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Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 20 Apr 2020, 4:30pm
by Dr. Medulla
Kory wrote:
20 Apr 2020, 4:09pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 Apr 2020, 2:51pm
For the last few months, John Byrne has been putting up pages of his X-Men fantasy series. Basically, what if Claremont left the book and not Byrne. He's uploaded, I dunno, seven issues now. And while the pencils are still fantastic, my god is he a mediocre writer. The stories have been really dull, but worse is that his narrative ADD. Every page or two he has to flash to outer space or the Savage Land or Xavier's mansion or the Baxter Building or …. Just constantly one scene cutting to another scene cutting to another scene. For all Byrne's complaints about the state of comics and non-traditional storytelling, it's extremely postmodern in its constant jumping from one narrative to the next. No flow at all.
To be fair, Claremont's revisiting of the title over the years is also impossible to read without falling asleep. The only one I really got into was his third run at one of the flagships because Alan Davis was on pencils.
I'm definitely not here to suggest Claremont is superior. Byrne in the early 80s was a fantastic storyteller—his FF was mesmerizing—but his writing on this faux series is both dull and poorly constructed. I can see why Marvel passed on publishing it. It wouldn't just be the PR hell from people combing thru all the offensive things he's said in the past twenty years, but that the stories themselves just aren't interesting at all. Yay, the X-Men going down to the Savage Land. Yay, the X-Men fight some Sentinels. But there's also flipping back and forth to the Shiar and other places every couple pages, complete with his narrator telling people they'll have to wait to see what happens because he's moving the action elsewhere. It's just awful writing or construction. The art, tho, is still great.

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 23 Apr 2020, 9:42am
by Dr. Medulla
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Editor's note: Slight art tweak. In panel 3, make the girl's eyes roll up to convey sarcasm.

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 25 Apr 2020, 8:31am
by Dr. Medulla
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Editor's note: Add lots of laughter coming from Rusty and Kevin, especially in panel two.

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 27 Apr 2020, 8:30am
by Dr. Medulla
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Threatened by fire, the campers simply fly away to safety.

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 27 Apr 2020, 8:46am
by revbob
Dr. Medulla wrote:
27 Apr 2020, 8:30am
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Threatened by fire, the campers simply fly away to safety.
In that first panel, she's like "oh no you come back here and burn with me"

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 27 Apr 2020, 9:07am
by Dr. Medulla
revbob wrote:
27 Apr 2020, 8:46am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
27 Apr 2020, 8:30am
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Threatened by fire, the campers simply fly away to safety.
In that first panel, she's like "oh no you come back here and burn with me"
Ha!

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 28 Apr 2020, 8:43am
by Dr. Medulla
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Saying look out during an inferno counts as saving someone? Man, the bar for heroism is pretty fucking low. Hey, revbob, don't listen to any Katy Perry today. Yay, I'm a hero!

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 28 Apr 2020, 9:15am
by revbob
Dr. Medulla wrote:
28 Apr 2020, 8:43am
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Saying look out during an inferno counts as saving someone? Man, the bar for heroism is pretty fucking low. Hey, revbob, don't listen to any Katy Perry today. Yay, I'm a hero!
But Tuesday IS my Katy Perry day.

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 28 Apr 2020, 9:24am
by Dr. Medulla
revbob wrote:
28 Apr 2020, 9:15am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
28 Apr 2020, 8:43am
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Saying look out during an inferno counts as saving someone? Man, the bar for heroism is pretty fucking low. Hey, revbob, don't listen to any Katy Perry today. Yay, I'm a hero!
But Tuesday IS my Katy Perry day.
Watch out behind you, someone has a Katy Perry record!

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 30 Apr 2020, 8:06am
by Dr. Medulla
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Panel 4: Mark ducks out of sight and starts snickering. "Stupid, Rusty," he thinks.

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 30 Apr 2020, 9:34am
by revbob
Dr. Medulla wrote:
30 Apr 2020, 8:06am
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Panel 4: Mark ducks out of sight and starts snickering. "Stupid, Rusty," he thinks.
What about Freckles ? His hot wife, bratty kid are descending into the outer rings of hell and he cant even say hey Susie.

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 30 Apr 2020, 9:53am
by Dr. Medulla
revbob wrote:
30 Apr 2020, 9:34am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
30 Apr 2020, 8:06am
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Panel 4: Mark ducks out of sight and starts snickering. "Stupid, Rusty," he thinks.
What about Freckles ? His hot wife, bratty kid are descending into the outer rings of hell and he cant even say hey Susie.
Mark didn't try very hard to save Dr. Camel, either. This is why he's a nature expert—he knows that, fuck it, lots of creatures gonna die. Circle of life and all that.

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 02 May 2020, 9:03am
by Dr. Medulla
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"Good thing we have an expert naturalist here. I don't think any of us would have thought to use water to protect us from fire!"

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 07 May 2020, 2:36pm
by Dr. Medulla
I've been re-reading Brubaker and Phillips' Fatale and am convinced that it would make a superior tv adaptation on a streaming service or HBO (something that allows for the sex and violence). One season of each of Josephine's various extended events, all tied by the larger narrative. I so want that to happen. :angry:

Re: Flex and Wolter's Den of Nerdly Awesomeness

Posted: 16 May 2020, 10:21am
by Dr. Medulla
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… said no one ever to a Kevin.