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
Cosign this, totally! The Asgard storyline was actually the first X-Men story I read, and I was immediately hooked. There was some angst and drama, but the Bronze Age sense of thrill and adventure was still there too, things hadn't gotten overtly dark yet (Mutant Massacre came a couple years later, right?). I didn't get half of the references in those comics (like who was Rachel's mother, whose tragic past they kept alluding to?), but that was part of the charm - there was a past, a larger universe these characters lived in, and I wanted to find out more about it.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
Mutant Massacre was when I started buying X-Men comic books and remains IMO one of the best crossover stories ever told.
― relentless technosexuality (DJP), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
Seconded, Dan. Still my favourite story, with all the bleakness, the darkness and the death.
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 22:15 (eleven years ago) link