Da_bang80
A few sectors short of an Empire
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Hey Guys, Been a while. In my opinion, Star Wars has grown to something that is beyond the reach of G.L. Sure he may have made the movies and began the whole thing. But it's the writers of the "EU" as this wacko put it, that really puts the whole thing into perspective. At least for me. Lucas is a dumbass for not following the books. They're much better than anything he could have come up with. Some of the books would have made far better movies than TPM, AOTC, and ROTS. I would have loved to see the Thrawn Trilogy or the X-Wing series made into movies. To be honest the prequel movies didn't feel Star Wars to me at all. No matter what Lucas says with all his canon bullshit, I'll always beleive that Bevel Lemilisk created the Death Star at the Maw, and not some little buggy things with wings. The Eu took star wars to places Lucas couldn't even begin to dream up. Star Wars is no longer his, It is the property of all who love it. To lucas it's just his paycheque.
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Well, if you painted everything yellow... yes, I know that no longer applies, but I'm talking classic Hal Jordan version here.
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I'm sorry, but I seem to have misread the message right after mine. Somewhere in between the idea that we should ignore Lucas and the claims that he's a dumbass full of bullshit, I thought I saw the suggestion that I'm a "wacko".
Surely I was mistaken . . . why would objective analysis of anything which someone else just wants to enjoy and subjectively consider real constitute wacky behavior?
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That was just one person's opinion- I thinnk most of the books are really bad, myself.
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Yeah, the wodd disadvantage is not much of a deterrant if you're fighting in space though.
I've got my own bueatiful golden age GL ring on display next to my Mart Nodell artork in my art room. Gotta love it.
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Well, if you painted everything yellow... yes, I know that no longer applies, but I'm talking classic Hal Jordan version here.
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WizArtist II
"How can you have a yellow alert in Spacedock? "
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Why do I picture Jason having a cardboard cutout of the GL standing right next to his Daisy Fuentes cutout?
though....I imagine hers has a hard time remaining in the standing position.
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While I did not like Kyle as GL much, no DC character has more unfulfilled potential that GL for a good sci-fi story.
Byrne and Niven did a nice one a few years back called Ganthet's Tale (though you have to look past Byrne's antiseptic artwork to aprecieate it fully).
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"How can you have a yellow alert in Spacedock? "
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My favorite comic was Marvel's ROM - Spaceknight. I had the whole series from start to finish...until I needed food and gas. It was a different type of comic and character. Shame it never caught on.
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I had that run- it was the only book I could afford back issues of back then (jr high).
Good concept, evil hateable bad guys and good guest stars, but between them letting Steve Ditko inflict his artwork on the last ten issues of the run, and Rom's toaster-shaped head, it was doomed to the "comics for a quarter" box.
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Hmm...I took a look at Rom at wikipedia and I found him to look like a generic robot guy. In fact I think he was based on a robot toy. He sort of reminds me of this red robot toy that I had that had the unique characteristic of needing to be oiled ever once in a while and smelled like burt rubber when he was activated. So I would have to ask a neighbor to oil the robot's joints with his old school oil spout to keep him runing. Boy those were simpler times...
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Rom was indeed based on a (crappy) toy. The series took off even after the toy immeadeately flopped.
That was back in the days when Marvel whored for any toy company willing to pay for a matching comic (though the comics occasionally turned out better than the toys/cartoons that inspired them).
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