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Get Your Mind in The Gutters!in Comics by GuigarMonday, June 14, 2010 - 08:20 AM The team that brings you Least I could Do and Looking For Group has yet another exciting project cooking for you -- and it includes some work that you should be very familiar with!Ryan Sohmer is writing a thrice-weekly comic that pokes fun at current storylines in mainstream comics. The first takes aim at the recent decision for Steve Rogers to hand the Captain America reigns to Bucky and simply remain "Steve." Lar De Souza will be the art director (and handling full illustration chores every once in a while, evidently). His work kicks off the feature in a tremendous way today. And assuming the role of colourist for the series is Evil Inc colourist Ed Ryzowski -- who flexes his muscles big time with today's strip! Folks, this is one to bookmark. posted Monday, June 14, 2010 - 09:45 AM (#56201)
This website needs a comments page; I want to tell the artists how awesome their comics are, especially since DC and Marvel tend to make ridiculous decisions. Oh well. At least I can praise them here. --
Pretzels are on the loose [smackjeeves.com], posted Monday, June 14, 2010 - 11:01 AM (#56203)
wow...it's one of those moments where I say to myself "why didn't i think of that?" then again, I can't keep up with mainline comics enough to comment on them! thanks for sharing the link Brad, this looks promising! posted Monday, June 14, 2010 - 12:48 PM (#56204)
Ah the fine hand of Marketing shows itself once more. Since the 80s, The Big Two have been looking to make their flagship heroes (or heroines) darker and most (perhaps all) of the time it's been a flop. They're flailing around in the Coke Conundrum. Recap: In the 80s, Coke built a sweet new formula to out-pepsi Pepsi. Blind taste tests went great, but when New Coke hit the stands, it tanked, and badly. People *wanted* their coke to taste like...Coke. Whodathunkit? I like to think the heroes themselves as archetypes or memes are resisting efforts to rewrite them. The most elaborate attempt at marketing a hero change was the Death of Superman, Four successors to the mantle (a taste test writ large) and you know what? They *all* tanked. I would be surprised if the new Captain America wasn't tanking, but you can seee the pattern forming. Steve Rogers is back. He's doing an off-brand schtick. It'll be a while yet before Bucky Barnes tells Steve that Steve really needs to be aptain america and Bucky either spins off as another hero or knowing Bucky's luck, dies again. We've been though all this once before when the US government stripped Steve rogers of the Capt. American title and conferred it on a hand-picked successor. We know how well that went over. Those who fail to learn from history... posted Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 10:10 AM (#56216)
I love it when my web comic worlds collide! I want them to mock the Spider-Man "One More Day/Brand New Day" so bad! --
Torture numbers and they'll confess to anything.
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