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Post by Defiant1 on Nov 24, 2020 17:34:51 GMT -5
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Post by Defiant1 on Nov 24, 2020 17:30:42 GMT -5
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Post by Defiant1 on May 27, 2020 19:43:51 GMT -5
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Post by Defiant1 on Nov 28, 2014 10:49:09 GMT -5
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Post by Defiant1 on Jan 26, 2014 13:26:00 GMT -5
The permissions are a mess to sort out. I will make the content viewable if I find a way. Until then, everything redirects to the new host. Proboards 5 is suitable as a toy for 3 year old children. You can play with it all you want, but functionally it's pretty much useless.
Defiant1
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Post by Defiant1 on Jan 24, 2014 22:26:23 GMT -5
Got the same message on my board a few days ago. Not sure how to proceed really. I didn't even make this post. It's chopped about 95% of what I said off and you were quoting from this before I even posted!!! WTF??? You posted it 2 years ago. This is an old thread. Defiant1
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Post by Defiant1 on Jan 24, 2014 22:23:13 GMT -5
So this is what it's like after the earth is devastated by nukes. I could destroy it more. Defiant1
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Post by starseed on Jan 24, 2014 22:03:59 GMT -5
This is a historic loss if all the content of this board disappears
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Post by gowaltrip on Jan 24, 2014 21:13:33 GMT -5
Got the same message on my board a few days ago. Not sure how to proceed really. I didn't even make this post. It's chopped about 95% of what I said off and you were quoting from this before I even posted!!! WTF???
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Post by gowaltrip on Jan 24, 2014 21:11:07 GMT -5
I forgot my password to log in and I had to watch a commercial to prove I was human! I guess the board is closed now. I had the same type of problem as I was logging on. If you go to multiple Proboards message boards, Proboards is trying to make it where you only need 1 password for all the Proboards message boards you go to. It took me a moment to remember which one it wanted. Welcome to the Proboards CRAP zone. It's a shame they forced this onto their loyal users. I havent liked it since I first seen the changes coming a little over a year ago. My board hasn't upgraded yet but I'm sure it will in the next day or two and I'm not looking forward to it. Defiant1 appears to be moving to another site host and will start over. I think it is a shame. Unfortunately most of my surfing and posting takes place on a phone and it's nearly impossible for me to make a change like Defiant1 is. Also I am slow enough on mine that I wouldn't want to start all over. But I know its a matter of principal for him. I honestly don't blame him but its a shame to walk away from 10 years of posts made here. If I did that, I would feel bitter. Anyway, whatever happens here, I'm sure I will follow whatever happens here. Hope to see you guys wherever we need to go. PS....This new version sucks!
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Post by starseed on Jan 24, 2014 20:47:38 GMT -5
So this is what it's like after the earth is devastated by nukes.
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Post by starseed on Jan 24, 2014 20:46:21 GMT -5
I guess you're right, Verloc. I just saw it says CLOSED: Formerly the Life After Comics Discussion Forum.
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Post by starseed on Jan 24, 2014 20:43:02 GMT -5
Still functioning at the moment. I feel weird, like being on borrowed time.
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Post by verloc on Jan 24, 2014 20:34:49 GMT -5
I forgot my password to log in and I had to watch a commercial to prove I was human! I guess the board is closed now.
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Post by Defiant1 on Jan 21, 2014 20:33:54 GMT -5
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Post by starseed on Jan 19, 2014 22:50:41 GMT -5
Thanks.
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Post by verloc on Jan 19, 2014 20:41:13 GMT -5
I'm curious. Why the interest in detectives? I'm writing a comic featuring a detective. I've read all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories as well as all of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlow novels, and some Spillane. As a kid I read every Hardy Boys book, so my affinity for the detective story goes way back. Additionally, my favorite TV show is Homicide Hunter, which features Lt. Joe Kenda, a detective who solved almost 400 homicides. However, I'm motivated by comics that have seen print. I see. Good luck!
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Post by starseed on Jan 19, 2014 18:16:18 GMT -5
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Post by starseed on Jan 19, 2014 18:15:53 GMT -5
I added Dick Tracy to the top post. I'm curious. Why the interest in detectives? I'm writing a comic featuring a detective. I've read all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories as well as all of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlow novels, and some Spillane. As a kid I read every Hardy Boys book, so my affinity for the detective story goes way back. Additionally, my favorite TV show is Homicide Hunter, which features Lt. Joe Kenda, a detective who solved almost 400 homicides. However, I'm motivated by comics that have seen print.
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Post by verloc on Jan 19, 2014 16:08:41 GMT -5
This was inevitable. I noticed awhile back that Dark Horse had a vampire theme going across various titles. Sometime after that Joss Whedon was signed to a contract by Marvel. I looked at the recent sales chart you linked to and did not see Buffy on the list or anything related to Whedon. I think Marvel is digging the grave for Dark Horse. By my estimation, Star Wars was the only thing making Dark Horse any profit. My suggestions would be to: 1) Acquire the rights to publish Cameron's Avatar if possible. We know two movies are in simultaneous development and Cameron's goal has been to have a licensing empire along the lines of what George Lucas had. Now would be the time to get a jump start. 2) Acquire the license to Broadway & Defiant on a test drive basis and appoint Jim Shooter to manage the line. Offer Jim a base salary with a lucrative deal if he can make the line profitable. 3) Acquire the rights to publish comics based upon Forbidden Planet and hire Strazynski to write it. The planet has a backstory wich could be explored. The alien race could still be alive on other planets, etc. 4) Bladerunner! 5) Work with Mike Judge to develop some new original concepts.
Defiant1I bolded your quote in case the folks at Dark Horse read it: 1) Re: Avatar - Avatar comics would be epic under the DH brand. Maybe JMS's current work on their Terminator series this year would help bridge some communications with Cameron and DH on some comic developements. Cameron's name would be a bigger draw than Whedon's Buffy/Serenity titles in comics. I still want to see what Cameron had in mind for Terminator 3 and his Aliens 5 script too. 2) Defiant & Broadway characters <---- yes please this.
Mike, please get on the phone with Shooter and let him oversee an imprint of these properties as an editor and not just as a head writer like last time. He will inject some excitement to the industry again like no other company has been able to do. Let Shooter build it and they will come. 3) A Forbidden Planet series would be fun to see. And that script treatment by Cameron and JMS that hasn't come out yet as a movie. I'd buy it. 4) They've said they have some communications with Ridley Scott's office regarding the Prometheus comics storylines coming out this year. I read Scott is a big fan of the Heavy Metal comics. He seems to be warming up to Dark Horse more lately lately. Bladerunner comics would be such an incredible property for comics. Especially to the leadup for the sequel. If you saw the Prometheus movie yet, there was alot (pretty much all) taken from one of the old Aliens comics from Dark Horse in 1999....almost scene by scene from the art panels too: www.darkhorse.com/Books/48-196/Aliens-Apocalypse---The-Destroying-Angels-TPB5) I wondered if Mike Judge was a comic fan. I would be all over comics from him too. I like #2.
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Post by verloc on Jan 19, 2014 16:01:13 GMT -5
I added Dick Tracy to the top post. I'm curious. Why the interest in detectives?
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Post by Defiant1 on Jan 17, 2014 20:15:30 GMT -5
The printed word has hope! I already knew what the article was saying. The print version of a magazine gives the online version clout. It also acts as an advertising flyer for a website. The revenue stream comes from a well updated web page with ads. Stagnant web pages are not productive and won't generate repeat visits. Defiant1
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Post by starseed on Jan 17, 2014 10:18:01 GMT -5
The printed word has hope!
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Post by Defiant1 on Jan 15, 2014 18:42:42 GMT -5
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Post by Defiant1 on Jan 15, 2014 4:18:35 GMT -5
Thats a great way to describe digital coloring. A lot of it does look the same and gives an almost plastic feel to it. Its rare I open a comic and feel like they did a good job and often when i do, they muted the colors. All too often digital colors are too bright and blinding sometimes to the point of being annoying. It feels like digital coloring needs a upgrade or overhaul to incorporate a more human element to coloring so we can make the truly greats into stars and know who they are because right now it feels like 2 or 3 people are coloring all of comics. The digital filters apply math to calculate what each pixel should be. We don't have a way to make the math complicated enough to simulate the randomness of real life. They can simulate a brush tool in photoshop having the texture of wood, but it will never simulate painting over real wood, the pitted areas that have to be repainted, etc. It would be like taking every thing you say in a day and having it dubbed with an announcer's voice. The voice doesn't match the face and everyone else has the same voice also. After awhile, you miss the diversity of everyone having their own voice. At least I would. To some degree Charltons all looked alike, EC's looked alike, and Marvel looked alike because they had different production methods and styles. Dell had painted covers while other didn't. In the end, there was variety. Now you can go from one publisher to the next and it all looks alike. Defiant1
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Post by gowaltrip on Jan 14, 2014 21:53:45 GMT -5
Thats a great way to describe digital coloring. A lot of it does look the same and gives an almost plastic feel to it. Its rare I open a comic and feel like they did a good job and often when i do, they muted the colors. All too often digital colors are too bright and blinding sometimes to the point of being annoying. It feels like digital coloring needs a upgrade or overhaul to incorporate a more human element to coloring so we can make the truly greats into stars and know who they are because right now it feels like 2 or 3 people are coloring all of comics.
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Post by starseed on Jan 11, 2014 12:52:58 GMT -5
I added Dick Tracy to the top post.
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Post by Defiant1 on Jan 9, 2014 19:56:28 GMT -5
It's frustrating to see the smudgy inking job they do to some of those books. It's not even present in much of the other books which I don't understand since they're such seasoned creators who have been in the game for so long...why pass that as comic art in their books? It would be better if they just printed them as black and white sketches instead. Maybe they're influenced by the Mignola art style. That blotchy computer inking effect has got to go. That plagued the gold key line and the Aliens 2009 relaunch a year before that. I just saw a pretty good documentary about Drew Struzan. Movie studios now prefer photoshopped computer poster art over painted art: I think they are just desperate to reduce costs on the poorer selling properties. Below a certain volume, the titles just aren't going to make money. Computers are powerful enough now to get better resolution than an an old Kodak photograph. My problem with computer art is the digital processing makes it all inorganic. It starts looking alike because the same math and digital filters are processing everything. Defiant1
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Post by vikingspawn on Jan 9, 2014 16:32:33 GMT -5
It's frustrating to see the smudgy inking job they do to some of those books. It's not even present in much of the other books which I don't understand since they're such seasoned creators who have been in the game for so long...why pass that as comic art in their books? It would be better if they just printed them as black and white sketches instead. Maybe they're influenced by the Mignola art style. That blotchy computer inking effect has got to go. That plagued the gold key line and the Aliens 2009 relaunch a year before that. I just saw a pretty good documentary about Drew Struzan. Movie studios now prefer photoshopped computer poster art over painted art:
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Post by Defiant1 on Jan 8, 2014 22:27:56 GMT -5
Wow! They must REALLY suck! LOL! You were improving at an incredible rate. Defiant1
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