dc comics upper management is so fucking horrible that it made the worst guy ever do something good for once in his life. fuck dan didio…
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dan didio was specifically called out as not the worst! The current vultures at DC are not only worse than bill willingham, they’re worse than didio
it’s incredible that getting so thoroughly fucked by a corporation led one of the most conservative writers in comics to some very left wing views on art
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I’ve thought about making my own tiny comic public domain. It’s a free webcomic so it wouldn’t negatively affect the small amount of money I make from art sales and Patreon supporters, I don’t think. I’d like to see if anyone did something cool with the art or something. But then again, if a publisher weirdly came along who wanted to pick it up, I guess it would hose such a deal and I would feel stupid for losing out on what would have been a very welcome source of actual income. Eh. I’d like to remember to do it before I croak. I thought about just declaring it like a will in my blog (ie saying it would be PD once I’m dead) but then it occurred to me that some crazy reader might take that as a reason to kill me. Haha. Hm so what I need is a SECRET will. Yeah. And I’d have to carry it in my wallet at all times so… Wait no I’d probably need like a lawyer to remember it. Man this sucks. Well I’m gonna be more tempted to just do it as time goes on. ^ _^
Anyway, good for Willingham, probably.
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I want to say making your work public domain should work out the way Willingham is hoping it will but then I think about how Walt Disney already did this but in reverse by taking fables and stories like Snow White and Sleeping Beauty and such, and making his own copyrighted versions that he then protected so well he basically took ownership of the originals. Like those stories predate Walt Disney by centuries but nowadays you would never be able to get away with doing your own version of them like he did thanks to his successful use of copyright law.
So like… does this mean I can say torrent various Fables comics and be legally clear or just that I can fund my own Fables cinematic universe?
Prior published works might still be under copyright so torrenting the current available stuff is iffy but you would be free and clear to start creating your own Fables content whether that’s comics or movies or whatever.
Works in the public domain may be freely copied and used, and in the case of works with expired copyright terms, used without the former copyright owners’ permission. However, collections, translations and edited versions of works that contain or incorporate works in the public domain may be protected by copyright.
This makes it sound like you would be free to torrent stuff as long it was like individual pages or something but I’m sure DC’s lawyers would disagree.
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This is the point where I confess to having never heard of Fables or Bill Willingham before today and not really knowing what I’m talking about in general.
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I’ve heard of Fables a bunch but never read it, so I don’t really know either. : )
But I do know that even Disney can’t take an old out of copyright folk tale or something and completely make it their own! (Although if it kinda looks like their stylistically they will totally sue your pants off I’m sure.) Like you can also still do a Thor story as long as it doesn’t look like Kirby Thor,
(or new movie Thor I suppose) I’m pretty sure.
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I’m definitely making bigby wolf gay and have him fight pro-lifers now so I can take advantage of this unique situation to say fuck you to both DC and Willingham at the same time.
Thanks bill.
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Reading Tsutomu Nihei’s Aposimz
Whenever it cuts to some ordinary people just living their everyday lives, you know something bad is about to happen
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I lovvvveddd how that comic looked, felt like such a powerful evolution of his style. Basically inverting the white/black ratio of his early works. Real clean master lines. A bad podcast said it looked radioactive which i think is an excellent description. But i found the story so painfully boring it was like almost insulting. Like just we must defeat the empire and oh wow i unlocked a new ability let me explain it to the reader before i use it to beat this boss. Just incredibly lame shonen stuff that he clearly was above at one point in time. Idk i didnt read biomega or sidonia so maybe theyre the same but i found it sad!
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Oh heck it hadn’t even occurred to me that the Fables Bill Willingham is the same Bill Willingham who did uniquely streamlined illustration for TSR’s D&D and stuff back in the day:
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Speaking of the color ratio, I’m not sure whether or not it will get an official English-translated edition, but they’re also in process of re-releasing Aposimz in a full-color edition.
I’m not always a fan of manga colorizations but this one seems particularly thoughtful.
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Dungeon Meshi is over ;_;
It might be the only manga I’ll go buy the whole series of at some point
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volume 5 arrived yesterday, might have to speed up so we’re finished before the anime starts
I’d expect Volume 5 to be where they end the anime season, unless they really blaze through it.
Personally I’m happy that Meshi is ending. Go out on top, tell a complete story with no filler, make the easiest to recommend comic in history.
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Girls’ Last Tour is incredibly good. I mean I had heard of it but not with the enthusiasm it deserves.
I guess most people aren’t inclined to be enthusiastic about gently sad, slow-burn stories but I sure am
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i loved it! especially the art.
i also recommend shimeji simulation from the same creator, though unfortunately, you have to read scnalations of it. hopefully someday it’ll be licensed and released physically, but i’m not optimistic.
it’s an incredible surrealist slice of life series full of imagination and creativity.
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From ‘The Human Torch Meets… “Captain America”’ in Strange Tales #114, November 1963. Stan Lee script, Jack Kirby pencils & co-plot, Dick Ayers inks, Stan Goldberg(?) original colors, Sam Rosen letters.
Silly color reduction by me.
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