Dan

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  1. I guess I'd throw in Larry Lieber. He's certainly not a big name, but he's credited as co-creator of Iron Man, Thor, and Ant-Man.

    This is enormous. Not only did Ditko give us Spider-Man and Doctor Strange (as well as The Question, and Squirrel Girl, and Lord knows however many I'm not thinking of), but his storytelling and imagery were unmatched. I could look at his work in Strange Tales all day. Damn.

  2. That needs to be better known for many reasons, not least of which is the utter meltdown a certain corner of fandom is certain to have.

    In all sincerity, though, it's awfully good to hear that. I'm pleased he's in a place where he can be open.

  3. 5 hours ago, slothian said:

    Random question: why is Chris Pratt now the end credit? Has his non-GOTG career warranted this?

    Not even kind of. He has another mega-franchise in Jurassic World, but they've given him the "beloved cinematic icon with a decades-long career" credit. He must have a hell of an agent.

  4. I got this for Christmas, and it's still in the shrinkwrap. I'm dying to tear into it but this thing is fucking enormous and intimidating as hell.

    As for a second volume... yeah, Jones' stuff is going to be very quietly buried for a long time. If there was any way DC was ever going to try to figure out a way to rerelease his stuff, the recent announcement that he's agreed to plead guilty squashed that real quick.

  5. 14 hours ago, The Master said:

    Lex Luthor: The Unauthorized Biography: This is a compelling story about a drunk-as-fuck journalist who's stumbled his way into the biggest story ever - that being the true origin of Lex Luthor - but it's mired by the tale of his death, the framing of Clark Kent, and Luthor getting fucked while he looks back on all of the events. It's like this was meant to be a single issue of Action Comics or Superman, and then editorial demanded it be stretched out into a one-shot. Hence, the Clark stuff.

    Is this the one-shot from the late 80s-early 90s? I never read this but the hype around it was ENORMOUS for some reason.

  6. On 2/25/2018 at 3:15 AM, Donomark said:

    I've actually not heard Dan "give his thoughts on Kevin Smith" before, so I'd be interested to seek them out.

    Short version: he's a hack who's fundamentally incapable of working on a project without inflating it full of references to his past work so that his fanboys can point and remember that Mallrats was a thing once. He's more intetested in selling himself as a brand than in directing, insulated himself from any actual criticism and never made any effort to grow as a writer and has become, at best, a technically competent TV director. All of this is supremely frustrating, as Clerks was legitimately gamechanging.

  7. 5 hours ago, dc20willsave said:

    No word on which of the original voice cast would be returning.

    I would seriously be shocked if they didn't all come back. Paulsen, especially, would start work tomorrow if he could.

  8. "Change is scary and I don't like it" is essentially 90% of the backlash. I'm old enough to remember people walking out of Empire really unhappy that it was so different from Star Wars and didn't even have an ending and are we seriously supposed to wait until 1983 to find out WTF is going on with Vader and Luke and etc. etc. etc. Also, we as fanboys have been trained to assume that anything we don't know is a deep and important mystery to be unraveled, and the idea that sometimes something we don't know yet isn't an elaborate puzzle box, but rather just a piece of semi-interesting information we haven't been given yet, people lose their shit and feel betrayed. Because entitled fanboys are the literal worst.