Hey /co/, whatcha doin?
>>83256064
You're dead
Sittin'. Sweatin'.
>>83256221
Hey Boco
>>83249533
AM: Yeah, I know that people think I've been terribly mean to the poor little American comics industry.It's so unfair when you think about it, isn't it, that you've got a barely-educated thug from the English midlands picking upon this huge multinational corporation. You know, I ought to be ashamed of myself.
With regard toThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, what I'm doing with that is a kind of literary game that has been going on as long as books have been around.
I mean, it probably started with whoever came up with Jason and the Argonauts, who thought, "Hey wouldn't it be great if we had a sort of Justice League of ancient Greece. And we got Hercules and Jason and all of these other characters and you know..."
More recently, you have authors like Edgar Allan Poe. He writesThe Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Jules Verne thinks it's great, so he writes a sequel to it. H.P. Lovecraft--he likes the same story, so he writes his conclusion to it inAt the Mountains of Madness.
I don't think any of these people would have minded because they were all good writers who were all bringing something new to the mix. They weren't exploiting the original works. Jules Verne called his novella,The Ice SphinxorLe Sphinx Des Glaces. He didn't call itThe Return of Arthur Gordon Pym.
So, what we're doing is taking these characters that are mostly in the public domain. If they're not in the public domain, they are only referred to glancingly, as a bit of a cultural joke.
It's a bit different to bringing out a comic calledRorschach.
I don't mind people referencing my characters. It happens quite a bit. I don't even mind, like I say, with characters like John Constantine--who I've got no interest in anymore. I expected him to be handled by other writers.
But there's no real comparison. InThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, I am not adapting characters. I am flat out stealing them in what I think is an honorable way.
I think it was one of the French Surrealists who said, "Whenever I steal something, I leave my knife." Nobody said, "Would you like to do an Alan Quatermain miniseries?" I didn't have some company suggest that to me and, because I was under contract, I had to say "All right." I took this character that, frankly, at the time when we brought outThe Leaguewas almost entirely forgotten except by the perhaps half-a-dozen people who actually belonged toRider Haggard Society. I mean, the way that I look these days, me and Kevin, we both feel that we probably ought to be members! What we were doing was taking these often obscure literary characters and, when they were in the public domain, yes, we could use them and we could hopefully bring new ideas to them.
There wasn't any point in simply recycling these characters. I think that our interpretations of them have put them into new contexts, and have probably been truer to the originals than any of the official adaptations. We've had several probably decades of people who probably thought that Captain Nemo looked like James Mason. No, he was an Indian Prince.
KA: Right, right. Verne didn't explicitly state that until the sequel,The Mysterious Island.
AM: Right. So, it is done with respect for the material, apart from our satirical touches--in which it is sometimes done with contempt for the material. But, this is a bit different to actually, one would have thought, breeching copyright and also breeching a lot of moral obligations.
KA: And, nobody is saying thatThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemenis the official sequel toDraculaor any of the other works in question.
>>83255969
tl:dr
It's fine when I steal literary characters and change them.
It's not fine when a company uses their property because I say so.
AM: Yes, of course.The Leagueis not an adaptation. It is not me adaptingThe Invisible Man. I'm not taking those peoples' original stories. I'm against adaptation in general--and this is perhaps a different subject--but generally, and there are exceptions, I don't think it works when you adapt one story to another medium. However, there is a tradition of what we did inThe Leaguein literature. I got a great academic book some months ago and I've forgotten the name of the author but it's calledThe Afterlife of Character[ed. note - Written by David A. Brewer, 1726 - 1825]. And, you can tell it's an academic book because they didn't put an "S" after "character." You know, if they had called it "The Afterlife of Characters" that would have sounded a bit less academic! It was a very good book, and it was talking about the incredible afterlife a lot of these characters have had. I mean, Gulliver fromGulliver's Travels. There were so many books that were written about sons of Gulliver, further adventures of Gulliver, books inspired or about characters that were very similar to Gulliver. The same is true with Robinson Crusoe. That spun things likeThe Swiss Family Robinson. You know, obviously, they were a Swiss family, but it's not likely that their name was Robinson. That was a reference toRobinson Crusoe.
KA: Sure.
Hmm I like that costume.
>mfw he becomes a competent villain
>implying Chris Evans's Cap will ever be the bad guy
>implying Evans Cap would ever be wrong
You're talking about the most based man alive
Will Robbie Reyes fade away or will his popularity spike up again? I wish there was more of him. Also Ghost Rider Thread
>>83254488
Hopefully he'll stay a cult favorite and will make an appearance in a team book or someone will take another crack at him down the road.
Worst case scenario he gets the Pat Mulligan treatment and gets murdered off-panel.
His book was pretty great initially, then it got worse with Tradd Moore leaving and looming cancelation. Not shit-tier bad, but certainly worse.
>>83254763
That's fair. I mean he's actually a cool character, certainly one of the better recent additions. Marvel probably didn't see the projected response sadly. Maybe more Kamala team ups can save him
Choose one.
For what purpose?
>>83254425
For sex.
>>83254446
Does Ariel still have the fish tail?
You are now tasked with writing the series finale to your favorite cartoon currently airing.
How badly do you fuck it up?
>>83254329
>reveal that everything since the end of s2 was Archer's coma delirium as he finally succumbs to his cancer and dies.
Yeah, it'd be pretty bad.
>>83254329
Also, that guy who posted his hypothetical Simpsons finale on reddit years ago still has the best idea for how to end that show I've ever heard
>>83254682
And that was?
I can't do it, Gordon. The joker'sMOM IS NAMED MARTHA TOO!!!
Jester!
So I just discovered this little piece of 70's nostalgia, and I have to say I kinda like it. Very typical humor for the time, and the animation is kinda sketchy in places, but overall, not too bad.
>>83254004
it's the first adult sitcom animated show?
It was a damn good show it gets a little weird partway through the series because they drop the laugh track. It picks back up After that. Great series
>>83256337
That would be The Flintstones.
Daily reminder that someone got paid to draw this
>>83253913
Better than the interior
>>83254157
No it isn't
>>83254157
It really isn't.
God-tier series finales
>>83253890
All three (or 4, depending if you count Overclockwise as a finale) of the Futurama finales were top notch. Even Into the Wild Green Yonder, which sucked as a movie, had an incredible last 10 minutes.
Actually cannot think of any /co/ examples so here.
>>83253976
Idk, the "lets go around again" bit was cute but I mean I remember ever word from The Devils Hands are Idle Playthings. That last scene is amazing. That final line is just perfect
Worth reading? Isn't this basically soft core porn?
>>83253862
>Worth reading?
>Dynamite
lol
>>83253862
I mean, if you want "basically softcore porn" read Tarot, which is at least endearingly stupid
What's wrong with reading softcore porn?
Why would a panther-themed hero have a cape?
>>83253856
Because he's also a King and a cape is a symbol of status.
>>83253906
/thread.
>>83253856
Why would a bat-themed superhero have a cape?
>No Berganza
>No Tim, Conner, Bart, Cassie
>Artist has a kind of Todd Nauck-esque style
Could we actually be gearing up for a good Teen Titans run?
>>83253793
>good
>Teen Titans
You can only have one or the other.
I want to believe
>>83253793
it's...actually possible. huh.
What's the appeal of villains that are evil just for the sake of being evil?
They make me feel good in my pants.
>>83253469
I don't have to think much when I whatch them.
Also, we all have that troll side in us like with Professor Zoom.
>>83253469
Because people likes simple things and were not always 2010's hipsters wanting deepness everywhere?
also the Bible has this type of villains and nobody complains about.
So, anybody watching this?
It's actually kinda funny
>>83253466
I haven't finished the first episode but I expected far worse. My guess is that wrestling fans will hate it more than casuals like me.
>>83253466
It rips of both Gravity Falls and the Total Drama series.
>>83254049
more like camp lazlo. but i did enjoy this
