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blake_reitz (blake_reitz) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-11-08 11:48:00

Some Ryan Dunlavey, Emi Lenox, and more!
Just two comics and one comic-related link that I found on the internet and wanted to share.

First of all, there's this great comic by Emi Lenox, free to read on Top Shelf 2.0. Guest starring the Uncanny X-Men! Sorta!

Also, there's these great mash-up comics from Ryan Dunlavey, of Evil Twin Comics (I'll always know him as the Stuper Powers guy...).

Lastly, Maxim has a surprisingly great article entitled Uncanny Oral History of Marvel Comics. There's some great quotes in here from Stan Lee to Brian K Vaughn, and everyone in between. For example, there's this great quote from Jim Shooter: "When I was editing Chris (Claremont's) stuff, I’d have to say things like, “You cannot have the professor dressed in transvestite bondage gear.” The editor would tell Chris, and he’d lose his mind."

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psychop_rex
2009-11-10 06:52 am UTC (link)

That oral history is interesting, all right, but a tad simplistic. It seems like sometime around the late '70's, egos sprang sky-high. I mean, it's kind of jarring to go from Lee and Kirby and those guys, who are all cheerfully self-effacing and 'no, no, it was nothing, really, just happy to have been in on the ground floor', and then McFarlane and Quesada come along and suddenly it's 'HOW DARE PEOPLE NOT LIKE MY WORK, IT IS BRILLIANT! I SAVED THE COMPANY!'
I want to say something nice about 'Orlando Bloom County', because it's a clever idea and Breathed's style is well-captured, but the thing is, Opus is right - it IS unnecessarily violent. He could've just done something comedic and Looney Tunes-y, like outlining Rosebud's body with arrows or something, and it would've served the same purpose.

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