Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 25, 2016, 12:51:49 PM

NIGHTHAWK #1* (* = title I'm not continuing reading)
RICK AND MORTY #14
BACK TO THE FUTURE #8 (now an ongoing series)
BILL & TED GO TO HELL #4 (of 4)
JUSTICE LEAGUE #50*
DC UNIVERSE REBIRTH #1 (one-shot)
TOTALLY AWESOME HULK #6*
SPIDER-MAN DEADPOOL #5 (DP swears off killing? Seriously. Seriously? Don't know what they're thinking with that.)
JONESY #4 (now an ongoing series)
LOBSTER JOHNSON: THE METAL MONSTERS OF MIDTOWN #1 (of 3)
TWILIGHT ZONE: THE SHADOW #2 (of 4)
BATMAN '66 MEETS THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. #6 (of 6)
LORDS OF THE JUNGLE #3 (of 6)
TANK GIRL: TWO GIRLS ONE TANK #1
STREET FIGHTER X G.I. JOE #4 (of 6)
ARCHIE'S FUNHOUSE JUMBO COMICS #20
DISNEY MAGIC KINGDOM COMICS #1 (of 2)

How was magic kingdom? Glad to see you're reading Jonesy.

I noticed that issue #1 is on Amazon too (out 6/6/2016). So for people that like paper comics, they can get them there.

Josie and the Pussycats Manga digital exclusive

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 21, 2016, 06:47:34 AM
From my own MP3 album collection (mostly found and downloaded from blogs here'n'there), for the last couple of days/nights I've been listening to my own self-defined genre of "Saturday Morning Bubblegum Rock" that includes albums by:

Alvin and the Chipmunks
The Archies
The Banana Splits
The Groovie Goolies
The Hardy Boys
The Impossibles
Josie and the Pussycats
Lancelot Link and the Evolution Revolution
The Monkees
The Partridge Family
The Sugar Bears

My favorite Partridge Family/David Cassidy songs are "Brand New Me" and "Summer Days."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um7H4MG3lEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGRuBYSGniE

Quote from: BettyReggie on May 20, 2016, 01:59:03 PM
Today is the day you can preorder the August/September comics from Midtown Comics.
I PREORDER
JEM & THE HOLOGRAMS #18
SAGA #37
JUGHEAD #9-MOK & FISH & CHARM
BETTY & VERONICA #2 -WADA & SOHN & HUGHES
ARCHIE #11 -PITILLI & FISH
AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE #10-BALENT
INVINCIBLE #130

I'm excited for Jem #18. Jen Bartel's art is really good.

Quote from: Mazz on May 20, 2016, 06:52:46 PM
I purchased the following 1st Series Sabrina The Teenage Witch comics.  #'s 31, 37, 39, & 54.

eBay?

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Quote from: irishmoxie on May 20, 2016, 04:34:00 PM
Definitely Salem but more so the one from the TV show.

DeCarlo Rules will probably say Della.

Fooled ya! 


I will admit that Della has a magnetizing effect on me... I am both strongly attracted (by her physical appearance) and repulsed (by her overbearing authoritarian personality) in equal measure. She is pretty much the perfect dominatrix, though. I know that's what you were thinking... 


Salem I like a lot. But it's really the one from the Holly G series (again, with the Holly G stuff already!)

I remember you mentioning that Della always seemed to stop in on Sabrina at the most inopportune times wearing her outfits from her "other" job.

Definitely Salem but more so the one from the TV show.

DeCarlo Rules will probably say Della.

Quote from: kassandralove on May 16, 2016, 02:35:31 AM
I was watching fast times last night and came to the realization that phoebe cates could of made a great Veronica



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Yes her or the actress who played Ferris Buehler's girlfriend.

Unbelievable amount of girlie comics coming out today:
Finding Molly #3
Disney Princess #3
Goldie Vance #2
Lumberjanes #26
Lumberjanes Special
Mae #1
Princeless Raven #8
Princeless Make Yourself #2
Strawberry Shortcake #2
Chilling Sabrina #5

And other light hearted comics:
Grumpy Cat #4
Puss in Boots #2
Mighty Zodiac #2

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 18, 2016, 03:24:18 PM

Quote from: irishmoxie on May 18, 2016, 01:53:42 PM
Yes I'm aware manga is originally published in magazines. They've tried a few of those magazines here but they usually fail. So all that's really left are the paperbacks or digital if you're an English reader.

Manga in the U.S. is an anomaly in comic publishing, because its adoption into Western culture is being driven by a bleeding-edge fandom of early adopters. They're the ones who buy the imported comics in the original Japanese, and have taken the trouble to learn Japanese themselves in order to read them. They're the scanslators and the people behind the publishing scene from whom the English-language manga publishers are taking their cues. What gets translated in the U.S. is a combination of that which has already proved popular in Japan (to the degree that it's universal, as opposed to culturally-specific), and what the hardcore manga fans who read Japanese are recommending to each other by word of mouth and the internet. A lot of them have even worked themselves into some key positions on the U.S. publishing side.

A lot of what they're trying to publish now (or maybe just what I buy and am interested in) is stuff that doesn't get scanalated presumably to make the most profit. They also tried to capitalize on the popularity of Twilight and publish a lot of vampire manga which is unfortunate.

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QuoteJughead #9
(It's kind of like a) BRAND NEW #1... except it's issue #9! SABRINA makes her debut in the NEW RIVERDALE and things are about to get INSANE! New story!  New arc!  New creative team! Pop Tate's has a new mascot: it's a lady in a burger costume with a giant burger for a head!  And she never takes off that giant burger head!  And she and Jughead really hit it off, probably for that very reason! But is it possible Burger Lady is MORE than she appears? Find out what happens when Jughead meets a burger he REALLY likes—and a POWERFUL and unexpected new force in Riverdale is revealed!! P.S.: that powerful and unexpected new force is SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH!  SHE'S the Burger Lady!

After reading the solicitation, it almost seems like reading the story when it actually comes out is a mere formality. Such suspense. Right around the sentence where they said "she never takes off that giant burger head", I started thinking "I bet it turns out to be Sabrina"... and I was right. At least I didn't have to wait 2 months for that satisfaction. OR maybe it would be more satisfying if they didn't just tell you the plot ahead of time.

That doesn't necessarily ruin a story.  I watched every episode of Colombo even though I knew he was gonna catch the murderer.  It was just a question of how.

So your argument here would be the actual reason to read the comic now is to see whether Sabrina (A) just put on a costume supplied to her by the burger restaurant, but never takes off the giant burger head, or (B) she actually used witchcraft to change herself into a hamburger with a giant burger head? Not comparable to knowing that in every story that Sabrina appears, she's going to use magic somehow, but it's just a question of how. That thing with the costume is a little too specific, like someone telling you some twist of the plot in an episode of Colombo before you ever watched it. I'd say the point here is that now when you actually read the story, the minute the Burger Lady appears, you already know beforehand that it's Sabrina in the costume. Not quite the same thing.

The only reason for me to read Jughead now is Sabrina.

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Quote from: BettyReggie on May 18, 2016, 09:17:27 AM
I just read Jughead #6 my digital copy. It was just ok, I would give it a B. The other 5 issues were better. I can't we haven't seen Ethel in any of the issues. It seems like they really don't talk about Jughead not liking girls. He was friendly with Betty. And he really can't stand Veronica.

Maybe the new writer and artist will bring Ethel in

I was re-reading Archie and I saw Ethel in a background in a scene. I believe it's the one where Veronica vomits up the sloppy joe.

I was just saying to myself the other day, "You know, there just isn't enough vomiting in comics." Good to see that ACP's addressing that.

Me too!  It's amazing we were thinking the same thing.

Were you also thinking that Veronica was bulemic? Oh, I suppose they might just be trying for physical comedy in that scene (who made the sloppy joe, Pop Tate?), but with the reboot you never know. Bulemia just seems more angst-y, so it would fit. Or maybe it does play as comedy in that scene, and it's only the setup; the angst comes later when it's discovered that she's actually bulemic. I obviously haven't read it, so I'm trying to visualize the context.

It's comedic. An instance of actual comedy in the reboot!

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Quote from: invisifan on May 17, 2016, 06:20:30 PM
Starting a 10-pager: http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/mc_soft_reboot_-_two_melissas_-_pg_1_of_10

If you haven;t read the story to this point you have to take the split at face value ...

I'll probably just wait until all ten pages are up. Just makes more sense... I like to read a complete story or a complete chapter. Most webcomics aren't really written in "newspaper strip" mode. I'm even kind of starting to feel that way about continued stories in monthly comics versus trade collections. It just seems so much more consistent and comprehensible that way (and the problem is compounded the more ongoing comics series you read).

Isn't Gisele calling the new EC/MC (since returning from hiatus) a "soft reboot" now? What split?

But if you only read trade paperbacks there will be low sales of single issues and series will end early and the comic industry could potentially fail.

It's probably an inevitable shift. Single issues are shifting to digital (you're living proof of that). Vertigo trade paperback sales have been outselling single issues for years. One issue with multiple stories is practically gone (Archie Comics is evidence of that). Single issues with a single complete story have been on the wane for decades. Consumers obviously overwhelmingly prefer the long-story form, so it shouldn't be surprising the sales of graphic novels and collected editions have grown stronger while floppy comic sales have grown proportionally weaker. Webcomic/digital first to collected edition is the comic industry model of the future.

Yep. And the only reason to buy single issues anymore is for the variant cover.

Makes me wonder why they don't just ditch the single issues all together and just put out trades like manga has done. They would release product less often but I guess they are making more money because trades sell more copies (even though if you bought every single issue it would cost you more than the trade.)

And the only reason variant covers exist is to service collectors, not readers. And of course, comic book shops... because that's where collectors go. Not all collectors care about variant covers, but the publishers are trying to generate money by catering to the desire to own physical art objects, as opposed to just enjoying the art itself. Of course you could just enjoy looking at JPG images of the cover art, or the publishers could just put out an art book or something. But I guess you can't blame them if people want to pay another $4, $10, or even more, for another copy of the same comic book story with a different cover over it. In a lot of ways the old model is battling against the new model, because comic shops were built on floppy comic sales to comic book collectors, and most people accustomed to that way of relating to their hobby don't want it to change.


The manga industry doesn't just put out trades. In the U.S., publishers print translated reprints of collected editions of manga stories that originally appeared in thick comic anthologies that are printed cheaply and appear weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly and give the Japanese readers a chance to follow and preview a lot of different series at once, before the inevitable collection appears.

Yes I'm aware manga is originally published in magazines. They've tried a few of those magazines here but they usually fail. So all that's really left are the paperbacks or digital if you're an English reader.

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 18, 2016, 10:12:01 AM

Quote from: irishmoxie on May 18, 2016, 09:53:20 AM

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 17, 2016, 08:08:48 PM

Quote from: invisifan on May 17, 2016, 06:20:30 PM
Starting a 10-pager: http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/mc_soft_reboot_-_two_melissas_-_pg_1_of_10

If you haven;t read the story to this point you have to take the split at face value ...

I'll probably just wait until all ten pages are up. Just makes more sense... I like to read a complete story or a complete chapter. Most webcomics aren't really written in "newspaper strip" mode. I'm even kind of starting to feel that way about continued stories in monthly comics versus trade collections. It just seems so much more consistent and comprehensible that way (and the problem is compounded the more ongoing comics series you read).

Isn't Gisele calling the new EC/MC (since returning from hiatus) a "soft reboot" now? What split?

But if you only read trade paperbacks there will be low sales of single issues and series will end early and the comic industry could potentially fail.

It's probably an inevitable shift. Single issues are shifting to digital (you're living proof of that). Vertigo trade paperback sales have been outselling single issues for years. One issue with multiple stories is practically gone (Archie Comics is evidence of that). Single issues with a single complete story have been on the wane for decades. Consumers obviously overwhelmingly prefer the long-story form, so it shouldn't be surprising the sales of graphic novels and collected editions have grown stronger while floppy comic sales have grown proportionally weaker. Webcomic/digital first to collected edition is the comic industry model of the future.

Yep. And the only reason to buy single issues anymore is for the variant cover.

Makes me wonder why they don't just ditch the single issues all together and just put out trades like manga has done. They would release product less often but I guess they are making more money because trades sell more copies (even though if you bought every single issue it would cost you more than the trade.)