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Other Reviews / Re: I bought Halo Jones (again...
Last post by JohnW - Today at 01:05:01 PMThe price of the Full Colour Omnibus Edition (hardback) has come down to something reasonable so I bought it on a whim. No regrets, no complaints.
It's a lovely volume – pink and blue and solid.
But how about that colouring? Ideologically, I am not opposed. Damage is not being done to the legacy. The b&w version still exists.
But does the coloured version look good?
It tends to work less well in Book 3 where Gibson's inks were more delicate, and there are more than a few instances where things look downright odd, if not wrong. But on the other hand there are plenty of places where it undoubtedly enhances the art.
What mattered to me is that the colouring made the story fresh. It made me pay attention. It made me see things I'd forgotten.
What else is there? Well, there's introductory matter that Moore wrote for earlier editions, there are the scripts for a couple of episodes from Book 3*, and there are various creator notes and sketches.
All nice to have.
Steve MacManus writes the foreword and Kieron Gillen provides the introduction. Both these people are Our People. Both of them Get It. Both are well worth the inclusion.
And then you've got the puff pieces and all that stuff in the blurb proclaiming this to be a groundbreaking feminist work.
Is it? Was it?
In the context of British boys' comics of the '80s this was undoubtedly groundbreaking. Was good use made of the broken ground thereafter? Was the cause of the greater sisterhood advanced? Don't ask me – I'm just here for the words and the pictures.
But let me emphasise, my brothers and sisters, that the words and the pictures are sweet indeed.
I am revelling in a story that I've loved since I was a teenager.
Grace Jones is singing in my head and Miami Vice is on telly later on.
*with one honking great printing error that replaces a page of Chapter 9 with a page from Chapter 10. We never do get to see that page from Chapter 9.
Admit it: doesn't the colouring here just look nice?
Whereas this to my eyes looks off somehow.
And I include this one as a reminder of how Ian Gibson, for all his talent, just wasn't much good at drawing plain women.
It's a lovely volume – pink and blue and solid.
But how about that colouring? Ideologically, I am not opposed. Damage is not being done to the legacy. The b&w version still exists.
But does the coloured version look good?
It tends to work less well in Book 3 where Gibson's inks were more delicate, and there are more than a few instances where things look downright odd, if not wrong. But on the other hand there are plenty of places where it undoubtedly enhances the art.
What mattered to me is that the colouring made the story fresh. It made me pay attention. It made me see things I'd forgotten.
What else is there? Well, there's introductory matter that Moore wrote for earlier editions, there are the scripts for a couple of episodes from Book 3*, and there are various creator notes and sketches.
All nice to have.
Steve MacManus writes the foreword and Kieron Gillen provides the introduction. Both these people are Our People. Both of them Get It. Both are well worth the inclusion.
And then you've got the puff pieces and all that stuff in the blurb proclaiming this to be a groundbreaking feminist work.
Is it? Was it?
In the context of British boys' comics of the '80s this was undoubtedly groundbreaking. Was good use made of the broken ground thereafter? Was the cause of the greater sisterhood advanced? Don't ask me – I'm just here for the words and the pictures.
But let me emphasise, my brothers and sisters, that the words and the pictures are sweet indeed.
I am revelling in a story that I've loved since I was a teenager.
Grace Jones is singing in my head and Miami Vice is on telly later on.
*with one honking great printing error that replaces a page of Chapter 9 with a page from Chapter 10. We never do get to see that page from Chapter 9.
Admit it: doesn't the colouring here just look nice?
Whereas this to my eyes looks off somehow.
And I include this one as a reminder of how Ian Gibson, for all his talent, just wasn't much good at drawing plain women.
#12
Prog / Re: Prog 2382: Beware Iron Tee...
Last post by broodblik - Today at 12:25:00 PMLynch has made Vex his own
#13
Off Topic / Re: Threadjacking!
Last post by The Legendary Shark - Today at 12:21:55 PMInvent the Éirevision Song Contest?
#14
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Col...
Last post by Le Fink - Today at 12:14:10 PMQuote from: JohnW on Today at 11:51:17 AMQuote from: Le Fink on Today at 11:10:32 AMBit dark, JW
Apologies – I got carried away. I forgot that you were ill and delicate and thus less likely to appreciate misplaced frivolity.
It is highly unlikely that Hachette warehouse staff are even now surrounding your house with crudely fashioned weapons in their hands.
Highly unlikely.
Rest easy and get well soon.
This made me laugh, which was much needed, thank you!
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Off Topic / Re: Threadjacking!
Last post by JohnW - Today at 11:54:49 AMThe bar has been raised too high.
Back when I was first old enough to stay up for the Eurovision, a young man presented himself in the whitest flariest white flares in all of Europe and rightfully took the trophy home to Ireland.
Forty-four years later we field a balletic transgender Drune and yet we somehow can't place better than sixth?
I ask my fellow Irish squaxx: what must we, as a nation, do now?
What can we do?
Back when I was first old enough to stay up for the Eurovision, a young man presented himself in the whitest flariest white flares in all of Europe and rightfully took the trophy home to Ireland.
Forty-four years later we field a balletic transgender Drune and yet we somehow can't place better than sixth?
I ask my fellow Irish squaxx: what must we, as a nation, do now?
What can we do?
#16
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Col...
Last post by JohnW - Today at 11:51:17 AMQuote from: Le Fink on Today at 11:10:32 AMBit dark, JW
Apologies – I got carried away. I forgot that you were ill and delicate and thus less likely to appreciate misplaced frivolity.
It is highly unlikely that Hachette warehouse staff are even now surrounding your house with crudely fashioned weapons in their hands.
Highly unlikely.
Rest easy and get well soon.
#17
General / Re: Hivemind query: Name that ...
Last post by Rara Avis - Today at 11:48:45 AMI really just don't know any more, it must the German one.
Thanks Eamonn
Thanks Eamonn
#18
Film & TV / Re: Current TV Boxset Addictio...
Last post by Rara Avis - Today at 11:37:25 AMAlso George has been involved in another tv show called Dark Winds that is excellent and well worth checking out.
#19
Film & TV / Re: Current TV Boxset Addictio...
Last post by Rara Avis - Today at 11:36:36 AMI was one of those fans and I hated that storyline because there wasn't enough foreshadowing to justify her character arc turning like that. She spent 8 seasons up to that point trying to be good leader / ruler and her just snapping like that didn't make sense for her character or her character arc.
But there was loads of stuff that was just awful; Jamie and Brienne, Jamie going back to Cersei, everyone teleporting all over Westeros to be wherever they were required at that time, Tyrion's mental decline going from one of the smartest characters to the most stupid who can only make cock jokes, the decision to put the armies of the living IN FRONT of the walls of Winterfell in the last battle, the Dothraki getting wiped out but managing to respawn for the battle at Kings Landing, Jon being reduced to a one line character ("I dunt wan it") for the last season, omg the plot armour - we see so many characters get swarmed by the dead at the last battle and then in the next scene they're fine.
I could go on ..
Dany wasn't my favourite character and I could have handled her burning the city to the ground if it had been done in such a way that made sense narratively.
And the pie thing : https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/titus/summary/
It's also mentioned in the books as a fable from Westerosi times past.
But there was loads of stuff that was just awful; Jamie and Brienne, Jamie going back to Cersei, everyone teleporting all over Westeros to be wherever they were required at that time, Tyrion's mental decline going from one of the smartest characters to the most stupid who can only make cock jokes, the decision to put the armies of the living IN FRONT of the walls of Winterfell in the last battle, the Dothraki getting wiped out but managing to respawn for the battle at Kings Landing, Jon being reduced to a one line character ("I dunt wan it") for the last season, omg the plot armour - we see so many characters get swarmed by the dead at the last battle and then in the next scene they're fine.
I could go on ..
Dany wasn't my favourite character and I could have handled her burning the city to the ground if it had been done in such a way that made sense narratively.
And the pie thing : https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/titus/summary/
It's also mentioned in the books as a fable from Westerosi times past.
Quote from: Funt Solo on 16 March, 2024, 06:57:15 PMMy GoT cod-psychology theory is that you could've ended that season almost any way at all, and the audience reaction would've been similar. Folk were just upset that it was ending. (I wasn't as invested once GRRM wasn't the author.)
There were Dani worshippers that couldn't handle the "my favorite is a baddy now" aspect, for sure.
Baking close relatives into pies and serving them to your enemy seemed a little convoluted, as assassinations go. I think that was a strong sign that George wasn't in the writers' room anymore. He, having gained access to all the pies he could ever want, doesn't see the need, or has lost the ability, to finish his opus. We're left with this odd, mixed-media saga.
#20
Film & TV / Re: Last movie watched...
Last post by Rara Avis - Today at 11:16:36 AMI've seen quite a few good movies lately
1. Late night with the Devil
2. Immaculate
3. That Omen prequel (pretty good for what it is).
4. Godzilla Minus One
5, Rye Lane
6. Fallen Leaves
7. Monster (Korea, 2023)
8. Civil War
Also from Korea (ish) Past Lives and Minari.
1. Late night with the Devil
2. Immaculate
3. That Omen prequel (pretty good for what it is).
4. Godzilla Minus One
5, Rye Lane
6. Fallen Leaves
7. Monster (Korea, 2023)
8. Civil War
Also from Korea (ish) Past Lives and Minari.