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Post by Scott on Aug 14, 2015 6:57:28 GMT -5
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Post by geneweigel on Aug 14, 2015 9:09:10 GMT -5
I think the "devil" is in the details of how these new age comics read. I could imagine a reboot like that in the 70's but back then it would probably be written by a comic book writer and not a wannabe novelist professing to expand the medium with pretensious superficialities presented as groundbreaking. That said, they already used used DEVIL DINOSAUR in a shitty comic in 1980's called FALLEN ANGELS and that was when the writing was halfway decent. here is the premise:
Sunspot and the techno-organic alien "Warlock" (Jar Jar Binks style comic relief by Bill Sienkiwicz) from the NEW MUTANTS joined an 80's style street gang who pick up Moon Boy and Devil after some dimensional travel.
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Post by Scott on Aug 14, 2015 10:00:07 GMT -5
I can't un-know that. Dino reference: "What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world."
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Post by geneweigel on Aug 14, 2015 10:28:04 GMT -5
It was a bad time for comic fans but superficially successful for companies, writers and artists.
I believe it was the TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES cartoon that started the explosion of rabid collector fans who would buy anything "new" (READ: #1 first issues) making room for shitty comics like that. The stores originally called them "fan boys" because they drifted over from baseball card shops with the collection mentality. Later, the term "fan boy" seems to have taken on different meanings with the same universal flexibility as the term "yuppie" (which could mean rich bastard, eager beaver, suit & tie, etc. )
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Post by Scott on Aug 14, 2015 10:56:39 GMT -5
Oh yeah. I worked at a comic book store in the 80s. I knew the breed well.
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