adamstar.bsky.social
Creator of What’s Snappening!! The online Marvel Snap zine dedicated to the creative side of Marvel Snap and exploring the depths of comic book culture. Where’s the zine? Right here. You’re inside the zine. I know, right? Freaky.
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Coming soon to my Etsy shop. Now accepting preorders. You will be able to pay by cash, credit card or an unfathomable mix of Volts and Gold.
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It was Prodigy. But that said, I don’t know how anything works with anything anymore.
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Yeah, but when LockProd dropped it said No Target and didn’t dupe Nightmare. And the next turn - the humpty hump.
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Clearly, I think they ought to make a statement to that effect. And if they can’t deal with the art by a bad actor side of it they should be smart enough to issue a statement on their plan, not in detail, just that they have one, to not sell art under the wrong name.
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I wouldn’t have purchased the card or spent credits upgrading it if it had the correct attribution. I won’t use the card now.
It seems Second Dinner is continuing the unprofessional and unethical practices for which it was rightly criticized in the past. How disappointing.
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That would be a strange calculation for them to make as this is the issue with ethical, and maybe legal, ramifications. I would hope being correct ethically would be enough for them.
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I’m all for rule of cool & narrative accessories that depict movement, atmosphere or the passing of time (like a cape, hair in the breeze, cigarette smoke). I don’t think a weird wig on an otherwise alien form looks very cool though. Quite the opposite. Unless they’re a mutant B-52. She’s not.
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Take the Symbiote characters as another example. Scream, long hair. Misery, long hair. Venom, Carnage, Toxin, Anti-Venom, Lasher, Agent Venom-
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(Loompa) too early for proper nonsense, sorry.
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What do you get when you want that win now?
Feeling upset with some sweat on your brow?
Wait patiently while you play in the loo
Like the Oompa Doompa Doopity Do!
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Thanks. I didn’t catch any of that when it happened, somehow. But that wasn’t a misattribution issue either and they responded with recognition of the problem and announced a solution within a week. That’s all I’m asking for here. A clear response to the issue of the misattribution.
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Are you referring to the Dealing with Demons Gambit bundle? That has some relevance here with the other side of this error but I’m focusing here on the more immediate problem of the wrong name being on the artwork. I don’t know of that happening in Marvel Snap before.
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Remind me of the details with the Daken.
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Sure. I’m not sure at this point what there is to investigate. It’s not a mystery. The case is closed. Now they need a response.
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So we need more than a, “We’ve been talking about it some” on Discord. We need to hear what you are going to do and then you need to do it. This isn’t a little, understandable boo-boo 17 days later. This is a disrespectful and major breach of commercial art and business etiquette. Fix it. Do better.
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To be blunt, selling misattributed art is art fraud and it’s not legal. Artists have rights of proper attribution. Van Scriver has a right to have his name on his art. Quitely has a right not to have his name on a Van Scriver. Second Dinner does not have the right to sell Van Scrivers as Quitelys.
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Which leaves us with Marvel Snap knowing, very soon after its release 17 days ago, that they have artwork for sale by Ethan Van Scriver falsely attributed to Frank Quitely. For sale. 700 Gold equals $9.99 USD, right?
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For the card, that signifier is behind the Xorn logo. But it appears, via the “Full Art” on Marvel Snap Zone (marvelsnapzone.com/variants/xor...) that the signature, the word Ethan, was cloned out. By somebody at some point.
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Here’s the source of the Van Scriver Xorn card, the cover of New X-Men 124 (2001). And that’s Van Scriver’s prominent signature on that cover. Obviously his, and impossible to confuse with the signature of Frank Quitely.
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I don’t expect everyone to note the more curvilinear line of Quitely, or how his Xorn isn’t just a skull-metal
mask with tubes but something more like the child of Geoff Senior’s Death’s Head and Paul Chadwick’s Concrete, but I digress.
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The above is an actual Frank Quitely Xorn, from New X-Men 126 (2001), a stunning reading experience. My eye doesn’t confuse Van Scriver and Quitely. I find Quitely quite distinctive. Here’s more Quitely Xorn from that same issue.
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It’s an Ethan Van Scriver drawing of Xorn that’s being sold under the name of Frank Quitely. We are going to set aside the other thorny issue of selling art by Ethan Van Scriver so we can focus on the direct problem of selling artwork with a false attribution.
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Here’s the sole visual appearances of the X-Men in the issue- an optic blast, some ice, gorilla hands and the shadow of Angel. It’s sick.
In summation, Kirby rules, silver age comics are the nuts and go read some. Bye.
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Magneto is kind of blindly torturing Don/Thor not realizing he’s just a scrawny dude. Then Mastermind, looking sharp in his hat and opera cloak, lets Mags know they found the X-Men but- the X-Men were kicking their ass.
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Mag, as is his way, is like, “Hey, you’re powerful. You a mutant? We should team-up and take over the world. Check my cool shit out.” But Thor’s like, “Nah”. But as Thor is very stupid at times he forgets to keep hold of his hammer and he becomes Lame Don again.
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Dr. Don has to blow off Jane, again, and traces the magno-disturbance to its source because back then an Uru hammer could do whatever was needed of it.
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Magneto’s magno-flex stirs up all of Manhattan, including the office of Dr.Donald Blake (Thor) and nurse Jane Foster and, tragically, Rogers Seafood Restaurant.
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Check out Magneto’s whip.
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Magneto sends the Brotherhood out to stir up the X-Men while he has some alone time. Some people will argue that Kirby never cared about the X-Men but I disagree. He actually worked on XM much longer than Avengers. I think he especially enjoyed Magneto and the Brotherhood’s antics.
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This is the era where supervillains had, for one issue, a submarine disguised as rotten wood hidden in NY harbor. It sounds corny but it’s actually a delight.
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I think he had Tom walk her a couple times. 🤷♂️
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I knew there was a reason this guy scared the shit out of me.
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Jack Kirby, people, Jack Kirby. (Note, I got a Pax code so no need to enter me despite the fact that I have the correct answer).