tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post6306174035638803209..comments2023-11-30T02:39:02.047-06:00Comments on Comics Make No Sense: I'll Fight Them Off with My Own Non-Existent Mental Bolts Wednesday!Adam Barnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08573914395859734760noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-42819924303044585252010-01-29T23:53:40.787-06:002010-01-29T23:53:40.787-06:00Better men than I have tried, Adam, but you just w...Better men than I have tried, Adam, but you just won't take our money! :-)Allergynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-79788425103659077352010-01-28T22:01:51.129-06:002010-01-28T22:01:51.129-06:00Valid point, Allergy (and I deleted the pesky spam...Valid point, Allergy (and I deleted the pesky spammer). A HUGE part of material comes from the over-exposition that takes place in comics. It creates a lot of unintentional humor that IS my bread and butter. Or it WOULD be my bread and butter if someone got paid for blogging! :-)Adam Barnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08573914395859734760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-67643458557315565112010-01-28T17:16:09.085-06:002010-01-28T17:16:09.085-06:00Why, hello spammer.
I want to mention that this b...Why, hello spammer.<br /><br />I want to mention that this blog likely wouldn't exist if these comics weren't, at least to some extent, written by/for people who can't piece together what's happening without having it spelled out for them.<br /><br />I'm sure it was explained in the story about Superman's vulnerability. I support less dialogue on covers.Allergynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-695950333264952322010-01-28T09:00:59.710-06:002010-01-28T09:00:59.710-06:00Oh, I dunno. I kinda miss the old "talking&qu...Oh, I dunno. I kinda miss the old "talking" comics covers. Most of them were laugh-out-loud funny, albeit unintentionally so. I think the last artist I saw use them regularly was Alan Davis -- who made them DELIBERATELY funny. His are some of my favorite covers EVER.<br /><br />As for sports -- yeah, they're pretty useless in the long run. However, the people involved in them are like anyone else, in that some of them DO care about what happens in other peoples' lives. Quarterback Peyton Manning contributed a lot of money to have a children's hospital built in my neighborhood in Indianapolis -- and the people at that hospital actually saved my daughter's life when she was only 8 months old. So, darned right I'm always going to cheer for Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts!Sea-of-Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00813600516703661200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-50760594569562836992010-01-27T22:20:44.402-06:002010-01-27T22:20:44.402-06:00I agree they can take it too far and it seems like...I agree they can take it too far and it seems like they're just putting stock drawings on the cover sometimes... but if given my 'druthers, I'd rather see a cover that can drop hints to the story without spelling out what I'm seeing. I thought this issue was a good example of that.Adam Barnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08573914395859734760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-58467940943850879022010-01-27T19:12:00.438-06:002010-01-27T19:12:00.438-06:00I can accept the idea that there can be too much d...I can accept the idea that there can be too much dialogue in these old covers (as much as I have affection for the cliches & conventions represented), but I think a lot of modern covers go too far in the other direction, especially Marvel's overly-generic "greeting card" covers: "In this issue of Spider-Man: Spider-Man makes an appearance!"Jack Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05347116217773724467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-41312919519796929122010-01-27T17:53:56.219-06:002010-01-27T17:53:56.219-06:00Regarding the sports re-creation albums: Back the...Regarding the sports re-creation albums: Back then, all those crazy hopped-up kids had to hear was "yours at the touch of a needle" and they were all over it. Damned hippies.D.B. Echohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01797128570217627410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-58243053757242623582010-01-27T16:56:00.421-06:002010-01-27T16:56:00.421-06:00Adam, this wasn't one of the sports albums any...Adam, this wasn't one of the sports albums anyone EVER saw, but I had a 1973 roast of Ron Santo, just before he retired as 3rd baseman on the Cubs.Wayne Allen Salleehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17199261942617339556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-5489218927560109802010-01-27T14:34:38.716-06:002010-01-27T14:34:38.716-06:00I take Adam's side on this one:
"Great S...I take Adam's side on this one:<br /><br />"Great Suns!" -- nothing added here (delete!)<br /><br />"That runaway engine's" -- yes, we see that it's a train engine and that it must not be looking where it's going (delete!)<br /><br />"going into the chasm" -- duh (delete!)<br /><br />"and its kryptonite cargo" -- name of the issue is KRYPTONITE EXPRESS; I think we can figure the rest out (delete!) <br /><br />"prevents me" -- OK, a newbie might have trouble with this one<br /><br />"from saving Batman" -- yup, that's him up on the train car (delete!)<br /><br />"from certain death" -- this is where a newbie is bound to think differently than an experienced Batman reader: he's just a man in a costume vs. he'll pull out the ole bat shackle-cutters and free himself + his suit is armored and his remote-controlled bat plane will drop a Neosporin bomb on him to stop the bleeding. In either case, the statement is either obvious (newbie), or just plain wrong (comic nerd) -- so . . . (delete!).<br /><br />So, with all this, we're left with the narrative, "Prevents me!" Or we can just delete that too and end up with a picture.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18389457077333572415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-54153335357675864982010-01-27T12:50:30.658-06:002010-01-27T12:50:30.658-06:00I'm gonna side with DC on WF #200.
W/o the ...I'm gonna side with DC on WF #200. <br /><br />W/o the cover, a complete newbie has no idea what the heck them green glowing rocks are, and why they might keep ol' Man of Steel from just effecting a tidy rescue.Gene Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11495562795211277146noreply@blogger.com