Comments on: BLACK DOSSIER preview

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:12:32 +0000

Say what you will about Alan Moore,…he is one of the few comical book authors I’ve read that has actually inspired me to read and investigate other stuff,…other writers and characters and ideas from different realms,…different eras. From his early stuff with 2000AD to his ABC stuff. I have actually “learned” more reading Alan Moore than virtually any other writer in comics.

By: Rich Johnston

Rich Johnston — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:41:23 +0000

It’s not because of the copyright thing. That’s just a reason being given.

By: Lea Hernandez

Lea Hernandez — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:25:34 +0000

UPDATE, as Heidi would say: that shite magnifying glass interface has been replaced by hi-res PDFs with Todd’s wonderful lettering intact.

The clickable bars for same still have that shit lettering, however. Moral: a font doesn’t make you a g*ddamn letterer, it makes you an asshole with a font putting letters in word balloons.

By: Lea

Lea — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:24:16 +0000

Re: the font. Thank goodness that’s not the lettering, because that lettering is completely ass.
I sure hope that that’s not the final lettering.

Todd: don’t you ever want to just mass-educate comics people about the uses of serif and sans-serif I? (Manga and webcomickers are some of the worst offenders.)

At least it wasn’t Comic Sans.

By: Todd Klein

Todd Klein — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:58:56 +0000

gianco: I often do sign lettering, but in this case Kevin usually likes to do it himself. In any case, I would follow indications by the artist if there are any.

By: maija

maija — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:57:35 +0000

According to the owner at my local comic shop we won’t be getting this in Canada because of the copyright thing. Grr.

By: Christopher Moonlight

Christopher Moonlight — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:45:58 +0000

Why “support” Alan Moore?

I simply meant that I’ll always read his work. I’ll tell other people who don’t know about him. He’s a name I’ll get behind, because we owe a lot of what comics are today, to him. But, I think most people already knew what I meant. I’m looking forward to playing the recored, if they’re still doing that. I didn’t have time to read the preview.

By: Fanboy Menace

Fanboy Menace — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:41:59 +0000

“I was kind of bemused by the whole “magnifying glass” thing, myself.”

I felt the same way. One look and I was like, why not just make the page a hair larger where you could just read the dialogue? Duh!

By: Luigi Siviero

Luigi Siviero — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:46:15 +0000

I’m afraid of the copyright matter. Could you say who is the character protected by european copyright law?

By: Rockin' Rich

Rockin' Rich — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:26:39 +0000

Yeah, I much prefer ComicMix’s reader which works just fine. The EW interface was weak.

By: The Beat

The Beat — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:13:13 +0000

I was kind of bemused by the whole “magnifying glass” thing, myself. It’s like….how hard is it to post a big page you can read? Sure you’d have to scroll, but everyone already does. Jeez, maybe this “comics on the intarwubs” thing will never fly!

By: gianco

gianco — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:08:04 +0000

This one’s for Todd,
I was wondering if you have anthing to do with how letters are presented as part of the art inside the story and outside dialogue balloons. By this, I mean, if the artist has to draw a billboard or a newspaper in a panel, do you have any input in the lettering that goes into it? Thank you very much.

Giancarlo

By: Rockin' Rich

Rockin' Rich — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:38:32 +0000

Why “support” Alan Moore? Is he a charity? If you like his work, buy it. If you are unsure or ambivalent, borrow it from someone or go to the library. Or just read something else.

The notion of “supporting” something like it’s distressed or injured is just… odd.

I don’t think he’s missing too many meals these days, though if he is, he can always do a few issues of Liefeld crap.

By: Todd Klein

Todd Klein — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:37:32 +0000

Interesting to see that my lettering has been replaced on these preview pages with a rather awful font, and by someone who doesn’t understand how to use it very well. From the resolution of the art, the actual lettering must have been unreadable on these, and was replaced by someone at EW, I’d guess.

By: Christopher Moonlight

Christopher Moonlight — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:53:12 +0000

I’ll always support Alan Moore, all the way, but I haven’t been overly impressed by the past few years of work. Not to say it isn’t good. It is. It’s just that there are writers out there who are doing better. Alan Moore made those writers possible though, and I’ll never forget that.