Is that old coloring the same as the orignal comics and the THD/TPDs or just the THD/TPDs? Cause DAMN. I've got the first 20-30 or so issues of Sandman (I can't remember exactly when I stopped buying it - not because I wasn't enjoying it, but because I wasn't keeping up with reading my purchases; I gave up buying all comics around then, but have occasionally dipped a toe back in here and there).
I was under the impression that I was your big comfy blanky.
Oz ,'Him'
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Frankenbuddha - Jun 23, 2006 8:16:56 am PDT #9686 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jun 23, 2006 11:38:39 am PDT #9687 of 10000
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Same as the originals. The problem with the old coloring is that it hasn't been updated since the comics were first released, and its flaws have become magnified over the years as printing has improved and the standard for comic coloring has gone through the stratosphere.
Tom Scola - Jun 23, 2006 1:54:19 pm PDT #9688 of 10000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Justice League Season 2 = Best TV cartoon ever.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 23, 2006 5:10:51 pm PDT #9689 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Justice League Season 2 = Best TV cartoon ever.
Don't make me go BIG BLUE JUSTICE upside your head!
Kalshane - Jun 24, 2006 9:43:04 pm PDT #9690 of 10000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
I'm in Scola's corner on this one. I think The Tick is a lot of fun, but Justice League really hit its stride in Season 2.
§ ita § - Jun 24, 2006 9:45:50 pm PDT #9691 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I need to re-iterate how dumb I think the whole Storm/Panther thing is. And, in the XMen annual, they've retconned her eyebrows into being white.
It looks like much crap, and I did very much like her black dash eyebrows and double dashes from the corners of her eyes.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 25, 2006 7:56:44 am PDT #9692 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Have they retconned her into spinning like a top when she fights, yet?
Tom Scola - Jun 26, 2006 3:26:58 pm PDT #9693 of 10000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Alan Moore might run into some problems with the holder of the rights to Peter Pan over the publication of The Lost Girls.
thegrommit - Jun 26, 2006 5:38:31 pm PDT #9694 of 10000
Um.
Much about X-men is on wikipedia -- so much that the mind boggles. But for convoluted backstory, try visualising the Summer family tree in the head. It will ache. For hours afterwards. And then you will go mad.
[link] is a pretty comprehensive database of the various X books.
esse - Jun 27, 2006 8:48:51 pm PDT #9695 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
The problem with the old coloring is that it hasn't been updated since the comics were first released, and its flaws have become magnified over the years as printing has improved and the standard for comic coloring has gone through the stratosphere.
When I first read Sandman (completely the fault of David) the colouring threw me off so much at first that I had to look away from the panels. I was trying to figure out if the comic book producers in the eighties had some freakish love affair with neons, because it didn't seem consistent with the storyline. Same was true for Constantine, when I started reading that last year. It's kind of a shock to go from, say, Manhunter, or that rare good run of Robin last spring, to super-saturated colors.