Dan [Member Since: October 17 '07]
September 2, 2010
02:13am
@Zach – Thanks! I’m glad someone appreciates my hard work!
@Aaron – Hilarious, as usual! I appreciate your hard work!
September 1, 2010
11:07am
Good Mornin’, good mooorrrrrnin’!
It’s great to stay up late?
12:39pm
I saw the Stooges play in Newbury Comics in Cambridge, of all places – at night, after they closed the store. The line to get in was huge, and full of people even older than me. ;-)
05:57pm
@Tom – I got a different feeling from Cooke’s statement, and I think you’re confusing art form with genre – it’s not using the art form to tell stories with mature themes…
August 31, 2010
05:51pm
Miller’s ASB&R is satire, so it’s about the only place Superhero Decadence works for me – and it works because I think Superhero Decadence deserves a little ridicule now and…
05:56pm
@Andy – yeah, 4th Letter is a great blog. Along with The Factual Opinion, and Supervillain.
06:42pm
As I’ve said before, I think there should be comics for everyone – and if there aren’t comics for you (abstract you, not directing this at anyone), make some that you like!
But I…
06:47pm
I think there is a place for “mature” titles in the comic world
I think there’s a place for everything in the comic world, but I think superhero comics that are a little too mature…
06:51pm
Absolutely, and I believe this to be a clue as to the reason that comics (“superhero” in particular) should not be intimately linked with the concept of “childish”.
Right, right, but…
08:04pm
just as the ancients depicted their mythical heroes and demigods with fanciful and highly stylized armor/clothing/weapons/etc.
Did they? I’m not so sure.
Yet, I concede that maybe…
08:05pm
@Andy – have you read the Death of Captain Marvel yet? Very goofily superhero-y, but also a nice treatment of helplessness in the face of death-by-cancer.
August 30, 2010
04:00am
@Joe – fixed your link by moving into HTML. The forum doesn’t like some URLs…
August 29, 2010
11:33pm
I’ve been collecting Hellblazer since #1 (it’s at #273 now, so I guess I started 22 years ago). There have been some pretty lame story arcs (I’m looking at you Ennis, and you,…
August 26, 2010
12:21pm
@Dave – does Baltimore take place in the HB universe, or is a a separate work?
01:35pm
@regan – if you’re inclined to search, I think there have been some threads here in which people have gone into some detail about their storage methods. In one, I learned that you can fit…
03:23pm
Yeah, it certainly contributed to the domestic harmony of my household.
03:25pm
I’ve read it and agree, it IS awesome. Also, there’s an animated cartoon version that I think you can watch for free on the interwebs.
August 25, 2010
02:46am
Just the Hellboy for me.
And on the GN side, the Parker vol. 2 but I don’t think that’s new with this solicitation as I seem to have already ordered it.
01:01pm
@Dan: No Howard Chaykin Batman/Catwoman for you?
Nah – gotta draw the line somewhere.
01:05pm
Gotta draw the line trace the porn somewhere!
August 24, 2010
09:41pm
I was wondering whether they were the same guy!
August 23, 2010
12:11am
Damn, that Gibbons/Quietly conversation is great – thanks for the link!
12:13am
BTW, you probably haven’t got to them yet, but the last 2 or 3 HB GNs have been drawn by Duncan Fegredo instead of Mignola, and I’m liking them every bit as much as / slightly more than…
12:34am
@Bast -
His faces, especially the mouths, almost jump off the page while the bodies and the background fade to a soft pastely mess.
Hopefully I’ll be able to make it in to the office…
03:41am
Okay, I understand a little better WHAT you mean, but I’m still not really getting the WHY.
Maybe I can find a little time this week to try to find, scan and post some…
03:44am
I was TOTALLY just thinking about picking up an expensive scarf for myself, too! AWESOME.
04:02am
Hmmm, I’ll see what I can do. I wrote about Kirby because I’m pretty familiar with his art, and I used him as an example of dynamism. There’s a tremendous amount of energy in his…
10:07am
Yeah, I realized what was probably bugging you after I shut my PC down (when I remembered that you’re a manga fan who speaks some Japanese – that’s you, right?). To elaborate: this…
10:10am
I’ll take Layer Cake over drying paint. It wasn’t the greatest movie in the world (or maybe it was – I don’t think I’ve seen the whole thing, so maybe I shouldn’t…
02:51pm
@Andy – one thing that can make modern comic artists tend toward the more cartoony (as compared to the 70s) is how much of the burden of being convincing can be carried by the colorist these…
03:28pm
But now, rereading those previous comments you made, it sounds like you have a problem with what’s called the “masking effect” which when a cartoonish character is drawn on top of a lush, more…
03:33pm
Short version – I’m not calling Manga “massless” or “bad”.
03:35pm
Recommended: Heavy Liquid!
04:01pm
I understood that much at least when you said it the first time.
Okay – it just looked like you were still defending Manga against charges I wasn’t making (or, didn’t intend…
04:41pm
Well, if we’re just listing greats (and someone DID mention Buscema earlier), I’ve got a long list of faves: Alex Raymond, Al Williamson, Esteban Maroto, Fernando Fernandez, Frank…
05:07pm
Yeah, I’ve been slacking on my Corto Maltese hunting… I always wince at the cost, but I guess that means I’m mis-allocating capital somewhere else. ;-)
05:15pm
Oh dude, I was totally being a sarcastic bastard
I don’t get it – what’s wrong with my list? Oh, actually I think I get it – you were wondering what Hugo/George was…
06:08pm
@Bast – I did a google search for Maleev, and I think you’re right! I’ll definitely check him out.
Maybe when I have a little time I’ll start a “post images/scans of…
06:30pm
but I have no real love for the older 70’s-80’s style of comics
What did you think of the 30s, 40s, 50s & 60s styles of comics? ;-)
06:50pm
LOL! ...from my list, of course! ;-)
08:46pm
extensive use of photo-reference
The really old-school guys did this, too (Caniff, Raymond, Williams, etc). Doesn’t bother me the way tracing porn still does. Well, not that tracing…
08:47pm
“Too Cartoony”
That’s funny! I like Stewart, too.
08:49pm
since I’m still interested in what artists you’re talking about and why
Well, it was a bunch of guys who were probably drawing in the late 90s / early 2000s, but I didn’t really pay…
08:53pm
I think George is more of a painter
Yeah, watercolors, I think? Some of the guys on my list are painters (well, Bilal), or are “also painters” (Fernandez, Frazetta, Starlin, Rude,…
08:55pm
Took a quick look, didn’t see any tentacles, lost interest, left.
;-)
August 22, 2010
01:17am
Jim Aparo
Awesome – haven’t thought of him in ages. No one drew motion like Aparo. I remember being blown away by some 70s (maybe early 80s?) Aquaman, and TB&TB that he did.
03:06am
What do we mean by “poor character work”?
Is there anything more to this than “I think vanilla ice cream is better than strawberry ice cream”?
I happen to like Quietly…
01:48pm
@Andy, @Joe – Thanks. I was just wondering what was behind the subjectivity, if there were technical critiques – ie, Quietly’s work is too cartoony, Silvestri can’t draw hands,…
04:23pm
thin, squiggly, sorta-cartoony style really heightens the grotesque effect of many of his images
So, I think this is a pretty good description, it’s just that I like that… ;-)
04:47pm
...but Silvestri, like Lee (and I think Silvestri is just Lee with some Bisley layered on top – well, not just, but hopefully you know what I mean), is essentially still an heir to the…
04:55pm
I hope my saying “I dislike much of Quitely’s art” isn’t being interpreted as “it sucks”,
Well, that’s why I asked if you had a technical critique of some kind –…
04:57pm
Hmmm – another guy whose art sort of falls into the massless, cartoony style I’m trashtalking here, whose work I totally love is Phillp Bond. I wonder if there’s just some artist…
05:01pm
FRAZER IRVING
I just did a google image search, didn’t see anything awful. Can you point me to something of his you dislike? Just curious.
05:04pm
@Andy – Yeah… I don’t know who any of those dudes are.
GET OFF MY LAWN!
;-)
05:06pm
Uh. Are we accidentally hijacking this Lists-of-5-things thread?
Because I just realized I was about to mention another exception to the traditional style, whose work Alex turned me on to, and…
07:57pm
Yeah, when I was writing all of my above crap, Ditko did pop into my head as an early exception.
11:08pm
when you say “massless” what exactly do you mean?
I mean that the figures (and, I suppose, other stuff) don’t convincingly convey that they have volume and weight, and are effected…
11:10pm
clearly we need visual examples.
If I wasn’t as busy as I am this week, I’d dig up some early Starlin and later Starlin for comparison: in the early 70s, Warlock was solid. You…
11:13pm
And on the far end of the spectrum, like Andy says, things are flat/angular and cartoony – not really even trying to convince you they’re real. In some cases, like Atomic Robo, this is a…
11:59pm
Well, whether a character is moving or standing still doesn’t really have an impact I can see on whether it’s convincingly occupying space, so I’m not sure we’re talking about…
August 21, 2010
12:39pm
I don’t think I could manage to put my top 25 in any kind of order… it’d just be a pile of names…
01:44pm
How about the 5 issues or trades you would give to someone who doesn’t read comics to show them what the medium can be.
Maybe that should be another thread?
If this thread was…
01:49pm
From the OP:
Your Honor, I plead idiocy.
02:18pm
How about the 5 issues or trades you would give to someone who doesn’t read comics to show them what the medium can be
Brubaker/Phillips: Criminal, Deluxe EditionPope: 100%Chaykin: American…
August 19, 2010
02:30pm
Who had his ashes shot into the sky out of a hand-shaped cannon designed by Ralph Steadman, and paid for by Johnny Depp, no less.
edit: (duh, of that’s in the wikipedia article, I mention it…
02:40pm
A fist with two thumbs, no less.
02:43pm
Hmmm…. if you smoothed out all his lines (Manga Studio will do this as you draw, interestingly enough), I can’t imagine his work would look anything at all like Gulacy’s, but…
02:46pm
Or people with two thumbs per hand! An entirely reasonable worry, given his lifetime drug intake.
03:03pm
They don’t get any love, but they do get enough LSD to hallucinate as many thumbs as they want, so everybody’s happy.
03:26pm
Wait, you’re not going to put Zardoz in your queue?!
03:30pm
Is this a Scottish thing, Dan?
Straight outta Wishaw.
03:50pm
Heh. I’ve never seen the whole thing, so I’ve added it to mine, as well. So, at least, we’ll both suffer. ;-)
04:59pm
Can’t believe Dan didn’t post this pic.
I had happened across the one I posted completely by coincidence earlier in the day – so I used it, instead of the one that’s already…
08:13pm
Highly recommended: Thorgal vol. 4, The Archers.
And, well, volumes 1, 2, 3 & 5.
10:18pm
I’ve read up through 6 (where they travel to Central America – or maybe South America, I forget). I didn’t recommend 6 because I didn’t remember how many there were, and just…
August 18, 2010
06:55pm
07:08pm
Dan abides
El Danerino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.
07:10pm
The Dude (Jeff Bridges) – just after getting his head shoved in his toilet, in The Big Lebowski.
There’s another universe somewhere, where Bridges and Goodman won Oscars for that movie…
07:14pm
LOL! (Superman vs Zardoz)





























