spazdog
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| 04/19/2007 11:59 PM |
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should they be in color? How much extra would you pay to have a newprint color edition of the old school comic books? Is that taken care of with the 40 years of.....collections of scanned comic books on CD?
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AtomicJohn
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| 04/20/2007 4:09 PM |
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Comics are not about reading them on CD. There is a tactile pleasure to having them in your hand that you cannot get from clicking a mouse. and the new comics smell cannot be converted into a file. Old comics smell awesome too. They smell like history.
Essentials and Showcases should stay the same as they are, in my opinion. Keep'em cheap. That way it is easier for the casual reader to afford a backlog of Avengers 300 issues long. |
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Beware your fears made into light
Let those who try to stop what's right,
Burn like his power... Sinestro's might!
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Dr Noah Drake
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| 04/20/2007 7:30 PM |
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| The make showcases & essentials in color, there called Masterworks & Archieve Editions, they cost 3 times as much & have an eighth of the content |
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Jake
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| 04/20/2007 8:16 PM |
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Let me echo the good doctor. The selling point of the Showcases and Essentials is the ability to pick up 20-25 issues of a book on the cheap. They are much more utilitarian than the Masterworks. I'm more willing to lend out my Essential FF than I would be the Masterworks and when I somehow managed to lose my copy of Showcase House of Mystery at airport security, it was much easier to accept. On that note, I suppose I probably wouldn't lose an Archive Edition at security because I probably wouldn't take it on the plane. I'd read it at home and put it back on the shelf.
Plus, as a fan and collector of original art, I like the B&W versions to see what the original, uncolored pages looked like. |
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Dr Noah Drake
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| 04/20/2007 8:20 PM |
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| He called me "the good" doctor, heh heh |
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KingdomGone
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| 04/23/2007 2:38 AM |
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I buy all the showcases - but I think the Black and white format doesn't work for everything.
example:
Jonah Hex looked awesome..
Green Lantern..."why did that lamp knock out Green Lantern....oooooh.. it must be yellow"
I would love it if DC started releasing DVD archives like Marvel has already done...it's great for research. If not for the Showcase version of Aquaman, I wouldn't have been able to read the *original* appearance of the Human Flying Fish (the new one is in the Dc solicits for July)
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Dr Noah Drake
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| 04/30/2007 2:41 PM |
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| There's a great story in the Aquaman showcase where he water skis around the sea giving speeding tickets to boats! |
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KingdomGone
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| 04/30/2007 2:45 PM |
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Posted By Dr Noah Drake on 04/30/2007 2:41 PM
There's a great story in the Aquaman showcase where he water skis around the sea giving speeding tickets to boats!
That one was funny!!! good thing there weren't message boards back then - they would have got tore to bits. The Bob Haney "teen speak" in Teen Titans alone would crack the internet in half.
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Dr Noah Drake
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| 04/30/2007 3:30 PM |
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Posted By KingdomGone on 04/30/2007 2:45 PM
Posted By Dr Noah Drake on 04/30/2007 2:41 PM
There's a great story in the Aquaman showcase where he water skis around the sea giving speeding tickets to boats! That one was funny!!! good thing there weren't message boards back then - they would have got tore to bits. The Bob Haney "teen speak" in Teen Titans alone would crack the internet in half.
It's true, but those stories are so much fun |
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Buddy Baker
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| 05/30/2007 2:10 AM |
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| I have to wonder, with massive trades like Superman: Our Worlds At War being full color, I would think doing Showcase/Essentials wouldn't be too hard. But then again I'm sure there's some unseen operational cost I'm missing. |
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abe
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| 05/30/2007 3:57 AM |
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| So tell me... which are the essential showcases? |
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Buddy Baker
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| 05/30/2007 12:41 PM |
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| Marvel Essentials and DC Showcases are large, several-hundred page trades of old silver age comics printed in black and white on inexpensive paper with the purpose of collecting old books and making them available in an inexpensive format. |
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Jake
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| 06/12/2007 11:54 AM |
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| Superman Family is an essential Showcase... while Fantastic Four is an Essential worth showcasing. |
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Dr Noah Drake
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| 06/18/2007 9:47 AM |
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| The Shazam Showcase, everyone should read that one |
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Buddy Baker
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| 06/21/2007 11:15 PM |
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| Does it have Hoppy The Marvel Bunny? |
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Dr Noah Drake
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| 06/24/2007 1:03 PM |
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| YES! |
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Buddy Baker
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| 06/24/2007 5:57 PM |
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| Awesome. |
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Dr Noah Drake
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| 06/25/2007 5:57 PM |
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| YOu should check out the War That Time Forgot showcase, it's a real page turner |
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