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Erik Larsen@eriklarsen.bsky.social |
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Radley Balko
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Just a jaw-dropper from the state whose attorney general is currently trying to execute an innocent man.
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Erik Larsen
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Savage Dragon #271 went on sale today--or not--depending on which distributer your local store uses. Lunar is Image's primary distributer and they got books into stores today. Diamond buys Image books from Lunar and those copies will be in stores next week.
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Erik Larsen
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I loved Neal as a kid and loved him to the point where he became a parody of himself. If you told younger me that “Neal Adams will be doing monthly comics again one day and you won’t buy them” I would have told you that you were crazy. But that did happen.
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Chris Hayes
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It’s an absolutely shocking document.
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Quinta Jurecic
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I really cannot emphasize how catastrophically bad the Court's ruling was. I do my best not to exaggerate about these kinds of things but I am still kind of in shock
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Erik Larsen
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I often copy edit memes and then send them back out into the world.
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Erik Larsen
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If Biden acted with malice, democrats would hold him accountable and republicans would support their efforts to impeach him. If Trump acted with malice, democrats would hold him accountable and republicans would lock arms to defend him.
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Aaron Rupar
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"Unelected right-wing justices, all of whom have a lifetime position, have pulled off what is likely the biggest power grab in American history, knowing full well there’s no way that the other two branches can get it together enough to stop them." -- @snipy.bsky.social
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Nicholas Wallace
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Absolutely wild that the court accuses the dissent of "fearmongering" with "extreme hypotheticals" when the actual basis for the indictment is a coup attempt that led to an attack on the capitol
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Erik Larsen
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I do love how insane Jack's Captain America became toward the end. This issue is beautifully mad. And, as usual, Jack's art was outstanding.
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Erik Larsen
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Erik Larsen
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I loved those 100-pagers, which is a big part of the reason I do them every so often on Savage Dragon.
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Erik Larsen
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Replaced them with what?
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Erik Larsen
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I haven't seen that one.
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Erik Larsen
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For the record--I would have gone with this. The one Alex settled on is nice but breaking the picture into smaller panels doesn't set the scene as well. There's no sense of place or distance. We don't know how far away the ship is or know where these characters are in relation to it.
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Erik Larsen
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Michael T. Gilbert shared Alex Niño's three stabs at a Captain Fear splash page on Facebook. Alex went with the third one but it's interesting to see his thought process here. All are wildly different. I would have been thrilled to have composed any one of these.
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Erik Larsen
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Even a throwaway line informing us that his entire uniform has hidden gadgets would have sufficed without tipping off what he had and where.
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Erik Larsen
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I think ROM showed up in a few other Marvel titles as well as Conan and Red Sonja but I haven't been paying much attention as to whether that's screwed up their reprint collections.
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Erik Larsen
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Marvel had the Changelings at the same time Beast Boy changed his name to Changeling and Marvel, DC and Image all had characters named Inferno at one point. If a character actually has a book it's a lot easier to protect their name because they can make the "confusion in the marketplace" argument.
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Erik Larsen
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I blame big screen TVs and the pandemic. People who go to movies just act like they’re still in their living rooms. They think nothing about texting or even talking on their phones. At least I have the excuse of having been raised in a barn. I don’t know what their stories are.
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Erik Larsen
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So when the Hulk goes toe-to-toe with the Abomination THIS is what they’re referring to.
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Erik Larsen
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It’s a bit too convenient to pull that out of thin air when Batman needed it and never mention it again. At least with James Bond they lay all that shit out on the table beforehand. People would cry bullshit if 007 suddenly had an acetylene torch tucked behind his tonsils because he needed one.
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Erik Larsen
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That one was wild.
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Aaron Rupar
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get a load of the chyron Newsmax is displaying while Corey Lewandowski interviews Trump
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Erik Larsen
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Mike Murdock was pretty much forgotten about the issue after he “died.” Marvel had their share of missteps. But it always felt like cheating when somebody pulled a power out of their ass to get themselves out of a pickle. Thinking Batman with the flair in his ear. Even as kid I was “what the fuck?”
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Erik Larsen
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Well, sure. Some of this shit is pretty dopey. And in most cases it’s better to move on than write a five part story explaining why the Wasp’s wings were visible when she was at her full size in one panel. Kirby constantly gave characters gimmicks that existed for a single issue.
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Erik Larsen
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Yeah--this. I get a lot of these as well. But mostly they're terrible and I don't want to have to tell people that they're terrible. Giving critiques is a thankless task.
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Catbus
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every day millions of people log on to fulfill their one overriding desire: being the biggest possible asshole to complete strangers, online
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Erik Larsen
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There was a lot of just trying out shit and seeing if it flew. If not--they moved on and never talked about it ever again.
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Erik Larsen
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These one-off explanations were especially weird. Like--Superman hides his clothes in a hollow tooth? When did he get a hollow tooth? Then there was some idiotic explanation of why everybody thinks Clark looks different--Hypnotism? Early on Superman could mould his face to change his appearance.
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Erik Larsen
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They never really addressed what he does with his shoes.
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Erik Larsen
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And it wasn't a case of us saying "it's comics and therefor they didn't have to be good"--it was more "it's comics so we can do anything we want to do! We're not confined by reality! We don't have to obey the rules!"
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Erik Larsen
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And that was it, really. Venom could look cool or he could look shitty and we all decided that cool was the way to go.
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Erik Larsen
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Superman used to keep Clark Kents clothes in a pocket in his cape but nobody ever drew it to look like they were in there. His glasses disguise worked because it worked. The Flash's costume was stored in a ring but we never saw him putting it back in there. We just saw it coming out.
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Erik Larsen
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There are a lot of things in comics where we all just kind of looked the other way. Bruce Banner's pants fit the Hulk because they don't want to show you his pecker--it's as simple as that. The webs on Spider-Man's costume in the comics change direction depending on which way they're facing.
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Erik Larsen
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Ready for the answer? You're not going to like it. It's because it looked cool and nobody gave a shit that it didn't make sense. We all collectively decided that it doesn't fucking matter if Venom's mouth jibed with Eddie Brock's mouth. We fudged it and kept on fudging it because it looked cool.
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Erik Larsen
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Clearly Marvel DID plan to continue doing the longer books as several stories in various books ended up getting chopped in two and one-off back up stories were added in some cases to fill pages. I expect they realized longer stories were unsustainable with their staff and backed off.
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Erik Larsen
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The acetate cover didn’t make Marvels a hit. The book made the book a hit. Dark Knight Returns would have been just as big if it was saddle stitched instead of square bound. It wasn’t the format that made it succeed.
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Erik Larsen
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It’s human nature to ascribe cause and effect to superficial attributes. A gorgeous starlet gets a nose ring and dress made of lint and other girls follow her lead as if that’s the magic formula instead of being a pretty girl. Marvels was going to be a hit with or without an acetate cover.
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Erik Larsen
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Then there's "fans love grim and gritty comics" or "fans love realism" or "fans hate thought balloons and sound effects." It's just infuriating. Publishers see the superficial details and jump to crazy conclusions.
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Erik Larsen
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I remember well that period where publishers and creators learned all the wrong lessons from Dark Knight, Watchmen and Marvels. "Fans love square bound comics." "Fans love 9-panel grids." "Fans love acetate covers." "Fans love painted comics." Guys--no. That's not it.
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Erik Larsen
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If that’s your takeaway from Understanding Comics you really need to lay off the scotch.
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Erik Larsen
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When all the worst people hate something I do feel compelled to check it out.
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Erik Larsen
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Pretty sure it’s the Joker.
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Erik Larsen
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I have a love/hate relationship with Neal’s work. Sometimes it’s super effective and sometimes it is really trying too hard to be clever or characters flail about looking somewhat broken. This, to me, is more strange looking than clever.
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Erik Larsen
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It’s how he was actually colored.
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Erik Larsen
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The top image here is from the BLACK cover (and the interiors of the PURPLE cover look much the same)--the bottom from the RED cover. I don't know how the rest of the run looks--the ones in my local store look fine--but I am curious to know how YOUR copies look.
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Erik Larsen
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Okay--I have Savage Dragon 271 comps and at the risk of the most banal spoiler possible--the printing in my copies with the red cover have numerous pages where the Cyan plate was way too oversaturated. Here's an example (and there are plenty of others but I don't want to post anything TOO spoilery).
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Aaron Rupar
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"These are awful people who like imposing cruelty on out groups and blaming them for all their problems. You can process that into a political 'position,' but really these are just shitty people, even if you can't say that out loud." -- @volts.wtf
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Erik Larsen
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The one thing Adams didn't take into account was that various papers configured the strip in different ways. In some paper the strip would have looked like THIS and the hidden head was completely lost.
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