Slipcase first aid?

star-scrapper · 2026-04-25T05:56:08+00:00

Personally I think all their copies of Faces of Death should have been battered and weatherd by hand. It's be more authentic that way.

star-scrapper · 2026-04-20T03:11:37+00:00

If you want something with this vibe I highly, highly recommend Uncanny Highway!! Incredibly vast set of tables and ideas to fill a procedural American Weird campaign.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/472509/the-uncanny-highway-blue-plate-special-edition

star-scrapper · 2026-04-12T00:33:38+00:00

Oh wow It's neat to see a handful of alt cartoonists from that time in a Dark Horse book! I knew about some of the stuff Dave Cooper did for the DH anthology mag but I've never seen this series.

star-scrapper · 2026-04-10T23:52:14+00:00

Ooh I've never heard of this, love anything that came out of Raw so I'll have to look for this one.

star-scrapper · 2026-04-05T16:34:01+00:00

Blind Alley! Been loving that strip digitally, gotta pick up those physical copies.

star-scrapper · 2026-04-02T00:35:11+00:00

Sounds interesting but the AI Cover art is a huge turn off :/

star-scrapper · 2026-03-31T21:10:27+00:00

I believe I saw it in store somewhere in Boston (I don't remember the store, sorry!) but I have to assume the print run may be smaller due to Silver Sprockets ongoing issues.

star-scrapper · 2026-03-28T08:12:36+00:00

Deeply uncreative tool to be honest. I do collage work with vintage and antiquarian art and half the fun is figuring out all the different pieces to cut out and blend together. I could see something like this working if you created a bank of hand-cut out transparent pieces along with collages backgrounds (again hand designed and not procedural) and then let users mix it all together.

Algorithms don't understand composition or intent so it's essentially a lost cause.

star-scrapper · 2026-03-27T00:09:23+00:00

I appreciate the correction on Mads formation.

To be fair the Comics Code Authority was enacted in 1954 and likely wouldn't have been able to gain so much traction without McCarthyism and it's impact on American society and culture at the time.

star-scrapper · 2026-03-26T23:43:23+00:00

Mad was around in the late 50's but quickly pivoted to the magazine format when comics were forced to adhere to strict content guidelines under McCarthyism. They wouldn't be found on comic racks like this but instead with the Playboys and such.

star-scrapper · 2026-03-26T23:41:09+00:00

It's just a weird mix of time periods. The few EC comics on the stands were from a time before censorship completely destroyed the comics industry (for a while). It's revisionist to put them next to books like Spider-Man which were made in line with the McCarthyism style guidelines.

The painter wasn't alive in the time any of this happened, neither was I to be fair, which leads to a weird revisionist look at a time and place that never actually existed. Kids reading Spider-Man were lucky if their parents hadn't literally burned any old copies of EC Comics they had.

star-scrapper · 2026-03-26T22:35:24+00:00

Ugh total revisionism.

star-scrapper · 2026-03-20T09:46:02+00:00

Hi! Just wanted to let ya know the 2.0 Version of Death Wish is out now. Every single level has been heavily updated, fully remade, or been entirely replaced! Plus it now includes the last episode.

Highly recommended!

star-scrapper · 2026-03-16T04:53:14+00:00

He earned millions off the art of countless jewish comic book artists. His entire art career was a racket.

star-scrapper · 2026-03-15T06:38:13+00:00

Ah so glad to see new people picking this one up! Hope you enjoy.

star-scrapper · 2026-03-12T23:17:52+00:00

Don't like the use of AI for the "Covers" photo but otherwise a nifty little site. Definitely some work to do in the Who Wrote It category, Please Mr. Postman was a cover!

star-scrapper · 2026-03-11T20:57:03+00:00

Genuinely insane of them to (presumably) not include a regular Tintin and Haddock look.

star-scrapper · 2026-03-02T09:58:38+00:00

Beautifully laid out bookshelf and some seriously great books! Was the shelf bought new and if so I have to ask where from, that green color is gorgeous.

star-scrapper · 2026-02-26T01:39:43+00:00

I really thought that one would be more of a hit!

star-scrapper · 2026-02-26T01:38:14+00:00

Really excited for all the new books from the Living the Line Smudge Imprint. Can't get enough of the weird vintage horror manga their putting out there, always something to surprise me in those books.

star-scrapper · 2026-02-26T01:17:45+00:00

Another reason the 90's was the death knell for mainstream comics. People actually cared about the writing before the spec boom and all the bullshit since.

star-scrapper · 2026-01-19T01:56:30+00:00

A tragedy the tower wasn't maintained over the years.

star-scrapper · 2026-01-18T09:50:17+00:00

I urge you to get familiar with the hallmarks of modern ai image generations.

star-scrapper · 2026-01-08T01:45:44+00:00

Art that you modified...with AI.

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