Talk:Neal Adams

Passive voice, and a larger issue

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It has been announced that Adams would take over as the new artist on All Star Batman and Robin after Frank Miller and Jim Lee finish their run on the series.

Sentences like the that show up too frequently in the comics articles, and appear either as if the promotional departments of comic-book companies are using Wiki to plug new projects, or passionate fans are tossing in news and gossip items, which may or may not be of encyclopedic weight.

In any case, "It has been announced" ... by whom? by what? where? Can this be cited? Is it from a news column or a gossip column? These are important distinctions to make and reasonable questions to ask regarding content being put into an encyclopedia. - Tenebrae 10:23, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes that's right Neal Adams has nothing better to do than come here and plug his book. You idiot. Hate to tell you hall monitors, but Wikipedia isn't half as important as you think it is.

Passive voice

Well, your voice isn't passive when it comes to throwing insults.

Neal Adams doesn't have to plug anything. Promotional departments do. That's what they're paid for. I did mention that. I'm sorry you apparently skimmed and didn't read that before losing your temper.

Wikipedia is the 19th most visited site on the Web, and is the cover story of this week's Village Voice. -- Tenebrae 00:31, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Lois Lane #80 cover

Does not look like an Adams cover to me (I think the GCBDB got this one wrong)...there are tons of better 60s DC covers by Adams that would be more representative.Stationwagontodd 16:49, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Good eye. According to the Neal Adams Checklist at the artist's own site -- which I should have checked with for secondary confirmation on what, in retrospect, isn't instantly recognizable as Neal -- it was only inked by Adams, and penciled by Curt Swan (http://www.nealadams.com/checklist.html). I'll notify GCD and remove the image. -- Tenebrae 15:33, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, mate...Superman's musculature did have a bit of an Adams look to it, Neal being the inker explains that. Interesting, I don't recall ever seeing any Swan/Adams collaborations in the past. Stationwagontodd 15:43, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Neal's theories

I think there should be a larger section on Neal's theories about his new model of the universe.

Oh man, yes! Listen to him being interviewed: http://www.theskepticsguide.org/skepticsguide/podcastinfo.asp?pid=51 He's hilariously crazy! --Havermayer 05:58, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Maybe he's crazy; maybe not. But if the size of earth is changing, wouldn't the speed of rotation also change? -W- 99.231.208.23 (talk) 07:42, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

• After listening to the podcast interview, it seems to me like the interviewers spent a lot of effort to emotionally express their disbelief rather than use facts in their arguments; using terms like 'that's bad science' or 'that's just not true', whereas Adams gave a lot of information that genuinely makes me think. Note, I disagree that the earth must be hollow, but these anomalies, like size and speed of Tyrannosaur compared to its bone structure, are still anomalies to explain. The challenge here is to provide a theory consistent with all the facts. -- 99.231.208.23 (talk) 09:19, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

I remember this podcast differently. I don't think the SGU crew simply dismissed NA's points in the manner you describe. But regarding the science see the follow on emails: http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?s=neal+adams Mindme (talk) 15:26, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

The reason they said things like, 'that's bad science', and 'that's just not true', was because the BS that Neal was spouting WAS bad science and it WAS simply NOT true. Whether this was from Neal being a liar or just being batshit insane, your guess is as good as mine, but I'd say some combination of the two. --Zhuul

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Done. The whole biography is thin on references - I'll have to return to this after the B-class assessments are done and I'll flag everything that needs a source but in the meantime throwing some references in there to support statements isn't going to hurt the article. (Emperor (talk) 02:40, 8 August 2008 (UTC))