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Messages - PsychoGoatee

#1
I'll say, the thing you mentioned about the possibility of the early stuff not appealing to you as much, I get that. Because I didn't end up liking it myself, I had the first 3 trade paperbacks of Mad Man maybe 10 or 15 years ago, just read the first one, didn't like it. Perused the rest, sold them. Granted as mentioned above, people do love it.

I do think it's cool to be able to enjoy a thing even if not completist about it. If there's a chunk of something that reaches out to you to try it instead of the beginning, why not, sounds good.
#2
Books & Comics / Re: Whats everyone reading?
18 March, 2024, 07:34:15 AM
Cool to see some Chandler talk! The Big Sleep rules for sure, incredible book. The movie is cool, love Bogart, but the book is for sure a lot better naturally. And you lose that cool narration in the movie.

Murder My Sweet (Farewell My Lovely) 1944 is a cool movie that keeps narration in there so we get some of those classic zingers. The Long Goodbye (the 70s Elliot Gould film) is awesome, though I hear very different from the book naturally.

I've got the other ones on the shelf, but The Big Sleep is the only one I've read so far.

I heard his last one Playback is a big drop off, did you find that? And any fav few out of the bunch?
#3
Cool stuff! Also, rock and roll is younger than comics are which is something.
#4
Maybe I'm weird because my parents didn't like the Beatles. They were more into 70s rock bands etc.  :D I do like that Live and Let Die song. I've heard some songs and the White album, just haven't really become a fan. I'll give it another try though. I think Beatles is more comparable to those 60s comics people have mentioned. And with music maybe even more so than comics, it's all personal taste, how influential and important it is won't make you connect with it and love it. It does or it doesn't you know?
#5
I'm curious to hear about The Beatles being appraised off the pedestal like you mentioned! I've yet to get into them, and I've rarely heard anyone say anything less than lofty about them. Also on punk, I got into the Ramones finally just a few years ago, love those Ramones. Saw Marky Ramone's Blitzkrieg live a couple months ago!

But I also got into punk later, and am really selective on bands in that genre. On genres, they can be confusing with labels, I notice I don't tend to be into bands in the indie genre, but I love alternative rock, wild stuff folks. Also a metal guy.

Watchmen is cool, I like it better than V for Vendetta myself, but I'm also not a diehard Moore fan. I can appreciate looking at stuff versus its pedestal, but I don't look at Watchmen that way, to me I like it, it's classic, but sure I don't feel there's an expectation that it'll be ranked as someone's top 50 or anything. But I get where you're coming from. And in general I think it's cool to look at how you like a work outside of its original impact and influence.
#6
Film & TV / Re: Last movie watched...
08 March, 2024, 02:54:47 AM
Quote from: Marbles on 21 January, 2024, 12:29:19 PMSaw The Holdovers which was excellent - warm, funny and uplifting - the perfect antidote to January blues  :thumbsup:

So good! Giamatti is the best. Also saw American Splendor (2003) recently, also great.
#7
Doing the good comic work  :D
#8
Cool stuff! Somehow this ended with me getting The Building, since it seems a little easier to get into for me (also shorter), always cool to hear about comics history.
#9
Added to the read list for sure, that sounds great. Also curious about Django/Zorro.
#10
Prog / Re: Prog 2370 - Fire it up!
18 February, 2024, 06:58:17 PM
Nicolas Cage should voice Judge Fire in a movie sometime none the less.
#11
General / Re: Judge Dredd seen on "The Princess Bride"
17 February, 2024, 10:00:20 PM
That's true! One detail I liked in that goof Deadpool 2 "Once Upon a Deadpool" version with those framing comedy Fred Savage scenes. They had a Judge Dredd shirt in that too, but a newer Cliff Robinson one. I appreciated that they remembered.
#12
Sounds cool! Comics and rock music, that's the good stuff.
#13
Great read as always! I myself prefer other X-stuff, Allred I respect, bought a bunch of Madman trades etc, just not quite my thing. And the trying to be edgy and cold or off-putting thing you describe is not my fav. But I like hearing what other people enjoy about it, and vicariously I can appreciate it.

I'll take an operatic Claremont run for me.
#14
I appreciate that 2000AD lets you download cbz files, this is the way it should be. But they are lower resolution than I'd like, especially older releases. So on a 10 inch tablet the text is smaller, and if you zoom in enough to be close to the actual size of the paper the text is too low quality, pixelated or blurry. And this is also true on PC or other devices.

Other companies like HumbleBundle releases etc tend to have around 3000 x 2000 as the standard resolution these days. Image Comics for example. Even older material like say the first Astro City volume is 1400 x 2150. Your release of say Brink vol 3 is around that, which is ok for now, but around 2000 x 3000 would be better. And more future proof with higher resolution screens.

The real problem is your older releases, which are only around 1000 x 1500. This is way too low, and has the low quality text for reading like I mentioned, if you zoom in to a decent size on high resolution screens. Rogue Trooper, Strontium Dog, all those classics are pretty low resolution, and it's a shame.

And with stuff like The Best of John Wagner release recently for example you have that older material at a higher resolution than that, 1550 x 2070 or so. And I get the impression you do have higher resolution versions of these old books, you just haven't released them? Not sure how much work it would take, but it would be worthwhile in the long run. Hope you fix it sometime.

#15
Very cool, good stuff, thanks!