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Nadare Xizos
 Posts: 115 Location: The Heero Hole |
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Retarded. I have both an interest in manga and comics, and buy both regularly. That doesn't make me any less of an American.
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RyanSaotome
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Until America learns how to draw attractive girls and makes more moe/slice of life stuff, I'll just skip American comics. I have no interest in super hero stuff that never ends.
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enurtsol
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Are people racist against Chinese when they boycott buying Made in China?
There are plenty of attractive girls (some women complain "impossibly" attractive) - they just tend to be (or look) "of age."
Quote: I don't have a lot of new 52 #1's, I've been reordering them! Plenty keep selling. I'm trying to push more to new people. I really don't see how this is much different than the "trade a twilight for a 30 days of night" promotion other than a nationalist joke based on the cover image. I support manga and have tons of anime events here at my shop, even with this promotion, I was planning to have a used manga sell with would expose people to manga at $1 a piece. As far as the math, a "used" manga isn't worth retail, a new DC #1 is. At that point it's just up to the fan to decide if they want something new for something old. Gamestop does asymmetrical trade ins all the time. As for if I'm really pushing nationalism, that's silly to me, this stuff is printed in Canada anyways. I'm playing off the cover with the big flag and no ones is buying "american" anyway the are getting a book free. Last edited by enurtsol on Wed Jan 18, 2012 3:56 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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oblivious247
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Then don't read superhero comics..... |
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giapet
Industry Insider
 Posts: 205 Location: Washington DC |
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Someone recommended Fables earlier and I want to second it- it's probably one of the best American comics coming out of the big publishers these days.
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Shenl742
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Yeah, there are plenty of great comics which aren't about superheroes... ...and plenty of great comics that ARE about superheroes. As for the rest? Well for slice-of-life you'll have to turn to webcomics ...and Americans tend to be attracted to women taller then 4 feet. You'll have to get over that hurdle yourself....or read Sugar and Spike I guess if you want something cute and adorable. |
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oblivious247
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There is published slice of life, it's just really hard to come by because of such a small demand for it. I hear Strangers in Paradise is pretty good, but I haven't gotten around to reading it myself. Jeff Lemire's Ghost Stories comes to mind. Not the most appealing book visually, but a very heartwrenching story about a man's relationship with his brother and how it all fell apart. Last edited by oblivious247 on Wed Jan 18, 2012 4:18 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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krelyan
Posts: 173 Location: Utah |
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Not exactly. This was part of a program DC was offering that if you featured ONLY DC characters (which this ad does do), they'd subsidize 75% of the ad cost. I'd imagine things like appropriateness got glossed over by whomever the paper shuffler was that got assigned to approve these. Oops. |
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kyokun703
 Posts: 2505 Location: Orgrimmar |
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I'd like to add Chew, by John Layman and Rob Guillory to this list. Cracks me up. And I second Fables (or third, since Gia also supports this), Walking Dead, and Strangers in Paradise. And a one-off: Anya's Ghost. |
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Shenl742
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Add Locke & Key, as I'm totally obsessed with it right now |
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oblivious247
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Morning Glories Gotham Central (Batman appears in it, as does some of his villains briefly, but this is primarily a police procedural not a superhero book) Scalped |
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RestLessone
 Posts: 1426 Location: New York |
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^ Don't forget Beasts of Burden! And Johnny the Homicidal Maniac if you're into that brand of dark humor.
Thanks for creating the quote, enurtsol. I probably should have thought of that when posting 
1. Define attractive. Judging by your post, you want anime-esque moe-like females...But if we're talking superheroes, the women are usually older and more realistic (at least when compared to manga characters). Or is Black Canary just ugly? 2. There are some slice of life series and there will probably never be moe. 3. There are more than just superhero comics. And some of the superhero comics do end, though they're usually creator-owned. At this point, people on this forum who still think there are nothing but superhero comics must be plugging their ears and screaming. Or just daft. We've been over it multiple times: there is more to the US comic industry than spandex. Last edited by RestLessone on Wed Jan 18, 2012 4:56 pm; edited 3 times in total |
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Zin5ki
 Posts: 6680 Location: London, UK |
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This campaign could potentially be undermined by attempting to trade in OEM titles.
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Shenl742
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And unfortunately it sounds extremely like westerners who claim that anime is nothing but DBZ, Pokemon and hentai. Doesn't matter which fandom you support, generalisations like this are hypocritical and very destructive |
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giapet
Industry Insider
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It would be pretty funny if everyone tried to trade in old CMX copies of Megatokyo. American-made and DC-printed to boot. |
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