citizenmilton
Name: Milton Lawson
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The primary appeal in this ACTION run is the character study of Lex Luthor. But it’s also a serving-sized followup…
Read full review and commentsThis small “missing chapter” story in the pages of Batman is the key to unlock a lot of the head-scratching…
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Have been curious about Moebius's work, but never knew where/when to find good examples. Now I do.
One of their specialties was fried livers. When you put a batch in the fryer to cook, they would routinely pop scalding hot projectiles of burning grease. These hazards could fly over a dozen feet. They were random, unpredictable, and there wasn't a single safety measure in place to avoid them.
Even though you'd learn how to stay away for the maximum amount of time possible, if it got busy, and you had to do things in the vicinity, you'd let your gaurd down, and you'd forget. And then suddenly, without warning, some random spot on your body would get hit with small glob of boiling grease.
And, oh yeah, the managers would routinely perform fraud - they would claim they had to "clock everyone out" as part of the shutdown procedure, so, you'd lose 10 minutes here, 20 there, and each pay period be shorted an hour or two compared to your actual work.
Businesses do things that have adverse effects all the time. Haven't we all worked for one that makes bad decisions, adopts poor strategies, etc.?
One could argue that death gimmicks, unreliable deadline/release-dates and event fatigue are among the activites that have created the adverse effect of overall industry-wide sales decling. But within the relative numbers of an overall decline, death gimmicks and event miniseries are among the best sellers. It's possible for both to be true simultaneously.
I'm just glad that sooner or later, some of these particular grievances w/ the status quo of the industry will be transformed by day+date digital delivery.