Same as you Jim, I believe we are probably the same age and I was just about checked out of comics at this time and never saw these issues. I stayed interested in a few titles over the years since then just here and there...but it wasn't until Cartoonist Kayfabe that has brought me back to comics and what I love about them. Forever grateful!
@33:40, Ed references “Brotherhood of the Wolf” - one of the most wild, underrated movies everyone deserves to watch at least once. Prized DVD in my collection, from back in the early 2000s when I could just kill time after high school buying DVDs and CDs at Tower Records…
Definetly the Bisley Judge! But a good Clark Kent Mullet....well.... 49:13 Those Magazines! Greg showing you how to draw muscles! I wish I would have had somethin' like that here in Germany in the late 90s early 00's! 50:22 Good Lord how beautifull that is... I got Bridgeman right here...didnt get quite to read and practice it ...till now.
Trent Kaniuga spent a year with Marvel in the late 90s and then went on to become a designer for video games with stuff like World of Warcraft, Diablo, League of Legends and Overwatch. I believe he runs an independent video game company now, called Aquatic Moon.
While watching this, I looked him up: he has his own RUclips channel, and a year ago went over his old Creed books (page by page), and promoted an Indiegogo for a remake/continuation of that title.
Love your Wizard reviews, was also a keen Wizard reader, though slightly later ,'96 and onwards. Red Room got me back into reading comics again, which I am eternally grateful for as it's led me to meeting new friends, who in turn recommend even more books!
Jeez, what a pivotal issue this was for me! Having flashbacks! Ha. Capullo's Krash Kourse was everything. That CREED article was a big influence since I was a few years younger than him, reading about him putting out a comic at 17! And whoa, that was Ryan's MAXX?! Man, I remember looking at that. I took those Kubert School Correspondence Courses in '98-99, too, still have the pages and tracing paper draw-overs. It was an absolutely amazing experience and totally helped form me as an artist. The VHS tapes were the only time I ever saw an artist draw and it was Joe Kubert and it was magical.
Other 1990s comics still in print, although usually in collected form - Hellboy - Usagi Yojimbo - Akira - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Judge Dredd - Sin City. I'd also say the Batman Animated style launches an 'Adventures' style of comics, which are still going, and are regularly reprinted.
I love these episodes. I also loved the Casting Call stuff growing up. But I'll struggle through you guys shaming me for that and keep watching all your great videos!
I just looked up Paul S Newman and found this: “Credited in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most prolific comic-book writer, with more than 4,100 published stories totaling approximately 36,000 pages, he is otherwise best known for scripting the comic-book series Turok for 26 years.”
Been waiting for this one haha - that article on Trent is what made me shift focus from comic strips to comic books as a teen, realizing you could make comics about whatever you want. And the fact he was so close to my age made it seem possible, like seeing a scrappy band and deciding to start your own.
That’s so funny that your talking about the magazine because I have this copy that I bought back in 2018, and that’s were I got introduced by Trent Kaniuga!
I can't remember how many Geocities comic book/character fan pages I used to sort through back then. I still feel like I hear some of the urban legends spread on those to this day.
Have you read Teknophage by Rick Veitch and Bryan Talbot? It' a Tekno Comic. It's tale of usurped heroism fits in with Veitch's other works. I just think of this lone glittering ingot of good story in the Tekno Universe whenever I hear you mention the failed enterprise.
I definitely called the Claremont book Saw-Vern Seven well, WELL after I eventually learned the word sovereign. The mispronunciation was just so in my head I couldn't see the word for what it was.
I just bought a stack of Joe Zabel comics at this years SPACE show! I talked to him and his wife for awhile. Really nice people. And his crime comics are good. I'm glad I stopped by his table and grabbed some stuff.
Wizard magazine... the only time it’s appropriate to say “I got it for the pictures”! The last issue I got of Wizard was in 00. When they were talking about Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man film. Even then some of there articles would just cut off and be incomplete.
You guys mentioned Deadline stories you want recommendations on - I think that's probably all pretty well covered but it would be great if you would take a look at Garth Ennis and Philip Bond's Time Flies story from late-80s 2000AD. I was even tempted to make my own bound version off the back of youse guys's video on Jim's Fireball collection
I agree about drawing that eagle shoulder pad🤣 man drawing Judge Dredd once with that pad was enough for me lol so my hats off to them who do that daily✌️
So funny that Jim mentions Skybound during his 'writer's room' rant because Skybound DID have a writer's room for their comic Thief of Thieves. After working in the Walking Dead writer's room Kirkman wanted to try out the process for comics.
The correspondence course videos with Joe Kubert himself penciling, inking, lettering (!) and talking about making comics are right here on YT. They're absolute gold. ruclips.net/video/9PSoKbpRTlE/видео.html I believe that Conan painting is from the cover of Conan the Savage #1 ; it's indeed by Bisley.
Jim re: Writers’ Room - the X-Men office does that today with their Slack channel and ongoing collaboration between the writers, since the House of X / Powers of X revamp and through today. The effect isn’t good (since head writer Jonathan Hickman was voted off the island), but this is the biggest example of exactly what you’re talking about.
Regarding readership dropping off when McFarlane stopped drawing Spawn, I can say I definitely stopped reading it at that time. No shots intended at Greg Capullo.
From a 1 star review of that Stan Lee book: "...the 'witty' comments by Stan Lee are insufferably lame, even angering at times... I wish I'd had someone black out Stan Lee's punishingly unfunny, obnoxious commentary with a marker... the lame, cookie-cutter, public domain computer graphics that pepper every page like discarded, randomly arranged confetti...it's downright shoddy and unfunny."
I don’t know man I dig that Superman cover, never cared for Judge Dredd or the Stallone movie. That Bisley cover does look cool also not for nothing. I have that Creed comic in my long boxes!
Yup, the 90's wasn't ALL great! LOL!!! I was mostly out of my pop culture love phase, and I think at least a bit of it came from the lame stuff coming out in and around this time....
Thanks for the plug.
Whoa! Name dropping Comic Tropes! That channel is awesome.
22:23 Mike Deodato is from Brazil. His Caliber comic book is called Ramthar.
Same as you Jim, I believe we are probably the same age and I was just about checked out of comics at this time and never saw these issues. I stayed interested in a few titles over the years since then just here and there...but it wasn't until Cartoonist Kayfabe that has brought me back to comics and what I love about them. Forever grateful!
Morning! This issue of wizard aligns with the end of my collecting years.
@33:40, Ed references “Brotherhood of the Wolf” - one of the most wild, underrated movies everyone deserves to watch at least once. Prized DVD in my collection, from back in the early 2000s when I could just kill time after high school buying DVDs and CDs at Tower Records…
Always love when you guys look at Wizard issues. I know it’s tough on your brains but I appreciate this fun look back on a defining moment in my life.
Nice, I gotta a holiday tomorrow so a longer video is just what I'm looking for to relax this evening. Kayfabe and chill.
Definetly the Bisley Judge! But a good Clark Kent Mullet....well....
49:13 Those Magazines! Greg showing you how to draw muscles!
I wish I would have had somethin' like that here in Germany in the late 90s early 00's!
50:22 Good Lord how beautifull that is...
I got Bridgeman right here...didnt get quite to read and practice it ...till now.
Trent Kaniuga spent a year with Marvel in the late 90s and then went on to become a designer for video games with stuff like World of Warcraft, Diablo, League of Legends and Overwatch. I believe he runs an independent video game company now, called Aquatic Moon.
While watching this, I looked him up: he has his own RUclips channel, and a year ago went over his old Creed books (page by page), and promoted an Indiegogo for a remake/continuation of that title.
Love your Wizard reviews, was also a keen Wizard reader, though slightly later ,'96 and onwards. Red Room got me back into reading comics again, which I am eternally grateful for as it's led me to meeting new friends, who in turn recommend even more books!
Jeez, what a pivotal issue this was for me! Having flashbacks! Ha.
Capullo's Krash Kourse was everything.
That CREED article was a big influence since I was a few years younger than him, reading about him putting out a comic at 17!
And whoa, that was Ryan's MAXX?! Man, I remember looking at that.
I took those Kubert School Correspondence Courses in '98-99, too, still have the pages and tracing paper draw-overs. It was an absolutely amazing experience and totally helped form me as an artist. The VHS tapes were the only time I ever saw an artist draw and it was Joe Kubert and it was magical.
Great episode as usual. Ed, you mentioning Brotherhood of the wolf brought me back. Dope foreign film.
Mike Deodato is Brazilian, hehe
Other 1990s comics still in print, although usually in collected form - Hellboy - Usagi Yojimbo - Akira - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Judge Dredd - Sin City. I'd also say the Batman Animated style launches an 'Adventures' style of comics, which are still going, and are regularly reprinted.
I love these episodes. I also loved the Casting Call stuff growing up. But I'll struggle through you guys shaming me for that and keep watching all your great videos!
I just looked up Paul S Newman and found this: “Credited in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most prolific comic-book writer, with more than 4,100 published stories totaling approximately 36,000 pages, he is otherwise best known for scripting the comic-book series Turok for 26 years.”
Been waiting for this one haha - that article on Trent is what made me shift focus from comic strips to comic books as a teen, realizing you could make comics about whatever you want. And the fact he was so close to my age made it seem possible, like seeing a scrappy band and deciding to start your own.
Ha, it was a big inspo for me, too.
Tom Sniegoski co-wrote the Marvel Knights "wave one" Punisher book. The one with Wrightson.
That’s so funny that your talking about the magazine because I have this copy that I bought back in 2018, and that’s were I got introduced by Trent Kaniuga!
I can't remember how many Geocities comic book/character fan pages I used to sort through back then. I still feel like I hear some of the urban legends spread on those to this day.
Have you read Teknophage by Rick Veitch and Bryan Talbot? It' a Tekno Comic. It's tale of usurped heroism fits in with Veitch's other works. I just think of this lone glittering ingot of good story in the Tekno Universe whenever I hear you mention the failed enterprise.
Brotherhood of the Wolf - Mark Decascos. :) Likely make a GREAT Crow!!
I definitely called the Claremont book Saw-Vern Seven well, WELL after I eventually learned the word sovereign. The mispronunciation was just so in my head I couldn't see the word for what it was.
I just bought a stack of Joe Zabel comics at this years SPACE show! I talked to him and his wife for awhile. Really nice people. And his crime comics are good. I'm glad I stopped by his table and grabbed some stuff.
Mike Deodato is from Brazil, the northeast part of it, from the João Pessoa city. Just a little correction, ok? Nice video.
Wizard magazine... the only time it’s appropriate to say “I got it for the pictures”!
The last issue I got of Wizard was in 00. When they were talking about Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man film.
Even then some of there articles would just cut off and be incomplete.
Trent Kaniuga does a lot of video game art now. Looks to be living the life!
2000ad The Galaxy's Greatest Comic!!!
the weekly comic 52 had a writers room. Grant Morrison, Mark Waid, Geoff Johns and Greg Rucka. all credited with each issue.
2000 ad is gonna have its MCU style decade in the sun, the world just needs to carry on gettin grimmer n we’ll see it by the end of the decade
You guys mentioned Deadline stories you want recommendations on - I think that's probably all pretty well covered but it would be great if you would take a look at Garth Ennis and Philip Bond's Time Flies story from late-80s 2000AD.
I was even tempted to make my own bound version off the back of youse guys's video on Jim's Fireball collection
Deodato is from Brazil
Spawn #32 was “Spawns new costume” gimmick
All they did was add more spikes! What more 90’s than that. And they gave him a huge boot on only 1 foot like he had a cleft foot! Hahaha great times
I agree about drawing that eagle shoulder pad🤣 man drawing Judge Dredd once with that pad was enough for me lol so my hats off to them who do that daily✌️
Dave DeVries is an Australian comic creator.
Heroes World exclusively distributed only Marvel Comics once they were bought by them.
Overlooked by the guys, but did amazing (and whacky) director Alex Cox really end up writing a couple issues of that godzilla comic?!?
So funny that Jim mentions Skybound during his 'writer's room' rant because Skybound DID have a writer's room for their comic Thief of Thieves. After working in the Walking Dead writer's room Kirkman wanted to try out the process for comics.
Deodato is from Brazil. Pretty cool guy
It wasn't Coraline, it was The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish which is the first kids book collaboration between Mckean and Gaiman.
The correspondence course videos with Joe Kubert himself penciling, inking, lettering (!) and talking about making comics are right here on YT. They're absolute gold. ruclips.net/video/9PSoKbpRTlE/видео.html
I believe that Conan painting is from the cover of Conan the Savage #1 ; it's indeed by Bisley.
Thanks!
Have y’all played comix zone?
First issue I bought
Jim re: Writers’ Room - the X-Men office does that today with their Slack channel and ongoing collaboration between the writers, since the House of X / Powers of X revamp and through today. The effect isn’t good (since head writer Jonathan Hickman was voted off the island), but this is the biggest example of exactly what you’re talking about.
1:19:52 that list of "Top 10 Ways them Power-Hungry Republicans Intend to crew with the Comic Book Industry" is actually kinda funny.
Did you have to mention the Billy Ray Cyrus comic?? 😆😆 Now it's going for over $40 (Canadian)! #kayfabeeffect
Rebecca Guay, one of the best watercolor artist working in cmics, check Homelands On the World of Magic: The Gathering #1, masterpiece.
Regarding readership dropping off when McFarlane stopped drawing Spawn, I can say I definitely stopped reading it at that time. No shots intended at Greg Capullo.
curse you Ed Piskor, now i can't take Kiss From A Rose out of my head god knows for how long!
From a 1 star review of that Stan Lee book: "...the 'witty' comments by Stan Lee are insufferably lame, even angering at times... I wish I'd had someone black out Stan Lee's punishingly unfunny, obnoxious commentary with a marker... the lame, cookie-cutter, public domain computer graphics that pepper every page like discarded, randomly arranged confetti...it's downright shoddy and unfunny."
I don’t know man I dig that Superman cover, never cared for Judge Dredd or the Stallone movie. That Bisley cover does look cool also not for nothing. I have that Creed comic in my long boxes!
I remember in the early or mid years of the 2000s, Wizard became more of a fluff piece due to the advent of Internet.
Yup, the 90's wasn't ALL great! LOL!!! I was mostly out of my pop culture love phase, and I think at least a bit of it came from the lame stuff coming out in and around this time....