Oh, and Exhibit B, sometime:

Our family drove up to MontReal when I was around 8yo, and while there, our family-friend gave me some funny picture-albums, “Ma Dalton” and “Asterix au Egypt”…

I mean… stock characters go back to… the age of Greek Tragedy, right? And that’s cool!

But I mean, either way… there has to be a compelling story, or way of relating, or something that rises us, non?

Me, I love the idea in general, but based on what my fellow collectors have said, so far the recent issues (MH has been revived for ~two years now I believe) devoted to new stuff have been pretty underwhelming in quality. Just not up to the original standard of work, it sounds like, although to be fair, that’s a sky-high bar to aim for! :S

To be clear, I understand that the relaunch has also alternated ‘new stuff’ issues with others which reprint the best of classic MH, and you certainly can’t go wrong with those! <3

Hmm! So… guess we’ll see how it goes upping the publication schedule.

ist the perfect stuff to run when I just want to chill, it almost became a kind of screensaver for me.

OMG, that’s great. oO <3

Thank you, dear friend. I think the panel might have been from a cover, but I’m not totally sure. For example, some early investigation discovers:

https://comic-historietas.blogspot.com/2009/05/hugo-pratt-el-esoterismo-en-corto.html

Appreciate that, mate.
Cal’s still reasonably sharp IMO, but he’s just less & less able to conduct himself around. Like, when your legs go, that’s the thing?!

If the dude has money to pay bills and just doesn’t…

That’s a strong possibility IMO.

It’s so wild, though. I mean, he orders all these packages, and even just a couple weeks before all this, he had me over to watch an excellent Scottish police-detective series (“Vera”) that was super-clever and really cool stuff IMO.

That’s not some McHale’s-Navy type shizzle, you know?

My point is: Cal’s NOT mailing it in. In fact he’s quite sharp at 75yo, which brings me to…

*&@$#
I don’t get it.

Like, what is his strategy here…?

So in a few weeks, I’m going to watch a good friend of mine’s belongings get tossed in the trash, and there’s nothing I can do about it…?

So ridiculous… yet here we are?

Really nice writeup!

I wish I’d read Dune recently, but it’s been some years, and everything Dune-related sort of blends together in my mind in to an amorphous fog. That’s based on reading books 1-4, I think. They weren’t hard to read for me, but they contained so many ideas and content that I feel I’d almost need an academic course to put everything in perspective and examine the various themes properly.

Sort of the anti-Star Wars in a way. XD

Actually one of the reasons I love the work of Philip K. Dick is because he introduces all these great, forward-looking ideas in bite-sized chunks. For example, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is just a novelette, but it contains some fascinating ideas, such as the Penfield Mood Organ, the Cult of Mercer and the Connection Box, the desperate urge for dwellers to own a pet (even if it’s a robot), the whole quandary of what a ‘Replicant’ is anyway, and so forth.

So to me, both Dune and the Blade Runner world were serious, worthy material to springboard various series and movies, while SW and to a lesser extent Star Trek I question, here and there.

Bah. Rant over.

Haha, that was a bit of a wacky post above. Yesterday I finished off a *huge* job on Calvin’s apartment, treated myself to some of his fine booze, and spirited *up*, I decided to make a post here on a really cool blog I’d discovered, above.

Oh, my head…

Anyway, yeah, I think you have the spirit of scanlation. Other definitions you’ll find online. It’s a bit of a touchy subject, as we don’t want to take away proper royalties to the creators, you know? Part of why we say ‘extracts are fine, but no pirated links!’ in the sidebar.

Anyway, I’m not sure if I’m fully “back” yet, but we’ll see. I really appreciate your focus on Jodo’s Dune series lately, and in any case, there’s a HUGE archive of posts here for anyone wanting more EGN+ content! :D

Whups, I’m pretty sure I’d meant to reply the above as a PM. I’ve re-addressed you as “Nacky” above, and will now take things to PM. :S

Shit, I am very sorry to hear that! How is Calvin now that he´s back at home? How are you doing yourself? Write me a private message anytime but first, take all the time you need to take good care of both of you.

Hi, Nico. It’s been a real trial, the past couple days.

Cal is still in the Cleveland Clinic hospital as per this morning, and he seems to be sleeping now in the afternoon. I’ll check on him in a couple hours, and it’s now around 8PM Hamburg-time if I read the clock right.

We also have an upcoming apartment inspection this Monday-through-Friday, and his place is absolutely ridiculous.

I don’t know what to do about all that…
Me, if I didn’t have this verdammt disease, it would be so easy… just do a ‘whirlwind’ upon his apt to please the inspectors.

Oh, on top of that, there’s some coincidental bullshit about Cal’s electricity going out due to provider switch, this weekend. So now we’re working by candle-light. Bloody hell, mate!

Haha, Gilliam definitely comes to mind, and I loved Brasil.

Unfortunately, the first book as a whole might not be for you, as it’s pretty much built around the theme of mysterious pages directly mirroring the overall comics’ pages. That said, it does some other funny stuff, too.

Orange Catholic Bible: Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

Leto: Never! But I can use their heads to cruise around like a boss!

Haha, awesome. <3

I noticed a forth (less professional looking) style that does not really fit any of the three and I wonder who made them.

NiceI I’m a big fan of ‘sketch-like’ art done by a master hand, and yeah, I like the Dog-Beings, an expression that I found here:

https://www.duneinfo.com/unseen/jodorowskys-dune-uncovered/1

Also, I thought I’d found something insightful below (the idea that possibly they were by Jodo himself), but it appears… not?

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/sketches_for_jodorowskys_dune_i

Still, I really like that artist’s work, whoever they are!

Wow, that’s pretty boss. oO
(is it Moeby, or other artist?)

Bonus points for using five surplus BB-8’s for the tyres! :P

See my link here, pls.

Ah, sweet. I see it also works for galleries, too.

Couple things with that, tho: 1) the images are surprisingly tiny on that page, so it would be nice if they could at least ‘fit to width,’ 2) you can’t click on them to blow up, instead needing to right-click, opening image in new tab.

The reason I bring those nitpicks up is because often I share a range of pages in a single Imgur gallery in order to make it easier for others to read a sequential story.

I’m not sure that’s really the opposite side, in reality.

Ah, I’ve even read some of those!

So cool to see comics devoted to different cultures’ backstories, even if they don’t sell like Superman, Avengers, etc.

Sorry about that. Some of the images I post are too big for most Lemmy instances to host, and frankly, I’d rather not put that burden on them anyway.

I did some testing just now, and if it helps, you only need to have Cloudfront and Imgur’s native suite of JS’s enabled. All others can be safely blocked, which has the nice side-benefit of blocking all ads and whatever other spam. (I use uMatrix extension)

And TBF-- most significant sites require JS to be enabled, but with a selective script-blocker, you can cut out ~90% of the noise.

Howe did this in 1989, so actually he was the one directly riffing on earlier artists’ versions of Gandalf, like Hildebrandt, Bakshi and Rankin-Bass. Or just iconic images of wizards that go back centuries…