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Very nice covers - I like how The Haunted Strangler has used the famous squint and bitten bottom lip that Karloff does during the times he turns evil!

And First Man Into Space is particularly good!

I wonder if the two two disc sets are going to be packaged like The Killers and The Lower Depths, with double covers?

Cinephrenic wrote:Some of the best!

Wow. These are getting hard to resist...

Purchasing this title based on the artwork. No matter how good the movies are they will look good on my shelf.

Speaking of crushed digipacks, I recall when my friend received his Herzog/Kinski boxset from DDD, and it was completely butchered. I think he had just sent one back to them for that very reason, and though this was in far worse condition, he decided to keep it. He said he liked to think Kinski had gotten into a fight with Herzog over it, and that's how it was so destroyed.

CSM126 wrote:I'll say it again: I must be living in some bizarro universe, because I've never had a digi dinged or crushed, whether I bought it online or in a brick n mortar store.

Me too, every digi I have bought has been fine, I like them.

exte wrote:Speaking of crushed digipacks, I recall when my friend received his Herzog/Kinski boxset from DDD, and it was completely butchered. I think he had just sent one back to them for that very reason, and though this was in far worse condition, he decided to keep it. He said he liked to think Kinski had gotten into a fight with Herzog over it, and that's how it was so destroyed.

I remember a lot of people having problems with this box from DDD all at once (mine is sitting on my shelf, still looking a little worse for the wear). Kinski's ghost must've taken out a whole shipment.

-Toilet Dcuk

colinr0380 wrote:I wonder if the two two disc sets are going to be packaged like The Killers and The Lower Depths, with double covers?

Each film now has its own spine number. It looks like they have abandoned the idea of double features. This will be a four-disc boxed set.

Love the new covers!

How come they didn't add the year on the tab on this one?

hammock wrote:Love the new covers!

How come they didn't add the year on the tab on this one?

Probably because it's the outer case for the Grey Gardens/The Beales of Grey Gardens boxset. Boxset covers don't get year tabs.

Might be - but that does not explain this one:



Maybe they dropped the years completely? But then again, Monsters and Madmen all have the year. I'm confused!

hammock wrote:Might be - but that does not explain this one:



Maybe they dropped the years completely? But then again, Monsters and Madmen all have the year. I'm confused!

Grey Gardens/The Beales... and Symbiopsychotaxiplasm are two-film boxsets. Two films, two different years. Much like with the Rohmer outer box and the M&M outer box, Criterion don't put a year on the outer case because the boxset itself doesn't have a year because it ain't a film, it's just a box. Grey Gardens is now a boxset (with both Grey Gardens and the Beales of Grey Gardens), and symbio is a two-disc box with symbio Take one and symbio Take 2 1/2. Therefore, the outer cases of those sets can be treated like boxset covers, and therefore they don't get a year.

No year tab here:



or here:



But there are tabs on the individual films within the boxes:

Ahhhh - stupid me! Thanks for the help and maybe I should not post until after 12 AM in the future when I had my coffee!

I think Darwyn Cooke should just animate all four movies.

^ already have a new avatar i see

Hammock and I will spend extra time making those 4 works as some amazing wallpaper, I can't wait.

PS. Spine action on grey gardens 2 pack

I think the Gordon four-pack will be pure rentals, but they could get me to purchase if the discs came with miniposters of the cover art, ala The Blob.

More than anything else, the Monsters and Madmen covers make me wish these films were animated features done in that style.

Gregory wrote:More than anything else, the Monsters and Madmen covers make me wish these films were animated features done in that style.

Well, they're not. But you might get your wish to see an animated film in that style soon enough.

-BJ

Thanks. I'm allergic to superheroes (with the exception of Herbie as the Fat Fury) but maybe I'll end up checking that out anyway.

Buttery Jeb wrote:

Gregory wrote:More than anything else, the Monsters and Madmen covers make me wish these films were animated features done in that style.

Well, they're not. But you might get your wish to see an animated film in that style soon enough.

But I don't believe that Darwyn Cooke is working on the animation for that project. He only illustrated the original source work. Maybe I'm wrong.

I always enjoyed the Justice League Animated series, if for nothing other than their interesting voice-casting, like Ed Asner doing voice work as an old woman, or the brothers from Wonder Years voicing ideological opposing brothers Hawk and Dove (with Fred Savage as the hawkish one).

All of those DC cartoons -- Batman, Batman Beyond, Justice League, Teen Titans, Superman... The Batman -- all have a Darwyn Cooke kinda style but they're all pretty safe compared to these covers. Teen Titans' the closest as they're a little looser with the character design and do great things with colour (bordering on Power Puff Girls level goodness)--I remember their opening credits were incredible.

Anyway, I endorse all of these cartoons--though I'm a little out of cartoon loop these days--but with that New Frontier thing, the character design with look the same but there'll be no abstraction or retro 60s style colouring. But that kind of thing is popular so some young talent will come along and do a movie or show in this Monsters and Madman style eventually.

Time for a Criterion Cover Art (and Packaging) Babble-on v3?

jon wrote:Time for a Criterion Cover Art (and Packaging) Babble-on v3?

Why?

well the last one, if i remember correctly, was 16 pages.

sifting through 67 pages is a lot, and i just thought it might be time for a new one. thought i guess there is no cycle for it.

jon wrote:sifting through 67 pages is a lot

And you just made it 68.