Late Shift 138: Skeletor wants your children!

02:16 / 22.03.06

Who's up and about?

02:17 / 22.03.06

Yeah, me. I've got everyone in my office composing Snakes On A Plane haikus. It's a weird night.

02:20 / 22.03.06

Yo. Up late working on my brother's portfolio. Grr.

02:21 / 22.03.06

Stoatie, I've never been told... what do you do so late at night? Occupationally, at least.

02:22 / 22.03.06

Read newspapers. Well, they call it press monitoring or somesuch, but it's really reading newspapers.

02:22 / 22.03.06

Hey Cassie, I bet you own like a million comic books.

02:24 / 22.03.06

Want me to auction them or something? I do own many too many, but they mostly start with "X" and suck.

02:24 / 22.03.06

Stoatie, is your office pretty cool? I always picture it in my head like a punk rock Cheers.

02:26 / 22.03.06

Stoatie =

02:28 / 22.03.06

Umm... it's not that cool, really. Though I have a great idea for a horror movie set in it, which if I ever get it made will give the place a whole new image.

02:28 / 22.03.06

Shit. That was supposed to be Rhea Perlman.

02:28 / 22.03.06

Want me to auction them or something? I do own many too many, but they mostly start with "X" and suck.
Try working in a comic shop, you end up with full runs of Robin and Excaliber without realising you ever took even one out of the shop.

02:30 / 22.03.06

Though I have a great idea for a horror movie set in it,
I wonder if this thought is the one that sets those office rampage killings in motion. Disgruntled the movie.

02:31 / 22.03.06

Hey Cassie, do you know why Alan Moore would want to work on a Rob Liefeld character? I ask about this in the Moore thread in comics.

02:31 / 22.03.06

Old Alan Davis Excaliber issues would be worth a shift or two in a comics shop.

02:34 / 22.03.06

I've no idea why the Wizard would soil himself with Liefield... unless that was the point. Like a challenge or something?

Oh wait... is this a beginning of a joke?

02:36 / 22.03.06

Nah, have you read them? They're really fucking good. I'm about a quarter way through the Moore Supremes and they're great fun. Just felt odd he'd hook up with that character in the first place.

02:36 / 22.03.06

I wonder if this thought is the one that sets those office rampage killings in motion.

You're not too far off the mark...

02:37 / 22.03.06

ooh, "Story Of The Year" or whatever it's called is really fucking good, I have to admit.

02:40 / 22.03.06

Oh SUPREME!

Hahaha... yeah I'd assumed that Moore was using the Liefield ripoff to tell Superman stories the way Superman stories ought to be told. I mean, all those characters are basically the same. Samaritan, Sentry, Supreme, Mr. Majestic, Hyperion, etc. It's funny you can't go too far into superherodom without falling back on the archetypes of the original. Liefield outright stole character types - Moore saw through it and used it to tell great stories. I wasn't into comics in the mid ninties... that's all I've put together.

02:41 / 22.03.06

The one with fanboy Cyberzerk? Good stuff.

02:43 / 22.03.06

Speaking of which, I also got some Majestics and they're really disappointing. Really weak stuff (arts ok though)

02:46 / 22.03.06

You follow characters? I figured you followed writers.

And I think during the whole Supreme years, Moore was adamant about not working with either DC or Marvel... hence ABC was an Wildstorm imprint until DC bought Wildstorm... I think.

02:49 / 22.03.06

Only character I really follow is Captain America. But yeah, I usually follow writers. That's why I got the Moore Supreme stuff. Just kind of got the Majestics because he seemed kinda cool in the new Captain Atom series, but ugh.

02:51 / 22.03.06

Oh here's a q. You've mentioned a few times in passing, and it always struck me as unique. Why's Cap your fave character? Seems an odd choice... but like I said, I read books with "X"s.

02:56 / 22.03.06

Okay, WTF?

Someone call Haus, and then maybe get alas to bat cleanup.

02:59 / 22.03.06

ooh Jesus, not again... I'll go post something in the mod requests thread in Policy, unless someone's done it already.

03:00 / 22.03.06

Cap was like Superman for me when I was little. One of my first comics was a Captain America comic. Alan Moore once said that Superman was like Jesus for him, not having a very bible-y family, and Superman having all these great moral values and helping people out all the time, and I guess Cap was like that for me. Especially since at the time everyone was dark n gritty, Cap seemed to be one of the only nice guys around. Cap always did what he thought was right even when it cost him the Cap job, or got him banned from the country, and I just kinda looked up to him as a little guy. And luckily as I've got older the creative team stays pretty good. I started with the Gruenwald days (he had the longest run), Waid put Cap back on the map with sales, Brubaker's kicking ass on it, and the only guy who really wrote awful Cap stories was Dan Jurgens who did an awful intolerant, asshole, grumpy old man Cap.

Saint Keggers

03:03 / 22.03.06

Hello everyone!

03:03 / 22.03.06

Ah cool, thanks.

I don't have a favorrite character, so it always strikes me as ..."lucky" when someone has one they identify with. Like you can grow up with it or something.

03:04 / 22.03.06

Yo Keg.

03:06 / 22.03.06

Hey Keggers.

Baz Auckland

03:06 / 22.03.06

Hola...

It's 2pm for me right now, but in spirit I'm lateshifting!

(or procrastinating at work... take your pick...)

When I was a kid, I searched out comics with Scourge in it. He was the masked vigilante that Marvel wrote into mostly Captain America comics so they could neatly kill off 32-odd old and useless Supervillans...

03:09 / 22.03.06

So Scourge is your favorite character?