tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post389291157103950752..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: Force in Focus: Star Wars #38Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-7685928552227341442018-12-13T19:36:42.903-06:002018-12-13T19:36:42.903-06:00Ah, Michael Golden, my favourite artist of the 197...Ah, Michael Golden, my favourite artist of the 1970s. You can see his influence on Art Adams every panel -- who, of course, influenced Todd McFarlane, who influenced (for good or ill) Rob Liefeld and every 90s artist that came after him.<br />I've also liked Golden's striking sense of design and his slavish devotion to accurate machinery. Besides the work sited, he also did a great run of Detective Comics covers (c. #626-650), an infamous issue of Marvel Fanfare (#47) featuring the Hulk and Spider-man, and still frequents the northeast comic con scene. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02768408649751339440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-81552136233531389512016-11-13T05:47:57.015-06:002016-11-13T05:47:57.015-06:00Hands down my favorite art of the entire series. M...Hands down my favorite art of the entire series. Mantlo and Golden's run on Micronauts is as near and dear to me as the first Star Wars, so the thought of either of those guys handling SW was the Holy Grail in my mind.<br /><br />It's a shame Golden didn't do any more work on the series. Thanks to the storyline we only saw Luke and Leia. I so wanted to see his interpretations of Han, Chewie, the droids, Vader and on and on.<br /><br />Hey, at least we got one issue.Disco Scottiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15647528178138690679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-72096811909539615642016-06-23T21:27:45.613-05:002016-06-23T21:27:45.613-05:00We all know how Golden believes that patience is a...We all know how Golden believes that patience is a virtue. 8^)Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-14214856718749823822016-06-23T21:26:04.097-05:002016-06-23T21:26:04.097-05:00The price increase is presumably the issue, yeah, ...The price increase is presumably the issue, yeah, but I’m curious how the “format change” referenced by Goodwin translates to “distribution reasons” unless that’s just smokescreen or really inexact shorthand. I can see how having one chapter be at a different price could make calculating Fox’s or Lucas’s cut a hassle, if there were royalties on sales involved vs. just a flat licensing fee, maybe even compounded once it came to reprints and such. Price increases have almost always been couched in references to the increasing costs of material, however, rather than stiffer wholesale terms from distributors, although by chance I just had a conversation today about how pressure from distributors led to publishers offering new formats at higher price points (like tabloid editions) to justify their shelf space amongst more expensive periodicals, and maybe the 40¢ to 50¢ increase in 1980 had more to do with that.Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-53343649122986373922016-06-21T09:41:13.275-05:002016-06-21T09:41:13.275-05:00Heh. Yeah, seems like a strange decision, though I...Heh. Yeah, seems like a strange decision, though I think this is fairly early in his career; maybe it was commissioned without anyone knowing exactly what to expect from him? Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-43342358955237521962016-06-21T09:32:38.318-05:002016-06-21T09:32:38.318-05:00Maybe that price increase is the change? Like, for...Maybe that price increase is the change? Like, for whatever reason, if they were going to release 5/6 of the EMPIRE adaptation at the higher price point, they had to release all of it that way, and since the increase wasn't going into effect until a month later, they slotted in this issue to push the entire adaptation into the fifty cent price range? Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-42440058292082172182016-06-20T11:28:07.202-05:002016-06-20T11:28:07.202-05:00I kind of muddled my own joke. Obviously where I s...I kind of muddled my own joke. Obviously where I said "fill-in" two times, that was supposed to say "inventory". Ugh.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-37288250678293292392016-06-20T11:26:28.259-05:002016-06-20T11:26:28.259-05:00Michael Golden... drew a fill-in issue? A fill-in ...Michael Golden... drew a fill-in issue? A fill-in by Michael Golden? <i>Who hires Michael Golden to draw a comic that will sit unpublished in a drawer for years</i>???Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-38900571257170772402016-06-19T06:23:39.369-05:002016-06-19T06:23:39.369-05:00Hmm… I don’t know what “distribution” changes occu...<br>Hmm… I don’t know what “distribution” changes occurred other than Marvel upping its cover price from 40¢ to 50¢ that next month, June 1980, but for the same 17 pages of story*. [*Until year’s end, November 1980, when story pages went up to 22 out of 32 printed pages with no additional price increase. DC had been offering 25 story pages, usually split between a main story and a backup, since going from 40¢ to 50¢ the same month as Marvel. <i>— Budget-Minded Blam</i>]<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.com