Who Reads Comic Books?????
POSTED BY: 20thCentFoxHater
UPDATED: Sunday, January 1, 2006 21:26
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Originally posted by iamaleafonthewind:
My art is a hell of a lot better now as well....
"a lot BETTER now"....sheesh, I'd like to see your work that you consider GREAT!!!
Thanks for that intro, it looks pretty good. I'll keep an eye out for ya.
I haven't been into comics since I was a kid and then it was mostly the Marvel/DC lines. I didn't have a good shop near me.
But the recent Sin City movie and the Serenity comics have gotten me interested in them again.
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Nope. The odd thing is I'm a cartoonist. I'm even illustrationg one as we speak.
I'm a big fan of Asterix, and Spiro and Fantasio but I don't think they come under the traditional term of comic.
The Marvel/DC style irritate me enormously, I can never figure out the right way to follow the story and then there's the whole warped way of illustrating the figures - they've become so exagerated that they just look plain wrong to me...
However some are amazingly gorgeous to look at and these days the colouring is amazing, must take a team of colourists hours to do!
But ultimately they just don't lure me in.....
The
Somnambulist
www.cirqus.com
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By the way:
iamaleafonthewind
I love your style by the way. Very nice indeed!!! I'm mighty impressed...
The
Somnambulist
www.cirqus.com
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I'm surprised that you don't like the art in Y: The Last Man. Most people I talk to who read it, say that its some of the best art they have seen. Personally, I used to be really picky abou the art because thats the only thing you can really look at while flipping throught the book. But now I listen to feedback and reviews about books that have good writing, because to me, it's the most important thing in story. The Walking Dead, Conan, and "Y" are good examples of good writing, and I wish more books would be like them. I personally don't enjoy Marvel too much anymore because their stories just seem so stretched and unbelievable. Marvel was doing good back when Grant Morrison was on New X-Men and Greg Rucka was on Wolverine, because they made the characters so much more believable and made you care what happened. It's a shame that Rucka and Morrison don't get more respect for what they did on those books.
"I aim to misbehave."
"With our thoughts we make the world".
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I think the one book everyone should check out on Marvel right now is Captain America. The story right now has to be the best in the last decade if not more.
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Take me out, to the black, tell them I ain't coming back.
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Is that the same cap who is now ptentially fighting bucky from the dead, similiar to last years Jason Todd Robin coming back from the dead in the HUSH storyline???
ReavrHunter
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^_^ I do! All current stuff or will be current.
*Anything by Joss Whedon (Buffy, Angel, Astonishing, etc)
*Army of Darkness
*Runaways
*The Losers
*Arana: The Heart of the Spider
*Nightcrawler
*Freshmen
°Old School X-Men
*Fables (so terriblly behind unfortunately :( )
*Dogwitch
That's all I can think of on the top of my head.
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Still, a good story is a good story.
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I buy 2000AD and The Meg (Judge Dredd Megazine) religiously, have done for a long time. Iv given up on Marvel and DC. Im looking forwards to Dark Horses Knights of The Old Republic series that starts next year.
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Who do you suppose is in there?
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Hey Moose, thanks for the kind words.
Luckily, the plans for my little shindig won't require you to be able to find a comic shop. The industry is so mired down by business people taking all the money and a distribution system that delivers to only these select few specialty stores that I'm going to bypass that system entirely. I plan on self publishing the comic in trade paperback form and selling it at conventions and through internet locations, such as my own website, amazon, barnes and noble, and maybe another location or two. By doing it all myself I get to keep all the proceeds which means that I have to sell far fewer copies to start making a profit.
I also plan to make a lot of it available on my website or someone else's website (I've worked with Komikwerks.com before so they might be a potential fit) long before publishing, that way I can slowly build the audience I need to sell the trades once they're ready. I'll be starting a thread here once I've got enough stuff ready. People will be able to link over to whatever site it will be on and read it for free (some of it anyways - I may end up doing a thing where I would sell chunks of it as downloadable pdf files, for maybe a dollar or something - still cheaper than any comic). Hopefully the work will speak for itself and I can give Firefly fans something to hold their interest while we wait for more 'verse goodness. 
Anyway, thanks again for the nice words.
"I don't wanna explode."
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