oh i just meant, marvel and dc were also flooding the market with gimmick covers and polybagged 'collector's item' - and companies like Dark Horse were coming up with their own line of work-for-hire superhero comics and multipart crossovers.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 13:08 (ten years ago) link
No hate for Malibu?? I went all-in on Prime but boy what a dorky bunch of comics.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
have a smidgen of affection for malibu's line cos they gave work to old school dudes like steve gerber and steve englehart, but yeah, terrible guff from terrible ppl, mainly
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 14:01 (ten years ago) link
Malibu's Ultraverse stuff had some reasonable titles! Some really horrible ones, too. I never really read pre-Ultraverse Malibu, but I remember they were somewhat also into the gimmicks of the time. There was some book that had a giant hole punched through the middle because... some character got shot
― space is deep (mh), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link
it was Jab, a humour anthology on Adhesive edited by Too Much Coffee Man's Shannon Wheeler, that was shot with real actual guns. #3 iirc? "Dear God... it's - it's not mint!"
There was one variant that wasn't shot, so didn't have a hole, and one that was shot with a shotgun, so couldn't properly be read.
― ᕦ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ᕤ (sic), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
Here we go:http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/protectors5.jpg
― space is deep (mh), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2011/03/04/comic-book-legends-revealed-303/
― ᕦ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ᕤ (sic), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 16:59 (ten years ago) link
sheesh, figures
― space is deep (mh), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
Wow, great to get all that info and the scans. Good link.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link
http://www.4thletter.net/gavok/wwf/cover1.jpg
http://4thletter.net/2007/06/stone-cold-steve-ditko-presents-wwf-battlemania-part-one/
― Your Own Personal El Guapo (kingfish), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 05:56 (ten years ago) link
amazin'
― Nhex, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 06:28 (ten years ago) link
it was only because I couldn't get a direct image url on phone-GIS! glad to hear it wasn't a loss
― ᕦ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ᕤ (sic), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 06:37 (ten years ago) link
So Savage Dragon has gotten weird
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 2 January 2014 04:22 (ten years ago) link
How weird
― An Android Pug of Some Kind? (kingfish), Saturday, 4 January 2014 00:06 (ten years ago) link
what happened, did it get super political or something
― Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ (brimstead), Saturday, 4 January 2014 01:07 (ten years ago) link
The Dragon is no longer the star of his own book
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 4 January 2014 04:12 (ten years ago) link
my... my god
― giant faps are what you take, wanking on the moon (sic), Saturday, 4 January 2014 05:23 (ten years ago) link
lol
― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 4 January 2014 05:23 (ten years ago) link
"The Dragon is no longer the star of his own book"
I'd figure with Savage Dragon #200 about ten issues away, it's probably not a permanent move. The status quo of the comic seems to change every so often.
― earlnash, Monday, 6 January 2014 07:00 (ten years ago) link