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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 2, 2020 21:57:37 GMT -5
I agree that Rune was the only one I attempted to like all because of BWS. The first five issues were amazing to me. Sludge was pretty good too, but then again, I'm incredibly partial to anything Gerber writes
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 3, 2020 19:14:50 GMT -5
I too am a huge Gerber fan but just didn't a chance.
To me, Malibu looked like the earlier kids' market that DC and Marvel had pretty much passed by, kind of like DC's Archie experiment !mpact Comics, both of which I passed on.
Too busy spending on other publishers like Dark Horse, Valiant, Techno, Topps, etc
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Post by brutalis on Jun 4, 2020 7:55:46 GMT -5
Conan and his fur skirt. I get it, the visual aspect and all in that it shows immediately when you see this big hulking bruiser that he is a "barbarian" and outside what most people consider as civilized. Wonderful visual shorthand for a comic book. But really? My mind has to ponder over just how bad does that skin/fur/skirt stink if talking realistically? Wear something like that on a burly, usually unwashed regularly barbarian and I have to presume that flea infested fur skirt has got to have a might fine funk de' odor coming off it! Manly and masculine smelling yes, but do the girls swoon for the oiled muscles or from the odoriferous assault? There, I said it!
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 4, 2020 7:56:16 GMT -5
I understand that Malibu had a nice deal with the creators for royalties and sharing profits from the use of their creations. That deal has prevented these properties from being used since the takeover. Shame.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 4, 2020 11:07:21 GMT -5
I understand that Malibu had a nice deal with the creators for royalties and sharing profits from the use of their creations. That deal has prevented these properties from being used since the takeover. Shame. It's probably for the best honestly, I shudder to think of how modern Marvel would handle them. Mantra would probably get out fairly unscathed though, she might even have gotten a long running title
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Post by tarkintino on Jun 4, 2020 15:24:38 GMT -5
Conan and his fur skirt. I get it, the visual aspect and all in that it shows immediately when you see this big hulking bruiser that he is a "barbarian" and outside what most people consider as civilized. Wonderful visual shorthand for a comic book. But really? My mind has to ponder over just how bad does that skin/fur/skirt stink if talking realistically? Wear something like that on a burly, usually unwashed regularly barbarian and I have to presume that flea infested fur skirt has got to have a might fine funk de' odor coming off it! Manly and masculine smelling yes, but do the girls swoon for the oiled muscles or from the odoriferous assault? There, I said it! Well, he's a barbarian who fights as much as he breathes, and he was not big on using...er…toiletries..so I would expect he (and his fur skirt) would be a constant weapon all on their own. He would have saved himself a lot of trouble just tossing his skirt at enemies and let the fumes do all the work.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2020 15:49:11 GMT -5
And Tarzan would have reeked also. Living in the hot humid jungle and living with animals?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2020 15:54:32 GMT -5
And Tarzan would have reeked also. Living in the hot humid jungle and living with animals?
Hey, Jane was driven wild by his man-scent so.....
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Post by berkley on Jun 4, 2020 16:09:40 GMT -5
Conan and his fur skirt. I get it, the visual aspect and all in that it shows immediately when you see this big hulking bruiser that he is a "barbarian" and outside what most people consider as civilized. Wonderful visual shorthand for a comic book. But really? My mind has to ponder over just how bad does that skin/fur/skirt stink if talking realistically? Wear something like that on a burly, usually unwashed regularly barbarian and I have to presume that flea infested fur skirt has got to have a might fine funk de' odor coming off it! Manly and masculine smelling yes, but do the girls swoon for the oiled muscles or from the odoriferous assault? There, I said it! Yeah, it didn'treally make sense when they had him in something that looked like he hacked it off the hide of some animal he killed out in the woods a few months ago. Barbarian or not, he would have had some kind of clothing that was better made than that, though always functional. Plus, he was a thief and a mercenary at various times so he could have stolen or bought something.
And this goes twice for Bêlit: I hated that shaggy fur swmsuit Buscema had her in. Well, to be honest, I had no problem with the revealing swimsuit design but it just looked so heavy and thick, especially in those jungle stories
But I think even more than the fur, what reallybgged me was those big, floppy bucaneer boots which I always thought looked out of place - more like something Solomon Kane would wear. The Severins had the right idea in Kull, with various types of sandle-like footwear, or more functional-looking boots that looked like something that might have been worn in Kull's age, not a 17th century pirate.
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Post by brutalis on Jun 4, 2020 16:16:32 GMT -5
Hmmmm. There is a whole bunch of folks in the bungle of the jungle club I imagine. Off the top of my head:
B'Wana Beast, Kazar (got that sweet saber-tooth funkado), Sheena, Shawna the She Devil, Rima the Jungle girl, Kraven the Hunter, T'Challa (though he might have a high tech solution), Man-Ape (has got to reek with a dead ape for an overcoat?), John Carter, Kull, Jungle Jim, Warlord Travis Morgan.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 4, 2020 16:22:49 GMT -5
People have been wearing animal skins for at least tens of thousands of years. It's not rocket science to tan skins and make them wearable. No reason for most of them to smell any worse than you do.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 4, 2020 16:36:50 GMT -5
Conan and his fur skirt. I get it, the visual aspect and all in that it shows immediately when you see this big hulking bruiser that he is a "barbarian" and outside what most people consider as civilized. Wonderful visual shorthand for a comic book. But really? My mind has to ponder over just how bad does that skin/fur/skirt stink if talking realistically? Wear something like that on a burly, usually unwashed regularly barbarian and I have to presume that flea infested fur skirt has got to have a might fine funk de' odor coming off it! Manly and masculine smelling yes, but do the girls swoon for the oiled muscles or from the odoriferous assault? There, I said it! Yeah, it didn'treally make sense when they had him in something that looked like he hacked it off the hide of some animal he killed out in the woods a few months ago. Barbarian or not, he would have had some kind of clothing that was better made than that, though always functional. Plus, he was a thief and a mercenary at various times so he could have stolen or bought something.
And this goes twice for Bêlit: I hated that shaggy fur swmsuit Buscema had her in. Well, to be honest, I had no problem with the revealing swimsuit design but it just looked so heavy and thick, especially in those jungle stories
But I think even more than the fur, what reallybgged me was those big, floppy bucaneer boots which I always thought looked out of place - more like something Solomon Kane would wear. The Severins had the right idea in Kull, with various types of sandle-like footwear, or more functional-looking boots that looked like something that might have been worn in Kull's age, not a 17th century pirate.
Plus, Conan is supposed to tread the jeweled thrones of the world under his sandaled feet, not under his flaring Captain America boots!
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Post by brutalis on Jun 4, 2020 16:48:40 GMT -5
People have been wearing animal skins for at least tens of thousands of years. It's not rocket science to tan skins and make them wearable. No reason for most of them to smell any worse than you do. You sir, I beg to differ with. Evidently you have not spent the 4 months of summer in Phoenix with 110+ temperatures. I work in a hospital with LOTS of various people providing us their own unique bodily scents. Much of it is NOT particularly pleasant. Dare you to leave a pair of leather boots or jacket out in the sun after they have been worn through monsoon rains, dried, rained upon again and sweated in and dried and rain/sweat again and on and on. They do get to having some funky monkey nostril burning smells. No matter how clean and/or how often you bathe and wash yourself and your clothing hides; anything made from skins will hold the sweat, oils, grime and other daily products it meets. I spent 11 years working in the meat department of a grocery store, and I went through shoes on almost a monthly basis from the daily dosage of blood, grease and fat on the floor. I had to lock them each night in the storage room after hosing and washing them off as if left outside every cat, rat or dog in the neighborhood came after them from their smell. Even highly expensive water repellent steel toed work boots (which I would buy when on sale) would only last 3-4 months but begin to smell after a week (even with scrubbings and Lysol) of wear.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 4, 2020 16:51:33 GMT -5
People have been wearing animal skins for at least tens of thousands of years. It's not rocket science to tan skins and make them wearable. No reason for most of them to smell any worse than you do. You sir, I beg to differ with. Evidently you have not spent the 4 months of summer in Phoenix with 110+ temperatures. I work in a hospital with LOTS of various people providing us their own unique bodily scents. Much of it is NOT particularly pleasant. Dare you to leave a pair of leather boots or jacket out in the sun after they have been worn through monsoon rains, dried, rained upon again and sweated in and dried and rain/sweat again and on and on. They do get to having some funky monkey nostril burning smells. No matter how clean and/or how often you bathe and wash yourself and your clothing hides; anything made from skins will hold the sweat, oils, grime and other daily products it meets. I spent 11 years working in the meat department of a grocery store, and I went through shoes on almost a monthly basis from the daily dosage of blood, grease and fat on the floor. I had to lock them each night in the storage room after hosing and washing them off as if left outside every cat, rat or dog in the neighborhood came after them from their smell. Even highly expensive water repellent steel toed work boots (which I would buy when on sale) would only last 3-4 months but begin to smell after a week (even with scrubbings and Lysol) of wear. Humans weren't meant to live in Phoenix. There's a reason that Arizona was almost uninhabited until air conditioning was widespread.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 4, 2020 17:36:48 GMT -5
You sir, I beg to differ with. Evidently you have not spent the 4 months of summer in Phoenix with 110+ temperatures. I work in a hospital with LOTS of various people providing us their own unique bodily scents. Much of it is NOT particularly pleasant. Dare you to leave a pair of leather boots or jacket out in the sun after they have been worn through monsoon rains, dried, rained upon again and sweated in and dried and rain/sweat again and on and on. They do get to having some funky monkey nostril burning smells. No matter how clean and/or how often you bathe and wash yourself and your clothing hides; anything made from skins will hold the sweat, oils, grime and other daily products it meets. I spent 11 years working in the meat department of a grocery store, and I went through shoes on almost a monthly basis from the daily dosage of blood, grease and fat on the floor. I had to lock them each night in the storage room after hosing and washing them off as if left outside every cat, rat or dog in the neighborhood came after them from their smell. Even highly expensive water repellent steel toed work boots (which I would buy when on sale) would only last 3-4 months but begin to smell after a week (even with scrubbings and Lysol) of wear. Humans weren't meant to live in Phoenix. There's a reason that Arizona was almost uninhabited until air conditioning was widespread. And why the Electoral College matters so much more than it did before Reagan. Hot states + air conditioning + more tolerable conditions + retirees from the northern states = well, you do the math.
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