TroyHickman
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Quote:Criminy, now I wish my signature didn't look like a first grader with the palsy...Originally Posted by Dark One
You're welcome. I also put in an order for the signed version last night. Westfield also seemed to be sold out of the non-signed version of the first issue.
Now Troy...we need these signatures to be extra good!
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Quote:Thank you. Y'know, I'm surprised he'd read TG but hadn't heard of Common Grounds.Originally Posted by Lazarillo
Picked it up this weekend, good stuff. The store owner mentioned he'd enjoyed it, too, but when I mentioned Common Grounds, he hadn't heard of it, so I took a moment to advertise. He usually recommends stuff to me, felt good to reverse-evangelize.
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By the way, if you haven't already, I'd suggest you join TG's fanpage here.
You can find supplemental stuff that's not in the comic (like TG's journal entries), see pics of her, ask her questions, etc.
And if you're someone with an artistic flair, feel free to send along any illos of TG or her cast of characters for the gallery.
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Quote:I think it will count against you at your competency hearing...Originally Posted by Nylonus
I once saw Troy Hickman in game. Does that count for anything?
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Quote:I could be the richest man in the world, and I still couldn't afford to wear pants...Originally Posted by GibsonMcCoy
Ooh, thanks Dark One!
I'll try to get an order in for a signed copy from the first link when I get my tax refund on Friday.
@Troy:
How many issues do you have to sell to afford pants?
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Quote:I'd be glad to help, Gibsie, but I only have the copy I bought myself at the comics shop (no contributor copies). I'll see if they have any left, but you might be better off finding an inexpensive place to get it online.Originally Posted by GibsonMcCoy
Can I order a copy directly from you, Troy? Drove two hours there and two hours back and they don't have it, and the only Hickman they knew of wrote "Dragonlance".
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Quote:Face front, True Believer, and join the hallowed halls of FOOT (Friends of Ol' Troy)!Originally Posted by The_Fallen_Angel
Excelsior!
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Quote:Glad to bring you out of lurking, Lyc. Thanks for the comments. I hope we've got you along for the rest of the series!Originally Posted by Lycantropus
Had my comic dealer order it for me. After Common Grounds I'll readily support your works! Picked it up Wednesday and really liked it. I even thought the PSA in the back was a nice touch and really fit the rest of the feel of the book. I'd go into more detail about what I liked, but don't want to really give spoilers or pre-bias someone based on what they interperted my opinion as.
I mostly lurk the forums, but I just had to show my support and enjoyment of the first issue and look forward to the rest!
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Quote:Above and beyond the call. That guy, and a couple hundred guys just like him, have been at every comic convention or signing I've ever been at...Originally Posted by Eisenzahn
Went to my FLGS to buy it. Nearly a block down the street, I said to my stepbrother who was picking up a copy with me "Is somebody overcooking meatloaf nearby??"
Turns out, it was Big Sweaty Tex, our least favorite local Comic Shop Denizen, plopped down in the back secreting his ooze over a table full of warhammer stuff and the leash of his twi'lek slave girl. I am not even kidding about this guy's funk. More than a hundred feet away, and we were upwind of the store! I don't know how that even works, unless he walked there the same way and periodically rubbed up against things.
Anyway, just wanted to make it clear the dangers we braved for you. The store didn't have it in, so we'll have to go back... *cue dramatic music* ... NEXT THURSDAY! THE SUSPENSE!!! -
Quote:I appreciate it, Sho, but don't EVER again mention me, pantslessness, "ridiculously huge" and "grab" in the same sentence...Originally Posted by ShoNuff
Troy - my pantsless friend your book is in my Stack (mind you I still have a ridiculously huge reading backlog but I was sure to grab it )
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Quote:Ah, what I like to call "the Chuckles Strategy." When I was a little kid, the guy that owned the diner next door would give me packages of Chuckles candy when I'd go in there. I'd always eat the black ones first, because I didn't care that much for licorice flavor (but I'd still eat 'em because they were candy!), and I'd save the orange or red ones for last, as they were the best.Originally Posted by sleestack
WooHoo! Got my copy last night! The LCS didn't put it in my pull - I told them a THIRD time to add it - but there were copies on the shelf. I haven't read it yet...I'm saving it for last of my comics this week!
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Quote:Originally Posted by Tubby
Prostituting parrots punctuate the problems with people's perfect personal palaces.
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Well, I read my copy now, and I loved the @#$% thing!
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Quote:Y'know, I'm really not sure, as I'm out of the loop as far as tech stuff goes. But I know Top Cow is moving in those directions, so it's possible. I think there will probably also be a trade paperback at some point, but I'm hesitant to tell folks that, as I really need the single issues to sell...Originally Posted by Warp_Factor
I don't think Amazon does single issues, but there are online comic shops you can use. I've used Khepri Comics and liked them, but their selection can be a little limited so they may not have it. I've heard good things about Mile High Comics, Westfield Comics, and Midtown Comics, but I haven't used any of them.
Troy, do you know if it'll show up on Comixology in the near future? I'm buying it in print anyway, but it'd be cool to have it on the iPad as well at some point.
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Quote:Since it's from Top Cow, most stores will probably not have many copies beyond what their customers have pre-ordered (there's a store I've actually done signings at, for example, that STILL only ordered a couple of copies of the Pilot Season issue of TG), so yeah, you should ask for it by name!Originally Posted by Tormentoso
As someone who does not buy comic books all that much outside of compilations years after the series have ended: Will I need to request this comic from my local store or will they most likely have copies?
I really liked the pilot, so I'm looking forward to this.
If you liked the pilot issue, you should really dig this; it's going to be a lot of fun, in a dramady kind of way. -
Quote:That's because you're special.Originally Posted by MentalMaden
I already am.
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I love you guys.
And no, I don't think this is advertising. If, say, Neil Gaiman suddenly started playing CoH, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have to delete all the threads that pertain to his writing.
Mr_Ultimate - Bless your heart. You are hereby made an official member of Twilight Guardian's Midnight Squad (check here for further info).
And if any of you either can't wait until tomorrow to buy it, or aren't sure if you want to without a "taste," you can check out the first five pages here.
Y'know, it occurs to me that I'll be competing with the death of SPOILER in the Fantastic Four... -
Quote:At the moment, they're already set to "corrupt" Common Grounds and Twilight Guardian, so you're too late. I've also done Witchblade, Hulk, and Turok, but they're not my characters. And City of Heroes? Hey, YOU deal with their lawyers...Originally Posted by GibsonMcCoy
Some adaptations I love, some I hate.
For instance, the "Burn Notice" tv series is much better than the movie it's adapted from a few years back. Chuck Palahniuk is noted for saying he loves the "Fight Club" movie better than his book.
I also found the Bourne books boring and slow, but I love the movies, but I think the adaptation of John Steakley's "Vampire$" to film to be an awful mess, while I've read and reread the book at least 20 times.
And there are those who would say that Akira Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood" is better than Shakespeare's "Macbeth" and others who would claim you cannot top Shakespeare.
On the other hand, Frank Miller claims he still gets letters from people hating what he did to Batman, even though the majority of fans believe "The Dark Knight Returns" was the greatest thing to happen to Bruce Wayne ever.
I'm a huge fan of Neil Gaiman's work. So much so that I have a tattoo of one of characters. When watching "Stardust" I cringed at the introduction of Robert De Niro as a cross-dressing sky pirate, but I found the performance of De Niro wonderful.
When I become a multi-billionaire overlord of the Earth, or at least a major film studio, I'll corrupt Troy Hickman's works the same way! Except, there will be pants involved!
~summons Hickman~
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Quote:Yes, this is the beginning of a four issue mini-series, totally new. Technically, it's "Twilight Guardian: Heroes and Villains" although I don't think it says that on the cover. This is what all you wonderful folks helped me win by voting for the TG Pilot Season issue. It'll be cool. Buy it. And join TG's Facebook page. And call your mother, for gosh sakes.Originally Posted by NuclearToast
Wait, is this #1 different from the #1 I already have?
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Quote:I'm not stepping on the sexuality landmine this thread seems to want to become.Originally Posted by SuperOz
I guess I must be! Sorry!
I really like the sound of the Statesman you're talking about there, and a while ago now I wrote some fiction myself called ironically enough 'Pandora' in which a young Kheldian meets Statesman and wonders why he is the way he is.
I mention this because I was struck by the parallel between that Statesman and one of my other great favorite fictional characters in The Doctor from Doctor Who. He's in very much a similar situation and has no direct peers anymore, and despite all his connection to humanity, is also substantially removed and just...not human. There's a wonderfully deep self-sacrificing heroism to the character and yet on the flipside, and sometimes it doesn't take much, there's a cold razor edge to him. I remember vividly an episode in which upon confronting an alien warlord, he specifically tells him he has one chance to walk away. After a fight above a trapdoor, he wins but doesn't kill the alien. Walking away, the alien rises to kill him and he says something along the lines of:
'Do you want to know what kind of man I am?' He springs the trapdoor, sending the warlord to his death. 'No second chances. I'm that kind of man, too.' And I thought that was so Statesman now. Don't pull that stuff with him. He knows better.
Oh, I totally and utterly agree with you about what's happened to Silver Age heroes and how they're being rewritten with modern sensibilities but this Silver Age nostalgia...and it really honestly doesn't work. I started a thread on the Hero/Villain Culture board about how many problems I had with the Infinite Crisis and Superboy-Prime in particular and I still do.
I'd really like to see Statesman 'cleaned up' as it were and his heroic qualities to shine through again more than the mess that I agree with you he is. Just before writing this reply I'd had a thought for an AE story called 'The Origin of Wisdom' as a sequel to the 'Origin of Power' arc....I may yet write it. I guess when it comes to these kinds of characters, I agree with Hickman's quote there; it just feels wrong when you try and make one sort of character another and I've tended to shunt aside the more asnine representations of Statesman.
I think the Incarnates story is underrated in a lot of ways because as you say we're seeing some of the more annoying or 'pompous' Incarnates dealing with the consequences of what they are and I really hope the game writers do more of that as the Incarnate trees open up for people. That first battle where you wipe out every single of one of the heavy hitters in the game bar Hamidon is a really salient reminder of that possibly being Statesman himself in that role...
So yeah. 'shipping aside, I'm still gonna stick up for the big guy. I kinda like that we have our own Superman and he's at his best something all heroes should aspire to be.
S.
Regarding retconning characters, I think there are OK ways to make changes, even retroactively, as long as it doesn't slap longtime readers in the face (say, the way Alan Moore transformed Swamp Thing into an elemental, which didn't alienate anyone. Now if he only understood Rorschach/The Question/Mr. A). But some writers just say "ah, it was never that way, and even if it was, it sucked!" The first example that always comes to mind with this for me is the Adam Strange mini-series from the early 90s or so, where Strange cheats on his pregnant wife, as I recall. I always thought Strange was a very heroic type, and given that he went through hell every month to catch a zeta-beam just to BE with his girlfriend/wife, he seems like one of the last characters I would expect to go out and get some...er...strange (and as a guy who's been catching the United Airlines "zeta-beam" just to have a few brief moments with my g/f for seven years now, I relate to the guy). But no, the writer apparently wanted the shock value of making it an established character, and the name recognition that OTHER writers had earned for Adam Strange. Yeah, maybe I'm a "moldy fig," as they say, but it just seems to me that some things shouldn't be tinkered with on a whim.
I touch on this just a bit with the forthcoming Twilight Guardian #3 (hey, if I'm writing from all the way in Vancouver, I deserve at least one cheap plug). -
Quote:In the meantime, you should read my new comic, Twilight Guardian #1, scheduled to hit the stands this coming Wednesday. It's like CoH, only without a keyboard, and considerably fewer Rikti.Originally Posted by UberRod
However, were they not supposed to release Incarnate stuff every month? Where's December's stuff?
Where?
But yeah, we haven't heard anything about issue 20.
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Quote:At the moment I'm in Vancouver, but I'll be back in a few days.Originally Posted by Melancton
This is another time that I wish Troy Hickman could have carried on with the CoH comic. His take on Statesman in "Smoke and Mirrors" was an excellent one, and I really think he could have made the character interesting as well as noble.
You are correct: Statesman is pretty much a jerk in the comics elsewhere, while in the backstory to the game, he is an inspirational and selfless leader. In the backstory, 1,000 heroes willingly follow Statesman to almost certain death (800 die) in the Alpha Gambit so that the Omega Team could enter the portals and disable them. The arrogant Statesman of the comics could not inspire anyone to follow him anywhere.
Where have you gone, Troy Hickman, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you...
I know what you mean with Statesman, though. In my mind, I want him to be a combination of the Cary Bates Superman and the Steve Englehart (or Kurt Busiek) Captain America. I want nobility and kindness and the sort of wisdom that being around a lot longer than the rest of us HOPEFULLY brings (assuming you're not a total creep). I did what I could in my arc to transition States from the hard-to-deal-with guy of the first three issues, but I'm not sure it took. He's potentially a great character, though. -
Quote:Sorry for the delay, but I'm vacationing in Vancouver, and the wendigos are particularly thick this morning.Originally Posted by Schismatrix
You mentioned the name!
Might as well make it official...
Hickman. Hickman. Hickman.
While I'm here, I'll remind everyone that Twilight Guardian #1 is due out next week, knock on wood. For every copy you buy, it extends your life by a year.
Well, OK, that's not true. But it'll make you WISH you had another year of life so that you could read it THAT much longer... -
Quote:Yes, yes he is.Originally Posted by Desi_Nova
Wrong Hickman.
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Quote:Well, I usually wake and bake in the morning, then by midday I've hit the crack pi---huh?Originally Posted by Ironik
Not only am I curious as to what kind of drugs Hickman is taking, I also wonder what the hell the reviewers are ingesting to heap such praise on his writing.
Oh.
Never mind.