Comic Book Talk

[GrandAdmiral]

But Rob is a coked up goofball who is mad he didn't get invited to a party. Also, he is a creator of Deadpool in name only. His original version is almost a completely different character than the one that became popular. Rob should count his blessings he was able to make a career as an artist despite literally not being able to forking draw.

So anyway, the wrong guy made the right point for the wrong reason.

Exactly this. I've met him twice and twice I've told him off. Last time was actually due to how he was treating someone else. He thinks he's more than he actually is. He charges for everything and actually thinks his signature is worth $1,000 a pop (it's not). He disappeared for a while after wrongly predicting that DC would be out of business within a year and fans rightfully called him out when proven wrong.

Good riddance.

 

[Sun Wukong]

Exactly this. I've met him twice and twice I've told him off. Last time was actually due to how he was treating someone else. He thinks he's more than he actually is. He charges for everything and actually thinks his signature is worth $1,000 a pop (it's not). He disappeared for a while after wrongly predicting that DC would be out of business within a year and fans rightfully called him out when proven wrong.

Good riddance.

If i remember correctly, this isn't even the first time he's had a public blowup and swore off working for Marvel. He's been an overly dramatic goof for decades. He's just a fundamentally unlikable person.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

From the "Something I don't expect to see on Super Bowl Sunday," file Tony Isabella, creator of Black Lightning and Misty Knight, has come out as transgender. She says she will be writing under both birth name (probably to preserve royalties) and new preferred name Jenny. I hope things go well consider the next con appearance is supposed to be in Florida at Pensacon.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Reading Batman and Superman comics off and on my whole life I always pictured and assumed that Metropolis was a stand in for New York City and Gotham was Chicago and geographically about the same

I didn't know there were supposed to both be on the east Coast and so close to each other until the Batman v Superman movie (which I know isn't comic book canon, but until that movie I hadn't even considered they were that close)
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One of Stan Lee's many innovations as Marvel Comics editor-in-chief was setting the publisher's superhero stories in the real-world location of New York City. That greater sense of reality and interconnectivity within the comics helped create a sense of community among the fans (which Lee purposefully cultivated).

You can track the trend of creators and fans trying to fit superheroes into the "real world" back to Lee's marvelous NYC. Compare this to the older heroes of DC Comics, who had their adventures in places like Gotham City, Star City, etc. These characters had made up homes because they were so obviously figures who could never exist in our world; writing a superhero comic is like telling a fairy tale.

Note how Superman's home, Metropolis, is literally named for the word meaning "large city." But again, a lot of comic fans really like to know where the fabulistic cities of DC are, if only for internal consistency. That's especially true with the most famous one: Batman's Gotham City.

So, canonical answer: Gotham City is in the state of New Jersey. (Maybe there's a reason "The Penguin" takes so much from "The Sopranos.") In "The Amazing World of DC Comics" issue #14 (published in 1977), writer Mark Gruenwald writes an encyclopedic history of the Justice League. In the character bio section, Gruenwald explicitly labels Gotham City as being in New Jersey.

(Gruenwald also listed Metropolis as being in Delaware in this issue, which has likewise been accepted as canon.) New Jersey makes sufficient sense as the site of Gotham; it's not New York itself, but close enough. Since then, Gotham is usually, implicitly written as being in New Jersey — but not always.

In the animated "Young Justice," a map of the U.S. East Coast shows that Gotham is in southern Connecticut, around where Bridgeport, CT, is in real life.

Like New Jersey, Connecticut is an East Coast state that borders New York, so it fits the profile Gotham should have. As a born and raised Connecticut native, Batman and co. being fellow Nutmeggers obviously appealed to me. But that's the point, isn't it? Gotham City is supposed to be anywhere and nowhere, like Springfield in "The Simpsons," so that anyone can see their own hometown in it.

DC has resisted the assumption that Gotham City is a replacement for New York City; the real New York City has even appeared in several DC Comics, so it and Gotham exist simultaneously in the DC Universe. But if there's one real city Gotham allegorizes, it's NYC.

"Gotham" is a nickname for New York City, coined by writer Washington Irving in the 1800s. When Batman debuted in 1939, DC Comics (then National Comics) was also based in NYC, and so that's where Batman's credited creators Bill Finger and Bob Kane lived. In fact, "Detective Comics" #33 (the first depiction of Batman's often retold origin story) explicitly labeled his hometown as Manhattan. It was only a year into publication, in 1940's "Batman" #4, when Batman was relocated to the fictional Gotham City.............

Where Is Batman's Gotham City Located In The Pages Of DC Comics? - SlashFilm

Gotham City might be fictional, but it's tied to a real-world location in DC Comics, and various cities have played Gotham on the big screen.

www.slashfilm.com

 

[GrandAdmiral]

I just want to say FORK YOU DAN DIDIO AND BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS for aging him up in the first place... butt crevasses...

Jonathan Kent Named Super Son Not To Confuse With James Gunn Superman

Jonathan Kent to be known as Super Son rather than Superman, so as not to add confusion during the release of James Gunn's Superman movie.

bleedingcool.com

 

[bonnjer]

I just want to say FORK YOU DAN DIDIO AND BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS for aging him up in the first place... butt crevasses...

Jonathan Kent Named Super Son Not To Confuse With James Gunn Superman

Jonathan Kent to be known as Super Son rather than Superman, so as not to add confusion during the release of James Gunn's Superman movie.

bleedingcool.com

Didn't I see somewhere that they were going to de-age him? Or maybe it's just too early and I haven't had my coffee yet so my brain is making stuff up.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

Didn't I see somewhere that they were going to de-age him? Or maybe it's just too early and I haven't had my coffee yet so my brain is making stuff up.

They de-aged him in a one-shot issue of Shazam last week. Was just for that issue, which I hated.

 

[Rysilk]

Exactly this. I've met him twice and twice I've told him off. Last time was actually due to how he was treating someone else. He thinks he's more than he actually is. He charges for everything and actually thinks his signature is worth $1,000 a pop (it's not). He disappeared for a while after wrongly predicting that DC would be out of business within a year and fans rightfully called him out when proven wrong.

Good riddance.

Holy crap. I wouldn't pay Denzel Washington a grand for an auto, let alone Rob Liefield.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

Holy crap. I wouldn't pay Denzel Washington a grand for an auto, let alone Rob Liefield.

Oh yeah. He charges like $200 for a regular auto. He adds an extra $150 if you're submitting it for grading. If it's New Mutants #98, it was $850 + $150 if being witnessed for grading.

He wanted like $35-40 for a photo.

Dude is worse than Neal Adams used to be. Only difference, Neal Adams is considered a legend.

 

[Cage1]

This is pretty rad. My wife's uncle is sort of a conspiracy wacko. He used to be pretty cool, but he got old and crazy. Past few years he's been living in the grandparents' house. There had long been rumors of a stash of comic books he bought as a kid and kept around. A few years ago, while we were staying in the grandparents' house, I saw the boxes. I opened one and just on the top were Thor and Dr. Strange from the 1960s. Ever since I got that taste I've wanted to look through those boxes.

Fast forward a few years. He's in the ICU. (Not the rad part). He told his sister (wife's mom) to take the boxes out of the house to keep other crazy siblings from taking them and selling them. Yada yada, they brought me one box (of 5) to look through and inventory. I imagine the rest will be forthcoming.

Sweet sassy molassy. This is one box. Over 200 comics from 60s and 70s. I've been through half the box. Mostly what you'd imagine (fair condition, low value), but a few gems like these.



Now the only problem is what to do with this erection. It's been over 4 hours and I'm starting to worry.

Fifth and final box has been picked through. No major key issues that I can see. The average quality seems to be higher, but no real standouts. No Hulk 181. No ASM 129. And this one bothers me, but he has Silver Surfer 2-7, but no #1. Makes me wonder if he did sell off some of the big ones to live on over the years.

Anyway, some really cool ones throughout. For anyone wondering, the uncle is out of ICU. Doing dialysis. Still not great, but not at death's door, so that's good. No idea what he wants to do with these comics, but there could come a day when he decides to give them away (which would be a lot simpler than dealing with an intestate succession issue). No idea if I would be on the short list either way.

If I was ever asked to pick one to keep of the following, what do you guys think:

Iron Man #1
Silver Surfer #4
First Falcon
First Kingpin
Star Wars #1
X-men #94
First Morbuis
Vampirella #1
First Rhino

Other that I might have mentioned/shown?

 

[GrandAdmiral]

I just want to say RIP to Diamond. Their remaining assets, including Free Comic Book Day in May are going up for auction.

 

[Eeyore]

Fifth and final box has been picked through. No major key issues that I can see. The average quality seems to be higher, but no real standouts. No Hulk 181. No ASM 129. And this one bothers me, but he has Silver Surfer 2-7, but no #1. Makes me wonder if he did sell off some of the big ones to live on over the years.

Anyway, some really cool ones throughout. For anyone wondering, the uncle is out of ICU. Doing dialysis. Still not great, but not at death's door, so that's good. No idea what he wants to do with these comics, but there could come a day when he decides to give them away (which would be a lot simpler than dealing with an intestate succession issue). No idea if I would be on the short list either way.

If I was ever asked to pick one to keep of the following, what do you guys think:

Iron Man #1
Silver Surfer #4
First Falcon
First Kingpin
Star Wars #1
X-men #94
First Morbuis
Vampirella #1
First Rhino

Other that I might have mentioned/shown?

Iron man. The value of Captain America #117 is volatile. It'll probably tank in a year or two. I guess that it depends on what you collect though

 

[Cage1]

Iron man. The value of Captain America #117 is volatile. It'll probably tank in a year or two. I guess that it depends on what you collect though

That’s a good one. Iron Man and Silver surfer were my jams as a kid, so I’d lean toward that or the SS4. I do like that SS4 cover though just in terms of maybe having a display piece.

 

[Sun Wukong]

Iron man. The value of Captain America #117 is volatile. It'll probably tank in a year or two. I guess that it depends on what you collect though

I think with the apparent continued decline in popularity of the MCU, a lot of those crazy price spikes that would hit first appearances or other key issues for characters debuting in movies are going to level off in the next couple of years.