tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post1341737014307823203..comments2024-03-28T18:40:59.101+00:00Comments on CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: A WORD TO THE WISE...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-23022213912909842592019-09-16T15:09:04.707+01:002019-09-16T15:09:04.707+01:00Well, the answer to your question is obvious, HS -...Well, the answer to your question is obvious, HS - I'm nuts too! And it could also be that I buy reprints of older comics because most new comics are sh*te.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-59602854887450779802019-09-16T14:32:53.994+01:002019-09-16T14:32:53.994+01:00This might be a daft question, but if you've g...This might be a daft question, but if you've got the perfect originals why keep buying reprints of 'em only to be constantly disappointed? Last night I found myself comparing 2 different reprints of a 50 year old comic when I should've been asleep...it's nuts (but who else could I admit this stuff to?)Hackney Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02514237126679775414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-42396354172039811522019-09-16T13:41:22.239+01:002019-09-16T13:41:22.239+01:00They obviously have more than one set of proofs fo...They obviously have more than one set of proofs for their stories though, because it was sans mistake in the 1986 5 issue set, Roots Of The Swamp Thing, and also the 2009 DC Comics Classics Library edition, but they were re-coloured versions. It could be that whoever was responsible for the individual reprints after the 1992 Silver Age Classics issue has assumed that the mistake was in the original 1971 comic and just left it in. You'd think they'd check though.<br /><br />Marvel have at least two sets of proofs for many stories, ones that are 'archival' and other ones that have since been replaced, which weren't quite so good. It's those ones that Marvel US supply to Panini for their reprints of classic stories, which means that the Panini reprints sometimes aren't so good, quality-wise. (Art touch-ups are more obvious, colours don't match the originals, etc.)Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-80263871889995820272019-09-16T13:04:22.214+01:002019-09-16T13:04:22.214+01:00Why would they care - it's money for old rope ...Why would they care - it's money for old rope (or swamp vines) innit? No one's gonna ask for a refund over a typo no matter how much they've paid for a super-duper deluxe ultimate definitive reprint volume. The typo'd version becomes the only affordable version. I dunno how they arrive at some of them though - it's almost like a computer programme has scanned it and guessed?Hackney Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02514237126679775414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-38662323569208786552019-09-16T08:42:44.957+01:002019-09-16T08:42:44.957+01:00I've just found out that the Swamp Thing mista...I've just found out that the Swamp Thing mistake goes back 27 years to the Silver Age Classics reprint, HS, and popped up again in the Millennium Edition reprint 18 years later (and 19 years ago), so DC have had all this time to spot it and fix it - and failed. That's three times now (at least) over a period of more then quarter of a century that the mistake has been allowed to slip through. Sheer incompetence! It seems like DC aren't paying the slightest bit of attention to the contents before publication.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-40256670003841672672019-09-16T08:09:20.290+01:002019-09-16T08:09:20.290+01:00I spotted one last night in the reprint of Avenger...I spotted one last night in the reprint of Avengers #68 in the Marvel partwork Vision volume! Of course, so I could sleep, I then HAD to get the original out (well, an earlier reprint in my case) to compare and sure enough an 'it' had been changed to 'is' which renders the caption meaningless! <br />No way of knowing if these re-letterers skipped English lessons or if they're just daft, but it's worrying that the reprint editors aren't picking these things up.<br /><br />I think DC and Marvel must both use the fella who does the subtitling on BBC news! :)Hackney Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02514237126679775414noreply@blogger.com