Jack Gilbert:
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Cake day: July 30th, 2023
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2·20 hours agoIf you want some great “Lost” Dave Stevens stuff, pick up the 3 volume collection of the Star Wars newspaper strips.
It was ostensibly done by Russ Manning, which is just a joy to see on it’s own, but Stevens worked in Manning’s studio and ghosted some of the art for the strip.
99% of it is pure Manning, but every now and then… “Oh, yeah, totally Dave…” (it’s the eyes)
if you’re going to ask the question, the least you could do is link to a source…
13·3 days agoThey were fun, the first time. But how many iterations does someone need of the same game?
People complain about the latest game in a series like Tomb Raider or Assassin’s Creed going “OMG, IT’S JUST THE SAME THING AGAIN!” It’s literally a joke with Madden or Call of Duty, but for some reason Nintendo gets a pass.
It’s cool if you’re a kid and Breath of the Wild is the first Zelda game you ever played… For anyone else? Unless you have on the nostalgia goggles, there are better things out there.
4·3 days agoNo worries, like I say, I get where the other poster was coming from on AI slop, but on zoom you can clearly see the coloring error on the re-master.
There are black lines on both sides of the hand that the modern era colorist mistook for fingers, resulting in:
Doesn’t appear to be AI. May still be image manipulation, but if so, it’s done by DC.
See page #180 from “The Golden Age Batman Volume 1”: (Batman #1, Spring 1940)
Zooming in on your original and the current reprint, I see what’s going on, it’s a coloring error on the left and right most “fingers”, not an image manipulation.
Reminds me of an Australian zombie flick called Undead from 2003:
Vic and Blood man… I thought I was the only one who remembered that one!
Did you know that it was originally a short story by Harlan Ellison and a FILM in 1975 before Corben worked it into a comic?
The film is notable for starring an IMPOSSIBLY young Don Johnson (25 or 26 at the time of production).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Dog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Dog_(1975_film)
Trailer:
Dark Horse has been collecting all the Corben material as a series of REALLY NICE hardcover graphic novels, I hope they get a shot at Vic and Blood.
(Den volumes 1-5, Murky World, Dimwood, Rowlf, Rat God, and the forthcoming Last Voyage of Sindbad, Best of Fantagor)
https://www.darkhorse.com/search/richard+corben/
I’d also say, if you like that, check out the less serious film “Six String Samurai”.
Nintendo titles are, essentially, very good introductory video games. If you’ve played, well, pretty much any RPG, there’s no point playing Zelda or Pokemon. Same for fighting games and Smash Brothers or racing games and Mario Kart.
Everyone has to get started gaming somewhere, but beyond nostalgia? The rest of gaming has moved in from Nintendo.
Very good adaptation of the manga “Lone Wolf and Cub” by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima written and drawn between 1970 to 1976.
It was hugely influential, spawning a number of films, notably two of which were combined into a single US release titled “Shogun Assassin” in 1980.
It would also serve as the basis for the graphic novel “Road to Perdition” by Max Allan Collins in 1998, which was also itself turned into a very good movie in 2002.
Nintendo Switch, I should have known better. Nintendo consoles are great for kids who are new to playing games, not so much for people who have been gaming for generations.
11·5 days agoCan’t you just run the agent remotely? 🤔
I kept my head down and worked through it, but yeah, it was scary. Lots of people saw their 401ks wiped out and I was like “First time?”
Finally! Of all the gaming companies, I think Sega is #2 behind EA on properties they own that they are doing fuck all with.
I’d love a current gen Burning Rangers, or Phantasy Star (not online).
Klimpt has a similar problem.
vs. everything else…
It will be a great time to invest in the stock market.
People forget the 2008 crash. In March, 2009, before Obama policy was passed, the DOW bottomed out at 6,547.05.
It’s currently at 49,704.34.
If you had invested in an index fund back then, you would have earned 7.59x your money.
2·7 days agoThey could do a base model where you supply your own RAM and storage…
“3rd world pricing” only seems cheap to an outsider coming in. To a resident, a $5 pint is just as egregious as a $20 pint to us.
Take Noida for example:
Minimum wage for skilled employees is ₹16,868 per month.
That’s $175.58 US, or 246.46 Australian.