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Calendar Event Discussion / Re: April 8: Changes signing in Portland, OR
« on: February 01, 2010, 08:48:32 PM »Maybe I'll be able to catch the Jiminator this time around. Glad it's Beaverton Powells, much more room to park
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Maybe I'll be able to catch the Jiminator this time around. Glad it's Beaverton Powells, much more room to park
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DF Books / Re: Did you discover the books because of the TV Show?
« on: March 17, 2009, 09:34:06 AM »All of my signed books are personalized, I would never sell them, has nothing to do with money for me. My two favorite personalizations are from Bruce Campbell, who wrote "Thanks for the Gay Scene!" (I had asked him about a love scene he did on the TV show Beggars and Choosers), and China Mieville who wrote "Read M John Harrison NOW, stop what you're doing and read him NOW!"
Great stuff.
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DF Comic Books / Re: Style of Comics You Read
« on: August 02, 2008, 10:18:12 PM »I stopped reading comics altogether for about 10 years, and recently was sucked back in by Secret Invasion. (I was a longtime Fantastic Four reader and have always liked Skrulls). However I'm pretty disgusted on the whole by how almost uniformly lousy comic books have become. The artwork has devolved because of things like Photoshop, so you have the same pose being pasted around with different dialogue on it. Not to mention all the tracing/stealing that goes on (Mack, Land, et. al). There was one page in a recent FF comic that I picked up where Johnny Storm had obviously been traced from photos or frames of three different actors...on a single page! In one he looked like Matt Damon, in another he looked like Owen Wilson, and the third he looked like Neal McDonough. It was pretty sad. Try reading an issue of New Avengers or something...eek! All the dialogue is bad frat-boy snark, and if there wasn't a speech balloon coming out of their lips you couldn't tell who was talking. I think in a way it's not only the fault of the writers/artists, but things are just being rushed into production like mad.
You know it's sad when the movies are more like the comics used to be, than the comics are today.
All that said: The "Welcome To the Jungle" mini was well-done overall. I can't wait for Storm Front.