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Post by G on Jul 14, 2013 9:07:45 GMT -5
Even though the board has been struggling for what feels like forever now, today marks 6 years since the start of Comic Crack. Seems like it went by quick.
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Post by starbrand on Jul 14, 2013 10:20:58 GMT -5
Congrats on the milestone, G!
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Post by defiant1 on Jul 14, 2013 14:49:53 GMT -5
Even though the board has been struggling for what feels like forever now, today marks 6 years since the start of Comic Crack. Seems like it went by quick. I'm up to 9 years already? Sheesh. df1
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Post by G on Jul 16, 2013 9:12:17 GMT -5
Even though the board has been struggling for what feels like forever now, today marks 6 years since the start of Comic Crack. Seems like it went by quick. I'm up to 9 years already? Sheesh. df1 It really has felt like a journey more than anything. I can remember when I first started and then all the peaks and valleys up until now. In some ways, it feels like I started about 2-3 years ago. In other ways, it feels like it has been that long since we had some decent participation around here. No, this is not a cry for better days, or criticism. It's just a reflection. Sometimes I feel like I could walk away from it today and be done with it forever but I always feel like I would miss looking at it even when it is slow. I'd rather have it like this than not at all.
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Post by defiant1 on Jul 16, 2013 16:40:16 GMT -5
I'm up to 9 years already? Sheesh. df1 It really has felt like a journey more than anything. I can remember when I first started and then all the peaks and valleys up until now. In some ways, it feels like I started about 2-3 years ago. In other ways, it feels like it has been that long since we had some decent participation around here. No, this is not a cry for better days, or criticism. It's just a reflection. Sometimes I feel like I could walk away from it today and be done with it forever but I always feel like I would miss looking at it even when it is slow. I'd rather have it like this than not at all. I still have people trying to sabotage my reputation and calling me a liar online. It's evident at the CGC forum where Valiant fans hang out. It's borderline stalking and with some it appears to be legitimate stalking. I left two forums because a guy only posted to insault me. If I didn't post, he didn't post. Both boards are almost dead now that I left. One goes months without posts. I'd have no problems walking away from any of it. df1
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Post by G on Jul 17, 2013 8:34:40 GMT -5
It really has felt like a journey more than anything. I can remember when I first started and then all the peaks and valleys up until now. In some ways, it feels like I started about 2-3 years ago. In other ways, it feels like it has been that long since we had some decent participation around here. No, this is not a cry for better days, or criticism. It's just a reflection. Sometimes I feel like I could walk away from it today and be done with it forever but I always feel like I would miss looking at it even when it is slow. I'd rather have it like this than not at all. I still have people trying to sabotage my reputation and calling me a liar online. It's evident at the CGC forum where Valiant fans hang out. It's borderline stalking and with some it appears to be legitimate stalking. I left two forums because a guy only posted to insault me. If I didn't post, he didn't post. Both boards are almost dead now that I left. One goes months without posts. I'd have no problems walking away from any of it. df1 I still believe my only neutral on eBay came from a Valiant fan who was sporting Stu artwork in his profile picture to get me back from defecting and talking crap about them over the years. They are a vindictive bunch of asses. I left because being on their site was just a bunch of cliques who had a hierarchy of grunts, seniors, officers, and executives leading up to Greg. If you didn't agree with everything they said or did, they ganged up on people and Greg just watched. That's why I left and I think some thought of me as a traitor especially since I had a lot of their Fan Projects and later I would sell them for huge profit. That was always like a go to hell sin over there. So retarded. I didn't marry Valiant when I bought them. I can sell anything I want to once it is mine. Plus, after 20+ years now, I think we should have come up with something better by now. To me it is where comics STOPPED growing and has since been regressing. Yes it was a peak in comics. But I think we can do better and I think we should have by now. I hate feeling this way about them because if I was just a fan I might have been cheering the relaunch on. As it is, I cannot stand it because it seems to be supported mostly by the bunch of cocks over there. I remember I said something about the Dark Horse Valiants and Greg jumped in and said there is no such thing as Dark Horse Valiants. Then his goons all jumped in. I'm sorry, it's just former Valiant characters put together by Jim Shooter now over at Dark Horse. But of course that version is not recognized by them. As it turns out, they terribly sucked anyway, so no one will care either way. But I thought it was funny that they seen that as having nothing to do with Valiant when 5-10 years before that, they would have been happy with any Valiant character being produced by anybody.
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Post by defiant1 on Jul 17, 2013 19:27:19 GMT -5
I still have people trying to sabotage my reputation and calling me a liar online. It's evident at the CGC forum where Valiant fans hang out. It's borderline stalking and with some it appears to be legitimate stalking. I left two forums because a guy only posted to insault me. If I didn't post, he didn't post. Both boards are almost dead now that I left. One goes months without posts. I'd have no problems walking away from any of it. df1 I still believe my only neutral on eBay came from a Valiant fan who was sporting Stu artwork in his profile picture to get me back from defecting and talking crap about them over the years. They are a vindictive bunch of asses. I left because being on their site was just a bunch of cliques who had a hierarchy of grunts, seniors, officers, and executives leading up to Greg. If you didn't agree with everything they said or did, they ganged up on people and Greg just watched. That's why I left and I think some thought of me as a traitor especially since I had a lot of their Fan Projects and later I would sell them for huge profit. That was always like a go to hell sin over there. So retarded. I didn't marry Valiant when I bought them. I can sell anything I want to once it is mine. Plus, after 20+ years now, I think we should have come up with something better by now. To me it is where comics STOPPED growing and has since been regressing. Yes it was a peak in comics. But I think we can do better and I think we should have by now. I hate feeling this way about them because if I was just a fan I might have been cheering the relaunch on. As it is, I cannot stand it because it seems to be supported mostly by the bunch of cocks over there. I remember I said something about the Dark Horse Valiants and Greg jumped in and said there is no such thing as Dark Horse Valiants. Then his goons all jumped in. I'm sorry, it's just former Valiant characters put together by Jim Shooter now over at Dark Horse. But of course that version is not recognized by them. As it turns out, they terribly sucked anyway, so no one will care either way. But I thought it was funny that they seen that as having nothing to do with Valiant when 5-10 years before that, they would have been happy with any Valiant character being produced by anybody. They haven't figured out that I choose when to go on huge rants. I'm not some out of control individual that storms off when I don't get my way. I may be arrogant. I may think my opinion is best. I don't really care if they want to act and sound like idiots. They sit around mocking me over factual things I say because they think I'm a habitual liar. That's fine. I don't have anything to prove to anyone. I told them the comic book men show posted a casting call link on my board. I'm pretty sure they thought I was lying. They started up with their insults and mockery. A few days later I posted the link and they all shut up. I may say outlandish things. The things I say may be difficult to believe. Unfortunately for them, their mockery is a losing game. The truth does eventually weather ANY storm. df1
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Post by G on Jul 19, 2013 10:54:54 GMT -5
I still believe my only neutral on eBay came from a Valiant fan who was sporting Stu artwork in his profile picture to get me back from defecting and talking crap about them over the years. They are a vindictive bunch of asses. I left because being on their site was just a bunch of cliques who had a hierarchy of grunts, seniors, officers, and executives leading up to Greg. If you didn't agree with everything they said or did, they ganged up on people and Greg just watched. That's why I left and I think some thought of me as a traitor especially since I had a lot of their Fan Projects and later I would sell them for huge profit. That was always like a go to hell sin over there. So retarded. I didn't marry Valiant when I bought them. I can sell anything I want to once it is mine. Plus, after 20+ years now, I think we should have come up with something better by now. To me it is where comics STOPPED growing and has since been regressing. Yes it was a peak in comics. But I think we can do better and I think we should have by now. I hate feeling this way about them because if I was just a fan I might have been cheering the relaunch on. As it is, I cannot stand it because it seems to be supported mostly by the bunch of cocks over there. I remember I said something about the Dark Horse Valiants and Greg jumped in and said there is no such thing as Dark Horse Valiants. Then his goons all jumped in. I'm sorry, it's just former Valiant characters put together by Jim Shooter now over at Dark Horse. But of course that version is not recognized by them. As it turns out, they terribly sucked anyway, so no one will care either way. But I thought it was funny that they seen that as having nothing to do with Valiant when 5-10 years before that, they would have been happy with any Valiant character being produced by anybody. They haven't figured out that I choose when to go on huge rants. I'm not some out of control individual that storms off when I don't get my way. I may be arrogant. I may think my opinion is best. I don't really care if they want to act and sound like idiots. They sit around mocking me over factual things I say because they think I'm a habitual liar. That's fine. I don't have anything to prove to anyone. I told them the comic book men show posted a casting call link on my board. I'm pretty sure they thought I was lying. They started up with their insults and mockery. A few days later I posted the link and they all shut up. I may say outlandish things. The things I say may be difficult to believe. Unfortunately for them, their mockery is a losing game. The truth does eventually weather ANY storm. df1 That is what I don't get. It's comic books. And yet they have sneered and cliqued their way through into becoming some kind of Nazi establishment type of fan following with Greg some kind of Hitler and Danesh or whatever that dude's name is, some kind of hero for bringing back something that to me has long ago died. I see flashes in the current work. I think some of the covers are the best I've seen from anything Valiant related to the old days. But I see it combined a bit too much with the trash elements of today to make me think this is anything more than a hack rehash that will eventually prove to be mediocre in the long run. I'm still of the belief that comics won't achieve any new level of greatness by bringing back the past and running by us 1 more time. I still believe it will come from a new title or maybe more importantly, a new company that will throw all this current garbage on its ear. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear like anything like that has had any real backing for well over a decade now. Instead it's more of the same because the formula works at the lowest of expectations for them. I'd be cheering the new Valiant on if the current group of fans wasn't comprised mainly of a bunch of pricks riding a bandwagon because they don't know what would be good if it hit them. All they know is it is Greg approved Valiant crap.
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Post by defiant1 on Jul 19, 2013 18:14:50 GMT -5
They haven't figured out that I choose when to go on huge rants. I'm not some out of control individual that storms off when I don't get my way. I may be arrogant. I may think my opinion is best. I don't really care if they want to act and sound like idiots. They sit around mocking me over factual things I say because they think I'm a habitual liar. That's fine. I don't have anything to prove to anyone. I told them the comic book men show posted a casting call link on my board. I'm pretty sure they thought I was lying. They started up with their insults and mockery. A few days later I posted the link and they all shut up. I may say outlandish things. The things I say may be difficult to believe. Unfortunately for them, their mockery is a losing game. The truth does eventually weather ANY storm. df1 That is what I don't get. It's comic books. And yet they have sneered and cliqued their way through into becoming some kind of Nazi establishment type of fan following with Greg some kind of Hitler and Danesh or whatever that dude's name is, some kind of hero for bringing back something that to me has long ago died. I see flashes in the current work. I think some of the covers are the best I've seen from anything Valiant related to the old days. But I see it combined a bit too much with the trash elements of today to make me think this is anything more than a hack rehash that will eventually prove to be mediocre in the long run. I'm still of the belief that comics won't achieve any new level of greatness by bringing back the past and running by us 1 more time. I still believe it will come from a new title or maybe more importantly, a new company that will throw all this current garbage on its ear. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear like anything like that has had any real backing for well over a decade now. Instead it's more of the same because the formula works at the lowest of expectations for them. I'd be cheering the new Valiant on if the current group of fans wasn't comprised mainly of a bunch of pricks riding a bandwagon because they don't know what would be good if it hit them. All they know is it is Greg approved Valiant crap. I scanned a couple of comics the other day and the contrast between the two jumped out incredibly. The crappy covers started in the 80's. The difference in the composition of these two comics is striking. Excaliber #6 Fantastic Four #187 On the FF book, the line weight is bold and defines a depth. The coloring adds more clarity and definition. The image pops out at you. Something is happening. It makes you wonder who the mystery character is. The word balloons clarify even further that something is happening and you NEED to read the book to find out. The Excalibur cover is just a bunch of idiotic looking faces staring at the buyer. Why would I be enticed to buy it? I'm going to guess that the FF book had a cover approved by Romita Sr. Clearly some knowledge was just plain lost or not transferred within a decade. df1
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Post by G on Jul 22, 2013 19:02:04 GMT -5
That is what I don't get. It's comic books. And yet they have sneered and cliqued their way through into becoming some kind of Nazi establishment type of fan following with Greg some kind of Hitler and Danesh or whatever that dude's name is, some kind of hero for bringing back something that to me has long ago died. I see flashes in the current work. I think some of the covers are the best I've seen from anything Valiant related to the old days. But I see it combined a bit too much with the trash elements of today to make me think this is anything more than a hack rehash that will eventually prove to be mediocre in the long run. I'm still of the belief that comics won't achieve any new level of greatness by bringing back the past and running by us 1 more time. I still believe it will come from a new title or maybe more importantly, a new company that will throw all this current garbage on its ear. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear like anything like that has had any real backing for well over a decade now. Instead it's more of the same because the formula works at the lowest of expectations for them. I'd be cheering the new Valiant on if the current group of fans wasn't comprised mainly of a bunch of pricks riding a bandwagon because they don't know what would be good if it hit them. All they know is it is Greg approved Valiant crap. I scanned a couple of comics the other day and the contrast between the two jumped out incredibly. The crappy covers started in the 80's. The difference in the composition of these two comics is striking. Excaliber #6 Fantastic Four #187 On the FF book, the line weight is bold and defines a depth. The coloring adds more clarity and definition. The image pops out at you. Something is happening. It makes you wonder who the mystery character is. The word balloons clarify even further that something is happening and you NEED to read the book to find out. The Excalibur cover is just a bunch of idiotic looking faces staring at the buyer. Why would I be enticed to buy it? I'm going to guess that the FF book had a cover approved by Romita Sr. Clearly some knowledge was just plain lost or not transferred within a decade. df1 I was never a fan of Alan Davis and the Excalibur books and mainly I guess I didn't know it then, but this was probably a reason why. I don't remember his covers being much more than what you just posted. Often silly looking at that. I remember at one time Excalibur was like a snobby version of the X-Men and popular with a crowd who thought they just "got it" more than the rest of us. I just never cared for it. This is a great example of why. Fantastic Four covers from this era always just grabbed the shit out of me. I still remember the cover with the Walking Buildings. It was about that age I was getting into looking at comics. It made me imagine things beyond what I seen normally. The Excalibur looks like a normal sequence with fantasy faces. Nothing more. The Fantastic Fours always dropped me into a realm of imaginary sequences I hadn't yet comprehended to dream of yet. Their covers always represented that to me. I honestly think comics got too full of itself and started trying to appeal more to a cheesy movie theater feeling which for me, ruined it. While I understand why they want to make the comics seem more like a movie, I think what is lost is feeling like a comic book. Today that is my biggest complaint. Every damn story wants to act like it is dropping me in the middle of a movie and wants to be taken seriously for artistic merit with someone envisioning their work on the Silver Screen. When I think of Jack Kirby, Perez, Buscema, Byrne, Kane, Ditko, Pollard, etc, etc, etc. They concentrated on making their works be as kick ass as it could be for COMICS and could care less about looking like a movie. The comics was the focus and nothing but the comics and dropping me into a world I never dreamed possible before was everyday magic to them.
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