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What the fuck is up with all these Marvel Stereotypes?
Don't get me wrong, Marvel comics are about the only ones I read, but some of the shit they have is ridiculous.......
http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix2/appnative.htm
And their line up of Native American Gods is a ridiculous re-telling of Lakota theology.
http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/godsnam.htm
WTF?
I noticed a lot their writing for black characters is ridiculous too. Like a white guy wrote pretending to be black, because some this shit people just do not say.
ADD ON
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i agree that the facts behind marvels native american characters are shifty at best. BUT, at least marvel has been interjecting "heroes of color" for quite a while. they at least have a somewhat mixed bag. dc...... not so much.
and vay, whats that alex ross pic from?
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i don't know dc has icon, hardware, static, black lightning, vixen, john stewart, steel, mr miracle, tattooed man...
and that alex ross pic is from the 'absolute justice' hardcover
and i get what you're saying about them not getting their facts straight about other cultures (they have brother voodoo with shrunken heads for gods' sake) but they at least make an effort. warpath's a badass, he was one of my favorites in the old school x-force and he's still killing shit in the new x-force series. plus, american eagle pwned bullseye in the warren ellis thunderbolts series.
there's a serious lack of latino and asian heroes though
plus where's the badass black villain?
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they had moses magnum back in the 70's and 80s. he was a cool black villain.
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^^^ya i remember him from power man and iron fist and if i recall he was in x-men about to destroy tokyo...he's alright, even though they gave him a receding hairline...
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the receding hairline is what made moses magnum evil in the first place.
he was always jealous of luke cages full head of thick afro.
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god fuckin damn...anyone read green lantern? i personally really enjoyed the art, and the script was pretty sick aswell.
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and batman is def. takin a backseat to Batman n Robin, which is killing right now for me.
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just incase they decide to use this....here's my letter to the Chew editor:
Ok, I couldn't find issue 1, so I had to take a bite out of issue 2, to see what occurred previously...(get it?....ah, whatever) in any case, I find Chew to be pretty sick, in the best way possible. The art is a kick in the digester, and the writing is a Shuriken to the forehead. As far as the surprise with Savoy is concerned; he is most likely (in my cleverly conceived theory) one of that guy at the end's FROGS!!! Just, a bit bigger, I suppose. Well, keep on dishing them out, and I'll keep eating it up.
eloels.
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^^^lol, the theory with savoy is interesting
http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/files/2...khamcov001.jpg
ARKHAM REBORN?
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main_man
the receding hairline is what made moses magnum evil in the first place.
he was always jealous of luke cages full head of thick afro.
seriously? lol you can't be serious...magnum also just popped up in amazing spider-man, that brilliant one-shot with the punisher
Dusk, have you been following Green Lantern since the beggining? I wanted to jump on but I feel like I'll probably be lost...my comic guy keeps telling me to start buying it, he jocks geoff johns hard...the free comic book day issue just had me scratching my head, indigo lanterns and all that shit...
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no i havent, but i sort of caught up.
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i see, one of these days i may start getting this from the beggining, but DC's so goddamn slow about releasing hardcovers and trades it's put me off of reading this series.
however...
i just read the new GL...this Black Hand guy...whoa. I haven't been this impressed by the debut of a villain since...who knows when...I was probably still drinking Capri Sun and carrying a lunchbox. This guy is crazy! I'm on board.
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^ ive read Rebirth and it was really good, and i just got $25 Amazon gift certificate so im gonna be ordering the next 2-3 trades soon ill let you know how it goes im gonna try to catch up eventually to where it is now
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vay727
i just read the new GL...this Black Hand guy...whoa. I haven't been this impressed by the debut of a villain since...who knows when...I was probably still drinking Capri Sun and carrying a lunchbox. This guy is crazy! I'm on board.
you kno hes mad old right?
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^^^no i didn't lol
never heard of him...show me something lol a cover a panel something...he's new to me
i doubt he was ever this raw, this was like some alan moore in the 80s shit...or dr destiny in the sandman
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his origin changed post crisis
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http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/gr...-1960/29-1.jpg
I see...I had literally never seen or heard of this guy before today lol
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spider-woman previews--gorgeous stuff
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^ill sig
lmao @ "so you could fuck all the pussy you want"
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^^^nguyen's the main reason i'm buying...i actually enjoyed the first issue and i think dini will do something interesting here
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click on that pic to enlarge
some of them get around quite a bit lol
i found it amusing
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^^^what-- the spider-woman artwork? if so, that's alex maleev, the bill sienkiewicz of the digital age; if not, that's still alex maleev lol
i like your sig pic, that's you?
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ouch damn
'you're as cold as ice'
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as for the SW images, Snyder is lame. i hate everything he touches and he should be shot in the face..... while naked.... with a rope around his penis.... in front of his wife.... while shes making out with his boss
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^^^who's snyder? lol alex maleev did the art, brian bendis is writing
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JH Williams III (Detective Comics artist) interview:
http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/ci...h-williams-iii
Emotion versus intellect: A chat with comics artist J.H. Williams III posted by Jarret Keene
Thursday, Jul. 9, 2009 at 12:34 PM
It’s a big weekend for Vegas comics fans as the new Detective Comics team, writer Greg Rucka and artist J.H. Williams III, arrives for signings july 11 at both Alternate Reality and Comic Oasis. CityLife contributor and superhero junkie Jarret Keene recently talked with Williams about the latest issue of Detective, which re-launches Batwoman (a.k.a. Katherine Kane, a young and uncommitted lesbian). Employing his distinctive “neo-art noveau” style,
http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/wp...o1-198x300.jpg J.H. Williams III's new black-and-scarlet look for Batwoman
Williams infuses the costumed vigilante genre with equal parts Alphonse Mucha and Frank Miller, and the result is stunning. Here, Keene presses Williams to discuss his creative process, the F word (”feminist”), and Williams’ competition in Detective’s secondary feature, a fearsome superheroine called The Question (written by Rucka and drawn by up-and-comer Cully Hamner). CityLife: How differently do you approach crime comics like Detective, than, say, fantasy (Promethea), western (Jonah Hex) and sci-fi (Desolation Jones)?
J.H. Williams III: First off, I should start by clarifying that Batwoman in Detective Comics isn’t necessarily “crime comics.” There’s certainly that in it, but it’s going to be much broader scope than a single genre. There’s going to be a good measure of other things going on. That said, my storytelling approach has always relied on what the story or scene itself is speaking to me, bringing to the page what’s needed. You have to know when to be loud or when to be understated, and that all comes from the feeling I get when reading the scripts, getting to the heart of what the story is really trying to say. However, I don’t hinder myself in technique choices based on genre either. I keep myself open minded to all possibilities when trying to achieve a certain emotional effect from a scene regardless of genre types. I would find it too limiting if I were to worry about what genre I’m working in.
CL: You’ve done all kinds of comics, but Batwoman brings you back into what some might call the “feminist” arena, insofar as Promethea and Batwoman, directly or indirectly, deal with issues of gender. Would you ever accept the label?
http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/wp...o2-300x214.jpg Williams' other strong female protagonist, Promethea
JHW: No, not really. I would consider myself a “human interest” artist, as the term feminist is too pointed. Certainly Promethea and Batwoman have similar themes being dealt with to some degree, but it really has little to do with them being women. The issues being discussed in these concepts are real-life issues that affect men as well as women, so it’s really a human issue. Some might read into Batwoman or Promethea and think they’re about female empowerment, but I find them to be more about human empowerment told through female characters. So I guess you can label me, if it’s necessary, as the “human empowerment comics illustrator,” and I say it with a wink and a nudge. CL: Every page of Detective isn’t so much drawn as painstakingly designed, it seems.
JHW: Comics are a medium where design can play a major role in how to affect the reader and impact the story in ways that can’t be done in prose or film. I’m very much into toying with what’s possible there. However, I don’t fret over it as much as some might think. I really don’t do thumbnails, and I do my designing right on the art boards as I work. I keep everything up in my head. Very rarely do I feel I need to throw something away and start over-maybe once every couple years. So when you see the printed page in a comic from me, you’re seeing my first crack at designing that page, scene, or entire issue. I do this by my gut, on what feels right based on what I want to bring out in the attitudes of the story. I also try to take design into consideration on how an entire issue moves and flows. So when I’m thinking about designing the page, I pay close attention to what that design means for the pages leading up to and after it. Sometimes I plan stop points where I suddenly want the reader to react in certain ways or to augment something that isn’t being said in the upfront narrative.
CL: OK, but what you’ve just described actually sounds quite cerebral rather than emotional. You just said you keep everything in your head, for instance. Perhaps this explains why your work strikes me as being more refined than visceral.
JHW: It’s interesting that you see it as being intellectual, because everything I do is based on emotion. This brings me back to design, and the idea of composition being in tune with
http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/wp...o3-195x300.jpg Williams' Mucha influence is evident in this Detective Comics cover
design-how these elements, in tandem, can be emotionally powerful even though they make one think about what one is seeing. As for “elegant versus visceral,” I honestly feel that there’s a type of elegance to things that are visually gruesome. It partly accounts for the human fascination with such imagery. As an example, a brutally vicious bloody sword fight, with all of the slashing, moving swords and bone-crunching, horrifying violence, can be quite beautiful to look at in terms of the grace and physicality of the actions, regardless of the sad conclusions. These types of images can be just as elegant as a trapeze artist flying through the air with her arms outstretched, waiting for her partner to catch her. It’s all in how the movement affects the eye, the gripping details that can mesmerize. So to answer your question, I find gratification in depicting all things and try to bring elegance to them no matter how gruesome the subject may be. CL: Kate has some funny rock-band posters in her Bat-loft, like Darkseid’s Witch. [Interviewer's note: Darkseid is the main villain in legendary comics creator Jack Kirby's Fourth World universe for DC Comics.] Your in-joke or [Greg] Rucka’s?
JHW: Well, since Greg and I decided early on that Kate would be into music a lot, he thought the band posters might reflect the DC universe. He came up with Darkseid’s Witch, but originally it had said “Darkseid’s Bitch,” but editorial took issue with the word bitch.
CL: What do you think of Cully Hamner’s take on The Question, the backup feature in Detective and also written by Rucka?
http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/wp...o4-199x300.jpg Williams created a special print for his Vegas signings
JHW: I’ve been a long-standing fan of The Question for a very long time. [Interviewer's note: The Question is widely regarded as the basis for Alan Moore's Watchmen character, Rorschach.] The Denny O’Neil and Denys Cowan run on this character is one of my all-time favorite comics. I’ve also been a grand admirer of Cully’s work ever since I first laid eyes on it. I feel he’s tremendous, and seeing him tackle this version of The Question is wonderful. His handling of characterization is fantastic. I’m glad to share space with him under the Detective Comics title.
http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/wp.../07/photo2.jpg
^^^One of my favorite series of all time
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he inked it didn't he... the prepubecent water colors. im mainly referin to the all white background where she's leaning overr
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that middle image in the interview is fuckin gorgeous
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Poetic Wun
he inked it didn't he... the prepubecent water colors. im mainly referin to the all white background where she's leaning overr
maleev did it all digitally i think
the one with the watercolors isn't from the actual comic, it's just a test image, similar to a sketch where he's just feeling out the look of the character
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lol my bad, i followed the image and perused the site and thought he was the inker for the image and watercolored alike but i read the site wrong.
