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Big Grim wrote:Great episode. Glad to have some comics again though! (BTW, Jaws : The Revenge is the fourth (and worst) Jaws film.)
RodimusConvoy13 wrote:Is that the one with Michael Caine? I really only know Jaws and a little bit of Jaws 2. Jaws(the first one) is one of my favorite movies.
Glad you enjoyed the episode.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it and got a laugh! I guess I was referring to the asides towards the end of episodes. When editing them/listening back I can hear my cadence change, and it's almost always right around 11 PM for me when it happens - which is usually when I call it a night and get some sleep since I have to be up before 7 every morning for work. But hey, if it doesn't bother anyone then not much sense worrying about itBig Grim wrote:Finished the episode and Scotty? I love your rambling asides! They're fun! Though I confess I did not expect the Blue to purple balls comment, and laughed aloud in the office. Got a few odd looks!
I did when very young (5-8) but back then it was all about the pretty pictures. I could read the words, yes, but really didn't get the message. The very local shop closing also had a huge factor in this, as it took away my means to spend my allowance on X-Men comics. That was right around when the Phalanx Covenant was a thing, I think.Va'al wrote:A more general point on 'comics literacy' - does the Twincast, and this cast in particular, read comics regularly, or used to when younger? The comments of not being able to follow always leave me intrigued, and I'd like to work something out.
RodimusConvoy13 wrote:I started reading comics in '94 and haven't really stopped. Took a few years off but when the Dreamwave Transformers ended up being so late, I started back into Spider-man with Ultimate Spider-man and got into Batman with the first issue of the Hush storyline. Then I went crazy. Now I've cut way back on what I hate and just get the Transformers books, Amazing Spider-Man, and the Star Wars ongoing.
Va'al wrote:RodimusConvoy13 wrote:I started reading comics in '94 and haven't really stopped. Took a few years off but when the Dreamwave Transformers ended up being so late, I started back into Spider-man with Ultimate Spider-man and got into Batman with the first issue of the Hush storyline. Then I went crazy. Now I've cut way back on what I hate and just get the Transformers books, Amazing Spider-Man, and the Star Wars ongoing.
Even more interesting! But thanks for the answer.
I have some thoughts forming, I'll let them ferment for a while.
ScottyP wrote:This just reminded me that my wife has the entire run of Sandman on her bookshelf and I never read it. Probably ought to fix that :/
RodimusConvoy13 wrote:and got into Batman with the first issue of the Hush storyline.
RodimusConvoy13 wrote:Va'al wrote:RodimusConvoy13 wrote:I started reading comics in '94 and haven't really stopped. Took a few years off but when the Dreamwave Transformers ended up being so late, I started back into Spider-man with Ultimate Spider-man and got into Batman with the first issue of the Hush storyline. Then I went crazy. Now I've cut way back on what I hate and just get the Transformers books, Amazing Spider-Man, and the Star Wars ongoing.
Even more interesting! But thanks for the answer.
I have some thoughts forming, I'll let them ferment for a while.
That really should say "Cut way back on what I get." Not "what I hate."
ScottyP wrote:I've been on quite the anime kick over the past year-ish, and I realized that what I like in that medium parallels what I enjoy in comics quite a bit. Shorter shows with super strong character work (Bebop, etc) are like a good one or two TPB comic series that neatly tells its story and wraps up (Watchmen, before the recent continuation which I ignored)
Medium length stuff that's known to be really great (Fate/SN or UBW and Fate/Zero) have some appeal because they're only somewhat of a time invesent but extremely well worth it (something like the first Civil War series, or so I've heard, could be way off)
Then there's MAL and Hulu and whatnot saying that if I've watched all that Gundam and Dragonball, I should totally jump into Naruto and One Piece. Problem is, there's so much too them I don't want to commit to it and will probably never watch them. These are the Batman and Spiderman and whatnot of the comics world - I've heard they're great, but would rather get to know a greater diversity of characters and themes through shorter works than to spend all my time in one echo chamber. I have Transformers and the Hasbroverse as my high-time-investment serial for comics, Gundam (always something new) and Dragonball Super for it in anime, and I'm just too booked up to be fussed with 60 years of Marvel/DC stuff.
Va'al wrote:Or you know, read outside of the superhero genre.
william-james88 wrote:Va'al wrote:Or you know, read outside of the superhero genre.
Of course.
But I was just replying to Scotty's comment about how the vast history of those universes were daunting (or at least thats how i interpreted it).
I have a question fo you Va'al, is Hellboy considered Super Hero genre? I really like those comics too.
Va'al wrote:william-james88 wrote:Va'al wrote:Or you know, read outside of the superhero genre.
Of course.
But I was just replying to Scotty's comment about how the vast history of those universes were daunting (or at least thats how i interpreted it).
I have a question fo you Va'al, is Hellboy considered Super Hero genre? I really like those comics too.
It's kinda building into it, but comes out of the old Dark Horse school (along with The Sandman in Vertigo, for example) - people tend to see it as horror/superhero, yeah, as has happened to Hellblazer before the move to mainstream DC. Short version: a take on superhero genre.
I find non-superhero comics tend to have better self-concluding narratives, which would answer the 'daunting' aspect of things. Something like Joe the Barbarian or I Kill Giants or heck, even Wanted (as much as I utterly despise Millar) - before moving into the likes of The Nao of Brown, Pretty Deadly, or even Monstress, Bitch Planet, WicDiv.
Suggestion for the Twincasters who find it harder to process comics density: The Arrival, by Shaun Tan. There are no words at all.
Then move to Saga, by Vaughan and Staples. It's the closest, best, mainstreamiest comic out there that does things that MTMTE/LL and TAAO and RID/TF/OP have been doing, and I can see Roberts taking some beats from it at times, too.
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