http://bigreveal.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] bigreveal.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] goshdarnspam2011-09-14 03:58 pm
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[identity profile] tamerlane.livejournal.com 2011-09-15 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
At least they think about it. There was a pretty explicit (for not being T and being drawn by Ed Benes) sex scene in the last JLA volume with Red Arrow and Hawkgirl and it... wasn't... rated teen. Even if they assume all comics that aren't geared toward children are at least teen rated, DC should probably be putting it on covers.

Think they'll let you trade it in? I didn't pick up Frankenstein yesterday, but I'm sure it was good.
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[personal profile] terra 2011-09-15 09:21 am (UTC)(link)
At Marvel, it seems to be All Ages (which generally out of continuity stuff geared at younger readers) T+ (everything in default Marvel) and MAX books which are... MAX.

It could be that my pull list skews to the grim and gritty (it does) but, I can't help but feel if Marvel and DC both have T+ ratings that signify different things, it doesn't help either of them. And I think ratings are a good idea, especially if the goal is to help new readers find stuff that works for them. But they might need to be coordinated like ESRB ratings are between companies for that to really work, and I can see why the industry might be wary of anything resembling the Comics Code.

And yeah, it's no real big deal!! I just feel that my dislike of Tony Daniel should be obvious even as it goes unspoken, and I wish my LCS would attune to that fact.

[identity profile] tamerlane.livejournal.com 2011-09-15 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
I assumed it was something like that. Is MAX part of mainstream continuity or is it more like their version of Vertigo where if they feel like it, it's part of the universe?

I don't have much of a pull list any longer and I've never been into Marvel (unless you count 70s/80s, which I haven't read since I was very young), so I can't comment on it. Putting together an overall rating like the ESRB would probably be a good idea, at least so everyone is on the same page, but I'm not sure how civil that would go over.

I'm not sure who likes Tony Daniel, but that's pretty much how I'd feel if mine saved something not DCAU by Adam Beechen or Geoff Johns after 1999 and not in a mini-series for me.

But hey, at least you didn't have Hawk & Dove saved?
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[personal profile] terra 2011-09-15 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
It depends on the book. Alias w/Jessica Jones was explicitly in continuity, and it tied into Daredevil a lot, and that was definitely a MAX book. But most of the time, MAX books are in an alternate universe, with some ambiguity for the Punisher.


And yep the companies don't seem too good at cooperating right now. And yes at least no Liefeld, at least!! Small victories...
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