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Post by hondobrode on Jun 4, 2020 21:54:50 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.
Sadly, the very contracts that were so generous to the creators is what keeps them in the Disney vault until the creators pass, shortly after which I predict "new" characters will be added to the Marvel pantheon.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 4, 2020 22:05:24 GMT -5
That was probably the last time a known writer or artist created something that they didn't get to own.
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Post by tarkintino on Jun 5, 2020 4:55:17 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. Yep, and you're talking about the modern world. Imagine a time when a fairly nomadic man was getting into endless sweaty, bloody battles, travelling between towns or countries with no way to effectively clean his fur skirt, or what happens when he's in a conflict that forces him to find some shelter for awhile, and there's no way to clean anything? That, and yes, he has to relieve himself (is he adequately cleaning himself?), so he's going to build up odors that would drop an elephant.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 5, 2020 6:54:52 GMT -5
Just a reminder to vote for the Jaime awards. Todays the last day. here
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 5, 2020 9:18:05 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.
Sadly, the very contracts that were so generous to the creators is what keeps them in the Disney vault until the creators pass, shortly after which I predict "new" characters will be added to the Marvel pantheon. That was probably the last time a known writer or artist created something that they didn't get to own. And people wonder why creators don't want to create new characters for the "Big Two."
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Post by impulse on Jun 5, 2020 9:18:25 GMT -5
I once had a layover in the Phoenix airport. It was NOTICEABLY hotter inside that airport than either the plane or either other airport on either end of the trip. My buddy and I did tequila shots and had beers and Tex-Mex and nearly missed our connecting flight as they closed the doors to the plane right behind us. Good times.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 5, 2020 9:23:44 GMT -5
Sadly, the very contracts that were so generous to the creators is what keeps them in the Disney vault until the creators pass, shortly after which I predict "new" characters will be added to the Marvel pantheon. That was probably the last time a known writer or artist created something that they didn't get to own. And people wonder why creators don't want to create new characters for the "Big Two." Only a foolish person would create something for the big two. Maybe we will never see it again.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2020 19:13:25 GMT -5
Do you consider this a comic book? It looks like one until you open it.
Wizard's Daredevil 1/2 was also like a novel and after opening the cover, put it right back in the bag...haven't opened it in 20 years.
There, I said it.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 5, 2020 19:22:15 GMT -5
Bait and switch.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 5, 2020 19:54:48 GMT -5
Do you consider this a comic book? It looks like one until you open it.
Wizard's Daredevil 1/2 was also like a novel and after opening the cover, put it right back in the bag...haven't opened it in 20 years.
There, I said it.
Well a comic is little more than "words with pictures" after all
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 5, 2020 20:48:13 GMT -5
I consider Babar to be a comic book.
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 5, 2020 22:27:57 GMT -5
All of Tome's stuff was like that, hence, their brief and extremely limited existence.
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Post by Confessor on Jun 5, 2020 22:52:09 GMT -5
Do you consider this a comic book? It looks like one until you open it. No, that's not a comic book. By definition, a comic book must feature sequences of drawings that tell a story. That publication doesn't do that, from the looks of it. Therefore, it's not a comic book. It's really just a picture book, or more accurately a fiction magazine with illustrations. A bit like the old pulps were.
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Post by jason on Jun 6, 2020 11:16:02 GMT -5
I consider Babar to be a comic book. I've heard that the Berenstain Bears books were modeled after comic books (of course, there were no word balloons or panels, so the influence must have been minor).
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 6, 2020 21:37:37 GMT -5
Here's one for you: I actually really liked Mark Millar's take on Robo-Hunter from 90's 2000AD. I liked it so much that I actually went out of my way to buy the American reprints of it. At some point I want to get Millar to sign it, mostly because I'm curious as to what his reaction will be
Regardless of the quality of the story, I did enjoy Jose Casanovas' artwork
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