jokes.
 
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Owzers

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i've given up on steam sales for the most part, whenever i want to play games it's consoles/handhelds usually, i still need to play the baldur's gate enhanced editions on my laptop but i'm never in the mood to play on a laptop, and even if i hook it up to my tv it still seems like a lot of effort.
 
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KoruptData

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frye said:
See, I think 95% of the time it would look demonstrably worse. You can look at recolouring jobs of old comics to see that modern isn't necessarily *better* and for every Steve Oliff Miracleman you have 10 Brian Bolland Killing Jokes.
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One of those art is subjective arguments. If it makes you feel better, I'm known to have shit taste around here.
 
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Owzers

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Feels like i'm seeing the same posts twice, similar to eating a delicious left twix and then moving on to the equally delectable right twix.
 
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Simply Sarah

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sillymonkey321 said:
i've given up on steam sales for the most part, whenever i want to play games it's consoles/handhelds usually, i still need to play the baldur's gate enhanced editions on my laptop but i'm never in the mood to play on a laptop, and even if i hook it up to my tv it still seems like a lot of effort.
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Yeah, I've done the same after spending waaaay too much on games I'll never play.
 
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frye

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KoruptData said:
One of those art is subjective arguments.
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yeah i guess. One last thing I do want to say tho -- the best colorists today work in flat colours and with limited palettes and minimal fucking with the lines. Digital colours can be great but it took a long to get to where we are now and also the realization that old comics had stuff to teach
 
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Sadist

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Way to busy playing Splatoon. It's awesome.

Tyrant Rave said:
I love Uncanny Avengers. Second arc through the end of Avenge the Earth are awesome comics.
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This man speaks the truth. Why, look wat came in the mail today...

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Honestly, I won't go any further collecting Uncanny Avengers. I own the first four volumes now and as far as I'm concerned the series was canceled after that. No crappy Axis stuff for me. Also I love Acuna's designs in Avenge the Earth. I mean, X-Force Magneto looks so damn boss.

As for the other two, they were cheap; DOSMF was € 7 and Deathlok Nation was only € 6,50. Another step closer for a complete Ultimate Spider-Man collection.
 
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KoruptData

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frye said:
yeah i guess. One last thing I do want to say tho -- the best colorists today work in flat colours and with limited palettes and minimal fucking with the lines. Digital colours can be great but it took a long to get to where we are now and also the realization that old comics had stuff to teach
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Ok, my original statement, when I made it, I thought of it as pretty factual. Then you politely argued against it and JC was just obnoxious. So, upon reflection,why did I think my original statement was pretty factual and here is the reasoning I came up with.

So you conduct an experiment. You get a 100 people. 50 comic readers, 50 non comic readers. They each get a stack of 80's comics and a stack of present day comics from art teams considered to be the top of their times. They are asked which era of art they liked better. What do you think the results would be?

Me? Present era art wins hands down, by a landslide.
 
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ViewtifulJC

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KoruptData said:
Ok, my original statement, when I made it, I thought of it as pretty factual. Then you politely argued against it and JC was just obnoxious. So, upon reflection,why did I think my original statement was pretty factual and here is the reasoning I came up with.

So you conduct an experiment. You get a 100 people. 50 comic readers, 50 non comic readers. They each get a stack of 80's comics and a stack of present day comics from art teams considered to be the top of their times. They are asked which era of art they liked better. What do you think the results would be?

Me? Present era art wins hands down, by a landslide.
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Just read this comment

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Sadist

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zennyzz said:
The Avenge the Earth storyline was amazing.

That should have been an event way more than Axis
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Agreed. I would have loved a Planet X vs. The Avengers/Kang storyline.

Baron von Loathsome said:
You know, for a game that is so inspired by Turn-of-the-Century skater/pop-punk/urban culture, painting on walls is surprisingly useless.
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Haha, yeah; it took me a few games before noticing it doesn't add anything to my score lol. Still, the game is fun. I think this is the most fun I've had with a shooter since... Left 4 Dead 2?

Oh on a comic related note, I bought this guy as well

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I'm weak :(
 
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Owzers

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KoruptData said:
Ok, my original statement, when I made it, I thought of it as pretty factual. Then you politely argued against it and JC was just obnoxious. So, upon reflection,why did I think my original statement was pretty factual and here is the reasoning I came up with.

So you conduct an experiment. You get a 100 people. 50 comic readers, 50 non comic readers. They each get a stack of 80's comics and a stack of present day comics from art teams considered to be the top of their times. They are asked which era of art they liked better. What do you think the results would be?

Me? Present era art wins hands down, by a landslide.
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Is this a joke? Where are you going to find 50 comic readers?


sidenote: i don't really like old comics in general. Narration boxes describing people putting hats on their heads is the main culprit.
 
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