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Image Comics did a hardcover collection of the first 12 issues or so of Flagg a few years back. Erik Larsen worked on the coloring files to get it right, as a matter of fact. There hasn’t been a second volume, sadly.

You have a lot of catching up to do, but the archives are pretty close to current now. And yea, Malcolm is the Dragon now. Lots of craziness and silliness is yet to come!

@@jclebourdais10 I recorded a whole video for it last night and fell asleep in the middle of editing it. Sigh. Maybe tonight. I just posted a short in the meantime. 😎

There seem to be no takers on the "Defend Daredevil #200" train, so that settles that. Thanks for chiming in!

You weren't 17 years old in 1993, were you? I was just getting started! ha!

@@PipelineComics That's fair, I was 27 in 1993, so slowly coming out of puberty and starting to look into girls over comics lol

I have shame. It's one of my monumental downfalls.

@@PipelineComics Means you're normal. Otherwise you'd take example from your new president ;P

Someday, I'll start looking for Comics International on eBay and making videos on those. =) I picked up a couple issues of AH as they were released in my earliest collecting days, but it folded before I got into the magazines completely. It died just as Image exploded, so I suppose Wizard is the logical successor. (No, I take that back. I wouldn't want to insult Amazing Heroes like that. What was I thinking?!?)

@@PipelineComics Sure Wizard was covering the trendy books like Image and surfing on the whole 90s speculation vibe. I have a particular fondness for Comics International not just because they published some of my articles, but mostly because it was British and as such had a completely different tone and irreverence towards the US mainstream, sort of like today watching the BBC version of Have I Got News for You next the the sanitised CNN one. Comics-related press has all but disappeared now I find that very sad.

It is, at times, a very odd relationship, but always a very funny one! I like the way they need each other...

@@PipelineComics yeah, me too !!

Ack, it’s been 20 years since I read those issues. I should have remembered that.

@@PipelineComics It's okay young padawan, you were a baby at that time, it was shocking for us elders because first big one of many Claremont iffy treatment of female characters, even more so since he redeemed Carol Danvers after the Marcus Immortus situation, only to have her mindraped by Rogue.

I’ve been trying to think all day of a good definition of “BCE” that would fit here. “Before Crisis Era”, maybe? But that doesn’t directly reference either Watchmen or Dark Night. “Before Carrie Era”? Ack, I give up, but I do appreciate your word play. You win this one! 😎

@@PipelineComics I usually go with AD which can be After Disaster or After Dark Knight since everyone starting copying it in canon cause they did not realise it was satire.

Oh, good, that gives me more comics to skip reading without feeling bad about it. ;-)

@@PipelineComics you can skip until Ann Nocenti and JRJr take over a few years later

I’ll let you know if I come across any issues from that late in the run. I might have something. But, yeah, I’d bet it’ll be fairly predictable….

@@PipelineComics That would be funny to read. ^_^

You're welcome. No excuse me while I go grab a snack and a DuckTales comic...

Thanks! I wish these digest magazines could still work, time marches on and things evolve. But these were a lot of fun!

The new American translation of Asterix has reverted to using "Panoramix" as the Druid's name now, just to avoid any potential drug references. ::sigh:: So the world just got a little smaller. "Dogmatix" remains and, I'd bet, will always stay. That's a great pun in English, for something that means the same thing as "Idefix", anyway. We got language lucky there. =)

It comes in and out as I move my hands around. So when my hand waves in front of the camera higher up, the focus shifts back and forth. I should remember to lock the focus where the book is -- thanks for the reminder!

I'm going to take your word for it, and slowly back away. ;-)

You need glasses of some sort. The cardboard ones are annoying which is why I picked up a cheap plastic pair on Amazon. I should have the link in the description for them, but there are a lot of different manufacturers for them.

For the most part, the books are the same, but different publishers have different names. The Spawn and Savage Dragon "Vault Edition"s are an "Artists Edition" at Image Comics. The one exception is IDW"s "Artisan Edition", which is softcover and 8" x 12" in size in an attempt to make an affordable edition of the material. "Artifact Edition" is just an "Artists Edition" that doesn't have complete stories in it -- but IDW has stopped using that label for those books now and calls them "Artists Editions", too. (See aeindex.org/sundry/artifact-editions-are-dead/ ). "Gallery Edition" is the name Graphite Designs used when it did a "Dark Knight Returns" reprint at 13" x 20". And Dynamite did their "Red Sonja" reprint as "Art Edition," but it's the same idea. Come to think of it, I think I did an article about this I should update and reprint.... =)

@PipelineComics Yoooo amazing explanation! Thanks for taking the the time to teach!

It works for him. Somehow. I don't argue with the results. After awhile, you get used to watching it.

I’m holding on for dear life. I love the AE books. Only want more, not fewer.

@PipelineComics I respect that! Are you an artist or just a die hard fan, or both lol

@@MannySimoneCards Comic book fan going back to 1989. Letterhack in the 90s, and review writer since 1998.

At this point, you’re probably going to have to keep an eye on eBay. I see Artist Edition books there all the time. Maybe another thrift bookshop like AbeBooks.com or ThriftBooks.com.

@PipelineComics believe me, I look on ebay, that's my home. These book ain't there. They have plenty of books, not the ones I want, like this one. I want marvel cover artist edition. This one in your video, and there another spiderman cover with him in a circle. There's one signed by Stan Lee for like 2k on ebay...not getting that one lol

So many characters and only 60 seconds! If I ever do this book-by-book, we'll get to more of them. =)

It may have been ahead of its time in the States. The bookstores hadn't gone crazy for graphic novels yet.Or NBM didn't have the right marketing/outreach for it. Or it might be that it's too big. Bookstores hate shelving anything bigger than manga sized these days. Even the Scholastic OGNs are smaller than this. Parents just want cheap and small. sigh.

@PipelineComics so depressing

Attempting to name all the character from the 100+ different translations would have been quite tedious. Also, Shorts only gave you 60 seconds to work with when I made this one. ;-) I went with the assumption that an English language video would appeal to readers of the English language editions of the book.

Scrooge is the greatest! He definitely (and quite quickly) became a more likable and adventurous character. Carl Barks made a smart pivot there. Love those Scrooge comics!

I spelled that out the first time I made the video, but it ran past the minute mark and I had to cut it out for time. These shorts can be tricky! Thanks for watching!

Yes it is. There’s a second volume that ran three books. There’s a new writer. The books are shorter. The pages are 9 panel layouts instead of 16. And honestly, it’s not nearly as good. I’ll have a video on it in the next week at some point.

And I’d argue that they shouldn’t do the live action movies. The animated ones are so much better.

​@@PipelineComicsthe only good live action is Mission Cleopatre.

All hail the wise and wonderful algorithm!

It took me a while to track it down but I finally did - Yes, there was an American Entertainment version of it with a different cover, but the one I'm thinking of was polybagged in with Gen13 #25. (It's crazy how difficult that was to find out via Google. I had to find an eBay auction for Gen13 that showed a picture of the polybag.)

Every country gets its own translation with its own set of names. Thankfully, they tend to keep them internally consistent with the suffixes, as best they can. It’s all part of the charm! 😎

My pleasure! It’s a wonderful series. Wish they continued publishing them in America, but will enjoy what we got!