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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 23, 2015 17:11:03 GMT -5
Yes, indeed, but as you mentioned, they are far from the numbers we're talking about... I wouldn't have thought Labil was still drawing it (I wouldn't have though it was still on, hahaha). It was alright, like a tuned down Franquin with Spirou like stories for kids
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 23, 2015 18:13:34 GMT -5
Yojimbo and Savage Dragon are the main contenders because the issue numbering is consecutive and they haven't taken breaks from in since they started. I'm only counting the Savage Dragon main series and not the 3 issue mini that proceeded it by a few months.
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Post by shaxper on Dec 23, 2015 18:17:48 GMT -5
Yojimbo and Savage Dragon are the main contenders because the issue numbering is consecutive and they haven't taken breaks from in since they started. I'm only counting the Savage Dragon main series and not the 3 issue mini that proceeded it by a few months. Well Sakai's numbering is not consecutive because it's divided into three volumes. The bulk was done at Dark Horse, but that omits the first 54 issues.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Dec 23, 2015 18:49:28 GMT -5
I know nothing about Love & Rockets (it's high on my To Get To list) but when I looked it up, what I saw said it was the work of both Hernandez brothers. Well, they don't work together. Love & Rockets is like an anthology. Think like Critters or Albedo. With two different creators contributing their own work. I don't want to pull out the doctorate in math here, but 144 issues in just under 16 years is just under 9 issues per year. If you look above, the quote in question was.... " and seems to average about 9 issues a month." (Yeah, I assumed it was a typo. )
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 23, 2015 20:53:27 GMT -5
Well, they don't work together. Love & Rockets is like an anthology. Think like Critters or Albedo. With two different creators contributing their own work. I don't want to pull out the doctorate in math here, but 144 issues in just under 16 years is just under 9 issues per year. If you look above, the quote in question was.... " and seems to average about 9 issues a month." (Yeah, I assumed it was a typo. :) ) I'm the professional mathematician here. I think I know how to measure time.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 23, 2015 23:37:27 GMT -5
Yojimbo and Savage Dragon are the main contenders because the issue numbering is consecutive and they haven't taken breaks from in since they started. I'm only counting the Savage Dragon main series and not the 3 issue mini that proceeded it by a few months. Well, Gold Digger currently has 227 consecutive issues in te current volume, not counting the Annuals... So Gold Digger wins!
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 24, 2015 1:25:28 GMT -5
Yojimbo and Savage Dragon are the main contenders because the issue numbering is consecutive and they haven't taken breaks from in since they started. I'm only counting the Savage Dragon main series and not the 3 issue mini that proceeded it by a few months. Well, Gold Digger currently has 227 consecutive issues in te current volume, not counting the Annuals... So Gold Digger wins! Either people are being slow to accept this, or they silently accepted it and we are now ferociously debating who gets the bronze.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 24, 2015 5:02:23 GMT -5
Well, Gold Digger currently has 227 consecutive issues in te current volume, not counting the Annuals... So Gold Digger wins! Either people are being slow to accept this, or they silently accepted it and we are now ferociously debating who gets the bronze. Or maybe Gold Digger is only in the lead. Let's see who actually get's to eclipse Sim's 300 mark.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 24, 2015 6:45:56 GMT -5
I know nothing about Love & Rockets (it's high on my To Get To list) but when I looked it up, what I saw said it was the work of both Hernandez brothers. Well, they don't work together. Love & Rockets is like an anthology. Think like Critters or Albedo. With two different creators contributing their own work. You guys are forgetting third brother Mario, who now participate almost to every issue since it got an annual Schedule. He was the one who actually launched the magazine. And he usually collaborates with Beto.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 24, 2015 6:48:22 GMT -5
Well, they don't work together. Love & Rockets is like an anthology. Think like Critters or Albedo. With two different creators contributing their own work. You guys are forgetting third brother Mario, who now participate almost to every issue since it got an annual Schedule. He was the one who actually launched the magazine. And he usually collaborates with Beto. But if you would take every issue Perry published without break since 1993, only with change of volume (like it has been done with Usagi), he already reached 300 issues.
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 24, 2015 11:47:07 GMT -5
You guys are forgetting third brother Mario, who now participate almost to every issue since it got an annual Schedule. He was the one who actually launched the magazine. And he usually collaborates with Beto. But if you would take every issue Perry published without break since 1993, only with change of volume (like it has been done with Usagi), he already reached 300 issues. So the main series has not. There is a 4 issue mini. Then 2 series with semiconsistent numbering totaling 227 issues Plus 19 annuals. That's 250. Now there are a billion one-shots and miniseries I don't know enough about. Are they all Perry? Do we count the ones that are purely pin-up issues? Some of them seem to focus on side-characters. Should those count? I don't know. I would find it easiest to call the count 250. There are approximately 141 other comics with the word Gold Digger somewhere in the title which perhaps should be eligible in the count. But it's a lot of work to decide which should be and which shouldn't. Especially since the GCD doesn't have most indexed.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 24, 2015 12:37:59 GMT -5
You forgot there's a second series of 50 issues, the one with 227 issues is the third series.
So in total and excluding pin up specials and collaborations, here's the count of solo perry Gold Digger books :
4 (Vol.1) + 50 (Vol.2) + 227 (Vol.3) + 19 annuals (4 during vol.2, 15 during vol.3) + 11 Halloween Specials + 4 Holidays Specials + 9 X-Mas specials + 25 in various minis by him alone + 4 in various one off specials by him alone
That's 353 consecutive issues wihtout break but a two months one betwen vol.1 and vol.2.
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Post by shaxper on Dec 24, 2015 12:50:19 GMT -5
Well, Gold Digger currently has 227 consecutive issues in te current volume, not counting the Annuals... So Gold Digger wins! Either people are being slow to accept this, or they silently accepted it and we are now ferociously debating who gets the bronze. I'm just waiting for more info, honestly, and wondering why I'd never ever heard of this guy and his work before. How did he get so many issues produced in such a short period of time?
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 24, 2015 12:58:03 GMT -5
Either people are being slow to accept this, or they silently accepted it and we are now ferociously debating who gets the bronze. I'm just waiting for more info, honestly, and wondering why I'd never ever heard of this guy and his work before. How did he get so many issues produced in such a short period of time? Well, I guess that once he mastered his somewhat simple style, with sheer will, it's not more difficult than what Larsen does. I guess his stories are all pulp, so it writes faster as well, even easier when you don't have to invent a new concept and just expands on the same easy one : babes go indiana jones against various badies. It should write itself...
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 24, 2015 13:01:34 GMT -5
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