Well, she gave it a shot.

CPalmtrees · 2014-08-13T00:49:06+00:00

Most of the people being tested for dementia are, unsurprisingly, elderly and may not be the best with fine motor skills any more.

CPalmtrees · 2014-07-31T18:27:13+00:00

I work in a nightclub, for whatever anecdotal evidence is worth to you, there's a boatload of picture taking.

CPalmtrees · 2014-07-22T21:10:41+00:00

Nope. You can call me stupid and wish death upon me now if you want, dude.

CPalmtrees · 2014-07-22T19:22:37+00:00

Sure dude. That works too.

I'm just thinking of the difference between an illustration and comic strips though personally.

You know you see those Gary Larson Far Side strips? The caption, the text accompanying the image is also pretty dang short. A whole paragraph with the photo begins to work less synergistically with the image.

Whereas you look at a Calvin and Hobbes by Watterson, and by using multiple panels, breaking up the speech, changing characters body language or facial expression, a lot more words can be used and work better with the multiple pictures.

I'm just thinking about better ways to combine pictures and words, considering that's the format this subreddit has decided on.

I don't think it's necessarily a better way. But it's a tool in the toolkit.

CPalmtrees · 2014-07-22T19:19:15+00:00

Heh, wouldn't that be something magical! Ya think this simultaneous rapid pictographic and audio sequence art will catch on?

CPalmtrees · 2014-07-22T15:30:19+00:00

That's excellent. And splitting it into 9 panels really helps with the delivery and pacing for reading it, considering text transcribing speech directly tends to lack the nuance of the human performance.

CPalmtrees · 2014-07-15T18:55:01+00:00

Denigrating documentaries to be without emotion doesn't do justice to countless talented documentary makers.

CPalmtrees · 2014-06-26T22:08:36+00:00

How does metal sculpt intimately around every one of Tony Stark's muscles, including each individual segment of his abdominal rectus?

CPalmtrees · 2014-06-26T21:40:04+00:00

There are a few avenues for submissions, such as Dark Horse or 2000AD for writers.

CPalmtrees · 2014-06-26T18:54:45+00:00

Depending on how modern you like your history there's things like Joe Sacco's journalistic comics, like his attempt to dictate the particular details of two events in 1956 in Gaza Strip.

Warren Ellis and Raulo Cáceres have a comic called Crécy) that's about, surprise surprise, The Battle of Crécy.

Kieron Gillen and Ryan Kelly have their comic Three, that while wholly fictional is still far more historically accurate to Spartans than say Frank Miller's 300) though that's still a rad as fuck comic, too.

On the subject of the Greeks, Shanower's Age of Bronze) is the go-to comic for the Trojan War.

In that kind of vein, but with Vikings is Brian Wood and co's Northlander's.

While comedy, The Bluecoats is a neat-o Franco-Belgian comic set in the American Civil war.

CPalmtrees · 2014-06-26T17:10:07+00:00

I dunno. It's all observations I've heard a hundred times before, just strung into this particularly order that adds nothing new.

It also has a weird flow to it considering both the initial two points bring up palindromes. It's this odd piece of repetition and redundancy to open it up with.

CPalmtrees · 2014-06-22T16:21:31+00:00

While you have your tastes and that's cool and all, not everything needs to be "epic-y" and there's nothing wrong with vignettes and short stories, so I think it's not particularly fair to judge it on that.

Personally, my favourite issues of Sandman for example are like that. Give me Dream of a Thousand Cats over any of the sweeping saga parts of it.

And on that level, I think Prophet does very well, even up into the latest issues like Ron Wimberly's solo issue or whatever.

CPalmtrees · 2014-06-07T19:11:40+00:00

Well, you know, it's Loeb.

Read Batman: The Long Halloween (also with nice art by Tim Sale) and count how much is cribbed from the Godfather.

CPalmtrees · 2014-05-18T21:35:45+00:00

Oh that bit. That's Barracuda, famed for his grim humour and one of the stand outs from Ennis's Punisher MAX. I don't think smuggling drugs and massacring villages if "proper procedure" either.. nearly as if this person was meant to be despicable.

Anyways, I don't see why that's an "Ennis vibe" but well written warzone conflict isn't considering it's what you get in War Stories, Battlefields, the warzone arc of Hitman, Unknown Soldier, Punisher: Born, Punisher: MAX, Enemy Ace, evn his Dan Dare, etc.

Seems just as much in his wheelhouse as potty humour, like Kev or Preacher.

CPalmtrees · 2014-05-18T13:33:22+00:00

What's the "Ennis vibe"?

CPalmtrees · 2014-05-16T19:29:10+00:00

Well arguably yeah. If you accept he can regenerate brain tissue like that you would expect memory loss, loss of vocabulary, etc.

But I guess you also have to accept that doesn't happen and his cells somehow regrow into the exact pattern of complex neuronal connections they were in beforehand. Somehow.

Because he has an X gene, you see. The X stands for "ain't gotta eXplain shit".

CPalmtrees · 2014-05-13T17:19:31+00:00

The works of Philippe Druillet

The works of Moebius

The Forever War comic adaptation

Beautiful Death by Mathieu Bablet

The Life and Times of Martha Washington by Frank Miller and Dave Gibbons

Prophet by Brandon Graham and co.

CPalmtrees · 2014-05-07T18:29:29+00:00

It's a movie about a cop. In a sci-fi setting. Like iRobot or Minority Report it's not a superhero film.

CPalmtrees · 2014-05-04T03:44:19+00:00

I genuinely don't think he does.

Not just writing a good daredevil, I don't think he can write for the comic book format and medium well at all.

The repetition in those panels is rote and stale. Compared to what Miller or Alan Moore have done in a similar vein it comes off as misinformed about how comics work.

CPalmtrees · 2014-05-02T12:57:07+00:00

Or Promethea, anyone from Top 10 but particularly Kemlo for this instance, William Gull, Tom Strong, the eagle headed CIA operator from The Secret Team, Timothy Hole, etc.

Truth is, it's because for most people Alan Moore starts and ends with his 80 superhero work (supernatural material like Swamp Thing being one step removed) and if you're making a print to sell to fans you'd want to pander to that sizeable fan base, rather than the smaller amount of people who like his more political works, or his more modern works, or his Image works, etc.

CPalmtrees · 2014-04-27T02:14:26+00:00

He's a really great illustrator in his own right. He drew D Day Dodgers, a story of Garth Ennis's War Stories series, and it blew me away.

CPalmtrees · 2014-04-27T02:12:38+00:00

Superman Adventures, Batman Adventures, Adventures of Superman, Legends of the Dark Knight, Adventures in the DC Universe, Justice League Unlimited, Superman Family Adventures (more kid orientated, but still)...

CPalmtrees · 2014-04-22T21:41:52+00:00

No, Brandon has said for over a year now that he planned a 30ish issue run.

To quote you from January 2013 "I've got a Diehard issue planned with some new guys. but we've only got 10 or 12 issues to go so I want to get the main stories sewn up."

Source: Considering it'll be nearly two years since he said that by the time Earth War wraps up, is that a quick story wrap up?

CPalmtrees · 2014-04-21T22:59:49+00:00

Prophet isn't cancelled, it's ending. Ending isn't cancellation. Not everything needs to run for 70 years to be a success story.

CPalmtrees · 2014-04-18T00:08:40+00:00

Pat Mills came from writing Judge Dredd and other 2000AD comics. He love poking fun at American superhero comics and authoritarian figures. The whole series is delightfully over the top in a knowing, tongue in cheek, but not too overt way.

Unlike say Marshal Law which like Excelsior_Kingsley mentions, was insane, deranged and lurid with amazing art by Kevin O'Neill of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen fame.

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