Quote from: Bluto on September 15, 2016, 10:34:23 AM
I chose Fantasy (thinking that's where I'd put Conan), Humor, Superheroes, and Sci-Fi. If I could choose 5, I would have included Adventure (because I read James Bond).

Yeah, it should be five, or even six. I would have added Monster and Adventure, but limited to four I chose Sci-Fi, Manga, Superhero, and Humor. Steve didn't specify whether he was referring to current comic books, or just everything, new and old. I would probably have to admit that the percentage of superhero comics that I would consider my "favorite" comic books being published currently is lower than it ever has been for me, or maybe the favorites just need to be a whole lot better now than they did in the past. Or maybe it's just that the other genres got a lot better, or a little of both.

Quote from: SAGG on September 15, 2016, 10:09:01 AM
One Punch Man is awesome,dude!! Have you seen the anime yet? Hmmm--no Future Quest, buddy. I thought it was your favorite DC comic....

One-Punch Man is indeed awesome! It's practically a re-invention of the whole superhero genre. I haven't seen the anime yet, but this volume has a couple of "congrats" and "thank you's" regarding the anime. Hard to believe this all started as a webcomic, then it went viral with over a million hits, and then began appearing in print in Shonen Jump (which is the best-selling comic in Japan), before being collected as paperbacks, and eventually translated to English -- and that whole journey was remarkably short. That sort of makes the whole Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles thing back in the 80s look like a mere fluke by comparison, because the webmanga was a huge success BEFORE anything else, the print version OR the anime got made. I'll probably just wait and get the whole anime series on DVD when it comes out.

  Future Quest #4 came out at the end of July, so I'm not sure which issue you're talking about. I read that a couple of weeks ago, and there hasn't been a new one since then. It was on my list back at the top of Page 39 of this thread. #5 isn't due out until the first week in October.

For some strange reason, all of those DC Rebirth titles that I still read ALL come out the same week. Except maybe for Titans and Hellblazer, I think. I know I don't have any DCs on my "to read" list for next week, and some weeks I have no Marvels to read. Sometimes just one like this week (Gods of War #4, which is really a continuation of Hercules) or two or three, like next week (Ant-Man #12, Patsy Walker #10 and Punisher #5). Normally I just borrow the Marvels to read (and get the trade paperbacks later), except for Patsy Walker. I don't know if I'll be getting any of those DC Rebirth titles as trade paperbacks. I kind of doubt it. Maybe Detective Comics, or possibly Hellblazer (haven't read enough issues yet to decide) if anything. The only DCs I buy now as floppy comics are Batman '66, Wonder Woman '77, Scooby-Doo Team-Up and Future Quest, and I still get the trade paperbacks (hardcover in the case of Batman '66) later!

No "all of the above"? I have read and collected all of those genres (and others).

And what about manga, or are you specifically dis-including foreign comics genres? Some might might roughly be categorized in one of the traditional American comics genres, but many would not fit (for example, Lone Wolf & Cub), so maybe a catch-all genre for manga?

CIVIL WAR II: GODS OF WAR #4 (of 4)
DOOM PATROL #1
DETECTIVE COMICS #940
ACTION COMICS #963
WONDER WOMAN #6
HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS #4
SUPERWOMAN #2
ASTRO CITY #38
POWER RANGERS: PINK #3 (of 6)
THE SHADOW: THE DEATH OF MARGO LANE #4 (of 5)
BATMAN '66 MEETS STEED AND MRS PEEL #3 (of 6)
ROCHELLE #2 (of 3)
ONE-PUNCH MAN GN VOL 08
SPIRIT OF WONDER #1-5 (Dark Horse, 1996)

Quote from: Tuxedo Mark on September 13, 2016, 12:14:23 PM

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on September 13, 2016, 01:39:11 AM
both had a cowardly main character voiced by Casey Kasem.

With brown hair and a green shirt.

And Don Messick (Scooby Doo) voiced Sebastian.

And the blond leader guy wore an ascot.

And I could make a list of hundreds of such similarities between various Hanna-Barbera cartoons, so on average, J&TPC wasn't any different. H-B constantly remixed character traits, voices, music cues, etc. from one season to the next.

Yeah, that's about the size of it. Both comic books and television have gone the same way. No such thing as a casual reader/viewer; make up your mind, you're in or you're out, and no place to begin but at the beginning. It's about the same as picking up a 500 page novel and trying to get something out of it by just reading a chapter here and there at random.

Then you get a TV series like LOST, where every episode seemed fraught with important and meaningful bits and clues, but when you get to the end of five years, it turns out you completely wasted your time, because none of that stuff ultimately meant a thing. 

Apart from the "chase" sequence in each episode, which is really just an excuse to showcase the songs without having to stop the action for the band to perform in front of an audience, it really wasn't all that much like Scooby-Doo. They really weren't solving mysteries for the most part, and the situations they got into while traveling around the world were a lot closer to those in Jonny Quest (but obviously played for comedy, and nowhere near as violent), except that there were more master spies, mad scientists, and supervillain types. Aside from that, they reused some of the background music cues from Scooby, and both had a cowardly main character voiced by Casey Kasem.

In the second episode, there's a good joke about it, when Alexandra disguises herself by covering herself with plant leaves, and some of the other kids mistake her for a plant monster that's chasing them and they all start punching her. Alexandra shouts "Hey, stop! Cut it out! It's ME!!" and when they pull off her disguise, they all exclaim "ALEXANDRA!?!" and she says "Who were you expecting -- SCOOBY-DOO?"

Quote from: achernar on September 11, 2016, 04:59:13 AM
Archie... A two-timing social climber.

Calling him a two-timer is selling him short in that area. He's certainly got more girls in play than just two. On the other hand, you can hardly accurately call him a social climber.

There's no evidence in any of the stories that Archie seeks to improve his social status by dating Veronica, or is only latching on to her in hopes of working himself into a favorable position with Mr. Lodge -- in fact, if that were true he should stop dating her immediately, since the more time he spends hanging around, the lower Mr. Lodge's opinion of him seems to fall.

Quote from: BettyReggie on September 11, 2016, 05:19:35 AM
I just pray that he's not this nerdy on RiverDale.

Not that it makes any difference, since they're basically changing all the characters anyway, so it's not the same Dilton either way.

Now that you mention it, I miss the kind of television series where you didn't have to commit to it for the duration of the series to get anything out of watching an hour of TV. Or at least, split the difference and do the "Plot A/Plot B" format where Plot A tells a complete story, and Plot B continues an ongoing subplot.

JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS - The Complete Series - 16 episodes, Hanna-Barbera cartoon from 1970
MIRACULOUS: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir (Vol. 2): SPOTS ON! - 6 episodes, a current CGI-animated series
TARZAN, LORD OF THE JUNGLE - The Compete Season One - 16 episodes, Filmation cartoon from 1976
THE SHADOW (1941) A Columbia Serial - 15 chapters, black & white, starring Victor Jory as The Shadow and Veda Ann Borg as Margo Lane

Quote from: steveinthecity on September 11, 2016, 02:25:52 AM

Quote from: ASS-P on June 11, 2016, 05:25:11 PM
...Briefly , a lot of newspapers out here on the West Coast publish , on Saturdays , an " early Sunday " edition ~ billed as that ~ with Saturday's newspaper , but the Sunday comics and ad supplements , or something like that ~ and , again , billed as " Early Sunday " .
  An attempt by the bosses to get around paying their people for two days , just one instead on the petense that " It's just two Sunday editions " ? Then no doubt they'd say it was " being lean & mean " and " doing more with less " (My parents were both newspaper reporters .)...

I didn't know any papers "doubled up" on the comics they printed, but it's probably just a general cost cutting measure as the publisher determined the majority of customers don't buy the paper both days.  I don't know the royalty or payment rules, but I suspect the paper pays for using one comic per calendar date(as I believe you do as well). I'm an example of a customer not contributing to the coffers as I can't justify buying a Sunday paper and haven't in years, but maybe I'd buy the later Saturday(advance Sunday) edition to get the ads, inserts, and whatnot.

Sounds to me like the "Early Sunday" edition of the paper is just Saturday's news, with the addition of some the supplements and advertising content that would normally appear in the weekly Sunday edition. Some people don't get the daily paper, and only get the Sunday edition, and I suppose that the subscribers would probably get both the daily and Sunday editions, but not the "Early Sunday" edition, so it sounds like they're just trying to sell a few more copies of Saturday's newspaper by including some of the weekly features (like the comics section) that would usually appear on Sunday. I doubt it has anything to do with trying to squeeze extra work out of their employees, as it wouldn't appear that there was anything much content-wise appearing in the Early Sunday edition, that didn't also appear in the regular daily Saturday editon or the weekly Sunday edition. Besides which, the people who print and deliver the papers aren't salaried, they're hourly employees, so they get paid for the time they worked. Unless there were some sort of late-breaking story on Saturday after the regular daily edition had been sent to the printers, there wouldn't be any reporters, writers, photographers or editors putting in extra hours.

@irishmoxie - Thanks for the contents listing comparison, it's always good to know.

I was a little surprised by the trade collection, because it didn't seem anywhere near as thematic as the solicitation description had led me to believe. I had figured that there would have been a lot more "and Friends" as the focus of this collection, like first appearances of a lot of the most notable female supporting characters or stories which put one of them in the spotlight as one of the main characters. Josie's name is mentioned on the back cover, but there's not a single Josie story in this collection, unless you count her cameo appearance in "The Great Switcheroo!" as the leader of 'Joey and the Junkyard Dogs'. A lot of the other reoccurring female characters are nowhere to be found in this collection, either. At least there was a short Jughead story ("No Fear") featuring Trula Twyst that I hadn't read before.

I also expected the trade paperback to be in the usual "Archie & Friends All-Stars" format (6" x 9"), but instead it was in the smaller 5.3" x 8" format used for ARCHIE'S CAMPFIRE STORIES (which was the last new collection of classic Archie stories released in trade paperback, back in July of 2015). At least it was printed on nice, bright white paper. All in all though, after I finished reading it I was left with the feeling that the same story contents list could have been used to fill a Jumbo Comics edition of one of the B&V digests, and I would never really even have taken notice of the theme. There were even a couple of Archie and Jughead stories (that didn't really feature any of the girls prominently) included in the contents, which seemed a little strange for a B&V collection.

Quote from: SAGG on September 10, 2016, 10:40:10 AM
Deep Space Nine's getting some flack they don't deserve. Sisko was pretty cool, the same for Dax, Bashir, Quark, and Odo. They only improved even more when Worf came over, and they got a Klingon ship to kick butt. Fully developed characters, religious themes, and later, war stories. The Dominion was nasty!

Yeah, that's probably where we part. To me "kick(ing) butt", "war stories" and "nasty" are not what Star Trek is about. Maybe an episode now and then involving other peoples' war stories, but Star Trek was never about the military to me. "To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life, new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before..." THAT's what Star Trek is about. Okay, just checking. Nope, nothing about kicking butt. You want butt kicking and war stories, then there's Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica and Starship Troopers for that kind of thing. JMO.

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on April 10, 2016, 12:08:37 PM

Quote from: HarryLuceyFan on April 10, 2016, 10:01:34 AM
Um, Jon Goldwater? 

I'm gonna go with Nancy S. on this one.

http://thehairpin.com/2014/01/penis-penis-penis-the-legend-of-nancy-silberkleit/

And now that a mere few months have passed, I must admit that I've done almost an about-face on my former opinion. I've since learned a few more things about JG, and now I can easily envision a scenario where in a battle of office politics to turn the tide of opinion in his favor, certain situations may well have been exacerbated or magnified (just possibly, even engineered) for the purpose of creating a villain to sway the editorial staff in a certain direction.

That, and looking at a trail of past publishing decisions on JG's part tends to make me leery of both his ability and his motives, so now I'm more inclined to go along with HarryLuceyFan on this one.