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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
07/05/09

In reply to Five Lessons To Have Learned From 2009 Already
I've just learned that almost 20 years after image comics was founded Liefeld still as no concept of proportions, dimensions, or even how to draw a gun despite the fact that he has all his characters holding one because he really really can't draw a hand. But if I ever need a pouch I know where to go.

Also, apparently Bishop has shrunk, removed the M from his face and is wearing button up shirts. Wait. That's not supposed to be Barack is it?
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DeepFriar
07/07/09

@Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: I understand it's a comic and all, but how can that depiction of a human have a twenty-pack that extends up to his neck?
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Michael Oder
07/05/09

In reply to Five Lessons To Have Learned From 2009 Already
I know it's become the common wisdom that Terminator Salvation and Watchmen failed, but if you look at the Box Office numbers they look pretty successful and that doesn't even include future DVD and other revenue streams.

Terminator Salvation had a $200m production budget but has grossed $323m worldwide so far:

[www.boxofficemojo.com]

Watchmen had a $130m budget but has grossed $182m worldwide.

[www.boxofficemojo.com]

These days I would call those good investments.
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AcceleratedDragon
07/05/09

@Michael Oder:

That's gross ticket revenue. What percentage goes the studio get, and what goes to the movie theatres?

Those TV commercials ain't free either and are not included in the "production budget". Don't forget about the internet viral marketers. "This the most awesome movie ever, you gotta see it"
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
07/05/09

@Michael Oder: Generally, a movie has to gross 2 to 3 times its budget to make a profit. Neither of these are even close.
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Roklimber
07/05/09

In reply to Five Lessons To Have Learned From 2009 Already
That picture of the baby licking the pig's snout is just.... wrong.

The adult whose birkenstock appears near the bottom right corner should be ashamed of him/her self for allowing that licking to happen.

And, no, I'm not a prune. I just believe in a modicum of hygiene. Do you know where that pig snout has been?

It amazes me how clueless some people are in regards to other animals. Here are two examples:

Pet python kills Florida toddler (July 2nd, 2009)

[www.abc.net.au]

Pet jungle cat

[page.olesiafx.com]

I love the way the jungle cat looks at and licks the other (regular) cat. Also, the chaos left over by the jungle cat's chicken kill. Imagine when that couple has a baby and the jungle cat thinks the baby is just a weird-looking chicken...
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
07/05/09

@Roklimber: Holy Moly! I was not expecting that Jungle Cat page. Whole dead chicken, catfish and a naked chick (albeit not really my type)?! wow.
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LarsThorwald
04/30/09

In reply to Obama Versus Aliens - Your First Look
Yes, I hope the aliens win, because everyone knows that an increase of taxes on the upper echelon of wage earners to levels consistent with the marginal tax rate under Bill Clinton in the 1990s is commensurate with socialism. And I hope the aliens smell like ham. Because that's what America needs: aliens that battle against idiotic and profoundly ignorant cries of "socialism!" and smell like ham.
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tetracycloide
04/30/09

@LarsThorwald: the tax policy isn't what defines socialism, it's the nationalization of several formerly private companies that makes it socialsim.
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AngryEddy
04/30/09

@tetracycloide: Private companies that managed their businesses so poorly they tanked the global economy and then begged for handouts and accepted the terms that came along with them - don't let that detail slip by.
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tetracycloide
04/30/09

@AngryEddy: that changes what it is in much the same way that the fact that bush did it to changes what it is, namely in no way what-so-ever.
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Gaudeamus Max
04/30/09

@tetracycloide: I think I blew a gasket reading that.
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tetracycloide
04/30/09

@Gaudeamus: socialism is socialism. it's not a bad word it's just an ordinary word with a specific meaning that happens to define current political events. if that blows your gaskets then maybe you should get out more.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
04/30/09

@tetracycloide: It's an ordinary word, but it has nothing to do with politics in the US. Europe, sure, though their forms of socialism are pretty mild.

Obama would be right-wing in everywhere but the US.
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Gaudeamus Max
04/30/09

@tetracycloide: I just meant the structure of the sentence. I'm hip to socialism.
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tetracycloide
04/30/09

@Evil Tortie's Mom: it has everything to do with US politics. when an industry moves from fully private owned to partially government owned this is, by definition, a movement from less socialist to more socialist. it doesn't matter what country you're in, socialism means the same thing in all of them. it makes no difference where US politics stand relative to europe because it's not a sliding scale.

@Gaudy-Mouse Muad'Dib: apologies then. i have a tendency to obfuscate my message with syntax others find odd. i think it's some kind of genetic condition.
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dirtybacon
04/30/09

In reply to Obama Versus Aliens - Your First Look
Yes He Can.
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OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
04/30/09

In reply to Obama Versus Aliens - Your First Look
Whoever wins we lose.
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GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
04/01/09

In reply to Obama Comics Keep Coming, Get Weirder
Shouldn't Red Sarah be throwing her dagger from a helicopter or Giant Bird imbued w/magical powers allowing it to hover?
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Syrax
04/01/09

In reply to Obama Comics Keep Coming, Get Weirder
I like this joke better. Over at Jalopnik the joke was that we were getting the Preview Button back. Not nice.
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GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
04/01/09

@Syrax: Consumerist has one.
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Syrax
04/01/09

@WelcomingFacebookers_GitEmStev...: Yeah, I know. That's a Gawker thing.
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ceejeemcbeegee is not here
04/01/09

@Syrax - Platinum Jalop: Comments at Jez are completely disabled. Insert your cackling woman joke here.
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Syrax
04/01/09

@ceejeemcbeegee... it's been real: Oh, no thanks. I don't make fun of Jezebellians. They're evil.
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Joe Meils
04/01/09

In reply to Obama Comics Keep Coming, Get Weirder
At least they aren't doing the obvious thing and casting the Pres as Tuvok from Star Trek Voyager...
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ManchuCandidate
04/01/09

@Joe Meils:

Nah. The Commander from the Matrix

[www.dublanet.com.br]
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Mount_Prion
04/01/09

@ManchuCandidate: Or the President from the 5th Element.
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Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
04/01/09

In reply to Obama Comics Keep Coming, Get Weirder
Sounds like it would be good for a laugh, but I'm going with the April Fools theory as well.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
04/01/09

@Belabras Voted 5: Please let the second be an April Fool's Day joke. There's parody and satire, and then there's... uh... not even an attempt to really change the names and sell comics.
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