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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 1, 2016 10:48:15 GMT -5
Did you actually order one of these? Always wondered what it actually looked like. God, no. I learned my lesson with the 150 Civil War soldiers that arrived in a box I could hold in my six-year-old hand. I never had the nerve to ask my mother for money for anyhting advertised ina comic book again!  Moon Monsters-Don't Ask, Don't Tell |
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Post by Rob Allen on Dec 1, 2016 14:00:00 GMT -5
The world of comics scholarship has just come out with a couple of books that are relevant to this year's topic. Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page by Blair Davis from Rutgers University Press. It looks at the long history of how comic books and strips adapted films and television programs, as well as how movies and TV adapted comics, with an emphasis on the 1930s through 1950s. Use discount code 02AAAA16 to get 30% off if you order the book directly from Rutgers. www.moviecomics.net/Panel to the Screen: Style, American Film, and Comic Books during the Blockbuster Era by Drew Morton from the University Press of Mississippi. "Film and comic books continuously lean on one another to reimagine their formal attributes and stylistic possibilities. In Panel to the Screen, Drew Morton examines this dialogue in its intersecting and rapidly changing cultural, technological, and industrial contexts. Early on, many questioned the prospect of a “low” art form suited for children translating into “high” art material capable of drawing colossal box office takes. Now the naysayers are as quiet as the queued crowds at Comic-Cons are massive. Morton provides a nuanced account of this phenomenon by using formal analysis of the texts in a real-world context of studio budgets, grosses, and audience reception." www.facebook.com/paneltothescreen/?fref=ts |
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Post by brutalis on Dec 1, 2016 14:02:30 GMT -5
Yeah, it seems that any toy advertised in comic books of yesteryear was always the equivalent of today's Dollar Store toy aisles. Cheaply made mass produced able to be sold because the advertisement made it the coolest thing since melting your plastic green army men with matches or a magnifying glass. Boy did those companies know a great deal in how to steal a child's money or what?!
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Post by shaxper on Dec 1, 2016 17:43:36 GMT -5
Yeah, it seems that any toy advertised in comic books of yesteryear was always the equivalent of today's Dollar Store toy aisles. Cheaply made mass produced able to be sold because the advertisement made it the coolest thing since melting your plastic green army men with matches or a magnifying glass. Boy did those companies know a great deal in how to steal a child's money or what?! I blame Joe Orlando and his cute frickin' sea monkey drawings. |
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Post by DubipR on Dec 2, 2016 15:41:19 GMT -5
Narrowing down my list.....
I have a feeling we're going to see quite a bit of repeats, which I'm cool with. I have some random ones on my list (so far)
Who thinks they have the most random post in this 12 Days?
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Post by brutalis on Dec 2, 2016 16:37:24 GMT -5
Narrowing down my list..... I have a feeling we're going to see quite a bit of repeats, which I'm cool with. I have some random ones on my list (so far) Who thinks they have the most random post in this 12 Days? Might be that i have some randomness more than others. I purposefully chose to NOT include anything from the current DC/Marvel movies and television series. The 2 newest i included are 1998 and 1984 and i have a mix of movies, television and cartoons. Tis possible i shall surprise and delight a few here. Or not. Never can tell with the curmudgeonly  |
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Post by DubipR on Dec 2, 2016 17:12:48 GMT -5
Narrowing down my list..... I have a feeling we're going to see quite a bit of repeats, which I'm cool with. I have some random ones on my list (so far) Who thinks they have the most random post in this 12 Days? Might be that i have some randomness more than others. I purposefully chose to NOT include anything from the current DC/Marvel movies and television series. The 2 newest i included are 1998 and 1984 and i have a mix of movies, television and cartoons. Tis possible i shall surprise and delight a few here. Or not. Never can tell with the curmudgeonly I'm trying to no have current, I think my most current is early 00s, but that's about it. I have some real randoms, some not even English speaking... |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2016 23:24:27 GMT -5
I've only narrowed it to 30 or so so far so not sure how random the final 12 will be yet. I often have a pool of choices and go with what feels right on the day I am posting for these things, so it can be random in that sense...
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 3, 2016 15:13:56 GMT -5
I am toying with the idea of a self-imposed "classic" rule. I have a draft of 12, but 5 of them are from the last decade. Leaving them off for artificial reasons would allow me to get more variety in.
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Post by DubipR on Dec 4, 2016 15:26:38 GMT -5
I am toying with the idea of a self-imposed "classic" rule. I have a draft of 12, but 5 of them are from the last decade. Leaving them off for artificial reasons would allow me to get more variety in. I'm going that route as well. The "Classic Rule" would be 2006, so it would be alright to include some films or TV shows. I think I have my 12 all set. 5- Animated 7- Live Action -R |
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 4, 2016 16:00:55 GMT -5
I am toying with the idea of a self-imposed "classic" rule. I have a draft of 12, but 5 of them are from the last decade. Leaving them off for artificial reasons would allow me to get more variety in. I'm going that route as well. The "Classic Rule" would be 2006, so it would be alright to include some films or TV shows. I think I have my 12 all set. 5- Animated 7- Live Action -R Only toying with it. I'll make a decision. |
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Post by shaxper on Dec 4, 2016 18:15:35 GMT -5
Got my list finalized. The hardest part for me remains distinguishing between which ones I prefer just because they're awesome and which ones I prefer because of how good a job they do adapting the source material. Anyway, here are my teaser stats: Theatrical films: 5 Television shows: 5 Direct to video: 1 Movie serials: 1 2010s: 1 2000s: 5 1990s: 3 1980s: 1 1970s: 1 1960s: 0 1950s: 0 1940s: 1 DC: 7 Marvel: 3 Other: 2 superheroes: 10 other: 2 # of entries on this list that were also on my list last time we did this: 7 For what it's worth, on a quality level alone, I think most of the best comic adaptations in media are happening on television right now, and yet I'm not attached to most of those. I can think of at least eight shows on TV right now that would dominate a BEST OF list. Fortunately, we're compiling favorites instead  |
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 4, 2016 18:58:29 GMT -5
I can think of at least eight shows on TV right now that would dominate a BEST OF list. Fortunately, we're compiling favorites instead :D My issues are the reverse. I can think of many classic things that would make a BEST OF list. Compiling favorites pushes me toward the modern. |
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Post by DubipR on Dec 4, 2016 21:59:37 GMT -5
Keeping it vague as possible without revealing too much
Of the Twelve:
5 Animated
7 Live Action
5 Superhero
7. Other
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Post by foxley on Dec 4, 2016 23:49:47 GMT -5
I've identified 7 'definites', but my remaining 5 slots keep jumping around as I remember other possibilities. (A couple of possibilities will depend on if I get a chance to re-watch them before the 12 Days officially start.)
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