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Calluna · Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 3:08 pm Post subject: Comics rant...

Disclaimer: If you've known me very long, you know I'm a big defender of the Aladdin comics, I encourage anyone to read them that can, and think some of the stories are awesome (although some also suck). I also don't know how much research the writers have done on their own.

That said, the editor has no freaking clue about anything.

So I was reading through the letters sections of the Aladdin comics the other day (long story), and this is what I found...

Twice someone wrote in to ask why Iago was around and Jafar wasn't. The editor replied that Iago had escaped the lamp, but Jafar was still stuck in the lamp inside the Cave of Wonders. Fair enough, I thought, this is an alternate universe. Except that then she went on to say that they should watch RoJ to find out more about this. What? Either she has never seen RoJ or is purposely lying because she doesn't want to say Jafar is dead or doesn't want to spoil people. I can understand not wanting to spoil, but isn't there a way to do it without lying? If she doesn't want to say that a character is dead that's just cowardly, and if it's the first reason... well, she shouldn't be editing a comic that uses RoJ as canon if she can't bother to watch it or at least remember basic facts about it...

Another time someone asked about Aladdin's parents. The editor said she didn't want to give any details (not wanting to spoil either issue #6 or KoT; fair enough), but then said in the original Arabian Nights story Aladdin's parents were both dead. Wrong, his mom was alive in that one...

Last but not least: Someone wrote in to say they were glad they could read the comics because they couldn't watch the series, as it was on while he was at work. The editor replied that she knew just what that was like, because she couldn't watch it because of work either. Okay, stop trying to stick series characters into the story, then. Rolling Eyes

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Ariellen · Scourge of the Desert Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 708

"Last but not least: Someone wrote in to say they were glad they could read the comics because they couldn't watch the series, as it was on while he was at work. The editor replied that she knew just what that was like, because she couldn't watch it because of work either. Okay, stop trying to stick series characters into the story, then. Rolling Eyes"

~~That's the part where I went from shaking head sadly to full out head-desk. "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV! I don't watch the Aladdin series, but I edit a comic book about him!"

I enjoy the comics; I like some more than others. This is the moment I say thank you for making my reading of them possible. ^_~

AladdinsGenie · Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 6:02 pm Post subject: Re: Comics rant...

Calluna · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 7:02 am Post subject: Re: Comics rant...

AladdinsGenie · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 7:08 pm Post subject: Re: Comics rant...

Chris · Sultan Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 337 Location: UK

I must say as much as the editor may not have known Aladdin the Series I have a lot of respect for her (assuming it's the same editor as Comic Hits).

I managed to pick up about 4 issues of Aladdin when I was on holiday to the US. A few months later (maybe even a year or more now I think about it) I wrote asking if I could subscribe from the UK and if I could purchase any back issues (ok, my mum wrote for me I was like 12).

About a month later I got a package in the mail with a letter explaining that Aladdin ended with #11 and was replaced with Comic Hits but I couldn't subscribe as that was ending soon, but she had included as many back issues as she could find in the office free of charge! Nearly all the issues of Aladdin I needed and about half the Comic Hits series (including the Aladdin issues, KOT adaptation and the Hunchback adaptation special). Best customer relations I have ever known from a comic company.

Calluna · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:50 pm Post subject:

Wow, that's pretty impressive! Shocked

Sorry, I get a bit upset about people not watching the series sometimes. Laughing

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Mariposa79 · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:55 am Post subject:

Calluna · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 6:33 pm Post subject:

Most of the comic book fans I've talked to seem a lot more laid back about continuity than we are. Laughing

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Chris · Sultan Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 337 Location: UK

Yes and no, I know some comic fans who are pretty serious about continuity.

I like it myself, but as a comic fan I can accept that when there are probably about 100 DC Universe comics a month all by different writers/editors and they all share one universe, things aren't going to be a perfect fit and there are going to be contradictions. And I'm sure the same goes for the Marvel Universe.

But when it's something like say Superman, with 2 books a month, 2 writers and 1 editor then I expect good continuity.

Same with Aladdin, it's one show with one group of people working on it (and obviously a much larger scale than a comic), therefore I'd expect pretty solid continuity (which it has if you can figure out the proper order!).

Mariposa79 · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:54 pm Post subject:

For the record I would love to say to the Aladdin comic gurus who do decide to make a continum to the Aladdin comics.

In an two part comic series issue 279, Aladdin was trapped in a cave and was surrounded by desert maruaders. all of a sudden in issue 280, a lever suddenly appeared and this time there was no genie or carpet. He escapes.
Where did the lever come from ? Where did the lever come from ?!

Laughing

Haha always wanted to say that. Laughing