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Post by the4thpip on May 20, 2014 11:32:02 GMT -5
They should do a comic book version of the Caprona novels, which should get turned into a big budget movie so I can make money off my German translations of said novels once more.  |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 20, 2014 11:47:31 GMT -5
It's good that this settled. ERB is very protective...overly protective because there's no doubt that Dynamite was well within their rights with the Mars books.
"Lord of the Jungle" was a problematic title for the Tarzan book though.
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Post by berkley on May 20, 2014 11:51:21 GMT -5
Now if only Dynamite would hire some decent artists to work on those books, I might give them a try.
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 20, 2014 12:49:45 GMT -5
I look at those all the time, are they any good? The covers make me thing they're not.
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Post by fanboystranger on May 20, 2014 12:55:31 GMT -5
Matt Wagner Tarzan? Make it happen!
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Post by paulie on May 20, 2014 13:11:56 GMT -5
The Lord of the Jungle book was actually pretty decent. It was done in the 'classic comics' style and didn't look like a Marvel or DC book at all. I would welcome its return.
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Post by foxley on May 20, 2014 16:31:23 GMT -5
The Lord of the Jungle book was actually pretty decent. It was done in the 'classic comics' style and didn't look like a Marvel or DC book at all. I would welcome its return. And it was fairly accurate adaptation of the first couple of Tarzan novels, albeit changing some of ERB's less-enlightened (to modern eyes) moments; such as making Jane's companion Esmeralda younger, more competent and far less of a comic 'Mammy' character. I enjoyed it and would like to see it come back. |
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Post by Jasoomian on May 20, 2014 17:09:10 GMT -5
Now if only Dynamite would hire some decent artists to work on those books, I might give them a try. Dynamite's business model seems to be spending all the art-talent money on variant covers which sell to collectors. For interiors on most titles they only get the cheapest hackwork possible. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 20, 2014 19:29:44 GMT -5
I really, really, really look forward to the promised John Coleman Burroughs-drawn John Carter!
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Post by maddog1981 on May 20, 2014 19:52:42 GMT -5
I look at those all the time, are they any good? The covers make me thing they're not. People rave about the John Carter titles but I've never read them. |
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Post by benday-dot on May 20, 2014 19:56:51 GMT -5
Dynamite's business model seems to be spending all the art-talent money on variant covers which sell to collectors. For interiors on most titles they only get the cheapest hackwork possible. Yeah, I know. Dynamite has taken the variant cover concept and gone all steroidal with it. I know its a long standing tradition that the cover of a comic is the showpiece of the work and lure that gets the sale, but can this not be accomplished with a mere one or two eye catching covers, instead of 5 or 6? It seems the superficial idea of the variant is the company's biggest aspect of promotion. This kind of thing turns me off. The appeal of the pulps that Dynamite is exploiting should work on me, but thus far I have no interest on picking up any of the publishers books, based on all the previews I've seen. |
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Post by maddog1981 on May 20, 2014 20:01:40 GMT -5
I've enjoyed every Dynamite book that I've ever tried but the art is frustrating. If you're lucky you'll get okay art for a couple of issues and then it will fall off a cliff.
And they are horrible with follow up. I loved Masks and if they were smart they would have had a follow up series ready to go. That's yet to happen.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 21, 2014 0:51:21 GMT -5
I read the Dejah Thoris book for a while. It takes place before the arrival of John Carter, so it's about Dejah Thoris running around on Mars wearing pasties and a thong (and gold bracelets and anklets and usually a headdress) and having adventures and also she acts as a diplomat or a statesman on missions for her father, so sometimes she's running around mostly naked on government business and the whole thing is so ludicrous that I read every issue and got all the issues into the 20s, I think.
The art is usually pretty good. One of the later story arcs had a different artist that wasn't as good with anatomy, it had almost a pulpy 1940s look that was nice as a change of pace, but I can see how some people would think it terrible.
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Post by Jasoomian on May 21, 2014 1:01:39 GMT -5
Actually, I have been meaning to check out, at the least, some of Arvid Nelson's Mars stuff for Dynamite because I enjoyed Rex Mundi so much. But not for $4. Been waiting for them to show up cheap but I haven't really seen them anywhere. I did get the $1 #0 issue of Warlord of Mars when it came out, it was pretty decent.
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