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Do we know how many issues this WW Black Label mini is?
Sounds a good fit for an OHC trade next year perhaps.
Three issues, final one is in the October solicits that just came out.
WONDER WOMAN HISTORIA: THE AMAZONS #3
Written by KELLY SUE DeCONNICK
Art and cover by NICOLA SCOTT
Variant cover by YANICK PAQUETTE
1:25 “Library” faux-leather design variant
$7.99 US | 72 pages | 3 of 3 | 8 1/2″ x 10 7/8″ | Prestige Plus
ON SALE 10/25/22
The third and final chapter of the critically lauded and Eisner-nominated secret history of the Amazons crescendos with the inevitable—an all-out war against the gods. When Zeus discovers the goddesses defied him by creating the Amazons, seemingly nothing can stop his fervor to eliminate their warriors…not even Hera herself. But the Amazons’ numbers have grown, and there is a distinctly and unpredictably human element among their ranks now in Hippolyta and the tribe she leads. Their very fight for existence will alter the course of history itself and bring about one of the greatest protectors the world has ever known!1 user thanked author for this post.
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As far as I know, all of these large square-format Black Label series have received corresponding HC collections. So I’d expect something similar to Batman Damned, Harleen, Superman Year One etc.
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Ah ok. Yeah this is one of those books that’s already in an oversized format in singles, so I doubt it will shrink for the collection.
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Todd McFarlane Confirms Spawn is More Heroic Than Batman & Superman
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Millar confirms Nemesis 2 comic coming.
Feels like a weird property to resurrect and a weird time to do it. There’s enough bad guys in the news nowadays – do we really need a focus on them in fiction. Plus, it feels like the iron for this is at least a half decade cold.
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I never liked Nemesis, it’s was too nasty and one of my least favourite Millar properties. My taste aside though it is apparently one of his best selling over a long period. That would be the most likely answer, it does look like Millar after maybe coasting it for a couple of years is building up his hype train again, there’s now been teases for a 3rd book ‘you won’t believe’.
Maybe the Charest one because if he has actually got him to finish even a 4 issue series that would genuinely be pretty unbelievable. 😂
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Those people at CBR have waaaaaay too much time on their hands…
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Those people at CBR have waaaaaay too much time on their hands…
More like they have to constantly generate content.
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We know what it is. Websites run now on ad revenue and the best method to get that is run as many clickbait articles as you can in a day. The worst is to format them so you have to keep clicking ‘next’ to give the illusion you have read 20 articles instead of one spread over 20 pages with one paragraph in each.
A guy I know works for a REACH website (the company that bought up pretty much every local/regional newspaper in the UK and owns the Daily Mirror) and he works hard on one properly researched and informative article a day and then files another 5 pieces of cut and paste or speculation bullshit to comply with what his employers require.
CBR the same, there’s some good stuff on there with 90% bullshit list articles.
We kind of messed up with internet ‘news’. The subscription model doesn’t really work as the internet is about sharing links and I’m not subscribing to 30 newspapers a month to read 1 or 2 articles, or you go clickbait. The reason a lot of what I share is either The Guardian or BBC is they use a different model to offer free articles without clickbait.
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The web (meaning the collective site owners) really screwed up when they didn’t adopt any of the proposed micropayment models way back in the 90s. In the fight between the “information should be free” and the “monetize everything” camps, I think both sides actually lost.
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Chris Claremont seems to have lost his mind:
We're at the Chris Claremont spotlight panel @c2e2
Starts in ten for our live tweet
— ComicsXF @ C2E2 (@ComicsXF) August 5, 2022
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“What is GI Joe”
Jeopardy, Tuesday August 9th
Final Jeopardy to boot!
Fucking Mother Fucker!
Edit: Sorry, obviously previously aired.
“What is I fucked up?” for a thousand Alex!
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“What is GI Joe”
Jeopardy, Tuesday August 9th
Final Jeopardy to boot!
Fucking Mother Fucker!
Edit: Sorry, obviously previously aired.
“What is I fucked up?” for a thousand Alex!
- Introduced in 1964, he fell out of favor in changing times & in 1970 was marketed as a “land adventurer”
I wouldn’t have made it from that clue.
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Mentioned in the Pub obituary thread too, but sadly Raymond Briggs has died at 88.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/10/snowman-author-raymond-briggs-dies-aged-88
A really brilliant writer and cartoonist. As well as his well-known kids stuff, When The Wind Blows is a brilliantly funny and sad book, and Ug is hilarious.
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“What is GI Joe”
Jeopardy, Tuesday August 9th
Final Jeopardy to boot!
Fucking Mother Fucker!
Edit: Sorry, obviously previously aired.
“What is I fucked up?” for a thousand Alex!
- Introduced in 1964, he fell out of favor in changing times & in 1970 was marketed as a “land adventurer”
I wouldn’t have made it from that clue.
I think I would have guessed “Richard Nixon”.
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https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/transformers?iid=HP_M1_TRANSFORMERS2022
Commemorating 30 years of Transformers. I bought a couple of the first day covers.
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Sigh….
I would like to send this primarily to a member who I know also read the fanfic Xmen material by John Byrne:
Sad news:
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Damn.
I am with you on that. But in the end, it was his storytelling. Would have been nice to have seen what
Doom would have done appropriating Nightcrawler’s teleportation. Then again, Doom has ALWAYS
been up to his plans of appropriating, reverse engineering, and harnessing cosmic energy, power, or
advanced technology. How a someone born and raised around 20th century tech is able to approach
tech almost centuries ahead…. But that is all in the Storytelling thread.——————————-
@jrcarter … We get comments from Byrne and Claremont on the old days, what each wanted to do, the directions
each wanted to take, the editorial backlash. Like this:
But it is all good, like water under the bridge. There is a convention pic of Byrne and Claremont
in a lip kiss. They had their clashes, but they respect each other.
After all, one is British American and the other is British Canadian American.
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Ok @jrcarter:
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Sad news about Carlos Pacheco.
https://www.cbr.com/comic-book-legend-carlos-pacheco-reveals-als-diagnosis/
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I find it amazing that after years of bilking reactionary idiots out of money, there are still people willing to give Theodore Beale the time of day. And yet, here we are:
That’s a true feel-good story!
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Sad news, Kevin O’Neill has died.
https://mobile.twitter.com/GoshComics/status/1589620224118390784
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Sad news, Kevin O’Neill has died.
https://mobile.twitter.com/GoshComics/status/1589620224118390784
Sad news indeed. There’s a fitting tribute from Gosh here and a dedicated thread I started a short while ago.
https://goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blog/rip-kevin-oneill-1953-2022/
A great loss to comics.
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Ultimates #1 is now 20 years ago.
Dammit.
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Ultimates #1 is now 20 years ago.
Dammit.
Hmm, so you’re saying I’ve missed the final order cut-off?
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You have, by a decade or so.
In other, happier news Valiant are issuing Hopeless’ X-O Manowar run in OHC in March 2023
April 2023 sees Deniz’ Bloodshot Unleashed get a paperback release.
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This was an interesting little bit up for sale at the moment. The first ever reprint of Superman, in Triumph comic in the UK in July 1939. It’s interesting in those days of far less media connectivity how quickly Superman caught on. I saw someone else share images of Superman in parades in the US in early 1939.
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https://www.tmz.com/2022/11/30/peter-david-spider-man-hulk-comic-legend-hospital-stroke/
Iconic comic book writer Peter David is in a hospital, recovering from a series of extremely debilitating strokes … TMZ has learned.
Kathleen David tells us … Peter tried getting out of bed last week, but instead he slid off because he was unable to use his legs. Kathleen was able to get him standing and take him downstairs, but after he was unable to get off the couch for 5 hours, she called 911.
We’re told paramedics took him to a hospital, noting he was gray when they arrived. Kathleen says she later learned Peter had suffered a mild cardiac event and a major stroke … followed by a few smaller ones.
Kathleen says her husband — who’s written for Marvel and DC’s biggest superheroes — is still hospitalized and undergoing tests to determine the next steps.
A couple of positive signs … she says he’s able to speak, and is already complaining about still being laid up in a hospital.
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Alan Moore’s recent Illuminations collection of short stories includes a novella-length story about the comics industry, “What We Can Know About Thunderman.” And within this is one of the most eloquent and damning summaries of the current state of the comics industry that I’ve ever read.
And this part had me laughing:
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I agree 100% with the point in the first screenshot, and not just because I’ve been saying the same thing for like 20 years now. Too many creators in comics who only got into comics to work on their favourite character and retcon them to be like they were when the creator was a kid. The constant battle back and forth of retcons makes longer-running characters increasingly impenetrable to new readers.
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Yeah, there’s a broader thread in the story about those kind of cycles and how they parallel addictive behaviour (for both creators and readers).
It’s a really fun story that uses Thunderman (a Superman analogue) as a central thread to explore all these different facets of the industry – creators rights, the political and social context of the Silver Age, the comics industry’s connections to organised crime, the movie business, tons of stuff.
Moore clearly keeps up to date with the comics industry a lot more than he lets on, as some of the references to even fairly recent events are pretty niche and specific. It’s all very enjoyable stuff.
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I agree 100% with the point in the first screenshot, and not just because I’ve been saying the same thing for like 20 years now. Too many creators in comics who only got into comics to work on their favourite character and retcon them to be like they were when the creator was a kid. The constant battle back and forth of retcons makes longer-running characters increasingly impenetrable to new readers.
Geof Johns is probably one of the worst offenders.
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It’s a Bleeding Cool article,so take it with a grain of salt:
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-book-publishers-not-paying-comic-book-creators/
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It’s a Bleeding Cool article,so take it with a grain of salt:
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-book-publishers-not-paying-comic-book-creators/
Say what you will about Johnston (seriously, say whatever) but he is usually right and vocal about highlighting when freelancers are getting screwed by publishers.
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Johnston was pretty toxic at various times in his career and I know a lot of comics people won’t forgive him for crossing ethical lines. Millar had a ban on links to his content which knowing the background I fully understood.
Saying that I’m not sure Bleeding Cool needs the ‘pinch of salt’ caveat nowadays. As far as I can see from it the ‘gossip’ element is largely gone and everything he’s reporting on this story is sourced directly from creators on Twitter. Some of which I had seen anyway and I guess there’s some service in collating them.
Sometimes the scene changes and so do people. It’s hard to imagine now really anyone cares about a Lying in the Gutters style approach.
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I sat in on Liefeld’s Whatnot show the last two days – and bought my first page of original art!
It’s from his Badrock mini and features one of Erik Larsen’s Savage Dragon villains (which as a big SD fan is pretty cool for me). With shipping it’s about 500 AUD, which is a steal compared to some of the other pieces. There was a Bloodwulf image with a massive Trump face in the background and that went for over 1,500 USD (it’s all auctions).
I saw that Humberto Ramos is on the platform too but haven’t caught one of his shows yet – it’d be great if more artists joined in.
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Seems like Aftershock have declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy now. I wonder if that is what’s behind the publishing delays over the last few months. Must have had sone serious cash flow issues.
Yeah it’s not surprising news, I don’t think these guys wanted to stiff creators but when you see those delays in payment the writing’s on the wall. Valiant also look to be in trouble although maybe their catalogue of IP could see them bailed out again.
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Recently completed commission. Happy Chanukah! pic.twitter.com/uYmB8ACslV
— Kevin Maguire (@maguirekevin) December 21, 2022
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Stossel: Woke comic books
I remember when Stossel used to be a pretty good consumer reporter at ABC. At some point, he went right wing pundit and lost his credibility. That article was terribly written and makes him look bad.
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Despite the general stupidity of the article, I think this is a point worth thinking about:
The cover of a Superman comic shows Superman’s son leading a school “strike for climate.”
It’s so stupid! Superman, with all his powers, could solve climate change all by himself. But now he holds a protest sign.
Superman literally could solve climate change, but he doesn’t. Why not? Don’t ask that, just accept that climate change is not a menace that Superman needs to beat. It’s just not an issue in Superman’s world, and we don’t need to think about it. Move along.
Until you make it an issue. And then Superman looks like the biggest dick on Earth because climate change exists on DC Earth and he hasn’t fixed it yet. Geez Superman, do you hate us all that much?
It’s a problem in storytelling, because it makes it hard to suspend disbelief in the character. As long as he exists in a non-real-world bubble, he works. Introduce real-world issues but treat them illogically, and his character breaks.
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I think they should go even further and reveal that Superman made the hole in the ozone layer because he wanted to be able to absorb more UV rays from the sun and get stronger.
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We’ve seen Green Lantern terraform entire worlds. He could fix climate change too, if he cared. Dick. Actually five or six dicks, depending on which reboot we’re in.
Ironically, Dick couldn’t fix it. But he could convince Bruce to have a go.
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Despite the general stupidity of the article, I think this is a point worth thinking about:
The cover of a Superman comic shows Superman’s son leading a school “strike for climate.”
It’s so stupid! Superman, with all his powers, could solve climate change all by himself. But now he holds a protest sign.
Superman literally could solve climate change, but he doesn’t. Why not? Don’t ask that, just accept that climate change is not a menace that Superman needs to beat. It’s just not an issue in Superman’s world, and we don’t need to think about it. Move along.
Until you make it an issue. And then Superman looks like the biggest dick on Earth because climate change exists on DC Earth and he hasn’t fixed it yet. Geez Superman, do you hate us all that much?
It’s a problem in storytelling, because it makes it hard to suspend disbelief in the character. As long as he exists in a non-real-world bubble, he works. Introduce real-world issues but treat them illogically, and his character breaks.
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Yeah, one big MW crossover should be a lot of fun. It’s also a clever move, because I am actually considering catching up on the stuff I haven’t read before this comes out.
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Anyone got any experience in removing old cellotape from comics?
I’ve managed to get hold of a relatively cheap copy of Transformers UK #113 (the one issue everyone has, for reasons, decided is worth 100x as much as pretty much every other one). Huzzah!
It’s got a big strip of tape down the spine. I suspect it’s keeping the cover on, but my main aim is to get the whole run bound, so that’s not a huge problem, I assume and I’d prefer it sans-tape. But I’m not really sure how to go about that without damaging the comic. Heat? Sticky stuff remover? Isopropyl alcohol? Something else entirely?
(don’t worry, I have some spare copies of less valuable issues with tape on to test with).
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I remember buying that issue off the newsstand back in the day.
I also remember my mum ripping it up and throwing it away.
“Comics are no good for you! They’ll rot your brain!”
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I remember buying that issue off the newsstand back in the day.
I also remember my mum ripping it up and throwing it away.
“Comics are no good for you! They’ll rot your brain!”
Was she wrong?
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I remember buying that issue off the newsstand back in the day.
I also remember my mum ripping it up and throwing it away.
“Comics are no good for you! They’ll rot your brain!”
Was she wrong?
Yuh huh i fink she wus.
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I remember buying that issue off the newsstand back in the day.
I also remember my mum ripping it up and throwing it away.
“Comics are no good for you! They’ll rot your brain!”
Was she wrong?
Yuh huh i fink she wus.
Stop making fun of the mentally challenged young man!
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I also remember my mum ripping it up and throwing it away.
I have the mixed fortune my mother has a hoarder instinct. It embarrassed me as teen that my family house was cluttered but I do know basically everything I left in my room 22 years ago is still there. Be it Commodore 64 tapes or Tiger comics from 1980. She has original first print hardbacks of the Lord of the Rings trilogy she bought in college as they came out.
There is a 50/50 chance I have that Transformers UK comic, I did buy most of the run but not all. It’s mainly because I just bought every comic available in the UK for a while even though, unlike Martin, I never really had any affinity or love for Transformers.
At some point I will have to take a month plus in there and just whack everything for sale, nearly half my life I haven’t had access to it but I guess the value just keeps rising for most of it.
It’s a weird world, buying Lego sets is actually a far better investment than gold.
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I remember buying that issue off the newsstand back in the day.
I also remember my mum ripping it up and throwing it away.
“Comics are no good for you! They’ll rot your brain!”
Was she wrong?
Yuh huh i fink she wus.
Stop making fun of the mentally challenged young man!
Hey! I resemble that remark!
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I also remember my mum ripping it up and throwing it away.
I have the mixed fortune my mother has a hoarder instinct. It embarrassed me as teen that my family house was cluttered but I do know basically everything I left in my room 22 years ago is still there. Be it Commodore 64 tapes or Tiger comics from 1980. She has original first print hardbacks of the Lord of the Rings trilogy she bought in college as they came out.
There is a 50/50 chance I have that Transformers UK comic, I did buy most of the run but not all. It’s mainly because I just bought every comic available in the UK for a while even though, unlike Martin, I never really had any affinity or love for Transformers.
At some point I will have to take a month plus in there and just whack everything for sale, nearly half my life I haven’t had access to it but I guess the value just keeps rising for most of it.
It’s a weird world, buying Lego sets is actually a far better investment than gold.
I moved around loads as a kid (my dad was in the RAF), so that was never an option. Although my mum had too (my grandad was in the army) and she had horror stories of being posted, getting to the new house and finding that my nan had, without even telling her, thrown out half her stuff. So she has a bit of a hoarder mentality too and never *forced* us to get rid of anything, however much it would have made moving easier.
The flipside is that we moved so much – three times in 1994 alone – that we often wouldn’t unpack everything, and some boxes would just get moved and left in the new loft untouched until the next move. To point that I found in their loft a couple of years back a box from probably early 94 that just hadn’t been opened in all the subsequent moves. Full of old school books, Crash Dummies comics, Animals of Farthing Wood partwork magazines and some of my sister’s toys. A nice little time capsule.
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Jason Pearson has passed away.
https://www.cbr.com/jason-pearson-body-bags-artist-obituary/
52 is way too young.
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Oh damn. He was a phenomenal artist.
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Jason Pearson has passed away.
https://www.cbr.com/jason-pearson-body-bags-artist-obituary/
52 is way too young.
The article said he died of natural causes. How does a 52-year-old die of natural causes?
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https://www.cbr.com/comixology-gutted-amazon-layoffs-former-staff-worry-service-future/
Looks like Amazon’s strategy of destroying Comixology is in the endgame now.
It’s amazing to me that the user experience has deteriorated so badly in such a short time. I can only assume there is at least an intentional element.
Comixology was great in its day – a good app, and regular sales made it easy to stay up to date without spending too much. But now it’s pretty much done by the looks of it.
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I have barely touched Comixology since Amazon integrated it into their storefront.
I used to go in every week and easily find what I wanted, whether it be latest releases or sales.
I would have spent thousands of dollars there from 2011 until the change was made, this year I have spent zero. Good job.
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Beano cartoonist David Sutherland has died at 89.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/19/david-sutherland-beano-cartoonist-dies-aged-89
A legend who defined decades of kids comics in the UK.
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Spidey's legendary artist, John Romita, celebrates his 93rd birthday today! pic.twitter.com/bWgxN9bUWr
— Spidey’s 🕸️ (@spideymemoir) January 24, 2023
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Spidey's legendary artist, John Romita, celebrates his 93rd birthday today! pic.twitter.com/bWgxN9bUWr
— Spidey’s 🕸️ (@spideymemoir) January 24, 2023
My all-time favorite comic book artist!
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So I had a go at tape removal on a spare copy of TFUK 30-something. I didn’t think to take any before pictures but it was heavily taped down the outside of the spine, with a few more bits inside. This was to keep the two halves of the cover together, let alone attached to the rest of the pages.
I used the methods in the WikiHow article linked above: heat treatment (from a hairdryer rather than a heat gun and then using a small scalpel blade to lift the tape away.
It was an odd contrast between front and back cover. On the front, the tape was, for lack of a better word, brittle and rather dry (I suspect even before the heat treatment). It came off really easily, with no damage to the paper and left no residue.
The back cover though had livelier tape, which definitely still had a sticky residue. Still, with heat and little prying, it all came off fairly easily, with very minimal damage to the page and only a little residue (which I suspect would come off if I put some effort in). Weird how two sides of the same comic taped together would have aged so differently.
It’s all fairly academic though, as the tape had left an odd artifact on the pages – it had made them translucent. I had thought the discolouration that was visible before I started was from the plastic of the tape itself, but nope, it’s the colours from the other side of the page showing through.
Presumably this is something to do with the oils or whatever in the tape having saturated the paper over the years (though it is dry to the touch now) and I can’t imagine it’s reversible.
But it was an interesting experiment.
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