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Post by DE Sinclair on Jul 22, 2015 9:41:32 GMT -5
Interesting to know thanks mrp! I would love to see it done someday, maybe one of the major publishers would put out a limited print issue or something. And who knows, maybe someday it will be done again. As I recall, records and LPs were super pricey which is why people moved away from them and for a number of years this was the case until recently. Actually I don't recall vinyl records getting expensive until people moved away from in favor of cassettes and, more importantly, CDs. CDs caught on because they were more durable than vinyl, portable, required little care, and could be played anywhere, especially in cars. |
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jul 22, 2015 19:36:43 GMT -5
^ That makes more sense.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2015 23:07:25 GMT -5
My question is semi classic comic related... Are there any newer titles or series (say within the past 10-15 years) that publish comics with a deliberate attempt to mimic the style from the 60's or 70's? I am talking maybe like an independent company or underground type comic series that still prints on newsprint paper and makes their comics look "older". I only ask because I find this is one of the main reason I dislike newer comics. The paper or whatever they are printed on is just too new age for this classic collector. I know printing on newsprint is way out of style and the machines are probably not even used but in the wake of records/lps making a comeback for music, I wondered if this was possible or had been done. Check out The Creeps and Bloke's Terrible Tomb Of Terror. They're both mags that take heavy inspiration from EC. They don't use vintage paper, but it's not plastic glossy stuff either. Fukitor is printed on newsprint, but it doesn't really emulate vintage comics. Not THAT vintage anyway. A lot of it has an underground comix feel to it, and it has a lot of homages to 80's action/horror movies, but it's pretty modern in style. It's also a minicomic. |
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Post by shaxper on Jul 22, 2015 23:25:22 GMT -5
My question is semi classic comic related... Are there any newer titles or series (say within the past 10-15 years) that publish comics with a deliberate attempt to mimic the style from the 60's or 70's? I am talking maybe like an independent company or underground type comic series that still prints on newsprint paper and makes their comics look "older". I only ask because I find this is one of the main reason I dislike newer comics. The paper or whatever they are printed on is just too new age for this classic collector. I know printing on newsprint is way out of style and the machines are probably not even used but in the wake of records/lps making a comeback for music, I wondered if this was possible or had been done. Have you tried looking for local underground stuff? In Cleveland, we have a lot of semi-underground papers with comics pages. Granted, they're strip-format, but printed on good ol' newsprint and with an exciting heavily independent feel to them that more than makes up for the general lack of quality. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 23, 2015 13:11:29 GMT -5
Interesting to know thanks mrp! I would love to see it done someday, maybe one of the major publishers would put out a limited print issue or something. And who knows, maybe someday it will be done again. As I recall, records and LPs were super pricey which is why people moved away from them and for a number of years this was the case until recently. Just to add to what MRP said...Wednesday Comics was the greatest thing that DC has put out in a good while. You should totally track down those issues. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 23, 2015 13:25:41 GMT -5
Interesting to know thanks mrp! I would love to see it done someday, maybe one of the major publishers would put out a limited print issue or something. And who knows, maybe someday it will be done again. As I recall, records and LPs were super pricey which is why people moved away from them and for a number of years this was the case until recently. Just to add to what MRP said...Wednesday Comics was the greatest thing that DC has put out in a good while. You should totally track down those issues. I'll respectfully disagree and submit Joe Kubert Presents. But Wednesday Comics was great. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2015 14:24:05 GMT -5
Interesting to know thanks mrp! I would love to see it done someday, maybe one of the major publishers would put out a limited print issue or something. And who knows, maybe someday it will be done again. As I recall, records and LPs were super pricey which is why people moved away from them and for a number of years this was the case until recently. Just to add to what MRP said...Wednesday Comics was the greatest thing that DC has put out in a good while. You should totally track down those issues. Just to add to what MRP said...Wednesday Comics was the greatest thing that DC has put out in a good while. You should totally track down those issues. I'll respectfully disagree and submit Joe Kubert Presents. But Wednesday Comics was great. Arguing between Wednesday Comics and Joe Kubert Presents is like trying to pick your favorite child. They are both great and comics are better for having had both of them published. Unfortunately they are by far the exception rather than the rule, but you take what you can get when it comes out. -M |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 23, 2015 14:39:01 GMT -5
Just to add to what MRP said...Wednesday Comics was the greatest thing that DC has put out in a good while. You should totally track down those issues. I'll respectfully disagree and submit Joe Kubert Presents. But Wednesday Comics was great. Arguing between Wednesday Comics and Joe Kubert Presents is like trying to pick your favorite child. They are both great and comics are better for having had both of them published. Unfortunately they are by far the exception rather than the rule, but you take what you can get when it comes out. -M I might be a little biased towards Joe Kubert Presents, my letter was printed there and was even included in the hardcover. |
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Post by Spike-X on Jul 24, 2015 3:30:15 GMT -5
Wednesday Comics got me back into comic shops after far too many years away.
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Post by Confessor on Jul 24, 2015 5:59:14 GMT -5
Interesting to know thanks mrp! I would love to see it done someday, maybe one of the major publishers would put out a limited print issue or something. And who knows, maybe someday it will be done again. As I recall, records and LPs were super pricey which is why people moved away from them and for a number of years this was the case until recently. Actually I don't recall vinyl records getting expensive until people moved away from in favor of cassettes and, more importantly, CDs. CDs caught on because they were more durable than vinyl, portable, required little care, and could be played anywhere, especially in cars. It often seemed like the price of new vinyl was highly inflated to me too, but I remember stumbling upon an online old UK money converter (pounds, shillings and pence) a few years back, which also took into account inflation. I put in the average price of an LP in the 1960s and adjusted for decimalisation and inflation, an LP would cost £25 in today's money. Modern LPs retail here for around the £20-£25 mark, so that's actually more or less the same cost per LP as they would've been in the 1960s. I think the fact that CDs have been pretty stable price-wise since the mid-'90s has given a false impression of the "rising" cost of vinyl (CDs were between £12-£15 over here when they first appeared in shops in the late 80s, but by 1994 or so, and up to the present, most CDs are about £10). |
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Post by fanboystranger on Jul 24, 2015 7:01:04 GMT -5
Just to add to what MRP said...Wednesday Comics was the greatest thing that DC has put out in a good while. You should totally track down those issues. I'll respectfully disagree and submit Joe Kubert Presents. But Wednesday Comics was great. Arguing between Wednesday Comics and Joe Kubert Presents is like trying to pick your favorite child. They are both great and comics are better for having had both of them published. Unfortunately they are by far the exception rather than the rule, but you take what you can get when it comes out. -M Personally, I was underwhelmed by Wednesday Comics, probably because my expectations were so ridiculously high. I admired the ambition in the project, but I felt that only Kamandi by Dave Gibbons and Ryan Sook and Adam Strange by Paul Pope really lived up to the premise. There's more good work there-- Kyle Baker's Hawkman, for example-- but overall, I felt letdown. Gaiman and Allred's Metamorpho, while majorly ambitious, was the strip I was most disappointed in-- it was still good and took advantage of the format in an interesting way, but I expected a lot more.
Greatly prefer Joe Kubert Presents. Some of Joe's best work, and I'm always down for more USS Stevens.
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Post by antoine on Jul 24, 2015 14:08:51 GMT -5
Actually I don't recall vinyl records getting expensive until people moved away from in favor of cassettes and, more importantly, CDs. CDs caught on because they were more durable than vinyl, portable, required little care, and could be played anywhere, especially in cars. It often seemed like the price of new vinyl was highly inflated to me too, but I remember stumbling upon an online old UK money converter (pounds, shillings and pence) a few years back, which also took into account inflation. I put in the average price of an LP in the 1960s and adjusted for decimalisation and inflation, an LP would cost £25 in today's money. Modern LPs retail here for around the £20-£25 mark, so that's actually more or less the same cost per LP as they would've been in the 1960s. I think the fact that CDs have been pretty stable price-wise since the mid-'90s has given a false impression of the "rising" cost of vinyl (CDs were between £12-£15 over here when they first appeared in shops in the late 80s, but by 1994 or so, and up to the present, most CDs are about £10). I started buying vinyl in the late 1990 (just a few, I was a poor student) because they were way less expensive than CDs. I could get most records for 8-10$, when CDs would have cost me around 15-20$. It remained mostly the same prices until late 2000's. Nowadays, vinyl from big label are super expensive, because these labels know vinyl is more popular than ever, but price of smaller independent label are still affordable. My experience is mostly with smaller labels though, I've never really buy a record from a "Big" artist. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2015 21:49:44 GMT -5
What's the best way to read X-Men Onslaught? Everything I know about 90s X-Men can fit on the back of a postage stamp.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 26, 2015 5:49:36 GMT -5
What's the best way to read X-Men Onslaught? Everything I know about 90s X-Men can fit on the back of a postage stamp. Don't. It's just not a good story and not worth the time you would invest in reading it. |
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Post by fanboystranger on Jul 26, 2015 19:12:44 GMT -5
What's the best way to read X-Men Onslaught? Everything I know about 90s X-Men can fit on the back of a postage stamp. Don't. It's just not a good story and not worth the time you would invest in reading it. I was going to say the same thing. The Incredible Hulk tie-in issues are kinda interesting, but overall, it's not worth it. |
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