Print Media Hot Takes

[RhombusHatesYou]

Dude, I'm just here for the pancake recipe. Please stop telling me your life story as a prelude. nobody cares

It's not so much that I don't care... I mean, I don't, but it's more the fact that I'm already going to have to spend an hour or two converting American measurements into sane ones as well as finding substitutes for half the ingredients because the recipe listed some ingredient by brand instead of what it actually is and the brand they use is only available in western Georgia. Also, messing around with whether to remove 1/2 or 2/3 of the butter, cream and sugar because just looking at the recipe made my pancreas ache...

 

[BrawlMan]

I will say that RL Stine's Fear Street series suffer a problem of having most of his characters act like jackasses. Even if that's the point, it's hard to sympathize or root for certain characters. It's one thing I like about the movie trilogy that came out last year. You have characters with their jerk moments, but they learned to either be better people, or you see why the way they are.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

This is art:

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

Sometimes the "worse" translation is better

 

[LegoDnD]

Main takeaway: Camie is a cursed character whose every word is a Tower of Babble threatening to collapse over our entire civilization and no translation is good enough to cure her.

 

[Cicada 5]

Kingdom Come and Action Comics #775 aren't popular because they are well written or have any interesting philosophical debates. They are popular because they make classic Superman fans feel good about themselves. Also, Action Comics #775 is incredibly racist.


DC has a serious anti-Asian racism problem. From the mishandling of Asian religions and myths, to fetishizing of Asian women to crappy writing decisions like how Cass Cain has been handled.

 

[BrawlMan]

Kingdom Come and Action Comics #775 aren't popular because they are well written or have any interesting philosophical debates. They are popular because they make classic Superman fans feel good about themselves. Also, Action Comics #775 is incredibly racist.

I thought the reason people love Kingdom Come so much, cuz it was the total antithesis to the overabundance of the Dark Age of comic books. KC was made at a time when everyone, but the comic publishers are getting tired of Dark Age comics.

 

[Cicada 5]

I thought the reason people love Kingdom Come so much, cuz it was the total antithesis to the overabundance of the Dark Age of comic books. KC was made at a time when everyone, but the comic publishers are getting tired of Dark Age comics.

I'd argue there was more of an overabundance of dark age material in the 2000s than the 90s.

 

[BrawlMan]

I'd argue there was more of an overabundance of dark age material in the 2000s than the 90s.

I never the comic scene much, even I didn't see too many "Dark Age" comics by the mid 2000s. Now I know there were a few a hanger-ons. but nothing major. I know what killed the comic industry at that time, was everyone trying to make their own "Valuable Issue #1". When all of them were garbage and not worth paper they were printed on. Dark Age comics trying to start their own #1's and sub-series within those #1s were not helping at all. Plus, I was into the anime/manga scene at the time already by 2002/03.