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Books & Comics / Re: Completely Self-absorbed T...

Last post by IndigoPrime - Today at 12:16:17 PM

The other thing I've found is they don't always hang around. I was slow to buy Pulp, but I'm glad I did because the thing was OOP a few days later. (It's still in paperback.) But given that I've not disliked anything by the pair yet – and have actually really liked most of it – I'm good buying blind.

#2

Books & Comics / Re: Completely Self-absorbed T...

Last post by Colin YNWA - Today at 12:11:44 PM

Your thoughts reminded me of some literary theory - I think Mikhail Bakhtin's but building on Roland Barthes' Death of the Author stuff. Basically the idea that the text is created by the reader in the act of reading.

I've not read Bakhtin's work but have read a lot around work influenced by him, but more focused on the 'value' of imaginative literature of all forms in supporting the needs of the reader. I mean this was back in the day and its al funnelled down to a few headlines. Basically a less fully expressed version of what you said.

Writers PAH - they got nothin' without us. Basically.

While it's true that whatever a person takes from a work of art is valid, its still hard not to feel annoyed when people misinterpret the intention of the authors in some cases.
The obvious one is how some people interpret Dredd as a template for how policing should be done rather than a satire.

Yeah I get annoyed with this type of things too. The thing is though my annoyance doesn't diminish their reading and in some ways that reading (of Dredd) provides a value insight that they are folks I should probably avoid!

I recently beening thinking about Life of Pi a lot (which means its time for a re-read). Which I always read as an atheist text, as that's what I come with. Others see it as a 'Proof of God' (I think it was Obama who said that I'm too lazy to check), as that's what they bring. The author seems to stay quite enigmatic about it and talks about story, so we all get the story we need. Wonderful book.

I hadn't really thought about Spider-Man while reading KOBK but now you point it out it's definitely apparent! This was probably my favourite Brubaker-Phillips series, this or The Fade Out I think. Recommended!

That Fade Out didn't make the list is almost certainly just down to the fact I've not got to a re-read yet!

Kill Or Be Killed: I thought that was great and it was the series that really got be into the whole Brubaker/Phillips thing. I'm now... probably a bit obsessive. Note quite a completist, but I've bought Pulp and the entire run of Reckless. Some other one-shots. All of Criminal (which I assume from "in which I bemoaned them only appearing once more" isn't in this list?), Fatale and Velvet. The Fade Out is missing, mostly because it's so bloody expensive on the second-hand market.

I dropped off a little once the started focusing on OGN. Not really sure why. I really must get back on board as they are really good!

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General / Re: New Romance* comic from Re...

Last post by IndigoPrime - Today at 12:07:55 PM

Yeah mean like the deluxe hardcover Nikolai Dante we NEED and the Complete Sinister Dexter Files we also need.

We're in fantasy land now, and I don't really want to double dip, but... I'd find it hard to resist a set of Nikolai Dante books in a format akin to Image's deluxes. (Oversized, but still readable. 300ish pages each. And no bloody dust jackets. Horrible things...)

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Off Topic / Re: Threadjacking!

Last post by JohnW - Today at 12:06:32 PM

If Tengri, Lord of the Blue Sky, came to you in a vision and demanded that you subjugate all the people of the steppe and build a pyramid of skulls in His name, I doubt if He'd be fobbed off with such cheap confectionery as a Love Heart.
Pick'n'Mix is the very least that would appease Him, I think.

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General / Re: New Romance* comic from Re...

Last post by IndigoPrime - Today at 12:05:54 PM

A couple of friends use Kickstarter for projects and have complained they take a decent cut of revenue, but the main challenge they've faced is promoting in failry saturated markets which I assume Rebellion will have no real issue with.

Indeed. I think it's tough for individuals. You have to spend a lot of time promoting your Kickstarter, to the degree it's almost a full-time job. You have to account for manufacturing issues and changes in costs. Postage and replacements can eat into profits. And so on.

All of those are still relevant for publishers, but they have more people and presumably a lot more experience in dealing with these things. And judging by how things have been going for Boom, this stuff can work out really well. The only thing that hacks me off sometimes is when folks running these things don't bother considering anyone outside of the US. I'd have bloody loved an Atomic Robo HC set, but the postage was monstrous. (I know books are relatively heavy, but the cost of a full set of books effectively doubled the price, and the shipping was 2–3x what it much later cost me to have a pile of omnis shipped over from IST via trackable courier.)

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General / Re: New Romance* comic from Re...

Last post by Colin YNWA - Today at 12:01:00 PM

Yeah mean like the deluxe hardcover Nikolai Dante we NEED and the Complete Sinister Dexter Files we also need.

Yep we need more Rebellion Kickstarters for sure. My wallet wouldn't but if they get them right...

#7

Off Topic / Re: Threadjacking!

Last post by Barrington Boots - Today at 11:46:05 AM

Sweets should be Love Hearts, obviously.

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Off Topic / Re: Threadjacking!

Last post by Barrington Boots - Today at 11:44:42 AM

There's only a handful of situations where I would choose a dripping and bloody human heart over a nice box of sweets tbh, so you might be onto something there.

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Off Topic / Re: Threadjacking!

Last post by JohnW - Today at 11:39:57 AM

Have you considered a box of sweets? I mean, do the gods really want raw meat?
OK – Abel's offering was accepted instead of Cain's vegetarian option, but it wasn't like there was an extensive menu.
And did the Feathered Serpent ask for all those human hearts? Would he not have been happier with – I don't know – a choc ice?

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General / Re: New Romance* comic from Re...

Last post by Swerty - Today at 11:27:05 AM

I think it's a good idea too.Hopefully means we'll get more stuff like this.(sort of removes the risk element to it)