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Post by brutalis on Mar 24, 2020 17:05:07 GMT -5
The fact that Comico's Jonny Quest hasn't been reprinted is ridiculous. There! I said it. Blame DC for not doing so. They had the Hanna-Barbera rights which would have entitled them doing a LOT of collections of HB material from over the decades but instead chose to go with only doing new product. Really poor judgement on the part of the higher up's for not taking advantage to make some money, unless there are/were behind the scenes issues preventing reprinting.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 24, 2020 18:43:19 GMT -5
I think it's like my daughter with her Instagram account. I've watched her scroll through her feed indiscriminately "liking" every post without looking at it for more than 1 second. When I asked her why she "likes" everything, she said she didn't want the posters to feel bad if they didn't get enough "likes". On the other hand, that's pretty wonderfully kind of her. Not to mention very good karma.
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Post by The Captain on Mar 24, 2020 19:23:15 GMT -5
I think it's like my daughter with her Instagram account. I've watched her scroll through her feed indiscriminately "liking" every post without looking at it for more than 1 second. When I asked her why she "likes" everything, she said she didn't want the posters to feel bad if they didn't get enough "likes". On the other hand, that's pretty wonderfully kind of her. Not to mention very good karma. My only concern is that without actually looking at what she's liking, she could inadvertently "like" something offensive or insulting or racist or homophobic. She and her friends are 14-year-old girls, and they don't always have the best impulse control, so something they think is funny could be really inappropriate, and then my daughter gets caught up in having to explain why she "liked" a post that made fun of someone at school or that demeaned the LGBTQ community or perpetuated racist stereotypes. Sure, we could try to turn it into a teachable moment, telling her to make sure that what she is "liking" would be something she would be OK showing to her mother and me, but the damage would already be done. As someone who grew up in a home with a virulent racist, misogynist, and homophobe for a father, I heard a lot of comments or jokes that he found funny, and because I was really too young and naive to know that they were hurtful, I would repeat them at school and get myself into trouble with classmates and teachers. The school would call my house and let my parents know what I'd said, and when I got home, my father would ask me how I could be so dumb as to repeat that at school, and I was all "but you say this kind of stuff all the time at home and laugh about it, so I thought it was OK." It caused me problems because kids have long memories, and I certainly don't want her to run into the same issues because she doesn't take the time to check everything she upvotes.
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 24, 2020 19:32:36 GMT -5
The fact that Comico's Jonny Quest hasn't been reprinted is ridiculous. There! I said it. Blame DC for not doing so. They had the Hanna-Barbera rights which would have entitled them doing a LOT of collections of HB material from over the decades but instead chose to go with only doing new product. Really poor judgement on the part of the higher up's for not taking advantage to make some money, unless there are/were behind the scenes issues preventing reprinting. Well, blame Warner and DC. When Warner merged with Turner Broadcasting, they gained the right to all Hanna-Barbera product, as Turner had bought the H-B studio and assets. So, DC could have reprinted it at any point. Now, given Comico's bankruptcy, it is questionable whether original printing elements are still around; so, they might have had to work from scanes, which might push cost vs demand into question. Yeah; I'd buy it in a hearbeat, both as a Quest fan and a huge fan of that comic series. It would also be nice to throw some reprint money to William Messner-Loebs, who wrote most of it. I blame it on Dr Zin.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 24, 2020 20:00:56 GMT -5
The fact that Comico's Jonny Quest hasn't been reprinted is ridiculous. There! I said it. I always confuse Jonny Quest and TinTin.
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 24, 2020 20:30:48 GMT -5
The fact that Comico's Jonny Quest hasn't been reprinted is ridiculous. There! I said it. I always confuse Jonny Quest and TinTin. N
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2020 12:12:44 GMT -5
If you asked me what I think of the classic Amazing Spider-Man #14 cover, I can instantly picture that Green Goblin artwork. If you asked me to do the same for any ASM #14 cover published over the last decade....I wouldn't know what to picture. There are several volumes, and so many variant covers, it makes my head spin.
I do like new comics, but getting a proper run of the correct issues in the correct volume can become tedious now unless someone assembles it for me.
There, I said it.
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 25, 2020 12:32:06 GMT -5
The fact that Comico's Jonny Quest hasn't been reprinted is ridiculous. There! I said it. I always confuse Jonny Quest and TinTin. Wrong on both counts; it's Cuto...
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 26, 2020 19:00:03 GMT -5
Considering that it could save millions of lives to have more than one member with the same set of powers (just imagine twenty Mon-Els), I think the LSH rule against such happenstance is not only ridiculous, but downright irresponsible.
There! I said it.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 26, 2020 20:57:02 GMT -5
If you asked me what I think of the classic Amazing Spider-Man #14 cover, I can instantly picture that Green Goblin artwork. If you asked me to do the same for any ASM #14 cover published over the last decade....I wouldn't know what to picture. There are several volumes, and so many variant covers, it makes my head spin.
I do like new comics, but getting a proper run of the correct issues in the correct volume can become tedious now unless someone assembles it for me.
There, I said it. Yeah. There are some runs that I have to take screenshots of so that I don’t accidentally buy the wrong issues. New Teen Titans was started over twice in 3 years and the variant covers had me buying the same books twice.
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Post by brutalis on Mar 31, 2020 7:49:57 GMT -5
During this Covid-19 shutdown with no new comics being delivered (for who knows how long) would it not be wise if publisher's were to tell their writers and artists that being safe at home will allow them all more time for creating comics? Think how far ahead could the story writers develop their ideas and provide artists plenty of time to get work done so that "when" (not if) comics return to some sort of a schedule that they will be far ahead and prepared in readiness so there is no "waiting" or delays for a story ending?
Perchance even, this is a time for publishers rethinking how best to utilize a "monthly" format and choosing some better ways to get this accomplished than with $5 comic books that are not fulfilling the potential of modern comics and only dragging comics down.
There. I said it!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2020 9:30:14 GMT -5
During this Covid-19 shutdown with no new comics being delivered (for who knows how long) would it not be wise if publisher's were to tell their writers and artists that being safe at home will allow them all more time for creating comics? Think how far ahead could the story writers develop their ideas and provide artists plenty of time to get work done so that "when" (not if) comics return to some sort of a schedule that they will be far ahead and prepared in readiness so there is no "waiting" or delays for a story ending? Perchance even, this is a time for publishers rethinking how best to utilize a "monthly" format and choosing some better ways to get this accomplished than with $5 comic books that are not fulfilling the potential of modern comics and only dragging comics down. There. I said it! All depends if the publishers have adequate cash flow to pay page rates for the books while they are not getting revenue from selling comics to Diamond. Sure Marvel and DC have corporate backing, but they have to justify their financials each quarter in quarterly reports to stockholders and continued salary expenditures without corresponding revenues will make those quarterly reports look even worse for the lean months of the pandemic, and publishing works as an R&D for other media as long as it doesn't lose money and people lose jobs if they do lose money. If the quarterly reports make it look like they are losing money, well, then that makes the future a bit murky. And if they cannot pay the talent their page rates, then those creators have to take jobs that do pay in other fields or through commissions or what not so they can make ends meet, and thus won't have time to do pro bono or we'll pay you later work for publishers. Smaller publishers have even more prominent cash flow issues and when revenue is not coming in, paying creators for work they cannot sell at the moment is not an equation that works. And again, creators cannot work for free even if they have time. The will need to take paying gigs. And for those doing creator-owned stuff that only pays on the back end (the Image model for instance), while they are used to waiting for the payoff, pushing that payoff back by months will strain their ability to make ends meet, and force many to take paying gigs elsewhere in the meantime, which means no time to bank pages for projects. It takes artists more time to produce pages than writers. And on the whole, they can produce fewer pages per month, so each page they do produce has to generate income for them, not just a promise to pay, but a pay voucher for each page they finish. If publishers do not have the ability to pay them as they produce pages (and since "mainstream" comics publishers do not work on a pay an advance & royalties model and do not have the infrastructure in place to do so as the GN imprints of the big book publishers do), they are going to look for paying gigs elsewhere (the aforementioned GN divisions of the big publishers, storyboarding gigs, commissions, advertising, etc.). So yes, it would be great if they could bank pages to shore up future scheduling, but most creators can't afford to lose income to do so without getting page rates, and margins and cash flow infrastructure of the way the market is set up don't give most publishers the liquidity to bankroll that kind of banking of pages. Many publishers aren't sure they can survive the interruption of the market, so aren't going to invest money they aren't sure they have into the future. And creators aren't going to produce work they might not get paid for. Marvel and DC are in the best-place in terms of resources available to do this, but the corporate structure and shareholder accountability makes it less likely they will be willing to allocate those resources if it jeopardizes their job security when they have to answer to those quarterly reports. This should happen, and it should be part of a rethinking of how publishers compensate their creators (shifting from a page rate to an advance/royalty model that most of publishing uses and that the book publishers who produce original content in graphic novel form use*), but I doubt it will. *going to use Jeff Lemire here as an example-he has a book deal for OGNs with a big 7 publisher's imprint. He gets an advance from them and produces the entire GN, and then gets royalties on it when it's released. It allows him to create at his own pace and get an entire project in the can for them before publishing. But he also does stuff for direct market publishers on a monthly basis and gets either a page rate (for stuff he does for Marvel/DC) or to get back end payments on his creator-owned stuff but does not get advances on (for the stuff he does for Image/Dark Horse, etc.). Brubaker can do all creator-owned stuff with no advances and only back-end payments, but the bulk of his income comes from TV writing work not comics, and he uses that to bankroll those creator-owned comics and make sure the other creators have liquidity until back-end payments come in for them. However, most creators are not in a position to have income if the publishers aren't paying them their page rates for the work they produce as they produce it. And most publishers aren't in a position to bankroll projects that far in advance without short term revenue coming in to finance them. I've been advocating for publishers to have more in the can in advance (like all of a mini-series before issue #1 is solicited, or all of an arc in an ongoing done before the first issue comes out), but the reality of the economic landscape of comics makes that an nonviable model right now and would require a capital investment to create a new infrastructure to make it feasible that most small publishers simply cannot afford and that the big publishers aren't willing to make in the best of times, and during a revenue interruption like the one they are enduring now they are even less likely to make. I would love for them to do it, I just don't see it happening because I don't think there is enough return on investment potential for the big boys to justify it to their shareholders and accounting suits. -M
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2020 19:10:48 GMT -5
This is a friend's copy of Star Wars 3 that was signed by cast members at a Star Wars convention
He doesn't have CGC or other 3rd party proof in the form of COAs and couldn't care less because he knows the signatures are legit and doesn't plan to part with this book so he doesn't have to prove it to anyone.
Personally, I like a bit of evidence to back it up but that's just me...it's still nice to look at.
There, I said it
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 2, 2020 19:44:44 GMT -5
This is a friend's copy of Star Wars 3 that was signed by cast members at a Star Wars convention
He doesn't have CGC or other 3rd party proof in the form of COAs and couldn't care less because he knows the signatures are legit and doesn't plan to part with this book so he doesn't have to prove it to anyone.
Personally, I like a bit of evidence to back it up but that's just me...it's still nice to look at.
There, I said it
I've only gotten signatures because I wanted to have it signed, with no desire to ever sell. CGC is no more authoritative than any other so called letter of authenticity. You could just as easily pay off one of them to "authenticate" something as someone else. For me, it is more the personal connection of having met the person. Plus, I don't get the whole slabbing thing. Books are to be read again and again. Looking at it, the first thing that popped in my head was, "Hey, Bill Dee Williams wasn't in Star Wars!" I'd have brought the Empire adaptation, too. Mt two prized possessions are a signed copy of Lou Thez's memoir, Hooker (he was a pro wrestler, not a prostitute; a "hooker' is someone who could legitimately cripple you) and a personalized copy of Terry Pratchett's Thud. Thesz wrestled across 7 decades and was champion when it meant something, through the Golden Age of the 50s, with pro wrestling on network tv. He also was one of the few links to the history of the business before the 50s; so he had a lot of stuff to tell. With Pratchett, it wasn't long after that that he was diagnosed with a rare form of alzheimers and could only sign his name, npot personalize it; then, the disease robbed him of even that. I love his work immensely and it was crushing to see the disease affect the mechanics of his writing, though never the brilliance. He continued dictating books until the end (his brain couldn't tell his hands what to write, but he could still lucidly craft stories and used dictations software and assistants). Beyond that I have a few sketches that I had done at conventions, including one from the late Tom Lyle, a Joe Staton, and one from Mike Grell, of his rendition of a historical Robin Hood. I also got him to sign my copy of the illustrated edition of The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood that he did for Donning/Starblaze. When I die, my survivors can figure out what to do from there.
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Post by beccabear67 on Apr 2, 2020 20:56:14 GMT -5
I can't imagine a lot of Peter Mayhew, Billy Dee Williams and Dave Prowse forgers are lurking about. I have to admit to being a porgchowderhead; I can't make out the fourth signature... Jack Vine?
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