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

Last post by Colin YNWA - Today at 10:22:36 PM

My fav alternative superhero comic (and the only one needed - if making that call) is known, it's Savage Dragon by Erik Larsen! He's done it all and then some.

Ohhhh interesting. I got something like the first 6 archieve editions which is about the first 150 issues in a Humble Bundle a few years ago and its getting pretty close to the top of the pile. Kinda really intrigued by this one.

I'll champion Martin Edens THE O-MEN until the day I die as the unsung cape capers masterwork.

Oh make sure you're around in a few weeks...

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Website and Forum / Re: List of issues

Last post by The Legendary Shark - Today at 09:22:42 PM

I guess it's a financial and/or procedural thing. Something needed doing recently and some IT bod was employed to do it, and probably their contract indemnified them against the loss of Sharky's ability to annoy the neighbours with his seemingly infinite collection of Sharkworld Avatars (soon to be collected into a kind of multiversal Top Trumps card game*) or the loss of the Active Topics page. So the job was done, the fee was paid and any "minor niggles" would be sorted out next time. Splundigs, Tharg, and thanks for all the groats. Or maybe the IT's all in-house and there just isn't time to listen to us whining nonscrots complaining about piffling avatars when numerous Twoothy characters are in such dire and imminent peril, requiring The Mighty One's undivided attention.  "The forum? Pfa! They will come anyway. Their reverence for my mighty organ far outweighs their trifling annoyances. Ignore them and concentrate on trying to bond vodka molecules with polystyrene..."

From what little I know of you, Funt, you seem capable of rectifying these trifling annoyances and potentially even capable of invoking the much prayed for Holy Like Button with nary more than a dozen keystrokes and a moderately strong drink. If not you, then I bet someone here can do it. Donate (insert ill-informed short unit of time here) or two to helping TMO service his loyal Squaxx so that He doesn't have to take His mighty eye off those miserable creator droids for a moment. But I guess "the insurance" strangles such ideas at birth.

We can only entreat The Mighty One to take a moment from his lofty concerns to address the minor quibbles of us, His lowly servants. Pray, sacrifice a thrill sucker (or a Barry Manilow cd), kneel facing Betelgeuse and repeat after me...

Our Thriller who art in Oxford,

hallowed be thy name.

Thy thrillage come.

Thy will be done

in Progs as it is in the Meg.

Give us this week our weekly comic,

and forgive us our criticisms,

as we forgive those who criticise against us,

and lead us not into Marvel,

but deliver us from Dark Horse.

For thine is the thrill and the power, and the story,

forever and ever.

Amen.

P.S. Please can you fix the website and give us a "like" button. Ta muchly.

Amen, Amen.

*No it isn't.

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

Last post by Hawkmumbler - Today at 08:57:33 PM

I'll champion Martin Edens THE O-MEN until the day I die as the unsung cape capers masterwork.

God I'm long overdue a reread.

Honourable mention goes to Shotaro Ishinomoris original draft manga run of KAMEN RIDER, because its great and I'll never get the chance to bring it up again.

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General / Re: Wrap It Up

Last post by Jim_Campbell - Today at 08:53:34 PM

Are sound effects always scripted, or done by the artist, or done by the letterer? It's probably a mixture, right?

Honestly, it's anyone's guess. If the writer puts it in the script, then either the artist or the letterer will usually make sure it ends up on the page. However, artists who like doing SFX may well add their own, or completely change the scripted effect.

Letterers will generally just letter the sound effect per the script. Sometimes, I will edit SFX from the scripted version — writers will often script BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM because it takes up a lot of space in the script. I take that to mean that they want a big 'boom'. If I don't have a lot of horizontal space then I can make BOOOM a lot bigger than BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM.

On top of that, the artist will sometimes draw something other than what's in the script. If I've got a KRAKK in the script from a jaw-breaking punch but the artist has given me someone's fist going right through a person's head, then I'm lettering a SKPLUTCH.

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Off Topic / Re: “Truth? You can't handle t...

Last post by lincnash - Today at 08:50:09 PM

dubious deeds.

... DUN DIRT CHEEP!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v8pAxWL6C4

"If you're havin' trouble with the high school head ..."

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Off Topic / Re: “Truth? You can't handle t...

Last post by The Legendary Shark - Today at 08:34:16 PM

Okay, so this is Jared Bernstein. He is the chair of the United States Council of Economic Advisers and a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. His advice carries great weight. Hear him...

Call me a cynic, but he seems to me a tad overqualified for the job - he is, after all, trying to make sense of the senseless. He'll probably be fired soon because making sense of things isn't his job. It is, after all, hard to make sense of a con without calling it a con, but kudos to him for trying.

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

Last post by PsychoGoatee - Today at 07:50:11 PM

My fav alternative superhero comic (and the only one needed - if making that call) is known, it's Savage Dragon by Erik Larsen! He's done it all and then some.

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Off Topic / Re: RIPs

Last post by Jade Falcon - Today at 07:03:00 PM

He also portrayed Captain Edward Smith in Titanic, and was the ending narration of the Chernobyl Surviving Disaster documentary which also starred Adrian Edmondson

https://youtu.be/Vvc7s98Gdxw?t=3370

Timestamped at the relevant section

[22 - Judge Dredd Yearbooks]

#9

General / Re: Wrap It Up

Last post by Funt Solo - Today at 06:37:51 PM

22 - Judge Dredd Yearbooks

The Judge Dredd Yearbooks matched releases with the 2000 AD Yearbooks (as per Annual tradition), but the gatefolds sort of gave up after the first two. They were still physical gatefolds, but the wider image was just repeated in the both the front and back sections.


Judge Dredd Yearbook 1992 (1991; Dermot Power) - Dredd takes out a cyborg in this gritty cityscape.




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Judge Dredd Yearbook 1993 (1992; Brendan McCarthy) - a heavily Brit-flavored cover from McCarthy, which echoes a transatlantic tale within. There's also a reprint of seminal tale Atlantis, a one-off Judge Joyce (When Irish Pies Are Smiling, with art by Steve Dillon) and, because they demanded it, the return of the Soul Sisters. If there were awards for sound effects, then it might win with its ZAPPO, FLUTCH, KA-SPLUTCH, THONK, FAP, FLUTCH, FLUTCH, SKREEEEEE, PONK, FOK, KRRAAKK, CREEEEE! (Are sound effects always scripted, or done by the artist, or done by the letterer? It's probably a mixture, right?)




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Judge Dredd Yearbook 1994 (1993; Mark Wilkinson) - an interesting character mash-up on this one, although Devlin is limited to a text story inside.



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Judge Dredd Yearbook 1995 (1994; Sean Phillips) - not featured on the cover, but appearing inside are Harmony and Calhab Justice. Hershey looks black here.


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Judge Dredd Megazine #329 (2012; Brendan McCarthy) - not, clearly, a Yearbook, but included because it's another McCarthy.


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Next: turbo-boost...

#10

General / Re: Wrap It Up

Last post by Funt Solo - Today at 06:13:58 PM

Thank you, Funt! On the ball as ever. Is that John McCrea on art duties?

Aye - doing that magic negative space is positive space thing.

JBC, I'm pretty sure I have the 1992 yearbook in a pile of neglected comics here and after your that post about your love and loss of it I'd love to send it to you.

Aw! This is why we need a [Like Button] - sometimes words are too much.