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[NoJo]

Superman is so gay

 

[slyc_willie]

Superman is so gay

You only say that because he looks better in tights than you do.

 

[NoJo]

The OP is highly unimpressed by Jess Fink -- as a comic artist anyway. She looks cute though

 

[Verdad]

The OP is highly unimpressed by Jess Fink -- as a comic artist anyway. She looks cute though

I didn't meant OP you but the OP from where I saw the link. At any rate, it was fun 20 minutes for me. Can't live only on classics…

 

[NoJo]

You only say that because he looks better in tights than you do.

Yes, and why's that? Because unlike me, his leg-hairs don't show, bacause he WAXES THEM like a gay homosexual transvestite

Q.E.D.

 

[NoJo]

Always been a fan of Enki Bilal too, I tend to prefer European styles over American styles - Heavy Metal partially filled the void left by the demise of Warren.

My dream is to publish a story in Heavy Metal.

Mine is to publish one in Playboy. They don't accept unsolicited stories though

 

[slyc_willie]

Yes, and why's that? Because unlike me, his leg-hairs don't show, bacause he WAXES THEM like a gay homosexual transvestite

Q.E.D.

Streamlining. Helps when he flies.

 

[shereads]

Streamlining. Helps when he flies.

That should matter? He can change a planet's orbit but he can't handle the added drag of a little leg hair?

Oh. Drag. I get it.

I never developed an interest in superheros, and until now I didn't realize it may have been the tights. That, and the fact that Lois Lane's relationship with Superman never became tawdry.

 

[TE999]

So, like where's "Tales From The Crypt", "The Vault of Horror" and the other EC horror comics? Now that's entertainment!

Wood, Severin, Davis, Elder, Kamen, Ingels, Heath, etc. did some of their best work in those comics. Blood and gore aplenty.

 

[shereads]

Like the world needs more blood and gore.

 

[TE999]

Like the world needs more blood and gore.

Heh! Read any graphic novels lately? How about the underground comics in the 60's & 70's? They make the EC's look like "Fun with Dick and Jane".

It's all in good fun.

 

[shereads]

Heh! Read any graphic novels lately? How about the underground comics in the 60's & 70's? They make the EC's look like "Fun with Dick and Jane".

It's all in good fun.

Fun, maybe. But good fun?

Maybe I died violently in a previous life (or murdered somebody, so watch out.) For whatever reason, realistic depictions of brutality, even off-screen/out-of-frame, make me heartsick, and sometimes physically sick.

I expect to be exposed to brutality in the news, and I deal with it as a price I have to pay to know what the neighbors are up to. Brutality-as-entertainment is disturbing in a different way. I always ask myself, why is that entertaining? And then I look away, so I won't have to learn the answer.

[/threadjack]

 

[TE999]

Fun, maybe. But good fun?

Maybe I died violently in a previous life (or murdered somebody, so watch out.) For whatever reason, realistic depictions of brutality, even off-screen/out-of-frame, make me heartsick, and sometimes physically sick.

I expect to be exposed to brutality in the news, and I deal with it as a price I have to pay to know what the neighbors are up to. Brutality-as-entertainment is disturbing in a different way. I always ask myself, why is that entertaining? And then I look away, so I won't have to learn the answer.

[/threadjack]

I copy. Graphic violence, brutality, sadisim, dismemberment, et al aren't everyones cup of blood...I mean tea...I'm rather inured to all that, being exposed to it at an early age...graphically of course...the reality came later.

 

[shereads]

I copy. Graphic violence, brutality, sadisim, dismemberment, et al aren't everyones cup of blood...I mean tea...I'm rather inured to all that, being exposed to it at an early age...graphically of course...the reality came later.

Well dismemberment is okay, and some beheading.

 

[TE999]

Well dismemberment is okay, and some beheading.

Now that's the spirit. Burning at the stake and slow roasting over hot coals are crowd pleasers too. I'm not much on drawing and quartering tho...too messy.

 

[NoJo]

Get Thee Hence, Foul Spawn Of Evil

Ok, I articulated my childhood obsession with Doctor Strange pretty well in the third post in this thread back in 2009 (sorry, the links are dead).

Which is why, last night I hoped, almost 50 years since first encountering him, that the Marvel Studio guys would manage to recapture the spirit and appeal of this most atypical of Stan Lee's heroes.

In 1968, if you saw a little ten-year old Jewish kid striding down the streets of London wearing a red blanket (a.k.a. cape) and sporting, round his neck, a paper plate painted yellow with a crudely draw eye (of Agamotto), that would be me.

Yes, the same me, with the same obsessive geekiness as that kid, the kid whose big brother would entertain his hippy friends by testing little freaky rain-man Joe on the most obscure minutae he could find about Dr Strange.

In them days, the world was neatly divided into Freaks and Suits, those who were experienced, in Jimi Hendrix's sense, and those who still saw reality as the ONLY reality. And for the freaks, Doctor Strange was definitely One of Us.

His world was the INTERIOR world, the infinite universe inside your head, a world of swirling, multi-hued and diaphanous paisely patterns, sex, cosmic power struggles, space-time fluidity, pervaded with the intoxicating smell of weed and patchouli, echoing with the deep mystical incantations of the East.

It was not the dystopic, computer-simulated artifical world of The Matrix, all metallic grey and awash with an edgy, cocaine-induced paranoia.

So, I wondered, as I took my seat in the middle of a row right near the front of the Cinema, how were the Marvel Folks going to do it?


Would they get it?

Well, apart from a couple of inside jokes for us freaks (Pink Floyd's Astronomy Dominae at one point, referencing the cover art I mentioned in the post above) and a cameo of Stan Lee lon a bus aughing himself sick at Aldous Huxley's 'The Doors of Perception'), the answer, sadly, is no.

Oh, well, I still have that plastic-wrapped copy of Strange Tales #158.

By the way, the title of this post is from Strange Tales #162. You can test me on it if you like.

 

[TxRad]

Wow what a strange crowd of people in this thread. I remember all of them, I'm happy to say. I wish they would come back.

I never was much for comics. I found science fiction at a very young age and never looked back.

 

[NoJo]

Wow what a strange crowd of people in this thread. I remember all of them, I'm happy to say. I wish they would come back.

I never was much for comics. I found science fiction at a very young age and never looked back.

It wasn't an either/or for me, I was almost as into that as comic books.

Funnily enough, the combination of the two never quite works for me

 

[lovecraft68]

Ah, Jack Davis and the rest of the EC crew. The lurid Tales of the Crypt/Vault Of Horror etc covers with the great what comes around goes around endings.

Wertham's bullshit propaganda book Seduction of the Innocent forced a comics code where you could no longer show the dead coming to life "bondage" and a host of other things

DC and what was left of Marvel (Atlas then) could have fought it, but they didn't because it would hurt EC more than it would hurt them and EC was killing them so the code came about and EC folded.

But Gaines had the last laugh as usual. "Oh, I can't put this in comics? Well how about magazines?"