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I love the glorious ILX tradition of slagging off the places we get mentioned, cf. the Guardian every time, they love it really the slags.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 6 October 2005 10:09 (eighteen years ago) link

"does what it says on the cover"? It's a bit lame, I suppose.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 6 October 2005 10:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Good things about ILC (for real):

- it doesn't take comics that seriously but it does like them.
- no icons and sigfiles!
- we like Grant Morrison but we don't actually want to be him
- ditto Ellis, Bendis, Millar
- your gateway to a world of ILX pain
- the occasional bit of great insight
- we honestly WOULD like some threads that aren't about Marvel, DC, 2000AD etc. Honest!

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 6 October 2005 10:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, look at all the time we spend "loving" comics.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 6 October 2005 10:31 (eighteen years ago) link

We are the people who buy Mary Jane, Plastic Man and a hundred other cancelled titles.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 6 October 2005 10:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I Love Comics - We think Tintin is better than Watchmen.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 6 October 2005 11:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I Love Comics - just don't ask us to do a poll

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 6 October 2005 11:24 (eighteen years ago) link

It Is Important that I Spend The Next 24 Hours ... On I LOVE COMICS!!!!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:51 (eighteen years ago) link

ILC - Spiritual home of the post-ironic nerd.

― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:54 (eighteen years ago) link

ILC - Spiritual home of the Ultimate Future Shock

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link

ILC - Where We're STILL Waiting For WILL BROOKER!!!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link

um hello, isn't a blurb more like a paragraph than a single strapline ?

(not that they aren't funny and all)

― Mark C (Markco), Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I Love Comics - just don't ask us to do a poll

Hahahaha

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link

I Love Comics - Where Dan Perry Is BANNED!!!1!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Until I Finish My Poll

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link

OK, how about:

I Love Comics is a sub-board on the ilXor network. When not LAFFING at the return to 60s psych plotting in mainstream comics today (TINY FOOTPRINTS IN BRANES notwithstanding), we LAFF at scenes rendered humorous by modern language, draw our own material based on throw-away comments, and laugh at Rob Liefeld's inability to draw well.

Usually the Brits try and push 2000AD on the Americans, the Americans try and push X-history on the Brits and the Europeans try and push Corto Maltese on everybody.

Our polls would give you a better idea of our likes and dislikes, if we ever finished one, but Grant Morrison is our favourite. We just have no desire to join him, wanking onto a sigil on some mountaintop in Tibet.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link

That's not fair David, you can't ban Dan forever!

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link

aldo_cowpat: BANNED!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I would throw in a mention that Rich Johnston's only posted once, which is probably some record or something, but that's because I'm cheeky.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link

We also love to pick on Aquaman. The fucking pussy.

xpost

― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link

BTW, Aldo, FWIW, that works just fine for me, go w/ God, and get that sent before you add the 'Aquaman = soggy puss' thing.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Chris F, are you reading?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link

ILC: Not to be confused with I Love Cooking, which actually has three R!ch Johnston posts.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link

ILC: The funniest board on ILX but rarely excelsiored.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 6 October 2005 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, to live in a world where goofing on John Byrne & Chuck Austen & FOOTBRANES garners world-wide roffles.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 6 October 2005 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link

ILC: Black Lois Lane. Enough Said.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 6 October 2005 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, and btw, Congrats Chris!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 October 2005 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Please Let Me Drown Before I Love Comics Gets Me

We're about the other end of the spectrum from the Engine, which I quickly realised was a good place to go if I needed A NAGGING (which is sometimes the case) but not actually that much fun. Nobody's just a wannabe on ILC, we're all already famous for being famous!

― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Thursday, 6 October 2005 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link

We are? Then fuck all y'all! JOEY Q - I'm ready for my closeup!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Hey, some of us are has-beens, albeit on a tiny scale!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link

is there any other scale in comics?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Have you see the BOOBIES, Huk?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link

scale of fame, I should have said.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Have you see the BOOBIES, Huk?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link

(2 seconds away from posting the Tyra/JLH montage)

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Do you think Superman ever uses his X-ray vision to call out falsies?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link

When you typed "uses", did you actually mean "stops using"?

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link

JLH = Justice League of ... Holland? Windmill Man, Clog Girl, Tulip Woman and other imaginative non-stereotypes. Haha, Dyke Girl.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 6 October 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Tulip Woman! Oh dear.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 October 2005 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link

FAST AND BULBOUS

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 6 October 2005 19:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Dyke Girl's slogan: Don't try to put a finger in me, boy!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 6 October 2005 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link

"Ho, villain! Tremble before the awesome might of my tulips! Okay, stop sniggering. I mean it! And Dyke Girl, so help me, if you're making those winking gestures behind my back again, I'm going to give you such a smack..."

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 October 2005 19:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Little Dutch Boy : Dyke Girl :: Catwoman : Batman

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 6 October 2005 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link

are you reading?

I am now. Thanks for the response-- the efforts so far have been highly amusing, if not altogether successful. I don't think that "We're about the other end of the spectrum from the Engine" is apt enough of a description on its own as it might give the impression that we're more "mainstream" than we really are, while "We think Tintin is better than Watchmen" is probably just as applicable to the snootier and more envious denizens of the Comics Journal's board. I'm tempted to go with "Comics Are Rubbish But We Love Them Anyway" just because it amuses me, but maybe we'd be better served by a straighter/copy-ready one or two sentence boil down of the points on Tom and aldo's summaries, leaving out in-jokes and warning about ILX addiction? If no one else steps up to the task, I'll try to pound something out for vetting here tomorrow.

what the fuck is steven grant 'famous' for writing apart from the Punisher?

Who said he was famous, and why should it matter? He's a working professional-- it's not like they were going to get Alan Moore to write for them every week. (Ellis actually used to be the other columnist at CBR, before he went off to concentrate on his own interweb stuff.) I actually like Grant much better as a columnist than as a comic book writer (Badlands, his other big claim to fame, wasn't really my cup of tea) and I don't think that I'm the only one out there who feels that way.

― Chris F. (servoret), Thursday, 6 October 2005 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I think Grant is a terrific columnist, and quite instructive on the nuts and bolts of making comics much like someone who finds maths hard is a better maths teacher. That said, I mainly read it for the political stuff which is even better.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 7 October 2005 08:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I kind of started this to be a 'great jumping-on point for new readers' so to speak. Assuming it gets populated!

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I e-mailed Grant yesterday, but I'm not sure if any of the blurb will actually be included in the column-- I might have misremembered what he did for past mentions. It'll be interesting to see if anyone shows up.

― Chris F. (servoret), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 01:07 (eighteen years ago) link

The Blurb is in. Everyone be on yr best behaviour, company's coming.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Can you bung us a link to the blurb, Huk?

― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link

The blurb is down near the bottom of the col:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/?column=10

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 13 October 2005 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link

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I blame amphetamines.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Chris I remember when ILX was going to be featured in the Guardian (national UK newspaper) for the first time and there was enormous paranoia and feelings we shd be on our best/worst behaviour (views varied) and great anticipation and then we got absolutely nobody new from it.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link

What did the Guardian have to say?

― chap who would dare to spy on his best mate's ex (chap), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link

"Biff! Bang! Pow! Internet Message Boards aren't just for kids"

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 27 October 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Bless you, Jeff. That actually occurred to me when I was reading you on the other threads just now-- glad to have you here!

Awesome story, Tom. I wonder how many people even did a look-thru, though! I was a bit miffed when last week in his column Grant started bitching about how there's no substantial critical content about comics on message boards. "Tell them Chris and I sent you", indeed-- did he just look at the New Answers page and then split? Ergh!

I blame amphetamines.

In my case, I blame not wanting to write my paper about Kant...

― Chris F. (servoret), Friday, 28 October 2005 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link

I first came to ILX after reading that piece in the Guardian, actually. It was all about ILM though, ILC didn't even exist yet back in those days of innocence...

Though, by now its easily my favourite comics board.

― David N (David N.), Friday, 28 October 2005 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha on the day the article appeared, Mark C (not the current MarkC, the golden age one) started a thread on "The Guardian, Classic or Dud?"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 28 October 2005 09:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Is it just me, or does Steven Grant's challenge this week have more than a hint of WHAT ILC HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS WEEK about the answer?

Steven, show yourself!

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 4 November 2005 08:54 (eighteen years ago) link

They're all inoffensively mediocre?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 4 November 2005 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link

That Aquaman cover is NICE!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 November 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Aquaman used to have great covers.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 4 November 2005 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.eskimo.com/~tegan/aqua/pics/cvr1962/a1cvr53.jpg

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 4 November 2005 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link

(have we ever had a thread where we enjoy Aquaman covers?)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 4 November 2005 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link

(we do now)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 4 November 2005 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link

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