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post #51 of 73
8/4/10 at 10:49am
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Originally Posted by TzuDohNihm View Post
This is an interesting question, I believe.

What does one do with all the books they have from the 90's that have to be worth a tenth of the cover price? Do you parcel them out to young children, keep them locked away waiting for paper to become scarce or try to Ebay them to someone...anyone?
When I had a basement flood a few years back I made damn sure my box that had all my 90's comics in it wound up wet before the insurance adjuster stopped by.
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post #52 of 73
8/4/10 at 11:24am
Superman Comic Saves Family Home From Foreclosure
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post #53 of 73
8/4/10 at 11:32am
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Originally Posted by TzuDohNihm View Post
Venom or grading?
All of it. The idea of putting out a "collectible" variant with a different-colored cover, the idea that somehow that makes it more valuable than another comic with the exact same story inside, the idea of sealing away something meant to be read in an impenetrable cover, and the idea that what was a pretty crappy comic book is now considered valuable. Basically, nothing involved in that entire chain had anything to do with the story being told inside the book.
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post #54 of 73
8/4/10 at 11:42am
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Originally Posted by Gabe Powers View Post
Story time: When I was like 13 I went to my first comic book convention in Phoenix and met McFarlane. He literally refused to make eye contact with me, or any of the other people that just stood in line for half an hour for a PAID autograph. Pretty cold. Turned me off to pretty much the entire comic experience for years. Later I worked at Kinkos and learned he regularly went into one of the southern greater Phoenix area stores on a regular basis. Everyone in the store hated him and made fun of his Donald Duck voice.
McFarlane bought his parents a vehicle after he first made a lot of money. It was covered in Spawn drawings. They sold it years later and you can still see it driving around Calgary.

The guy's a cock.
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post #55 of 73
8/4/10 at 12:18pm
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Originally Posted by Cameron Hughes View Post
Come'on, Larsen. Geez. & yeah, I have to echo some of the statements that Savage Dragon is the only Image Comic I read regularly.

I really, really hope he was somehow just joking. Sticking with your bros is one thing but if he meant that statement he went about it allll wrong.
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post #56 of 73
8/4/10 at 12:43pm
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Originally Posted by MoonBaseNick View Post
you have the blacked bag copy?
Damn, I think I have 3 of those ...
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post #57 of 73
8/4/10 at 12:48pm
This thread is reminding me just how bad the 90s were for comics. Thanks guys...
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post #58 of 73
8/4/10 at 2:31pm
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Originally Posted by TzuDohNihm View Post
Are you advocating NOT buying singles at all? I believe there is still a market for the collecting of pre-90's single issues as speculative artwork. Anything after that was mass produced because of speculators buying five+ copies of everything that came out and artificially increasing printing runs therefore causing a direct drop in worth.
My point is that if you're dropping three grand on a single issue, when there's a trade that you could get for significantly less, then you're not buying the single to read.
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post #59 of 73
8/4/10 at 4:10pm
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Originally Posted by Scott View Post
Poor bastard just had to start his superhero's name with an S, didn't he?
"Tho thit back and relaxth, 'cauth it'th time for Thpawn!"
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post #60 of 73
8/4/10 at 4:54pm
Yes! I want to talk more about his Donald Duck voice! Seriously, the spit that collects in those cheek pouches.
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post #61 of 73
8/4/10 at 4:56pm
Every time he would give that introduction on the HBO animated series, and just try to be such a badass while doing it I would fucking LAAAAWWWWL.
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post #62 of 73
8/4/10 at 9:21pm
I've got a Spawn comic that came with a Violator toy I got as a tyke 'cause I thought he was a cool monster and Spawn was the Cool Thing amongst my peers. Don't have the toy anymore but I keep the comic around for giggles.

EDIT: Look at this shit. I've got it in my hands and I can't tell what he is doing.

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post #63 of 73
8/4/10 at 10:36pm
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Originally Posted by Zweit View Post
EDIT: Look at this shit. I've got it in my hands and I can't tell what he is doing.
He may have inked it, but that doesn't look like McFarlane art to me.
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post #64 of 73
8/4/10 at 10:43pm
No, I think it's that guy that was a total clone who ended up working at Image. I can't remember his name for the life of me. The guy who took over Spawn for a while, Greg Capullo, was actually pretty good.
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post #65 of 73
8/4/10 at 10:48pm
Huh you're right. I always just assumed he'd done it himself.

How do these people get work?
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post #66 of 73
8/4/10 at 10:50pm
I really wish I remembered his name. I remember being about 13 years old and realizing I was better than him. It's amazing how much mainstream comics improved since I initially gave up on them around 1995, in both art and writing.
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post #67 of 73
8/4/10 at 11:05pm
*checks*

John Cleary. Guy really likes drawing bony fingers.
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post #68 of 73
8/4/10 at 11:07pm
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Originally Posted by Gabe Powers View Post
I really wish I remembered his name. I remember being about 13 years old and realizing I was better than him. It's amazing how much mainstream comics improved since I initially gave up on them around 1995, in both art and writing.
And yet they aren't selling 1/10 as well(and I think that's being optimistic).

Yeah, I can't remember the guy's name either. He was kind of like that Marat Micheals guy who aped Liefeld(and of course was hired by him), but was way worse(yep!). I think I have his name right.
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post #69 of 73
8/4/10 at 11:15pm
Yeah, it was Cleary. Micheals is terrible too. Guess what the first thing that pops up when I type his name (that particular wrong spelling) into google? This old, lost thread I created here at CHUD!
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post #70 of 73
8/4/10 at 11:21pm
Haha I go into a mini rant about Marat Micheals in that thread as well.
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post #71 of 73
8/5/10 at 1:12am
I went to art school and majored in comics at the moment where everyone wanted to be the next Liefeld or McFarlane. It was a harrowing time.

There's a big Marvel retrospective coffee table book I've looked through, and it's amazing to go from pages of art samples from the 60's, 70's, and 80's and then hit the 90's. Future anthopologists could study the history of comic art and deduce that some kind of plague or catastrophe might've occured during that period, just from looking at mainstream comic book art from the 1990's.
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post #72 of 73
8/5/10 at 7:08pm
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Originally Posted by Dax View Post

There's a big Marvel retrospective coffee table book I've looked through, and it's amazing to go from pages of art samples from the 60's, 70's, and 80's and then hit the 90's. Future anthopologists could study the history of comic art and deduce that some kind of plague or catastrophe might've occured during that period, just from looking at mainstream comic book art from the 1990's.
I'd say that a catastrophe DID hit - people learned to draw FROM comics and went on to draw comics themselves. It was a reductio ad absurdum.
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post #73 of 73
8/6/10 at 1:04am
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Originally Posted by Chavez View Post
I'd say that a catastrophe DID hit - people learned to draw FROM comics and went on to draw comics themselves. It was a reductio ad absurdum.
The one positive from all of that is that I can now look at pages by older artists whose styles never really clicked with me when I was younger, like Sal Buscema, and say "But they sure could tell a story clearly!"
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