But Kraven’s Last Hunt was pure brilliance and Going Sane was good too; they’re very different from each other.

The storyline, drawn by the great Joe Staton, is called Going Sane, and it is quite good, if a bit overlooked. That is, it was overlooked until just recently, when DC actually put it into a trade paperback collection!

I got that!

Nice art, interesting story, horrific colouring – my memories from the 90′s of Digital Chameleon were good, but it hasn’t held up.
BUT, what the heck is the other story they threw in too beef up the trade?
Terrible, terrible Bart Sears art (how is he popular???) and a story that was dreck.
I think I got… three, maybe four pages in.

It should also be noted that DeMatties has stated his original pitch for the Spider-Man arc The Child Within that re-villainized Harry Osborn and, ultimately, led to his death, was ALSO first pitched as a Batman story. When DeMatties gets shot down on Batman pitches, he apparently immediately reworks them as Spider-Man stories.

The only Spiderman stuff I’ve kept except for the Ditko material, a couple of the great single issue Sandman character stories from the 70′s is Kraven’s Last Hunt. For me it stood way above anything else to do with the web-crawler. Now I know why.

Salut!

Furthermore, if you had actually READ what Danny said (which was quoted by o.t.o) you would have seen that Danny said “I think there all morons” (yes, I know it’s ‘they’re’). Danny did not just call them bad musicians, he called them MORONS. THAT is the reason why he is a ‘hater’, not because of his taste in music.

I, for one, would much rather o.t.o.’s “nonsense”, which actually manages to say something, than your well written response that fails to really respond to anything, as you were more worried about how o.t.o. spoke rather than what he said. But I guess I should expect that from someone who clearly favours FORM over CONTENT.

The comment made by w/e idiot was totally irrelavant to the topic soooo he sound like what we call in the hiphop community a “HATER”..don’t hate bcuz JAYZ or cats like myself been granted a god giving ability to verbalize words and make um poetic songs or jus musik to relax your ears. REAL HIPHOP…not your laffytafy dance chorus garbage that your grandma can remember.
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Ah, yes. Because someone dislikes a form of music, he’s described as a “hater”. I’ve got news for you, pal: Most rap IS garbage (Sturgeon’s Law applies to rap as it does every other form of art). I find it incredible that you write about how you “verbalize words” yet you seem absolutely incapable of writing a coherent sentence. (Might I rhetorically inquire what else you would “verbalize”? The word itself is defined as “to speak or write verbosely” and “to express something in words”.) Also, it’s “god-GIVEN”, not “god-giving”, for God’s sake (pun just slightly intended); the phrase means that the talent originates FROM God (that is, it’s “given” by God). And “to relax your ears”? What the f—? How in the world do one’s ears “relax”?
What is it about rap/hiphop fans that they feel this need to call other people “haters” because of a difference in musical taste? (Of course, I’ve read plenty of comments at music blogs where someone who criticizes an artist is derided as a “hater”, no matter the astuteness of the criticism. Of course, that commenter tends to get a bit miffed when he’s called a “hater” when he criticizes someone else’s favorite artist/s.) If I don’t like Jay-Z’s music (for lack of a better term), then so what? I happen to like a wide variety of music, including some rap and hiphop but I have very little interest in Jay-Z.
I notice in the section of your little diatribe that I quoted, you have described yourself as a “hater” (“REAL HIPHOP…not your laffytafy dance chorus garbage that your grandma can remember.”) Who are you to determine what is and is not “real” hiphop? And why shouldn’t one’s “grandma” be able to “remember” a song? Do you feel that way about your own grandma? (If so, I feel truly sorry for her.) Also, it is funny how so much rap and hiphop gets played in “dance” clubs (where I truly doubt the clubgoers are paying much attention to the words) when you “hate” that “dance chorus garbage”.

Most people will automatically say Christopher Columbus, but he what about Leif Ericson, or the Indians who really discovered it by way of land migration, or any of the other theories put forth about early cultures navigating their way their by primitive means, or that Columbus only discovered Hispaniola and not the Americas exactly and that John Cabot was the first to visit the continental Americas in that era, etc, etc, etc. Someone did it before, but then it was sort of lost to the annals of history until someone finally did it in such a way that was popularized and made more widely known and accepted.

Weird phrasing.

Thanks Ted.

“… if you say “who created the donkey as the symbol of the Democratic Party?” you’re basically saying, “Who POPULARIZED it,””

Uh no I’m not. Creating something is to be the one to originate something because that would be the original appearance. Hence “create”. Very strange distinction to make that doesn’t seem accurate at all.

There’s a difference between creating THE symbol of a party and creating A symbol for a party. I could draw (not very well) a cartoon now with the Dems represented by a cow, that wouldn’t make a cow the symbol for the Dems. The original cartoonist was the first to represent the Dems as a donkey, Nast was the one who made the donkey the Dems’ symbol.

Which would make, let’s see, the ridiculous Mark Millar the P Diddy of comics …

(Whereas Frank Miller would be the equivalent of any number of fill-in-the-blank misogynistic rappers. And I’m sure there’s at least one rapper out there bug-eatingly insane enough to be comparable to Dave Sim, but I haven’t really paid a lot of attention to that field since Public Enemy’s heyday.)

I didn’t even notice this quote till now tho…what was it?…
“I don’t like rapper period..comic book fans or not I think there all morons”

WTF??? More then likely a rapper that gets lucky enough to make it out the HOOD(and I don’t mean the crimson cowell)and become famous is a lot more likely to open jobs and checkbooks then any other musik exc. or artist..Jobs for less fortunate people or help in communities i.e. Jayz hurricane katrina. The comment made by w/e idiot was totally irrelavant to the topic soooo he sound like what we call in the hiphop community a “HATER”..don’t hate bcuz JAYZ or cats like myself been granted a god giving ability to verbalize words and make um poetic songs or jus musik to relax your ears. REAL HIPHOP…not your laffytafy dance chorus garbage that your grandma can remember.

I think if u got a tribe called quest, the lox, jay z and nas together on a lp that would be like the entire Avengers in a TPB..amazing!