Archie hires 10 year olds to do comics
I remember that story! It's an adaption of an episode of the cartoon.
You'll see Archie run something as obviously abysmal as this once and while. Anybody remember that one special where nearly sixteen pages consisted entirely of nearly empty panels filled only with dialogue balloons and snow patterns?
I'm pretty sure the reason why these things happen is that Archie is a relatively cheap company, and once they have paid for a story they will run it no matter how bad the finished product is... rather than dumping it and having to pay for a new story to fill the same space.
For example, there was a whole library of absolutely atrocious stories written by "Romy Chacon." They had nothing to do with the rest of the comic, and never reflected any of the developments that happened in the main story... they were just a metric ton of stand-alone shorts that were painfully, painfully inept.
But the editor BOUGHT all these stories. (I wonder why? ) Archie had paid for them, so they all HAD to be "burned off" in print eventually. They were still printing them after that editor had stopped working on the title.
You'll see Archie run something as obviously abysmal as this once and while. Anybody remember that one special where nearly sixteen pages consisted entirely of nearly empty panels filled only with dialogue balloons and snow patterns?
I'm pretty sure the reason why these things happen is that Archie is a relatively cheap company, and once they have paid for a story they will run it no matter how bad the finished product is... rather than dumping it and having to pay for a new story to fill the same space.
For example, there was a whole library of absolutely atrocious stories written by "Romy Chacon." They had nothing to do with the rest of the comic, and never reflected any of the developments that happened in the main story... they were just a metric ton of stand-alone shorts that were painfully, painfully inept.
But the editor BOUGHT all these stories. (I wonder why? ) Archie had paid for them, so they all HAD to be "burned off" in print eventually. They were still printing them after that editor had stopped working on the title.
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I'm reading Scarlet P.I. right now... wow... he hasn't improved one bit after all this years.Delphine wrote:GODDAMNIT I HAD FORGOTTEN THE NAME GONTERMAN
I love how Gonterman draws all mustaches exactly the same.
I did an art trade with him once, actually.
I own a piece of internet history now.
EDIT: I just realized if it weren't for the little guy and that weird tree, that first panel on the second page wouldn't be all that horrible. Gives the feeling it was drawn from a photographic reference.
I did an art trade with him once, actually.
I own a piece of internet history now.
EDIT: I just realized if it weren't for the little guy and that weird tree, that first panel on the second page wouldn't be all that horrible. Gives the feeling it was drawn from a photographic reference.
You own a hate crime.DBurraki wrote:I own a piece of internet history now.
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I do, but I think I was too naive at the time it came out to realize what a tremendous cop-out it was.Esrever wrote:Anybody remember that one special where nearly sixteen pages consisted entirely of nearly empty panels filled only with dialogue balloons and snow patterns?
How many people can say they own one of those, though?Locit wrote:You own a hate crime.DBurraki wrote:I own a piece of internet history now.
Yes. And I'm also so glad I never bought it (or was even aware of it's existance). Only recently did I download it however. You'd figure one would be used to immense disappointment after reading the majority of the comics.Esrever wrote:Anybody remember that one special where nearly sixteen pages consisted entirely of nearly empty panels filled only with dialogue balloons and snow patterns?
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OMG I hated that guy. He was such a moron.G.Silver wrote:Remember when they got that amature Jonanthan Gray on the book? Those were some dark times am I right!
To his credit, he was drop dead sexy though. If I wasn't so incredibly picky I'd definitely hit it from here to next week.
P.S. The artist of this story was indeed Many Hands so stop posting pictures and making my eyes bleed before I kill you in the eye with a cattle prod.
**le sigh** -__-