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Trollheart · 09-19-2017, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Lulz. At least the early Dredd stories go ****ing hard with lampooning America. Got plenty right too.

And I guess British copyright laws are different from American ones. Those strips would clearly fall under fair use as a satire over here. Or at least I hope they would. They were American companies, so I dunno.

Controversy[edit]
The Cursed Earth caused a lawsuit involving the publishers of 2000 AD, McDonald's, Burger King, and the Jolly Green Giant. Four episodes in the series, written by John Wagner and Jack Adrian, featured trade marked characters used without permission.[2] One storyline depicted wars between rival gangs, headed by the Burger King and Ronald McDonald – including scenes of Ronald executing a gang member who spilled a milkshake. The owners of these characters objected to the use of their trademarks and sued. Publishers IPC settled out of court, publishing a half-page retraction and agreeing never to reprint the offending episodes.[3]
In 2014 the law was changed to implement a European directive on copyright law allowing the use of copyright-protected characters for parody.[4][5] As a result, Rebellion Developments announced in 2015 that it would re-publish the suppressed episodes for the first time in a book to be published in July 2016.[6]

The Batlord · 09-19-2017, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Controversy[edit]
The Cursed Earth caused a lawsuit involving the publishers of 2000 AD, McDonald's, Burger King, and the Jolly Green Giant. Four episodes in the series, written by John Wagner and Jack Adrian, featured trade marked characters used without permission.[2] One storyline depicted wars between rival gangs, headed by the Burger King and Ronald McDonald – including scenes of Ronald executing a gang member who spilled a milkshake. The owners of these characters objected to the use of their trademarks and sued. Publishers IPC settled out of court, publishing a half-page retraction and agreeing never to reprint the offending episodes.[3]
In 2014 the law was changed to implement a European directive on copyright law allowing the use of copyright-protected characters for parody.[4][5] As a result, Rebellion Developments announced in 2015 that it would re-publish the suppressed episodes for the first time in a book to be published in July 2016.[6]

****ing exactly. Firstly, those stories are fantastic, but that is clearly parody that should absolutely be covered by fair use. **** corporate fascists.

Edit: but high praise to 2000AD for even printing that **** in the first place. I can't think of where in America they would have published it. And in 197-****ing-8.

The Batlord · 12-30-2017, 04:08 PM

BTW Jeff Loebs' early issues of Superman/Batman are fantastic. Superman and Batman dethroning President of the United States Lex Luthor is amazing and the reintroduction of Supergirl after almost two decades of her being dead is the ****. And yeah Supergirl being dead and then not being dead is complex as **** cause DC continuity is a cluster****. Just read this **** though.

Superman - Batman #1 - 87 + Annual (2003-2011) – GetComics

The Batlord · 12-30-2017, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

BTW Jeff Loebs' early issues of Superman/Batman are fantastic. Superman and Batman dethroning President of the United States Lex Luthor is amazing and the reintroduction of Supergirl after almost two decades of her being dead is the ****. And yeah Supergirl being dead and then not being dead is complex as **** cause DC continuity is a cluster****. Just read this **** though.

Superman - Batman #1 - 87 + Annual (2003-2011) – GetComics

You know... halfway through issue 13, the last issue reintroducing Supergirl, I legitimately started crying. That **** was heavy and meaningful and everything I wanted from comics. Then Jeff Loeb showed me exactly why he's been revered throughout the 90s.

And why he's been despised ever since. Oh my ****ing god within a single page you just took one of the most emotional sequences I've read in all of comics and took a giant dump on it. I can't even reread this issue because I'll know what's coming and know that every brilliant emotional moment you built up meant absolutely nothing. **** you, **** your mother, but **** you most of all for having no vision.

*spoiler* But I will always remember the second death of Kara Zor-El and what it meant to Superman and how NOTHING after it existed as far as I'm concerned cause **** Jeff Loeb.

The Batlord · 02-11-2018, 11:31 AM

Superman is supposed to be a demigod with the heart of an all-American farm boy, so do you think it make him make more sense if he had an accent? I honestly don't know if people from Kansas have Southern accents, but it would make his "Aw shucks" ways more apparent, further reinforcing the dichotomy of his biology and his nature. On the other hand he's also supposed to be quasi-mythical and larger than life, so perhaps that would destroy that mystique. I'd be curious to see how Hick Superman would come off tbh.

DwnWthVwls · 02-21-2018, 07:15 PM

Finally finished collecting the main story line.. now to finish reading it and then start collecting/reading the arcs.. I need somewhere to display my growing collection:

Oriphiel · 02-24-2018, 04:33 AM

Doom Patrol is the only comic I'm keeping up with these days.

The Batlord · 03-05-2018, 03:45 PM

Today at work I was again thinking about how cool Judge Dredd is and playing Anthrax's "I Am the Law" on repeat in my head (I've been reading more Dredd over the last two days) and for the second time it has made me misty-eyed like the weirdest nerd. Cause who the **** cries over Judge Dredd?

Currently reading The Complete Case Files vol. 24, which includes "The Pit", which I've been chomping at the bit to read ever since I read about how it expands on Judge judicial processes, and the preceding progs in the volume have reignited my interest in modern Dredd after kind of losing interest upon reading "America". Judge Dredd is simply the bestest. Whenever the new Mega-City One show comes out on Netflix I will most definitely binge watch it on day one.

I've even drunkenly ordered the Dredd movie on Amazon after realizing that my downloaded version's audio doesn't work on my Chromebook. One of those drunk purchases I don't even regret a little bit.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Controversy[edit]
The Cursed Earth caused a lawsuit involving the publishers of 2000 AD, McDonald's, Burger King, and the Jolly Green Giant. Four episodes in the series, written by John Wagner and Jack Adrian, featured trade marked characters used without permission.[2] One storyline depicted wars between rival gangs, headed by the Burger King and Ronald McDonald – including scenes of Ronald executing a gang member who spilled a milkshake. The owners of these characters objected to the use of their trademarks and sued. Publishers IPC settled out of court, publishing a half-page retraction and agreeing never to reprint the offending episodes.[3]
In 2014 the law was changed to implement a European directive on copyright law allowing the use of copyright-protected characters for parody.[4][5] As a result, Rebellion Developments announced in 2015 that it would re-publish the suppressed episodes for the first time in a book to be published in July 2016.[6]

I'm planning on buying some Dredd Case Files TPBs soon, and I'm considering whether to start with vol. 2, as it contains the censored version of The Cursed Earth, or whether to go with the Cursed Earth TPB as it contains those copyright snafu progs. Vol. 2 also has The Day the Law Died, which I'm stoked to read, so I clearly need that, but I also need the other TPB as well to have the complete Cursed Earth run. Maybe I'll just get vol. 5 first as it has Block Wars and The Apocalypse War, which I've yet to finish. So many choices.

The Batlord · 03-09-2018, 11:45 AM

Glory. Got home from work to find Dredd (the good movie) and Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files vol. 5 waiting for me from Amazon (**** the delivery driver for shoving Complete Case files into the mailbox though). I have now tested my theory that Judge Dredd is the perfect thing to read on the can and found myself to have been correct. I can read one prog in five minutes tops, which is just perfect. Now I shall spend the next week reading "Block Wars" and "The Apocalypse War" while marinating in my own stench.

And tonight I shall get drunk and rewatch Dredd.

The Batlord · 03-11-2018, 04:49 PM

Out of all the Batman villains I think Scarecrow gets the biggest shaft. He's an A-level Batman villain, but lives in the shadow of the Joker. If you want the craziest Batman story with the most bizarre storyline you go to the Joker, but if the Joker didn't exist then I think you'd go to Scarecrow, since his modus operandi is to create psychedelic terror and bizarre **** that would freak out all who came into contact with him. He's just not the perfect antithesis of Batman that the Joker is, so that his worth as an amazing villain is not reflected in his comic appearances.

His best appearance that I've seen is in the Batman: Arkham Asylum game, and is one of the absolute highlights, even though he's still in the shadow of the Joker in the storyline. That **** is all visual overload though and is gaming royalty. Jesus Christ do they need to give Scarecrow more play. Even his patient tapes in the game are the absolute best collectibles of the entire series.

#scarecrow4life

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