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F For Fake

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  • Birthday 01/07/1977

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    If I should ever end up in the virtual stockade, I demand that the thread be open to comments, so I can have digital tomatoes thrown at me. I'm sure I'd deserve it!

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  1. At least they made it clear that the Camara was "for your parents" while you get stuck with the toys. Don't want to get those hopes up too high!
  2. What I want to know is, did anyone actually win that Camaro??? And was it all pimped out to look like Thunderhawk??
  3. It's also the best collection of amateur detectives ever assembled. You may fool someone here or there, but you'll never fool the boards as a collective. They are bloodhounds. (I say "they" instead of "we" because I'm not that bright and definitely do not add to the brain trust.)
  4. They offer payment plans, if you'd like to extend your descent into poverty. Good luck!
  5. Absolutely. Probably the best Batman story ever told. Having a genius like Mazzucchelli onboard definitely doesn't hurt.
  6. I actually enjoyed DK2. It can't hold a candle to the impact of the original, but as far as being bugnuts crazy, it's a really good time. I don't mind his art in that, though it's definitely a step down from the early Sin City work, which to me was the "final form" of his evolution", and the pinnacle of his art. I love Daredevil, Ronin, and DKR, but to me, Sin City was the purest expression of what he'd been trying to do all along, and I think it's beautiful. I don't like to mock his work of the last few years, for a couple of reasons: 1. Looking at the guy, I get the feeling that he is seriously unwell. 2. Who cares if it's not for me? If he's having fun, let him collect the checks. He's earned it.
  7. I love Kirby's 70 stuff, but I get what you're saying. As for Ross, I agree 100% on the static and photo-reference. If he would let himself off of his own leash, I bet he'd could do some really cool stuff. I remember a quote or interview, probably from the 90's, where I believe it was MIke Allred who said that Alex Ross was a great artist, but he wished he would put the reference photos away because then he'd really be something. Or words to that effect. I may have dreamt that entire scenario, but I stand by the sentiment!
  8. Great pics, @ADAMANTIUM looks like you've had great times!
  9. Yeahhh...just not my thing. Same deal with why I was never a Neal Adams fan, I don't really like realism in comics. The more "real" you make it look, the less active and interesting it becomes. Pretty pictures for sure, but not great comics. Edit to add: I totally understand why people might love Alex Ross, some folks really like for things to look "real", and that's fine. I'm a big proponent of "let people like what they like". Just not my bag. To me eye, when you make superheroes look to "real", it gets silly. A lot of Alex Ross's stuff looks like he got one of his neighbors to come over and put on a costume so he could paint it. That makes me titter. Tee hee.
  10. Well said, and I should clarify, when I said I "don't care" for Ross, I specifically mean as a comic artist, a storyteller. He definitely paints very lovely portraits, they look cool, but it's not really "comics" to me.
  11. I don't care for Alex Ross .His art has no dynamism, it just looks like a bunch of cosplayers standing around. There's no energy, there's not momentum. Kirby was all energy, all momentum. He was a master of creating motion on a static page. He also created nearly everything worth a damn in superhero comics over the course of a couple of decades. Man was a legitimate artistic genius. Alex Ross paints pretty pictures. There's no comparison.
  12. More deadbeats: kidney_11 Requested cancelation within minutes of winning, excuse given "found a better price". Nonpaying, no-contact, deadbeats: pesaran0 coldaslife90
  13. It wasn't at the top of my list, but I'd pick these up for sure.
  14. Absolutely! I'm biased as a LoSH fan, but I'd have to think these would sell in some format. Maybe a couple of compendiums to finish out the run, since they're experimenting with that format these days. We just got the Kyle GL stories, and Nightwing and Robin are coming up. Seems like a good way to collect big chunks of those late 90's/early 00's legacy character stories. I'll buy it however they want to give it to me. There was a point in my life where I thought that I was going to have to custom-bind all of my 5YL stuff, and now we have two omnis, so anything is possible!
  15. Well, I would advise against taking anything I say too seriously (I am a Certified Dumb Guy) but my recollection is that it's a solid read. I generally feel like you're in safe hands with Geoff Johns and legacy DC characters. I've never been a huge Aquaman guy either, but I did like these stories, particularly the early issues which have a bit of a horror feel. Good stuff.