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Stupid Comics Questions

King Mob

09:01 / 10.01.08

Wasn't there a short INVISIBLES story called "I AM A POLICEMAN" in some vertigo special back in the day?

THOR!

09:45 / 10.01.08

yes.

Boboss

10:31 / 10.01.08

KM, I know you've been gone a long time and quite possibly haven't posted to the forum since the introduction of topic summaries so I'm not going to get all shouty, but for future reference we pretty much demand a summary these days. Secondly, I appreciate that things were often a little laxer back in ye olden days, but at present we kinda like topics to have some substance, and this one really doesn't in that it's not really a topic at all - more of a question, really. A question which could've been answered with a very quick Google search.

So, happy to have you back, but please note how things have changed.

Boboss

10:44 / 10.01.08

Unless someone wants to flesh this thread out - and I don't - I'm going to move for a deletion.

King Mob

11:10 / 10.01.08

i appreciate your restraint and please forgive the potentential misspellings. i searched for the bomb, but it came up with a wiki type thing that didn't seem to work. Feel free to delete this thread with my humble apologies. Again, thank you all for your kindness and understanding.

Boboss

11:29 / 10.01.08

Hey, don't worry about it. As a moderator I just thought I should spell out current board policy. And please, please don't feel self-conscious about spelling mistakes. They're part of what makes us human.

King Mob

11:36 / 10.01.08

thanks man, that's awfully friendly of you - i take back all my bitter sarcasm - you guys are alright!

King Mob

11:50 / 10.01.08

hey,sorry if responding to yourself is against policy,i swear i'll find the barbelith bible and read it cover to cover before i make too many more mistakes. But,i just wanted to share that i googled "i am a policeman" and "grant morrison" and got the amazon.com review of lovely biscuits which turned me on to the fact that his short story "i am a policeman" was first published in that disco 2000 book. which i have in a box that's slowly moving towards me, so i must have read it. can't say i remember what it's about,but i'll know soon enough,eh?

Mr. Flunchy

12:18 / 10.01.08

Don't forget to check out the appropriately titled 'We're all Policemen Now' if you're looking for another Invisibles addendum.

Boboss

12:55 / 10.01.08

Responding to moderators certainly isn't against policy. As long as you're not spouting gibberish, trolling or using hate speech (most definitely a bannable offense) we want to hear people's voices here, not shut them down. It's just that in order to keep the board at a certain standard we all need to work at it a little.

Benny the Ball

13:54 / 10.01.08

Perhaps this could be turned into a rough stupid-question guide for a) invisibles, b) Morrison's work or c) comics in general - although there are Marvel and DC universe question threads already aren't there...

Boboss

14:38 / 10.01.08

We don't have "stupid comics question" thread, do we? Yeah, perhaps this one could be repurposed. All in favour?

electric monk

15:22 / 10.01.08

Yes, please!

Evil Scientist
(prev. Evil Science Holiday)

15:24 / 10.01.08

Sounds like a Bat-Plan.

Boboss

17:06 / 10.01.08

KM, I gonna push to rename this thread "Stupid Comics Questions". Please don't feel this is a reaction to you or your post; There is grand tradition of 'stupid questions' threads on Barbelith - we currently have one in most of the other fora.

Evil Scientist
(prev. Evil Science Holiday)

17:44 / 10.01.08

I've got one actually. Was there ever any legal shenanigans over the similarities between Harry Potter and that kid from the Books of Magic? If so what was the result?

Grady Hendrix

17:52 / 10.01.08

Folks used Tim Hunter as an excuse to accuse J.K. Rowling of plagiarism...and Neil Gaiman rushed to the defense. His Tim Hunter comics came out well before Rowling's Harry Potter hit the stands and he says it's all a coincidence and that people are nummies for stating otherwise in this interview.

Next!

West Baltimore Hausing Project

17:58 / 10.01.08

Obviously, it is much easier to draw connections between the work of J K Rowling and the work of Diana Wynne Jones, much as people did (here's the comics connection, sort of) between Neil Gaiman's American Gods and DWJ's Eight Days of Luke - although Archer's Goon might be a decent fit as well.

Benny the Ball

18:53 / 10.01.08

See also Shelia K MCCullagh's TIm and Tobias series of books, which were used to help teaching reading when I was at primary school back in the 80's.

Decadent Daytripper in Love
(prev. Decadent Daytripper Falls Up)

21:31 / 07.04.08

Where was the first use of the trope where someone fires a gun and the soundFX are stacked vertically, like so:

BLAM
BLAM
BLAM
BLAM
BLAM
BLAM

and who was responsible?

This seems to've been invented in the past fifteen years, but maybe that's just when i started to notice it. The Invisibles and King Mob with his target shirt seems to be my earliest memory of the technique. No idea what he was shooting, but I'm sure they deserved it.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

05:00 / 08.04.08

First time I ever saw it was in Howard Chaykin's American Flagg. When that gets reprinted a lot of people are going to be shocked that stuff they thought they were lifting from Alan Moore and Frank Miller, they were really lifting from Howard Chaykin.

Jack Fear

12:54 / 08.04.08

Chaykin may have used it, but I reckon he probably stole it in turn from Walt Simonson.

Sailor Warrior of Love&Justice
(prev. Damn, it's Pacific State again)

00:13 / 09.04.08

Re-reading Shade #50 on the toilet has got me wondering. When will Peter Milligan write the best comic ever again?

Papers, anyone, anywhere?
(prev. Papers @ 21C !)

01:47 / 09.04.08

I miss Shade. I should really reread the beast again.

I miss Peter Milligan, actually -- the Peter Milligan who wrote about weird shit rather than forced, in-continuity superheroics. I don't know. He hasn't been sparking. Was The Programme any good? I read the first issue and it did nothing, nothing, nothing. A bit like having accidental sex with an ex-lover and finding something has gone missing.

Alex's Grandma

02:54 / 09.04.08

I wonder if The Programme wasn't let down a bit by the art? It's still worth reading, but only just.

Agreed that Milligan's heart isn't really in this any more. His stuff reads like the work of someone who's expecting it to get cancelled any day, and doesn't care.

Papers, anyone, anywhere?
(prev. Papers @ 21C !)

03:39 / 09.04.08

I remember being a bit icked by the art in the first issue, which was part of the reason I dropped it almost right away. But I'm of the school that Milligan and Fegredo should be chained together for all time.

But this might be a better discussion for one of the Milligan threads...

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