Dan [Member Since: October 17 '07]
March 16, 2010
01:23pm
Well, Aaron and I are. I don’t know what the rest of you slackers are doing.
02:09pm
Lose a gene: wolverine!
02:33pm
OMFG!
Slam dunk.
04:11pm
I don’t really get Lady Gaga – I’ve watched two videos on Youtube, and all I see is Cher working with a fetish video director.
Maybe this belongs in the confession thread…
04:39pm
Forget Watchmen – this is the best thing Alan Moore has ever done.
(can’t remember if I’ve posted this before – if so, sorry!)
March 15, 2010
03:41pm
I love my pop culture, and I have an almost superhuman knowledge of anything that sucked… or came out of the 80’s.
If you’re 25, it’s fair to say you came out of the 80s,…
06:08pm
06:16pm
@ Andy – I think there’s a panel in Sabre that you could scan and crop to that exact image…! Or you could go a little higher and get some of the ‘fro in there… ;-)
07:05pm
LOL! I’d suggest we have a “name that show” contest, but I’d have to rename the file first…
EDIT: ok, names redacted
08:32pm
It’s not from the 80s, alas. ;-)
10:32pm
If anyone wants it for post fodder/contest entries, here’s the pic without my word balloon.
March 13, 2010
12:33pm
I spoke to TJIC about this yesterday – it’ll get fixed eventually, but he’s up to his neck in another software project right now, so there’s still a bit of a wait.
04:44pm
Well, you know, I’d never really looked, I mean really looked, at my hands, maaaan, and I figured it was time. Have you ever really looked at your hands? I mean really looked?
04:46pm
Cerebral implants will be mailed out with your next shipments!
04:47pm
Ha! I’m out of my humor zone when I have to google entire posts to get the jokes…
04:47pm
Re: random posts and topicality, it’s kind of funny – looking at the post count for this thread, one might think that folks had a lot to say on the subject of HeavyInk sucking, but one…
04:59pm
No, no – unfortunately, we took the brown acid.
05:04pm
You do?
05:11pm
Oh, that kind! That’s definitely not bound printed matter!
08:04pm
@ Jorean – “Feyd Rautha”, you’re killing me! I now formally usurp Andy’s powers for the day to declare you MVP again!
08:13pm
How far in did you have to wander to find a photo of Sting in a diaper? ;-)
WRT my weekend life, I’m hoping to get a little laundry done tonight, and maybe to tidy my study a bit.
09:45pm
is that other software project the collection page…
No, it’s for HeavyInk’s sister company, SmartFlix. AFAIK he does intend to do the collection management feature, though. And…
11:03pm
Would you judge me harshly if I admitted that I had this saved in a folder my desktop for months… maybe even years?
What with all the weird stuff I’ve had sitting in folders for…
11:03pm
I love doing laundry! Everything smells so good and is all warm and soft when it’s fresh out of the dryer. I just love that.
But then it has to be put away, and I hate that. ;-)
March 12, 2010
12:07am
I just changed it to amuse Tess. Once that’s done, back it goes.
12:14am
LOL – too bad these get truncated. DAMN YOU TYLER!
(I love the Chopping Guy Birthday Hat story)
12:45pm
Recycling Annie Get Your Gun? Sheesh.
01:37pm
Maybe you could scan some preview pages – in your, er, copious spare time?
02:19pm
Sweet! Thanks, man.
02:21pm
I think my next name will be to amuse/annoy Andy: Misanthropogenic Global Warmist. Although I think I’ll be lucky if any of that fits in the poster table cell.
(I did think that up all by…
02:23pm
Shouldn’t “Not Having To Go To Work” just mean “More Time For HeavyInk”?
03:36pm
Looks nice – how many pages, roughly, is it?
04:40pm
Well, I think we’ve determined how many letters Beast will display before truncating your username…
04:52pm
Man, everything’s coming up roses in this thread.
05:19pm
I only have a Master’s in hijacking.
05:20pm
How about “Libertarian Contrarian”
Anarcho-Crapistalist?
March 11, 2010
12:34am
Well, superhero stuff seemed normal to me, too – I was reading ‘em when I was five. But, I was also reading Asterix and Tintin, so the notion that comics transcended a single genre was…
12:39am
After thinking about it, I kinda find it odd that while they read from right to left, you have to order them from left to right in order for the big picture to be revealed.
Yeah – I…
12:51am
Nah – at nine bucks it’s a no-brainer. I’ll just put it on my list, I’m sure it’s great. There’s some stuff I’ve been dying to get (cough! cough!) that…
11:54am
Ordered!
11:57am
so that anyone searching for his shop
Why target a google ad at zero people?
12:02pm
Nosferatu Man!
12:12pm
@ Andy. Me, too. There’s a picture of it in the dictionary, right next to the word “Awesome” (just to the left of the picture of the weird fish with a fez).
12:28pm
@ Andy – you should post all unsolicited and angry email (from non-customers, that is) here in this thread…
12:50pm
Do you think Keith sends fan mail to TFAW and Mile High, too? Or are we just special, here?
12:51pm
I loved Dr. Strange when I was a wee lad (even crazier than Ditko? TOM SUTTON!), haven’t read any since. Maybe I should…
01:23pm
Things From Another World is the online comic store owned by Mike Richardson of Dark Horse Comics.
01:44pm
It is also the biggest pile of horse crap this side of a racetrack.
LOL! Great expresssion!
(what’s wrong with them?)
01:47pm
There wasn’t even any such thing as comics back then, we just went through all that hoping against hope that someone would invent them for us. Back then our business model was just a blank sheet…
01:49pm
Oh, I dunno – Bono might start lecturing the audience on IMF loans to third world countries or something? Or is U2 not performing the music? I didn’t follow the link, I just wanted to…
01:50pm
Well, it’s character-building, as we used to say back in the days before we discovered fire.
01:53pm
And by sticks he means shotguns. Have you got a rocking chair for the front porch to go with them?
I was hoping for a girl so I’d have an excuse to do some similar accessorizing. Ah, well.
01:55pm
I LOVE babies with hair!
Ryan looks like he stuck a fork in an outlet… we trimmed some of it but he got impatient, got to finish, he looks ridiculous.
01:57pm
Wheels were actually square, until someone invented the chisel – which another gifted individual realized could be used to chip the corners off wheels for improved performance, rather than just…
02:00pm
Lady Gun Nut of Castle Walmart. Now there’s a great noble title.
02:01pm
That’s why I stopped reading Brian Wood’s DMZ, funnily enough.
02:02pm
Oh – that’s not too classy, TFAW.
02:07pm
TFAW – Things From Another World. That’s what we’re talking about, right? Or am I in the wrong thread?
02:08pm
Countdown to Wood showing up to snark at me: 3… 2… 1…
02:21pm
Well, you can always lock down some threads.
02:22pm
Bummer. I really like Dark Horse, so I figured Richardson must be cool. Oh well.
02:24pm
Dunno when folks learned about them – how old do you think I am???
02:25pm
I wanna know how he knew what you guys are up to all day.
OMG!
HE’S AT THE WINDOW!!!!
02:31pm
just saw Starstruck
The Elaine Lee thing? I think that actually started out on stage, didn’t it?
02:38pm
And if you were a lawyer?
03:20pm
Boo, indeed! Who’s making up all the crazy shit here? ME, that’s who!
03:22pm
No, no – if you were a lawyer, you would’ve posted the same thing, but charged a hundred bucks an hour for it.
03:23pm
the same meaning as his sentence but in a page long essay instead
And, if he were anything like some of the lawyers whose output I’ve seen, not bothered with correct spelling or…
03:35pm
Getting back to the thread subject, I’m sort of amused that the proprietor of KeithsKomix.com, which is a single webpage made with some sort of shitty Microsoft product (Word? Some other Office…
03:39pm
Aha!
The mentally disturbed looking bearded man behind the counter in the pictures is, indeed, the one and only Keith Anderson; owner of Keith’s Komix.
That explains it.
But…
03:41pm
old vanilla bastard
You ageist, flavorist, parentist bastard!
03:43pm
Did I miss a clever reference or something? Must be my age/flavor.
03:47pm
How could you have done anything? He sent the email before signing up, didn’t he?
03:52pm
Why is everyone judging me by my avatar? I could be West Indian, or a Great Dane!
03:54pm
What a glorious feeling. I’m happy again.
03:57pm
Speaking of Singing in the Rain, I was watching a low budget version of 20,000 Leagues under the Sea this morning, and all of the sudden it occurred to me that Richard Crenna was TOTALLY doing a Burt…
04:00pm
What did you see? Starstruck is a comic by Elaine Lee and Mike Kaluta, done in the 80s, I think, that’s being reprinted now. I think that Lee wrote it for the stage, first, though I don’t…
04:09pm
A little early for drinking, but maybe he’d just gone off his meds?
Or, I suppose, he may have lost some big customers to HI, and he’s pissed, or something like that.
04:11pm
Ah, OK. Sorry!
04:17pm
I try pretty hard to picture the actual comic as a comic, and can’t really do it. I’ve got a bunch, but before giving up on them should sit down and read them all the way through, and see…
04:18pm
LOL!
(spoiler alert!)
Forgive them father, they know not how to sled!
04:20pm
It’s a natural mistake. As we all know, the past was black and white…
04:22pm
I see a new person o_o Hi undermom!
New to the forum, anyway. As customer #6446, she’s probably been around a while. She’s made me remember that when I was little, I had an…
04:23pm
@ Jorean – Well, if I can’t make heads or tails of them, or am otherwise disappointed, I’ll pack them up and send them to you.
04:24pm
I’m sorry to have a chuckle at your expense
No, no – that’s what I’m here for. [HEAD EXPLODES]
04:29pm
My Little Pony
In case you’re not familiar with Peter Max, I added a link to my post above so you can see how deeply weird my bedsheets were.
And by “my bedsheets”, I…
04:48pm
MGMT
Uh oh! Old Vanilla Bastard alert! I’ve never heard of them.
05:29pm
OK, watched “kids” on youtube (–b., your link led to copyright takedown notices) – what’s with attributing Friedrich Nietzsche quotes to Twain? Are they just trying to be…
05:30pm
Welcome to another installment of Wednesday chat.
Wednesday Chat – it’s here all week!
05:34pm
Yeah, I did a whois lookup to see if there was some connection, but further digging was indicated. Then I got distracted. Maybe I can do some more looking, and see what I can turn up. Maybe…
05:37pm
@ Andy – we should take a trip to Lowell at some point, just for the laughs.
05:40pm
That’s this thread.
05:40pm
Ah, well. OK, then.
05:43pm
Oh, sorry – Keith’s Komix is in Ill., I was suggesting Andy and I visit a different, somewhat more local store, whose proprietor has never said a bad word to or about us, but is similarly…
06:13pm
From non comic book friends? That’s a pretty amazing level of infamy, there. Gotta hand it to the guy.
06:14pm
A little goofy-looking, I thought. Hard to look too creepy when you’re that young.
06:16pm
Guardians Of The Galaxy #24Mystic Hands Of Dr Strange B&WNova #35
and I’m going to pick up an item on 4 color discount day…
06:37pm
OK, now that I think about it, people can be creepy in a way I hadn’t thought of – not so much menacing or scary creepy, but disgusting creepy… sometimes, for instance, when people…
06:56pm
He is a known enemy of feminazi’s it seems.
More like an enemy of the civilized… but I guess he knows his customer base, and I guess there’s something to be said for that. What,…
07:00pm
Keith’s Komix
And maybe this is Keith? It’s weird, it sounds like he runs a nice store (nice to Steve Rude, nice to indies, nice to the CBLDF, etc). I wonder what his beef is?
07:09pm
And then there’s Doctor-Lizardo-creepy.
07:19pm
I pretty much gave up on commercial radio back in the 20th (not saying KCRW is commercial, just explaining my radio history), and it’s probably not the kind of thing I’d hear on the Z.…
07:22pm
Let’s see if we can embed that.
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Hmmm. Beast doesn’t like iframes. I guess that’s sensible.
07:42pm
They can’t not know each other…
07:52pm
LOL!
11:30pm
Do I have to watch that whole video in order to understand the Osiris reference?
11:31pm
Andy, the Roadrunner of comics!
11:36pm
Yeah, I saw that there were arbitrary names of some sort written in there, but I didn’t want to sit through the whole thing if I could help it. Thanks for saving me. ;-)
11:39pm
Damn, I missed it! Sorry.
It certainly sounds cool, but to agree that it’s a good honorific, I’d want to know what it’s supposed to mean. ;-)
11:41pm
ODB at his greatest
I think the children are in trouble. ;-)
11:45pm
Last name: “Extract”.
Actually, maybe I should go with OVB.
I’ll probably change it back after Tess sees it, though.
11:50pm
Assuming you’re talking about my new Nom de Forum: Sorry, it’ll go back to normal soon (probably tomorrow) – explanation in the HeavyInk Sucks thread…
March 10, 2010
09:42am
That’s too bad, but really, the only surprising thing about that is how long it took…
09:46am
Does anyone remember those?
No, but I still have a couple of Star Trek Photonovels, which were pretty cool. They basically took stills from the original series episodes and made paperback…
09:47am
He’s caught in a Time Loop!
09:48am
AND DON’T YOU BASEBALL JERKS CARE ABOUT COREY HAIM????
09:52am
Ah, I don’t care about either Corey.
Weirdly, a musician who’s work I like looks sort of like he was separated at birth from Cory Haim.
10:44am
This particular issue of Thongor wasn’t Kane – I still have it somewhere (extremely beat up) and now I’m curious, so I may try to dig it up. I think I have a JCofM or two from back…
10:48am
If he cares about baseball, yeah – you might be the only person I know who could. I and my other friends played soccer.
10:55am
Yeah, that must be it. I’ll tell you, there’s nothing weirder than the first month of parenthood – you become completely separated from the schedule that the rest of the world is on,…
10:57am
THAT MEANS YOU’RE A GIRL, DAN.
Oh, I dunno. I’m not sipping chai with my pinky out all the time.
I AM DRINKING DIET PEPSI FROM A TALL GLASS, LIKE A REAL MAN!
For breakfast, no…
11:03am
It seems so funny now that I thought I was going to get my collection organized after Ryan was born. Turns out I can barely get the trash out to the curb on time. ;-)
But I will look for these…
11:05am
OK, just googled Nebres, and yeah, I recognize his style from the JCofMs I have. Awesome stuff, I agree – seeing scans of his actual artwork makes me wish the printing quality was better back…
11:07am
I see he was a Warren guy, too – I’ll have to google up a list before the Boston Comic Con, and see what I can find.
11:09am
Baseball is just one of those things (and there are many) that I was never able to care about…
11:21am
Outstanding, Jarrod! Congratulations.
11:23am
PICTURES SOON, PLEASE!
Branching out from dog pictures! Excellent.
11:30am
Seriously, it was like that!
12:18pm
OK, I thought this was a little funny:
Props for the 1974 ‘fro, which the current version of the character doesn’t have.
01:44pm
King Solomon says: offer to cut it in half, and ship it in two envelopes. Then we’ll know which of these guys is the REAL Sam Keith.
02:54pm
Hmmm, okay. I see.
OTOH, that’s some great rendering: http://www.raggedclaws.com/home/2008/09/18/look-here-original-art-by-rudy-nebres/
Any reason to look for it at the con instead of just…
02:56pm
I’ve finally got some stuff I care about coming – I’m pretty happy about it. The past few weeks have been very “eh.”
03:12pm
Careful, Bast – Paul Pope is a gateway drug. Soon you’ll be buying all kinds of great (mostly) black & white art.
04:37pm
I’ve got 5 GNs coming
Nice!
I need to get back on the GN bandwagon, I think. But first I have to bill some clients.
04:42pm
Myself, I want to get the last IDW’s Terry and the Pirates book, resume GNifying my Hellboy and BPRD collection, and maybe pick up a couple of Cerebus phonebooks. IDW’s Rip Kirby vol 2…
04:50pm
I can see again!
And fashionably, too, I hope.
04:54pm
Pluto Urasawa X Tezuka Vol. 1
This series is awesome. Final book is coming out sometime soon, I think.
04:55pm
Were there new glasses involved?
Yes (I checked her overview page – faster than backing up through the thread).
05:03pm
I spent my lunch black out drunk buying shoes online.
Attagirl. Honesty is (usually) the best policy.
05:55pm
I read the first dozen or so and liked them, but then got a little bored with the pacing or something. I’m not sure what happened – all of the sudden I was not reading them anymore and…
08:40pm
This is now the third time I see you thank me
Must’ve been after reading vols. 1, 2 and 3. Or 2, 3 and 4, or something. ;-)
I just finished 4 the other day, and am looking online for…
March 9, 2010
01:10am
There’s an influence there I recognize, but can’t put a name to. EC Comics? Mad Magazine? Not Kurtzman. Something, though. It’s kinda bugging me now.
07:48am
Weird – I’m pretty sure that’s the description and cover of the original Tank Girl.
12:36pm
I’m not a huge fan of 80’s movies
Agreed – I challenged a friend recently: name five 80s movies that were both popular and critical successes, that weren’t sequels. He…
01:30pm
Oh, there was plenty of good music out there in the “alternative” world, but very few good movies. There were movies that were fun, or silly, or entertaining, or so bad they were good, but…
01:36pm
So? Me, too. (born in the late 60s, though)
01:41pm
Hey, we’re the same age. OLD MAN!
01:46pm
Das Boot was a foreign film, and so I assert it doesn’t count. Excalibur was neither good nor popular. So, ET, Indiana Jones, I suppose Scarface. Bladerunner, as much as I love it, barely…
01:47pm
Princess Bride, The Road Warrior, Blade Runner…
These are all cult movies, not critical and popular successes.
01:47pm
Empire Strikes Back
No sequels.
01:55pm
The Shining.
Nah, that qualifies.
02:01pm
but god do I want to prove you wrong… So hard though…
That was my point to my friend. It’s not that there aren’t five, it’s just that it’s damn hard to find them.…
02:03pm
@ Jorean – Keep going! If you name every movie made in the 80s, you’re sure to find five that both the critics and the public liked! ;-)
02:03pm
Ghostbusters.
Yes! IIRC, Chris did come up with that one.
02:07pm
As an aside, anyone else think Full Metal Jacket was a piece of crap? Platoon, too?
02:08pm
I can see that, but I can’t think of a decade I enjoyed more movie wise.
Have you seen a lot of movies from other (older) decades?
02:26pm
I love anything Audrey Hepburn
Me, too!
02:35pm
Any of you ever seen or read Ordinary People?
Neither, alas.
Breakfast At Tiffany’s is one of the very few movies that really pisses off my girlfriend’s inner feminist.
Hello!…
02:52pm
“Miss Gorightry! I musta plotest!
Craziest Micky Rooney role ever.
So, haven’t read the book, but how is she crazy? She’s just a hooker who wants to marry a rich guy, no? And…
03:04pm
I don’t think this is very clear in the film (and I haven’t read the book either)...
Well, I think it’s perfectly clear, it’s just that they took actual explicit references to…
03:06pm
I’ve sat through How to Steal a Million like five times in the last few weeks. (I’m a big Peter O’Toole fan, too)
And yes to Cary Grant. Awesome. North By Northwest is one of the…
03:08pm
Interesting fact about Charade (which I also love), is that it was accidentally released without any copyright attached – so, until recently, you could download it for free from…
03:10pm
Never saw Amelie – what’s the deal with that?
03:18pm
YES! Playing the psychotic children of Lee Marvin.
03:30pm
Peter O’Toole is hit and miss for me
Yeah, like Micheal Caine, he’s been in some stinkers, too. But when he’s in something good, he shines.
03:38pm
No, that’s Robert Duvall, not Peter O’Toole. Duvall’s OK, I can see he’s got amazing talent, but for some reason I’m just not into him. Even when I’m watching him…
03:53pm
The Man who would be King
LOVE that movie.
03:55pm
@ Andy & Tess: the fight’s over when one of you loses an ear in a meadow. GO!
03:56pm
I couldn’t sit through eraserhead. I thought Dune was one of the worst movies ever made from a book, but maybe that’s because I read the book. I thought Blue Velvet was OK, Firewalk With…
04:16pm
Not just because it’s visually repulsive, but because of choices made in the screenplay, bad acting, basically throwing the book away, etc., the best measure of how awful Dune is, is length.…
04:17pm
Almost exactly what I think.
Some foe YOU are. ;-)
04:23pm
I don’t see them translating into film well
Yeah, when you strip out interior monologues (or have MacLachlan read chopped up versions of them horribly in some ridiculous flattened aspect)…
04:39pm
@ Andy – since no movie studio would ever commission an 8 hour movie (single movie, not trilogy), I suggest that the fact that there wasn’t really ANY good stuff in the…
04:42pm
Well, the LoTR movies were pretty good. I thought they were weakest where they diverged from the books, though.
04:50pm
@ Andy – whoops! You’re right! Obviously, all of my comments about Dune are my opinion.
But my point is that, given what I thought of the 2.5 hours that saw the light, it’s my…
04:56pm
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous wasn’t as good as I thought it would be.
That’s it, damn you! Pistols at dawn.
05:02pm
@ Aaron – Next you’re going to start trash-talking Love Potion Number 9.
05:06pm
You know, I haven’t seen the director’s cut of LoTR…
05:07pm
I’m with Andy
But for the one exception, me too.
05:08pm
Duels tend to work in my favor.
Well, you certainly aren’t going to have the problem of hair falling in your eyes at an inopportune moment.
05:12pm
The things I didn’t like about the LoTR films were the wussifying of Gandalf and Aragorn. I’ve heard there’s a bit in the director’s cut with the Mouth of Sauron, and if it…
05:17pm
I really wanted to like Dune – I think I went to see it on opening day, or at least opening weekend. Bleargh.
05:19pm
I was 16.
05:24pm
@ Bast – well, unknown to his friends in the book, Gandalf is about the badassest thing in Middle Earth, sent there by one of the hierarchies of Middle Earth’s gods to kick Sauron’s…
05:26pm
Heh. Yeah, that was ridiculous, too.
05:53pm
Yeah – Saruman was a wizard (of which there were a small number), and while Gandalf hung out with them, he was really a, well, supernatural creature, for lack of a better term.
EDIT: doing a…
07:01pm
I re-read it every couple of years, but skip some of the slow bits…
11:38pm
Gah. Kid’s driving me crazy, won’t go to sleep – how’ve you been?
March 8, 2010
10:22am
Wow, I’m sorry – I didn’t realize it was out of print, too.
Sheesh, Pope. I really don’t get it – keeping your back catalog in print means your back catalog is always…
02:30pm
I really seriously recommend Street Angel! And its sequel, Afrodesiac, even more seriously, if you’ve ever read any comics from the 70s.
02:35pm
this guy, I think. No reason to know if you’re not big into Superhero comics, or Babylon 5, or whatever. I learned here in the HI forum.
02:37pm
Damn, nice Avatar!
02:42pm
Amazon and Alibris have them for $40 and up, which isn’t too bad since it’s a pretty big book that retailed at a pretty high price. I don’t see any on ebay.
I note that…
03:09pm
He and I are both angry that all we can afford are daguerreotypes… someday we’ll have actual photographs for avatars.
04:56pm
With dust jacket and J. Allen St. John illustrations??
(I wish I had all the tarzan paperbacks I bought in the 70s – most had neal adams covers, if I recall – I think I need to re-buy…
08:01pm
Yep, those are the ones.
Oooh, suh-weet!
March 7, 2010
12:08pm
And La Chica Bionica! Or Bionica, or whatever he’s calling it. Being published in France, first, though, I think.
Also, his Flickr stream is worth watching.
01:49pm
First Wave
Interesting. Just ordered #1.
Haven’t bothered to come in to pick up my comics in two week, just because I’ve been indifferent about the pickings (except for…
09:27pm
Yeah – Pope’s non-superhero stuff is so much better. I agree about HL and 100%, but I’ve gotta sing the praises of The One-Trick Ripoff, too.
March 6, 2010
12:32am
You know what? If you put some Barks on sale, I’ll bite the bullet and buy it. I might as well start getting used to reading kid lit – I’m hardly going to be able to start The Lad…
12:54am
You know, I think I’m going to teach him that anyway, and get him on video saying it in a little squeaky baby-voice. As soon as he can talk. So I can tease him about the name he almost got (well…
02:09am
@ Jorean
That run on Swamp Thing is the bee’s knees. I adore it.
Bissette & Vietch are awesome, but John Totleben is just a genius – one of my fave’s is the one where…
02:50am
Dude, I’m seriously not your foe. I have a very minority political and philosophical viewpoint – I’m an anarcho-capitalist. If I couldn’t get along with people who didn’t…
02:54am
Speaking of which, if we’re going to be titling someone’s run on ST as “the bee’s knees”, it’s Moore’s.
I think that’s what we were doing. Weren’t we?
03:22am
Dude, you gotta stop taking me so seriously all the time!
I knew you were being funny, but I wanted to take the opportunity reiterate where I was coming from, in case you were carrying around…
03:25am
since Feudal Japan
Which reminds me, I should leave a blurb on Frogman’s page thanking him for the Vagabond recommendation – I’ve been reading the hell out of those and…
03:26am
Dude, I’ve read four of those Vagabond Vizbig editions now. They’re awesome! Thanks much for the recommendation!
03:28am
OK, laundry’s done, and the new Dalrymple book awaits. I’m outta here.
01:56pm
Well, sure – the URL’s right there at the end of the video. I was just poking fun at Clevinger. Serioulsy, though, can you imagine a fan putting so much work into something inspired by…
03:05pm
Did you read B:Y100?
10:25pm
So far it reads like no other graphic novel I’ve read and am totally engrossed in it.
Andy, we have another convert.
March 5, 2010
10:18am
No no, there are some titles in there I’ve definitely enjoyed. But “enjoyed” and “essential” are two very different things, at least to me.
De gustibus non est disputandum, for…
10:51am
@Tess – If you ever feel like putting them forward, I’d be curious to hear your Miller/racism views.
10:52am
Damn, Aaron – not much love for haiku-writin’ around here, is there?
10:54am
My first exposure to Conan was through Marvel’s old ‘Savage Sword of Conan’…
Me, too! I’d read the Starlin issue when I was like, five, or something, which I was reminded of…
11:45am
@ Robert – THAT’s funny!
@ Andy – Sorry, I thought (mistakenly, maybe?) Tess was talking about Miller’s work. I’d be interested in hearing his views on that.
On…
11:52am
Moral of the story: never underestimate the power of a boob to imprint something into a young boys mind.
Damn right!
11:55am
C’mon, I was there, man. You said “WHHHHHAAAAT?? You’re MINE, biatch!” and slapped the poor guy right in the kisser.
First time I ever saw an engineer cry (and I’m…
12:00pm
CONFESSION: I just got really really excited for this. Yes I’m absolutely serious.
I loved their album art when I was a wee lad.
12:38pm
Thing an Avenger?What a Grimm turn of eventsIt’s clobberin’ time!
01:14pm
OMFGthat IS the site’s best previewso: Make Mine Marvel!
01:40pm
If I may say so, I’m quite proud of my haiku-about-poetic-license that turns into a limerick.
01:51pm
Well, “But some of my best friends are [whatever] !!”, while a perhaps a common protestation (at least at one time), is hardly a valid defense against charges of racism. But since words…
01:54pm
@ Jorean – WOW. That’s a cute little dog.
02:47pm
That’s fine with me – I’m not looking to tell anyone what they can and can’t say. It’s just that I’m more interested in one thing than the other, so I may or may…
02:52pm
Hmmm… maybe not a pricey one about a cat, though. ;-)
If it were about a proper subject...!
03:04pm
(I still can’t believe that it’s not Jor–ee–un)
I know! I’m still trying to re-wire my brain…
03:20pm
@ David, I pretty much agree with your assessment. Personally, I found 300 to be a weird mix of entertaining and silly, with the movie a lot farther on the silly side (maybe because some things are…
03:41pm
I do think there’s a not-too-bad argument to be made that there are racial stereotypes in the Sin City books, but I’m not sure if this is evidence of racism per se, or just an aspect of…
03:44pm
but he only signed up on a whim because his friends did.
Well, I guess he’s got a bit of the Semper Fidelis part down, at least. ;-)
03:49pm
A proper subject being a dog that sleeps more than my cats?
Well, yes, though I might express it more like: animals that interest me more than cats.
And to be fair, he IS ten years old,…
04:46pm
Tess, I’m glad to hear that you hate generalizations, that certainly makes discussion easier. To get it out of the way, let me say where I’m coming from in my approach to issues like…
04:51pm
There is certainly no doubt that there are some EXTREMELY racist characters in some of his work (Byron Brassballs from The Dark Knight Returns: I’m no racist, but I thought he might have a…
04:59pm
No, like I said, I wasn’t accusing anyone of that, just saying I might if I see any evidence of it down the line. Laying the groundwork, as it were.
05:09pm
So, your paragraph that includes your four points is loaded with things that aren’t very specific – I think it’s hard to discuss without examples, it’s a little too close to…
05:33pm
@ Bast, that was where I was going.
EDIT: and, now that I think about it, I did say
WRT the statement you quote, it seems pretty clear to me that “they” modifies “enemy”…
06:03pm
The four factors, combined together, follow from each other and form/represent something specific.
I didn’t think so – I thought two of them were assertions without examples…
06:06pm
and the most ironic thing of all is that 99% of people equate an Arab with a Persian.
Not me, man. Nor with an African, Afghan, Indian or anything else.
06:22pm
because Miller doesn’t MAKE a distinction between the ideology/fundamentalists and the rest
I thought he did that by using the word “enemy” – which I think is commonly…
06:34pm
Look Tess, I’m not saying Miller isn’t a racist – just that I didn’t think Andy’s quote was evidence that he was.
So far, there hasn’t been anything else to talk…
06:48pm
I’m not done reading it yet, and while anyone using the word “deconstruction” is not a way to get me to take you seriously, I will say that I agree that the Spartans were depicted in…
06:52pm
@ Andy – I thought he was talking about the enemy’s culture, not Muslim culture overall, or Arab culture overall, and certainly not Persian culture.
I think it would be pretty hard…
07:00pm
I’m glad you’re sticking around, Tess – thanks for not writing me off. ;-)
Please don’t be upset….!
07:03pm
I don’t really have a horse in this race.
What race? I just said I was curious to know why Tess thinks Miller is a racist, and he’s helpfully provided some links. It’s all good,…
07:20pm
Half-Italian, half-Norwegian, thankyouverymuch, you goddamn racist.
I am not intimidated by your Viking Mafia!
07:23pm
So Swamp Thing is totally awesome isn’t he?
I’m a biiiig fan of Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing run (the run that spawned Hellblazer).
07:25pm
I was just talking with Andy last week about the horrific depiction of homosexuals in old movies, too – in particular some Frank Sinatra movies from the 60s (presumably based on books that could…
07:27pm
which I haven’t seen, is it even out yet?
I don’t think it was ever made…?
07:32pm
Nazis or KKK or Facists
Similarly, in the Ben Affleck movie version of that Tom Clancy book where a nuke is smuggled into the US and detonated, I believe they swapped out the Arab Terrorist…
07:32pm
Sadly, you don’t even have to go back that far.
Well, sure – but this was really, really, really bad.
07:38pm
The portrayal of people from the Middle East and people of Middle Eastern descent in modern movies and other media of the past 30 years has been disgusting
So: blame the baby boomers? (I…
07:56pm
Mesmo Delivery looks awesome
Mesmo Delivery IS awesome!
08:29pm
Will you update your your avatar with a similarly-19th-century-ified photo? If so, then unequivocally yes!
09:01pm
Very nice!
I found an old black and white movie at archive.org with some really fantastic compositions a while back – I should dig up that bookmark.
09:16pm
So, I just read
http://hubpages.com/hub/Frank-Miller-is-a-Hack
and it seems mostly to be criticizing Miller for creating lowbrow entertainment (which I think is axiomatically true). I confess,…
09:20pm
(sub-)conversational in both Spanish and Russian
I assume this is just a fancy way of saying you can swear in three languages? ;-)
10:17pm
I’m waiting for the day you put the Steranko one on sale. ;-)
10:20pm
LOL! Genius!
(thanks Aaron! You don’t need to do that going forward though, I was just a little slow last time… now that my brain’s working, it’s no problem to pop open IE,…
11:51pm
Didn’t I post something about Barks earlier today? I can’t remember now. Damn you, racism!
Nick (our barber) loves Barks. I vaguely remember reading some as a kid, maybe I should check…
11:54pm
Wait, that wasn’t Brian Clevinger?
March 4, 2010
12:27am
Ooh! I demand puppy photos.
Also, I’m glad no one is talking like Cerebus anymore. Or are people still doing that in another thread?
12:50am
Aaron that’s ‘Jolene’
Never heard the original, but I do like the Sisters of Mercy cover.
12:51am
Unfortunately, Adam is about as unoriginal as you can get.
Funny you should put it that way – isn’t it the original name? At least, according to three particularly popular…
12:55am
Aaron, you’re being enigmatic again.
EDIT: dammit, that would’ve been a lot funnier if your post was as empty as it looks to me, and not full of a youtube video I forgot I can’t…
01:04am
This is a very bad version (it sounds like a bootleg of a live show) – I’ve heard a much better one, but oh well:
I find his very deep voice singing the part of a woman pretty funny.
01:07am
I assume it was god?
God, Yaweh or Allah, depending. I think?
I’m atheist…
I’m an agnostic.
But I was just riffing on ‘original’. You could always change…
02:22am
snow falls on diamondwhere is the UPS man?things are what they are
02:31am
hero of the beachmost perfectly developed(i gambled a stamp)
EDIT: for those too young to remember
02:47am
avengers post-siegeridiculously hijackedno one really minds
03:10am
i forget nothingpoetic license frees methere once was a man from nantucket
February 28, 2010
12:08am
Well, certainly your first sentence was clearly just opinion – but your second suggested that anyone disagreeing with you wasn’t paying attention (sure, also, of course, in your opinion).…
12:40am
I guess I’m not.
You’re not. My objection has nothing to do with your opinion. I’ll take it to email.
12:47am
Yes – I absolutely agree with you on the substance.
OK, emailed you.
01:19am
Yeah, Gladiator was entertaining, but Traffic was great.
03:35am
Yes, I’ve been watching. I think I’ve seen all of them but the first. Yeah, it’s very 300y-looking, but I think that’s basically unavoidable if you’re going to cheaply…
February 27, 2010
04:18pm
Hmm – that’s interesting (and disappointing) info about TFAW …which I believe is owned by Dark Horse publisher Mike Richardson.
04:27pm
It is – it’s really funny, and I’m sad they abandoned it.
05:00pm
Well, not of Sin City noir-ishness, but of the dark, gritty, “mature” style Miller ushered in with The Dark Knight Returns (ie, turned up to 11, for humorous effect). Colleen Doran is a…
05:24pm
Myself, I don’t know what’s not to like… it seems pretty clearly to be a story in the alternate universe of TDKR, set years earlier. It’s no sillier than that was, and at the…
05:48pm
I read Nova (going down the tubes lately, IMO) and Pluto (awesome, IMO – only one issue left, though?).
06:43pm
My evil plan WORKED! (unless it make you unsub from all other superhero comics!) ... if risking insulting readers of superhero comics can be called a plan (ooops).
The thing is, the powers-that-be…
06:54pm
Oh, also – if you haven’t read it: Grant Morrison’s opposite approach to All-Star Superman (deliberately avoiding the acronym here) is marvelous – it’s a brilliant…
08:06pm
I looove All-Star Superman. (All-Star Batman…not so much.)
Same here, basically. All-Star Superman is brilliant and universal, while ASB&R is just clever and (self-?) referential. But…
08:10pm
Here’s another thing, and probably a huge can of worms about to be opened but I don’t care
Woooo-hoooo! Flame War’s on! ;-)
08:24pm
Yeah, that’s on the to-do list (though I’m not sure where). I suggested to TJIC that I might subscribe to Cerebus graphic novels, but didn’t want to spend $340 in one week. ;-)
09:06pm
When the film version of 300 came out I read a lot of negative reviews in which the chief complaint was that it was a thinly-veiled allegory for the Iraq War. REALLY? Like that wasn’t COMPLETELY…
09:38pm
@ Tess -
It’s OBVIOUS that he’s talking about the movie, not the GN. They somehow managed to take a crap, racist P.O.S. soap box story and cram in bonus Pro-War propaganda as well as a…
09:44pm
You’re paraphrasing me in a pretty opinionated way, but I think you take my point.
I did, completely, I was just snarking at your delivery (see above). ;-)
EDIT: which is to say, I was…
09:47pm
a story about a teenage girl and her inflatable bodyguard
To totally run with your hijacking, did you ever notice that THB is a sort of PG version of Ranxerox? At least, in the basic…
09:52pm
I guess I’m talking specifically about the film here
Have you read the comic version? Wikipedia: “The comic is a fictional retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae and the events…
09:53pm
His magnum opus to date is a work called THB, in which a lot of Pope’s personal libertarian attitudes shine through in a story about a teenage girl and her inflatable bodyguard trying to escape…
10:07pm
I’ve never read the book. Have you ever seen the film?
Yep. That’s why I said I didn’t recall it being much different from the book.
10:35pm
It seemed like a live-action cartoon to me
Well, it IS a live action cartoon – it’s a movie of a comic book! I think the artistic license in it is what a lot of people objected to…
10:38pm
Bast, both Heavy Liquid and 100% are set in the relatively near future, so there’s a slight sci-fi tinge to them. 100% is a bunch of intersecting love stories in NYC, I think at least…
10:55pm
And can someone please answer my question that got lost in the fire:
Hopefully when it’s not Saturday night and the people with lives are looking at threads here, someone will be able…
11:16pm
Confession: I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
Heh. I’m glad I’m not the only one too lazy to read the whole thread before posting! Thanks, man – I was feeling…
11:49pm
I didn’t like what I read of Steinbeck or Hemmingway. Although in Hemmingway’s case I likes some of the movies made from some of his stories, so maybe I should give him a second chance?
February 25, 2010
12:24am
Dammit Andy, check your email!
12:25am
The Big Heat?
01:34am
Well, to be more specific, I’d be happy to swap 100 bullets for the GNs or enough cash to get the GNs (I like the series but would rather have the gns than floppies), and don’t really care…
01:36am
Why me?
...
Because you’re perfect.
01:45am
Sorry, just tossing quotes from Bukaroo Banzai around again. Andy caught it.
01:46am
Speaking of medication, I just finished a bunch of work, and I’ve been up since 4AM (thank you, 6-month-old child!), so I think I’m closing in on NyQuil Time.
01:49am
Ah, don’t feel bad, I have to do that for tons of stuff here, too.
EDIT: I’m old, I saw Buckaroo Banzai in the theater. It’s really a shame they never did a sequel.
another…
01:56am
Settle down, Bill (/John).
01:56am
They played Buckaroo Banzai every Friday night at the Harvard Sq. Theater
That’s where I saw it too, but in the first week, I think.
01:59am
This probably belongs in the confession thread, but I just don’t know what anyone sees in John Hughes movies.
02:00am
now that was the twilight zone movie..
Yeah – John Lithgow in the movie (who was also in Buckaroo Banzai, and is Jorean’s avatar), and Bill Shatner in the original TV episode.
02:02am
Well, that’s lucky, as good scifi movies are pretty rare. ;-)
02:04am
Man, back in prehistory when there were only three network tv channels (and PBS), we had a local UHF station around here (Channel 38 – I never understood how they awarded those channel numbers,…
02:05am
the Dad from Harry and the Hendersons……....
Haw – never saw that. He was on Third Rock from the Sun, too.
02:07am
And speaking of creature double feature (and crap), what happened to C. Thomas Howell?? I saw him in a few minutes of a remake of Burroughs’ The Land That Time Forgot (which I think he directed)…
02:09am
Most are crap. And I love it.
Yeah, me too, sort of. Even the worst ones, if they’re old, and many are, have a certain charm as a bit of culture from whatever time they’re from.…
02:11am
l8r.
02:29am
I didn’t like the first two so much, but I love those Heston flicks. Did you see The Omega Man?
Edit: I have tossed the NyQuil down the hatch, and have been up for 22.5 hours, so I predict…
02:34am
Oh, also, before I forget: FM, if you read through all this crap – Vagabond. Awesome.
01:56pm
Man… by Thursday, everybody’s all talked out.
01:56pm
@Andy – whoops, you’re right. Sorry.
February 24, 2010
12:01am
So, what does it mean when you say reality doesn’t feel real? Is it a sort of disassociative thing like you perceive reality just fine but don’t care about it at all, like you’re…
12:02am
Bendis and Johns
Don’t tell Andy, but I don’t even know who those guys are.
12:07am
Twatlight
You’re killing me, Jorean. Hilarious!
Though I saw the first movie on TV – it wasn’t THAT bad (wouldn’t call it good, by a long shot).
Never read any…
12:11am
Also, other parts of your brain will conversely be slow to catch when you wake from dozing off, and you might end up with eyes open, but feeling like you’re unable to move.
Oh, I get that…
12:12am
this one has easily been the most welcoming and warm
I’ve been around since day one, I and I have to say, pretty much everyone who’s ever posted here has been pretty cool.
12:17am
Calling Dr. Gonzo! I come back from my shower and this thread has become Bat Country!
As your Samoan Attorney, I advise you to lay off all that amyl nitrate and stick to the LSD.
12:18am
and it usually goes hand-in-hand with Lucid Dreaming induced via opioid consumption
Fascinating! My opioid use was extremely limited and very long ago, so I doubt that’s it in my case.
12:19am
@Tess – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
12:21am
Calling Dr. Gonzo!
Thank you for calling Dr. Gonzo instead of paging Dr. Benway!
12:23am
I didn’t see TPOTC, and I certainly admit FALILV was real work to get through – you’re right, though, it wasn’t a movie, it was a video of the book, if that makes any sense?
12:24am
a weak, whiney girl with a controlling bf that watches her sleep revolting
That’s pretty much what the GF said. She was horrified that parents were letting young girls read that shit.
12:25am
Tess is on one of his rolls.
Yeah, and I’m still like 300 posts behind.
12:34am
Sims is hilarious. “Your vagina is haunted!!!”
(that’s the unbeatable super blog guy, or whatever, right? I unsubbed because he and Kevin Church were swamping my twitter stream…
12:37am
the lead dude from Entourage Adrian sommething
The guy from PCU?
EDIT: no, never mind, I was thinking of Jeremy Piven, and he’s not the lead guy
12:45am
15,000 micrograms
Shit, that’s a lot. (of Liquid Crystal Display?)
12:48am
Yeah, I’m bad – I just had to edit an earlier post to close a parenthetical I left open.
12:59am
Blurgh. Nyquil’s starting to work, have to bow out. If the Young Lad gets me up later, I’ll check in.
01:55am
later Dan enjoy your green tongue coma
Cherry
He’s super bad. He’s outta sight. He’s… BLACK DYNAMITE
Dude – check this out. Awesome.
OK, back to bed. Later all.
02:37pm
Well, I assume if people are lying about what they’re buying, it’s because they want to keep some and sell some, and they’ve (probably correctly) deduced that admitting that would…
02:39pm
what is your favorite restaurant
Any Indian restaurant, basically. And Charlie’s Kitchen in Harvard Square, but that’s mostly for the rum.
02:40pm
See what you get by being so damn friendly? You’re incentivizing lying! ;-)
02:41pm
real men drink the green death flavor
That’s what I like about the internet. No one knows you’re a dog.
04:30pm
so any of you folks into Orignal Comic art? Or have commissions?
I wish I had the money to be into them – maybe someday. I’ve bought a few prints recently, and got a really…
04:37pm
Hey, when you embed a big image like that, they screw up the forum layout, so it helps to add a width="700px" to your IMG tag.
04:38pm
And oh – that’s a really nice piece. Who’s the artist?
04:41pm
very sorry dan. Do you want me to delete?
No, it’s fine – I edited the tag for you so the image wouldn’t be wider than the post column.
04:49pm
Christian Ward
Wow, he’s got a really sharp-looking porfolio, that’s for sure. I think I see a little Fernando Fernandez (a personal fave) influence…
04:54pm
$14.71 – just two books.
05:17pm
I’ve got the first three, and am not particularly attached to them… In fact, I’m somewhat regretful about the Transmetropolitans.
I’m not really sure how to ship so many…
05:21pm
I love that the only comic you’re getting is BLACK & WHITE!
05:59pm
Here’s the one I got from Alex.
06:01pm
There were computers when you kids were in school? YOU ARE SO SPOILED!
(just kidding – we had TRS-80s)
06:15pm
You know, I don’t think I’ve ever seen one.
06:18pm
@Andy – yeah, Dreadstar.
@Emerald – is that bigfoot, from Proof? And yeah, Alex is a great guy. Robotika is one of the most creative comics I’ve seen in I dunno how long……
06:27pm
@Andy – Amazon had Jan 29th as the date, and then I got an email saying it was running late. I’ll check with Alex and let you know.
06:34pm
I think I read the first issue of Proof, and thought it looked interesting, but got distracted by a zillion other things… that’s a really great image.
06:37pm
Those were in production a year longer than the TRS-80s (though we used them years after they were discontinued – I was in Junior High in 81).
I remember the ones we had as being cast in one…
09:18pm
@Jorean – Shut up Bigbooty you coward! You are the weakest individual I ever know!
10:13pm
Or do what I did after Jorean posted about it the other day, and read the wikipedia page. ;-)
February 23, 2010
01:49am
If you’re getting the hardcover reprinting issues 1-14, that’s everything Chaykin did on the series. The publisher replaced him with some other creators, but it was crap and only lasted…
01:54am
Well, these (from another thread) aren’t selling for Cages prices, but still...
I can’t believe how much Cages is going for… I’m tempted to sell. ;-)
01:58am
Cages, hardcover, current bid 37 bucks.
Cages, issues, current bid 47 bucks.
02:02am
Re: Chaykin – OK, looked a bit closer, apparently he kept writing for a while after #14 (wikipedia’s not very specific) but wasn’t really into it anymore, and it wasn’t that…
02:09am
Ah, right – forgot, sorry. I plead Walgreen’s Multi-Symptom Nighttime D Cold & Flu Relief (Cherry).
02:17am
It probably can’t parse all the junk in the URL – lets see if putting it in a tag helps: million dollar comic.
EDIT: worked.
02:18am
I dunno, my cheap-ass public defender’s drunk again.
12:01pm
I’m always a bit nervous when recommending stuff.
Hmmmm, yes. Like a bunch of $30-$60 books to Tess. Hope he likes ‘em, and if he doesn’t, hope he doesn’t come after me!
12:01pm
@Jorean – still medicated, which makes it tolerable, but a little sleep-deprived today thanks to the wee lad. But, that’s what Diet Pepsi’s for. I have managed to avoid getting the…
12:38pm
Wow, that’s awesome – although I confess I can’t tell whether they’re yelling in French, English, or Japanese. ;-)
12:58pm
They yell the universal kiai sound coming from the gut :)
I know, I was just kidding. I did a few months of martial arts in college – wish I’d stuck with it.
02:50pm
Explain this vengeance!
03:34pm
That is the most awesome vengeance I have ever heard of. He’s doomed.
03:49pm
what did he do to deserve this?
Poisoned her pet ferrets. He got pretty good, but probably deserved worse.
04:31pm
Whoa! Really? I missed part of this story.
Andy, you’ve to stay up late to follow the exploits of HI’s west coast contingent. ;-)
On a happier note, have you guys ever seen…
06:18pm
No, but a buddy in college swore by it.
11:44pm
...and in my further defense “absconding with abandoned property” seems to be pretty much the MO for getting new furniture around HI HQ.
I hope that wasn’t a complaint – that…
11:47pm
Hey, no hazing! ;-)
11:53pm
Have you guys ever had a drug flashback or any sort of existential crisis of some sort?
Not quite, but a number of times I’ve had a weird, I dunno, residual feeling, almost like if I…
11:54pm
That depends on what “non-Big 2” stuff is..
He means anything published by a comic company that isn’t Marvel and isn’t DC.
11:55pm
Also – hello, Rune!
11:56pm
I read his post incorrectly.
I blame your opioid abuse.
11:58pm
but try to avoid them as I feel they have stopped trying and are solely being carried by their name and their characters, not their writing and art
Preach it, brother! Preach it!
February 22, 2010
12:11am
Wow. That’s a lot of tax money.
12:27am
Yeah, there’s tons of stuff you’re not supposed to take, at least without supervision, if you’re full of monoamine oxidase inhibitors. And yeah, pseudoephedrine is a methamphetamine…
12:34am
Was it Cinco de Mayo? Because then it might have come up from Mexico with the weed and the coke and the meth.
(or is that smack and crack and whack?)
12:40am
Yeah, I’ll tell ya, I used to be friends with a chemist – pharmaceuticals make me nervous. I’d research the hell out of everything, too.
11:20am
I shot the sheriff (but I didn’t shoot the deputy down – that was Tess, I swear!).
EDIT: DAMN, didn’t read emeraldknyght’s post – sorry! (and not ‘cause…
11:36am
I convinced my fiance to name our first child either Kal or Kara
emeraldknyght, I assume that’s a hypothetical future kid? I wasn’t able to get away with naming my kid Conan,…
11:37am
Seconded – this series is FANTASTIC. Can’t wait for the final book.
12:22pm
Tell us what you think once you’ve read it.
12:41pm
ape rape
...kills the thread, every time.
12:42pm
Seriously, nobody read this book? Jeez.
12:59pm
I haven’t read 20th century boys, but I read the first volume of monster – it was very good, too.
01:03pm
I highly recommend them (there are two – well, three if you count a backup story, or special issue, or something, in Chaykin’s American Flagg series), but they’re old and might be…
01:07pm
Ah, sweet! (Times Squared, or something else?)
01:13pm
Here’s a link to a review that I haven’t read yet (but am reading now).
01:29pm
Yeah, I’m getting the Kodansha Akiras as they come out.
01:30pm
Publish them here!
01:41pm
Yeah, it’s not our for a few months, yet.
02:06pm
I think I read that Kodansha has entered the US market directly – you can find release dates at Amazon, possibly ahead of Diamond having a clue, since they aren’t direct-market-only books.
02:44pm
There’s a link to a site describing the markup language the forum uses somewhere around here – I forget where, but I’m sure someone will chime in soon enough. Regular HTML also…
02:51pm
Hey FM, can you post an image with some human figures in it? Maybe I’ll pick this up.
03:29pm
The more realistic the better (well, up to a point – style is important). Urasawa’s about as cartoony as I can handle.
Ordered! Thanks for the follow-up posting.
03:31pm
Well, except it’s disgusting. ;-)
04:40pm
I’ve enjoyed the Ghost in the Shell stuff – although one of them is a bit hard to follow, not because it’s manga, but because the sci-fi subject matter is CRAZY weird.
04:43pm
I kind of agree about his more recent stuff – it’s like dense shorthand or something. But this is from 86, he paced thing better back then – American Flagg is a masterpiece, I think.…
04:47pm
Oh, it’s probably something you pay an arm and a leg for in a Japanese restaurant.
05:00pm
@Joe – yeah, I picked up the Kodansha edition of GitS, which is roughly comic book sized and IIRC reads left-right, and got 1.5 Human Error Processor and 2 Man-Macine interface from ebay…
05:18pm
I’m a friendly snob!
05:29pm
I’m not really a snob, i just wanted to mix the good and bad parts of your post.
06:04pm
I ordered it from Amazon, where I’m a Prime member, so – free 2 day shipping.
06:59pm
Not in a Japanese restaurant, I hope! (cute kid!)
08:40pm
Milton Caniff’s Terry and the Pirates – went on for years, as a daily (American) newspaper strip (1934-194something). Five big-ass hardcover volumes.
Modesty Blaise, also went on for…
08:57pm
From twitter:
switzke RT @batmasterson PLUTO is WATCHMEN done right.
09:34pm
F———ing Diamond, man.
11:02pm
I think this is it: http://heavyink.com/graphic_novel/11220-American-Flagg-Definitive-Coll
11:02pm
I think this is it: http://heavyink.com/graphic_novel/11220-American-Flagg-Definitive-Coll
11:03pm
@FM: yes, http://heavyink.com/graphic_novel/13980-A-Drifting-Life. Very cartoony, but very interesting.
11:06pm
I read like one manga before and some chick got raped and blew up and another almost got raped, but a venus fly-trap came out of her _ and ate the offending appendage… It kinda creeped me…
11:14pm
Well, I won’t, but if that’s the kind of thing YOU want to buy, knock yourself out. ;-)
February 21, 2010
12:10am
I think I’ve bought some comics in the $30-$60 range – Zora and the Hybernauts (such a beautiful book), and some Corto Maltese, I think.
12:12am
I dunno why I talk to you, man.
12:13am
Should I confess to saying “Fucking comics!” every week, or will I sound like a snob?
12:15am
someone needs to reprint it STAT
I heard a rumor last year that a British company was going to reprint some – I wonder what happened? I’ll try to dig up the link and look into it.
12:17am
OK: when I drop by HIHQ to pick up my comics (Wed or Thursday nights, when only Andy is still there), I spend a few minutes gazing at the stacks on the shipping table, and am forced to exclaim…
12:25am
The first rule of HI Confessional Thread is you don’t post about HI Confessional Thread.
12:37am
But still, I’m ashamed of it.
In this horrible economy? Don’t be. Real unemployment is something like 15-17%, I think.
How attractive is that?
More attractive than 37 and…
01:06am
I’m glad they’re bundling stuff in GNs, and reprinting so much old stuff now. There’s a lot of superhero stuff from the 70s I’d love to pick up reprints of at some point…
01:29am
Cool, I used to think you were military…
An easy mistake to make – I think he told us that if he told us what he did for HP, he’d have to kill us. So, I’m happy to remain…
12:01pm
UGH. Got my haircut yesterday – my excellent barber, Nick, who is a hell of a comic collector and whom I’ve posted about here before (scroll down a bit), had a cold. Now I’m coming…
12:13pm
OK, I’d never heard that – makes sense now!
04:20pm
I sent the GF out to get some cold medicine for me – apparently the default assumption is that anyone with a cold is a meth manufacturer. I’m so pissed off I don’t think I can type…
05:20pm
@ Jorean – F.A.B.!
05:21pm
Yeah, me and Andy talking about anything requires a parental advisory label.
05:23pm
I don’t know if I like all this new icon craziness. At least people have crazy names that stay the same to help identify them.
Get off my lawn.
05:25pm
Best 2-panel comic EVER: http://twitpic.com/13v1hf
Kate Beaton is AWESOME.
06:06pm
@ Jorean – thank you, I appreciate the sentiment! It’s not too bad yet, but it’s getting there. I’m looking forward to chugging half a bottle of nyquil soon, and hope that…
06:56pm
Fucking pseudoephedrine-regulating government douchebags!
OK, I feel better.
Wait, no I don’t.
I need psuedoephedrine for that.
07:57pm
...which is an abomination in and of itself. I started my rant in another thread – my GF was out buying cold medicine for me (I asked her to pick up stuff with actual pseudoephedrine in it) and…
08:00pm
I think hate-speak is racist, not specist, so you’re probably OK.
(alas, I’m feeling too under the weather to go make another user account with a squirrel avatar and use it to post my…
08:03pm
You know, Emerson actually gave him a honorary doctorate, so his “Doctor Dennis Leary says ‘shut the f——— up! ...NEXT!’” rants are now all the funnier.
10:51pm
They didn’t let you buy any pseudoephedrine? I thought as long as you have a driver’s license and sign that thing they sell it to you.
They wouldn’t sell my GF two items with…
11:38pm
Up temporarily (ah, parenthood), very nicely decongested.
@Tess – WO(S)D = the War On (Some) Drugs. And no, if they just wanted to make money they could legalize it all and tax it like they…
11:44pm
A week – ugh! Now that I think about it, I think Typhoid Nick, the barber, said he’d been sick about a week. Oh well, we’ll see how I do. Hope you’re better soon, too.
February 20, 2010
12:06am
We are curious as to what you posted and deleted.
Not sure what you’re talking about here?
12:08am
Isn’t he adorable?
Penguins are adorable – even fat, blobby penguinlike things are adorable.
12:08am
Tank Girl
New ones or the old ones?
12:30am
Dan it’s not a penguin.
Nonetheless, it looks like a penguin, which is what makes it adorable. IMO.
(I see that it’s from Dr. Who)
12:35am
Hippos are frightening – an angry hippo can kill you without trying.
12:37am
I thought the gang of “bad” penguins in that original Lobo series from the early 90s was pretty cute.
12:40am
Hey Pete – are you saying you can’t see the chat thing embedded in your post? It occurs to me that maybe you can’t – I can see it, but can’t see youtube videos embedded…
12:41am
Have you ever seen a pygmi hippo?
I have now (thanks, google) – adorable! And probably not too frightening.
12:42am
Ah, sorry.
12:54am
Yah, (I’m Doug and) I’m ouuuta here.
10:51am
Norinn Radd was two guys – Lawrence Fishburne did the voice, I think.
12:16pm
I’m awake. I’ve been awake for like two hours now!
No, wait – that’s not right. An hour and a half, maybe.
12:54pm
Lemme tell you, man – if there’s ANYTHING you EVER want to get done, get it done NOW. All the stuff I really wanted to get done beforehand but didn’t quite – well, let’s…
12:59pm
Actually, you have step-kids, right? I can’t remember how old you said they were – are they old enough to help out around the house, or no? That might make a difference…
02:33pm
Anyone know if he and Miller wil be finishing ASB&R? ‘Cause that’s funny.
EDIT: OK, I read not somewhere, at least under the previous regime. Maybe with Lee in charge…?
02:51pm
Anybody read Howard Chaykin’s Time^2? And remember the demon police chief Bon Ton MacHoot?
Was I the only one who didn’t get it?
07:23pm
Indian is my fave – can’t really have it on the diet, though. Had Ethiopian food once, at a pretty nice place in Cambridge… I thought it was good, but never managed to get out for…
08:01pm
I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.
GODDAMNIT, you beat me to it.
08:06pm
Andy, which 1369 did you work at?
Is that the only Ethiopian place in Cambridge – I went a while ago and my memory is rusty. Is there a big difference, culinary-wise, between Ethiopian and…
11:57pm
I dropped $100 on a rare book from the 40s – Athene Palace, by Countess Waldreck – it was worth it.
(it came in a ziplock plastic bag that also had a lot of cigarette ash in it)
February 19, 2010
12:02am
Trade ya! ;-)
12:04am
ahem pervert-suits ahem
That’s what Warren Ellis calls them. But when not being snarky, I like superhero-y, because it also encompasses the cosmic space opera stuff I read. Are they…
01:01am
So that’s sorta the same thing.
Absolutely. It just helps you stay up drunk longer.
01:16am
LOL. Never considered it that way, my friend.
I pretty much always drank hard liquor (rum and cokes, mostly – hello, pre-diabetes!) so I would always notice that I was still going,…
01:18am
So, wait – your ex killed your ferrets? If you don’t have actual legal recourse, I’m pretty sure you have posse of friends with baseball bats recourse.
01:29am
You said your ex kept them – was he keeping them for you, or did he keep them against your will?
Remember – violence never solved anything!
Oh – except the Civil War, WW1, WW2…
01:31am
Front row seats comes with plastic sheeting, if I recall…
01:37am
I won’t be violent I promise.
No no – I was suggesting violence. Overwhelming violence. See the above post about posse of friends with baseball bats.
But yeah, it can wait until…
01:41am
Doesn’t sound like any wake I’ve ever been to. Sounds more like a party.
Aaaahhhh, an Irish wake.
01:43am
LOL!
“Yeah, you know – at that comic book hate site…?”
01:45am
I do have that machette my daddy gave me for my birthday…
Now you’re talkin’.
And that dragon battle axe I made out of saw blades.
Sounds excellently complicated…
01:46am
0.5 Irish, 0.25 Scottish, 0.25 English. I drink too much cheap whiskey from a tea cup.
01:53am
Having a crazy Marine Scout Sniper as a dad
OH, FOR THE WIN!
02:08am
He once cleaned his shot gun in front of one guy and threatened to kill another.
That’s awesome.
And on that note, I have to sign off – I was up until 5AM yesterday, and the…
08:13am
You WILL NOT regret it, –b.
08:14am
Shit, there’s a Witchfinder trade? That series was great.
09:10am
Yeah, there’s something weird going on with that – there’s a page for it, and a page for the 5/1 variant cover version, and the text descriptions indicate the wrong one is flagged as…
01:54pm
Really? Weird.
In other news, this thread is sneaking up on 50,000 views…
03:22pm
I was going to name my kid Conan, and teach him to correctly answer the question “Conan! What is best in life?”, but sadly, his mother was having NONE of it.
I was also looking forward…
03:25pm
–b. is The Reaminmator (Of Threads)
03:27pm
The Complete Classic Adventures Of Zorro By Alex Toth
Sold! You bastard.
03:53pm
So, just FYI Point Blank actually IS an adaption of a Parker The Hunter story. And folks, you should be buying Cooke’s Parker The Hunter, too. It’s pretty damn awesome.
04:02pm
Dan, I think you may have just become my hero….
Not freebooter and soldier of fortune? Well, I’ll take what I can get. ;-)
04:03pm
getting all depressed and going to bed at 9:30
Crom despises your weakness, city-dweller!
04:06pm
Sorry – I’m already taken by The Black Coast.
04:15pm
I’M not Crom – I’m just telling you he despises weakness. AND college basketball.
04:21pm
Amra means “Lion”, doesn’t it?
04:30pm
All hippies must die!
Well, Crom can get behind THAT.
04:33pm
@ Jorean – so, my elementary school had an Open Classrom program staffed by hippies (this was in the 70s), but it just meant you didn’t sit in one of those single-unit desk/chairs all day.…
05:37pm
Pete – following up with my email to you: I deleted the dead-looking rss entry (0 posts, big read x next to entry) in my laptop reader earlier, and just re-entered it after reading your post.…
05:45pm
Whoops – spoke too soon, laptop reader’s feed just started working now. Weird…. took a long time to load. My account’s feed URL definitely changed, though – is that…
05:57pm
IMO, everyone should charge by the squirrel.
06:59pm
any of you remember the show Romper Room?
I remember it, but don’t really remember anything much about it. Likewise, Sesame Street, Electric Company, Free To Be You And Me, etc.
07:05pm
Saved by the Bell was a staple for most
Jesus! You kids. I was in college.
07:07pm
The only thing I remember about romper room, I think, is kids bouncing on those big bouncy balls.
Yeah, I think that’s romper room.
Apparently Friday is senior’s night at HI.…
07:09pm
Six was pretty and all, but she was too wild and crazy for me. :)
Wait, what? This from Mr. Dates Party Girls All The Time?
And who is this Six?
07:12pm
Banana Splits
I remember the theme song, but that’s it. I think it was on after The Monkees.
07:15pm
Thanks, Yami – I don’t think I’ve ever heard of the two shows she was on.
07:20pm
Tess, I watched some TV when I was a kid, maybe from 73 to 78 (Speed Racer! Whooo!) or something like that, then didn’t have a TV again until around 85 or 86 (my mother decided she didn’t…
07:21pm
Two burger patties (on diet), small pile of mashed potatoes (blatant violation of diet, full of the Carbs of The Devil)
09:08pm
inferred
Points!
10:51pm
Approved!
February 18, 2010
09:34pm
Any thoughts from others?
The only superhero-y stuff I read is the left-over-from-the-early-70s Cosmic stuff that they started bringing back with Annihilation a few years ago. So, I’m…
February 17, 2010
12:18am
D’oh! Sorry to hear that Dan.
Just spent a few hours fucking around on the command line (GUI not working), and think maybe there’s something wrong with kdelibs5-dev, but I don’t…
01:23am
Dug out – “w00t”, as the kids say!
11:13am
Andy, I thought the Shutter Island trailer looked great – can’t wait to see it.
11:51am
I don’t get it…?
02:26pm
I don’t think anyone’s ever been banned. The only administrative action I can recall being taken was the locking of a thread by Tyler back in the day. I’m not sure but it might have…
02:29pm
You read ‘em yet, old chap?
Alas, no – see my complaints about Annoying Customer and fubaring my Kubuntu partition in yesterday’s Wed Chat thread. Sucked up all my non-Baby…
02:49pm
You’re cruel cruel cruel to the noobs and the out-crowd, maaaaaan. ;-)
02:51pm
What are you posting from?
I broke my own computer. :(
02:52pm
Oooh! 1501 posts!
I think Aarash has a permanent lead, though – I’ll never catch up.
02:53pm
A little neurotoxin never did anyone any harm, right?
03:09pm
@ Jorean – that sucks! Tess knows his IT, you need to hire him for tech support. You need… (wait for it) ... Tess Support!
03:50pm
I should start a revolution, call it Tess Support.
I just said this – did you miss it?
03:51pm
My son is on his first driving excursion…
No2Psycho?
06:19pm
Andy’s training a new hire today, so thing’s be a little slower, I think. Plus, comics were later than usual, right?
06:22pm
I think I’m just getting two comics today… not sure, calendar seemsto’ve turned over, but don’t have an email yet.
06:23pm
SECRET BLACKEST VARIANT CIVIL WARS.
06:25pm
Approved your new avatar… folks might need to force refresh.
06:26pm
That’s The Wah of Nahthern Aggression to you, Reb! ;-)
06:28pm
Hmmm – maybe I’ll switch mine to my grandfather’s POW card photo…
06:32pm
LOL for the record I would have been with the Yankees had I lived then…
I’m anti-slavery but pro-secession. And yes, very interested in history.
06:36pm
Are you saying you’re NOT a dead guy born in the 1800s??? I call bullshit!
06:37pm
A bit of art I made from my grandfather’s POW card.
06:58pm
I did another piece (these for for a class at MassArt years ago) from it that was much more visually interesting, and not at all dark and shadowed, so you could actually see him – the ladies in…
07:02pm
Hey, just posting here to tell you I sent you an FB message about an IM I sent you about an email I sent to tell you that I left you a message on your answering machine!
Heh.
07:13pm
Next up: pimple break!
February 16, 2010
12:57pm
I almost never use facebook – I hear there’s people on it, and I generally can’t stand people. ;-)
12:59pm
My weekend was made very irritating by The Well-Meaning And Super Nice But Annoyingly Incompetent Client.
01:32pm
@ Jorean – we don’t bother to celebrate it, really. I spent the day dealing with the aforementioned client and her work. Also, you might like this: http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays –…
01:54pm
Damn, Annoying Client is still annoying me with the job that was supposed to take only until Sunday.
02:00pm
This one’s better, in a horrible, horrible way: http://twitter.com/fireland
02:01pm
You’re making me most grateful my job doesn’t require human interaction.
Well, at least it’s intermediated – I’m sitting in my living room with Sleeping Baby and…
02:35pm
Leaving you with a PC chassis and a keyboard? WTF?
The thing is, The Customer Is Always Right. This woman is very nice, I don’t dislike her – she’s just disorganized,…
02:44pm
Well, it started with people I knew asking me to do stuff, and has so far worked by word of mouth – I don’t even have a damn website. I was out of work at the time, so it also started out…
03:03pm
I mean, they basically just told you that you didn’t need a computer and plundered it for parts? Did you try tell them that you did need it, and that they could kiss your @$$?
But yeah, I…
03:06pm
It helps keep one sane, that’s for sure.
03:07pm
Aarash, what sort of IT business would you run from your home if you figured out how to launch it?
03:27pm
@ Bast – yeah, I talk on the phone, too, and even have had the occasional client drop by (but only the ones I really like). I didn’t mention the phone because it would have made my line…
03:41pm
Any networking?
03:46pm
Well, that’s pretty cool – I imagine you could definitely strike out on your own. The IT guy at a company I worked at in the 90s (with a similar skill set to yours) struck out on his own,…
04:29pm
In other news: apparently, I rule!
07:07pm
@ Jorean – since No1Psycho is all set and you probably don’t want your email address up for too long, I deleted your post for you…
08:08pm
Nothing beats a bottle of wine for lunch!
Except a bottle of rum.
11:26pm
Gah. Fubar’d my kubuntu partition.
February 15, 2010
11:38am
I got all excited, then realized that must be a LOST shirt.
12:43pm
I’ve deliberately never watched it (like I’ve deliberately never watched BSG). About all I have to say about it besides that I can’t imagine that all the fuss is justified by much,…
01:35pm
?? Battlestar Galactica ??
Yeah. I’m all about science fiction, but… no interest.
01:37pm
TV is confined to the bedroom, for when I’m trying and failing to fall asleep. When trying to do other things, like working or reading or whatever, drone music is required, to aid in…
06:45pm
Damn! I guess you aren’t much bothered by any neighbors. That’s AWESOME.



























