One last post before I skip town for a while! Enjoy!
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
manara really can only draw one woman's face, can't he?
― I knew that the Russian people mercilessly ograblyali ograblyay (James Morrison), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
have a good summer Doc! thx for the awesome blog!
― symbol of the paramount chaos (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 13 June 2011 03:31 (thirteen years ago) link
xp tbf he draws faces?!
― Nhex, Monday, 13 June 2011 03:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Thank YOU, DAM! Peace!
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 05:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Doc -
is Kangarat Murder Society dead? We miss you! I know you've been super busy, but figured I'd call you out here instead of twitter.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 14 November 2011 04:32 (twelve years ago) link
^
― ban l0u1s r33d (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 14 November 2011 05:29 (twelve years ago) link
x3
― (Line from Caddyshack.) (stevie), Monday, 14 November 2011 07:54 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, loved reading those, give us some more!
― Tuomas, Monday, 14 November 2011 09:35 (twelve years ago) link
Awwwwww, y'all are great! And yeah..this is better, I don't use twitter or know if anybody says anything about us on there(?).
It's NOT dead - this has just been a wacky, um... six months. Wow. Didn't really expect it would be that kind of hiatus (I guess all dormant bloggers say that)...
I have genuine, actual hopes of reviving it after the new year! For real! Keep the fire burning.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 14 November 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks Doc! Can't wait for more to come.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 14 November 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
The n-word stuff upthread is a bit of a headfuck.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 14 November 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/book-news/comics/article/49499-x-men-writer-chris-claremont-donates-archive-to-columbia-university.html
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 07:15 (twelve years ago) link
doc, damn, just saw this, sounds like the blog woulda been just what i wanna read but the link dont work, anywhere else to check out the stuff?
― H in Addis, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://kangaratmurdersoc.wordpress.com/ is the direct link, not sure what's up with the domain. Hope you like!
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 19 November 2011 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
Paging Doctor Casino:
http://daviduzumeri.tumblr.com/post/45140694544/any-chance-of-revisiting-the-uncanny-x-men-chats-with
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 11 March 2013 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
hahah was that you? David sent me that earlier. I knowwwwww, I know!
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 11 March 2013 23:40 (eleven years ago) link
It was me. :) I can't help it if I miss reading those posts.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 11 March 2013 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
I miss doing them! We talk about it every now and then, we're both game, it's just a matter of time - I'm in a PhD program now and it's just hard to commit to something like that. But I really did enjoy it. Maybe we could manage to do, like, one a month or something.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 11 March 2013 23:46 (eleven years ago) link
That would be awesome.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 11 March 2013 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, please do some more!
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 09:22 (eleven years ago) link
would read. would read the fuck out of, in fact.
― The @glennbeck have raisin b-lls and rice crispy d-ck (stevie), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 11:53 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah same here. Love those.
― smh on the water (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
Y'all are the best. We're in talks. Maybe, just maybe!
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
Woohoo! Tentatively, of course.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
start a kickstarter
― Mordy, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
yeah really I don't even like X-Men and found the blog v entertaining
― his girlfriend was all 'ugh and he wears a solar backpack' (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
help me out guys! a friend of mine was wearing this shirt, and i feel like i should've known instinctively which artist it was. my first guess was Art Adams, but not too sure. based on the team line-up it's '81-'83?http://i.imgur.com/MUXNsmd.jpg
― Nhex, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 04:36 (eleven years ago) link
Art Adams, no doubt - he drew the covers for Classic X-Men, the reprint series of the Claremont era that begin in the mid-late 80s.
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 06:40 (eleven years ago) link
Is that Kitty between Nightcrawler and (I assume) Rogue?
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 07:14 (eleven years ago) link
yup!
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 08:00 (eleven years ago) link
As much as I love Art Adams, there's an unsettlingly Liefeldian quality to the character on the left there (Rachel?)
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 08:49 (eleven years ago) link
Liefeld is Art Adams without the whimsy or genius. I stopped reading comics before the Liefeld era but I can imagine his work would swiftly have cooled my teenaged ardour for Adams' work.
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 09:28 (eleven years ago) link
And yes, that's Rachel on the left in her early Phoenix outfit. Has to be 85-86ish because I don't think Rachel was on the team before then.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 10:15 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I knew Adams was a big influence on Liefeld and I'd seen evidence of it in Liefeld's work before - this was the first time I'd seen it so clearly in Adams' own work. Rachel's mullet is spectacular!
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 10:51 (eleven years ago) link
When did Storm lose the 'mo?
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 11:52 (eleven years ago) link
Storm had a moustache?
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 11:55 (eleven years ago) link
Doesn't that image appear in the (Adams-drawn) X-Men/New Mutants crossover, where they travel to Asgard?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 13:04 (eleven years ago) link
IIRC, it was just before the "Fall of the Mutants" storyline, when Storm and Forge were stranded on some alternate Earth with no humans for a year or so.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 13:07 (eleven years ago) link
Damn, nice memory Tuomas - I was going to say it was done when Roma resurrected all the X-Men right after Fall of the Mutants, but you're dead on.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 13:41 (eleven years ago) link
You rule, Tuomas! I'm guessing it was interior art, since I've been looking for the source on X-Men/NM covers to no avail.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
Yup - just checked my singles, it's a variant of Adams's title page art from UXM Annual #9. Very possibly ginned up for the Classics reprint series, or maybe specifically for T-shirt use etc.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
(which is the annual that concludes the Asgard two-parter, per Tuomas's memory)
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 13:52 (eleven years ago) link
Whoa, my memory is better than I thought, considering I haven't read that stuff in 15 years or so...
I think the Asgard story was also where Rachel first wore the "Phoenix" suit, which didn't get very good reactions from the other X-Men, since Cyclops didn't even know Rachel was the alternate earth daughter of him and Jean.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
Yup, exactly right, as the X-Men are gearing up to go to Asgard. Using the magic space thunderbolts Cyclops saved from their encounter with Arkon the Space Barbarian a few annuals back, since apparently Cyclops is such a good pilot he can even steer a bag of thunderbolts. It's overall a pretty awesome storyline, pretty sure I've raved about it on this very thread actually but I just love the vibe of the whole thing. Sort of my perfect era of X-Men, just the right lineups for both of the teams and a real sense of family/camaraderie rolling through the high adventure and cheesecake scenes.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like I remember reading somewhere that early in their careers, both Liefeld and McFarlane were regarded as Art Adams copycats. Ive never read it but Ive heard Leifeld's debt to Adans was v apparent in his work on Hawk and Dove...
Casino quit teasing us if you wont revive your blog :P
― que sera sriracha (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
Right from the start, Liefeld and Jim Lee's artwork seemed to mash up Art Adams (especially all the fiddle-faddle rendering) and Michael Golden (cartoonish faces, rounded figures). The element of grotesque caricature in McFarlane's work makes him slightly harder to place, imho.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 14:17 (eleven years ago) link
^Agree with that. McFarlane's general twistiness/disproportion seemed more deliberate and stylized in comparison
― Nhex, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
;_; I have schoolwork to do! Negotiations continue. Might float it back in this summer on a trial basis, or something...
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
Aww I'm not trying to messyour life up, I forgot u were still doing school
― que sera sriracha (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 15:36 (eleven years ago) link