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Elektra: Assassin means a lot to me and it saddens me that comic books are still treated in as simply collectible objects, rather than being valued as important works of art, the contents of which must always be easily available to potential new readers.
There are classic novels that will never go out of print because for hundreds of years they have continued to make money for publishers. Is Animal Farm out of print? No, of course it isn't, because even though it isn't George Orwell's most famous novel, it is widely accepted to be an important, seminal work, relevant and engaging to readers of any era. Similarly, while Elektra: Assassin may not have made the enormous impact that Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns made upon release, it is widely acknowledged to be a seminal work of both the writer (Miller) and the artist (Bill Sienkiewicz.) I truly believe that it is easily the greatest comic ever made, it is the pinnacle of the alchemy which can be achieved when a writer and an artist truly collaborate.
Now I am trying very hard not come across as some kind of over-zealous nutjob, but I really do think it is the best comic, particularly of that era and the fact that it is out-of-print speaks volumes about the publishers' complete misunderstanding about content and value. While many applaud Watchmen as the greatest comic of the '80's, that wasn't a comic book at all, but a book about comics, written as a comic book. It is a marvelous work, fascinating and engaging, but every aspect of it is a device designed to allow the reader to examine the nature of comic books.
Elektra: Assassin was far more of a culmination of everything that was being learned (and broken) in sequential storytelling up to that point. In terms of exploring that freedom visually and verbally this is a pinnacle of expression. It is a successfully dynamic, disturbing, compelling story, using archetypes to emotionally connect on many levels… I have spent so much time introducing it to people that when I wanted to write my first professional comic book review, I wrote it about Elektra: Assassin. It is the first book that I lend to friends who I love, and people who don't appreciate it just aren't that close to me (not because I chose to distance myself from them, but because it just works out that way. To paraphrase the old saying "Love me, love my comic books.")
Meanwhile, outside of the world of comic book publishing, for the last three weeks an unpublished illustrated book has been the number one bestseller on Amazon , simply due to pre-ordered copies. According to the publisher, although the book won't go on sale until June 14, "Up until this week we have done nothing to promote this book." In fact, the only form that people have seen the book has been an emailed pdf version of it, illegally sent from friend to friend.
The Bay Citizen reported that "media outlets such as the New Yorker have begun to speculate that one of the biggest engines of its success has been booksellers and other industry folk circulating the 32-page PDF to the wider world." and it does seem pretty clear that in this instance, the fact that people were able to read the book before buying it significantly contributed to their desire to buy it. While this isn't always the case, it certainly does support the idea that previously unknown books can benefit from being seen for free via electronic distribution.
So once again, I'm forced to ask; Why not allow comic books (particularly great works of art which are out of print and so would otherwise go unread and unsold) to be distributed in a digital format? Perhaps comic book publishers don't want to risk putting brick-and-mortar stores out of business by potentially losing sales to online stores… Apparently, unlike music and film distributers, comic book publishers really CARE about small stores, and unlike those other institutions, they're going to be able to change the way that people and the internet behave and stop information from flying freely around. No, of course they aren't. This is a fallacy. It is completely laughable in fact. (By the way, that was sarcasm, back there.)
Unfortunately, comic book publisher's seem to want so badly to cling to the past that they're completely unwilling to deal with the future, even as it becomes the present. And readers are losing out.
What really pisses me off the most about this is that I DON'T CARE. I have nothing to gain from being able to buy comic books digitally, this is purely a comic book fan's outrage. I actually prefer print versions, but I want to buy people Elektra: Assassin, (because it is the greatest comic book I have ever read) and if I cannot buy it in print, I'm willing to buy it in some kind of electronic format and email them a link to download it. I really don't care.
What I object to is being forced to think about why publisher's won't digitally publish their out-of-print back catalogue. Surely if it is COMPLETELY unavailable in print, they won't ruffle any feathers by putting it out electronically, because no stores can make money from a book that DOESN'T EXIST?
I apologize for the all-caps shouting, but this is damn tedious. All I want to do is continue to love comic books and the superior form of communication and story-telling that they offer. I want go back to writing nice articles about my comic book love and how it has impacted my life, rather than being forced to have endless conversations with various people about how we can throw a damn lifeline to this industry which seems absolutely hell bent on going down.
What I have no interest at all in, is being forced to deal with a passion for a comic book which NO ONE can share with me because the apparent luddites who control comic book publishing are afraid of the internet.
Comics will continue to make their way out, just as music and film did. Do publishers really want us to start scanning in old books and posting them online for each other? Or would they prefer to do it themselves, in some more controlled way that insures that they make some money? If comic book publishers were REALLY so worried about the direct market stores, they wouldn't make them pay for the "free" comic books on Free Comic Book Day, if they were really worried, they would give stores a way to sell digital copies of out of print comic books themselves. I would happily go into my local comic book store and click "ok" on a computer screen to download a copy of Elektra: Assassin directly to my inbox.
I'm tired of having these conversations. Elektra: Assassin is the greatest comic book I know. If you can't find a second-hand copy, look for an illegal download. I apologize to the publishers and (even more so) to the creators, but it is important that you read it. In an instance where a book is out-of-print and unavailable as a digital download, but only available illegally, we really have no other way to read it except to commit a crime. Perhaps for every comic book act of piracy, those of us who would prefer to buy it could donate some funds to the CBLDF or the Hero Initiative? I don't know, all I do know is that there is no excuse for having a game-changing book like Elektra: Assassin be out of print.
You can get it for $20 on ebay.
Easily available in the Elektra Omnibus (for now)…
The lack of availability for Elektra Assassin is what lead me to download it from a pirating site. That's a second aspect of this–the lack of availability of these things encourages people to be pirates–rather than failing to hunt it down from a store or from an online retailer, you can just go online, cross an invisible ethical line, and actually have it rather than not have it. And the creator gets just as much from the non-sale as they would from me buying it second-hand.
this is why The-MAKER-of-us-all created back issue hunting.
@ Sharif
I think you've missed the point of the article
@ Raymond
Considering the Elektra Omnibus is $75, it's debatable how "easily available" that really is.
By coincidence, I was just at the Detroit Comic Con this past weekend where I met Bill Sienkiewicz and had him sign these 8 issues. I still believe when people talk about how much comics changed in the 80s and how they "grew up," Sienkiewicz's name deserves to be in that conversation along with Moore, Miller, Gaiman, Spiegelman, et al. For as much as those writers changed the content of comics and what kind of stories they told, it was also still essential that their looks change as well. No one was more responsible for the overall visual advancement of comics in the 80s than Billy the Sink.
Cheers for having the guts to say people should illegally download, if the publishers are gonna slack off.
Maybe people should buy some of the creators creator ownee work to make up for it
Theft is theft. Unless you are stealing a loaf of bread for your starving baby, you are a thief and you can blow me.
You know well that I agree with you 100%. Elektra Assassin *must* be available for purchase as a digital comic. So must EVERY OTHER COMIC produced. Digital or Print are both just 2 ways of consuming the same content. Let people who want paper get paper, and people want bits get bits.
I'm starting work on a Digital Comics Manifesto, but here are some pertinent goals:
1) Every comic (ever) available in print must be available digitally. Load up the full back catalog immediately and make new releases available day and date
2) Direct Market stores must make roughly the same amount of money selling digital that they make selling paper. Comixology and Diamond have both announced programs that purport to move in this direction though the economics are not clear yet and Diamond is trying to tie digital sales to print sales (which would be a mistake)
3) Stores must make that money for digital sales regardless of whether the customer is buying while physically standing in the store or via a virtual store (website/app, etc.)
4) Users must be able to share their comics with friends. Ideally, purchased comics would be in DRM free formats, but I'm just as fine with my comic app platform keeping track of my 'license to read' a comic, and allowing me to pass that copy to a friend (just like I would a paper copy) and then only the friend could read it until I took it back or loaned it to someone else
There are lots of details to get sorted out (especially how Apple's 30% slice of comics sold in the App store affects #2 above) but those are key things we should be looking for from a good digital comics offering. The good news is that we're creating a whole new market from scratch, and we can make it work the way we want it to!
@Tom: Way to totally miss the point. Backissue hunting is a part of the collectibles aspect of comics. It shouldn't be necessary to read seminal stories.
That being said, I agree with the generalities of the article but not the specifics. Elektra: Assassin might be amazing, but it's not nearly as well known as most of Miller's other works and Seinkwicz isn't widely known to the bookstore comics readers.
@People equating downloading with stealing: If no way to buy a new copy of something exists then who exactly am I stealing from? I'm not taking a physical object, so someone else can and probably will buy it if it's sitting at a used bookstore or a backissue bin, so it's not theft from the store. The publisher isn't trying to make money off it, so it isn't stealing from the publisher. No royalties are paid on used books, only new printings, so I'm not stealing from the writer and artist.
"Do publishers really want us to start scanning in old books and posting them online for each other?"
Start? I'd wager more people have read Elektra: Assassin on their computers than in print. If you want any comic ever, including the most recent releases, you can find it for download easily.
Don't take that as a woe-is-the-poor-publishers story. These publishers have a lot of problems, and I think they're of their own making.
Thank you for promoting the GREATEST book of the 1980s. I too love Elektra: Assassin, and yes, it's a damn shame it's out of print. I think Elektra Lives Again is also out of print. Hell, pretty much every Elektra comic is out of print. By the way, can we get more Elektra comics? It's ridiculous.
Maybe it's just my tastes, but I can't stand Sienkiewicz's art. I find it to be disjointed and confusing and it cripples the narrative whenever I try to read a book he does the art on. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's just how it looks to me.
Mutt, why make the distinction that "theft is theft" then immediately start giving reasons why sometimes it's not? If that's the way we decide on morals then I say:
Theft is theft. Unless the comic book is hopelessly out of print, then you can blow Mutt
Zory: I don't want to download a bootleg copy illegally. I want the comics, but: I want the creators to get paid. I want the publishers to get paid. I want the store to get paid. All of those folks spend their waking hours working hard to create, publish, and curate content for me. They should get paid for that work.
Sonia's point is that the industry is 'in big trouble' and yet here are consumers sitting with their wallets open, ready to THROW MONEY at them, and they haven't given us the option. Example: Why can't I buy Fear Itself (which would have a much lower 'give it a shot' threshold as a digital copy vs. individual paper issues or a deluxe trade paperback)? This is mainly because people (MISTAKENLY) think digital comics are different or in opposition to the direct market, when in fact they represent the first real opportunity for local shops to take back market share that has been going to Amazon.
This will work when retailers get paid to sell digital comics. This is the first real opportunity for growth in this industry in years.
I just bought this used a few months ago off ebay for like 10 bucks.
But I am not at all ashamed of having illegally downloaded Miracle Man and Flex Mentallo and a few other impossible to read for less than hundreds of dollars classics of the medium. And if and when those classics come back into print, I will gladly pay for them. I want to pay for them even–please print them comics companies.
Don't get me wrong, matthh, I'm not endorsing piracy. I'm just pointing out its existence and how extreme it is.
It seems analgous to Disney's decision to rotate the availablility of its classic films in and out of "the Disney vault." I guess it sucks that I can't buy a DVD of Peter Pan right now, but I don't think it justifies me downloading it illegally.
@Tom: Way to totally miss the point. Backissue hunting is a part of the collectibles aspect of comics. It shouldn't be necessary to read seminal stories.
That argument rarely holds water in the era of eBay and Amazon. Go to eBay right now, and there's an auction for a TPB of Elektra: Assassin starting at 99 cents. Or you can buy the full run of floppies for $14, including shipping, thanks to Buy It Now.
I agree that publishers shouldn't let seminal works like this go out of print, and their digital release strategies are hopelessly muddled right now as they try to protect comic shops, but it's not up to readers to decide that the answer is then to illegally download it. The fact is, if you want to read it, Elektra: Assassin IS available for a reasonable price secondhand.
And even for books that aren't available for a reasonable price, I'm sorry, stealing is stealing.
For that matter if you just want to read it, check out your local library. Even if they don't have it, you might be able to get it through Interlibrary loan.
Piracy is nothing more than the phenomenon of consumers reacting with frustration at the failure of content owners to put content out there in an easily obtainable format at a reasonable price point.
For a prime example of how to combat piracy, look at how BBC America managed to turn American Doctor Who fans – who had been pirating the show for six years – into people who watched the show legally on television. They switched to same-day airing and got the episodes up on iTunes the next day. And in doing so spiked their ratings nicely, because American Doctor Who fans did not, by and large, want to steal the program – they just wanted to not wait two weeks for the program.
The comic industry needs to learn this lesson and make content easily available at fair prices. And that doesn't mean $2 an issue – at least, not for archive material. With 60+ issues of Geoff Johns's Green Lantern run already out, a $120 price tag to catch up on a continuity-laden series is a dealbreaker for readers. Archive material – even relatively recent archive material – needs to be out there and at a price that encourages people to buy it.
If Marvel and DC would bother to release collections in a way that I can easily and affordably get someone caught up on what's going on, I'd happily be recommending things like Grant Morrison's Batman or Matt Fraction's Iron Man. But when catching up on Morrison's run has a current price tag of nearly $150, it ain't gonna happen.
I would love to give more of my money to Marvel and DC and encourage my friends to do the same. I wish they'd let me.
Chad, totally agree that there are options like eBay available today and that stealing is not a viable option. The challenge is that Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz (not to mention Marvel and your local retailer) don't see a dime from these purchases. This is the same issue the videogame market has with pre-owned videogames: the developers who worked 80-100 hours per week to make the game don't make any money for those sales. All of this is being propagated under the fallacy that it is better not to release digital comics so publishers can 'protect comic shops'.
Dan, agree that there are some parallels with Disney's strategy for 'releases from the vault', however the difference is that Disney does this for a very small number of pieces of content (less than 100 titles total.) With comics, there are thousands and thousands of titles over the last 80 years. So, not having these thousands available is like book publishers not keeping the thousands of books in print that they do (eg. Sonia's reference to Animal Farm) or if all studios didn't release any DVDs on a regular basis.
PS: everything we're talking about here for comics will ultimately be true for the general book market (which was 9% digital in 2010) and the DVD market over the next few years. The age of digital media is here and comics is a market that is uniquely situated to thrive in it.
Animal Farm might not be out of print, but someone else might think of another work they think is the greatest work of literature is out of print. I can't get worked up about Elektra: Assassin bring out of print, there's other Miller and Sienkiwicz easily available, What does upset me is how much Moebius work is out of print. Arzach! The Airtight Garage, The Incal Vol.1 !!!
I don't want to get into the internet's 10,000 piracy debate where everyone's position is already intractable thanks to the other 9,999, but I do want to say that Elektra: Assassin is amazing. I was a single issue purist for decades, but Assassin was the first trade I ever bought, despite having already read it. It remains one of a dozen books I can say this about. If it's not the best comic ever, it's damn close.
Did you know that for a goodly portion of time, Born Again was out of print? Born A-fucking-gain!!!
This is the comic that made Sienkiewicz my favorite artist, his work here is amazing.
I bought the floppies as they were published back in the day, still have 'em in my collection.
Still, it's too bad that the collected edition is out of print (for now), but as others have said, the story's readily available to anyone who wants to BUY it off Ebay and various webstores and comic shops.
It's already been reprinted in collected form enough, and I don't blame Marvel for not wanting to spend resources on keeping it in print.
Hey anyone who uses the library, you are a thief so the Mutt wants you to blow him.
A few points:
1. I can sympathize. For the longest time, the only part of Morrison's Doom Patrol that was available was a trade of the first storyline, with pages setting up the next storyline cut out.
2. A lot of those classic novels that never go out of print are in the public domain. I'd guess that makes it cheaper to keep them in print.
3. That book you mention, with the pdf sample, has a catchy title and a solid hook. That's surely helping its popularity. I'm not sure a freely available copy would, to the same degree, help a book that didn't have those.
4. It costs publishers time and money to digitize comics, particularly if you want it done right, so that the original work is well-represented by the digital transfer. If the original is not in the best of shape, or if elements are missing, it's going to cost more. Unless they can be certain they'll either make money or increase awareness of a character/title/brand/etc., they may not see an advantage in wholesale digitizing.
5. On the same note, in matthh's first comment, who's going to pay for the digitization and for the digital storage for every comic ever printed? How do company's monetize that?
6. Maybe one solution is to set up something like Warner Archive Collection, go a digitize-on-demand route, or reprint-on-demand for a bare-bones version. DC and Marvel are kind of doing something like this with Showcase and Essentials, making runs of old comics available in cheap formats. What if they hooked that into an on-demand ordering system? This would probably cut out direct market stores, though.
7. Books go out of print, then later come back into print all the time. As do movies. I'm sure Elektra: Assassin will be back in print at some point. It sucks when something you like and want to share is out of print, but this seems like less of an issue to me these days than it did back in the 80s and 90s, before the trade paperback model took hold.
8. Sonia, you might want to try digging up articles and interviews with film archivists and preservationists, particularly those working at the major studios or at the Academy. Although the issues faced may be different, the concern is the same – making sure that the important works of the past are still available in the present, but doing so with (usually) corporately owned works.
Yeah, borrowing books from the library is exactly the same as digital piracy.
Is digital piracy and the library really so much different? There are parallels to be made for sure. I can go to the library and read a book and publishers don't get a dime. How is that different than me going to the internet and also reading it for free? Is it because the government bought the books instead of 'random comic fan Bob?'
Why is it that publishers are okay with libraries and not piracy? And why are they okay with me letting my friend borrow an issue but not some random stranger?
Digital piracy can be a murky moral issue and anyone that treats it as anything but is oversimplifying it.
That said. Never read Electra: Assassin. Have to check it out.
As I understand it, copyright was original seven years, then works became public domain for the good of mankind. Corporate lobbying (example Disney) now has copyright virtually limitless. How about a law that if a work is out of print for more than a year, copyright reverts to the original creator. It may not be worth Disney's time/money to put ELEKTRA ASSASSIN online, but Frank Miller has an interest in keeping his canon in print.
Ronald is right, and that's what aggravates me more than any actual position on piracy. Copyright was limited for very specific reasons: so that people would still have some incentive to create but the public consciousness wouldn't be deprived of a steady flow of ideas.
Unfortunately, there are very few people with a financial interest in the advancement of human knowledge and many, many very wealthy people with a strong financial interest in enshrining "intellectual property" as something sacred.
I understand the ethical objection to piracy, but the notion that one entity should have exclusive control over an idea for 100+ years is ludicrous and stifles progress. Digital piracy may be an injustice, but it comes at the end of a much longer lasting one. Yet the internet is all in a tizzy about one but almost never about the other.
You are either pretending you don't know what I mean or you eat babies.
Either way, all who want to blow me are welcome.
With Disney vaults there is however at least the knowledge that in a couple years whatever you wanted is very likely to come in circulation again, and for a period of time after the film has been in store it is also reasonably well available as second-hand (well enough to not really count as "collecting"). Yes, if one wants instant gratification one is screwed but to be honest I have never really understood that "I must have everything right now" attitude.
Well, then there is of course Song of the South…
With comics it's much more often so that whatever you might be interested in probably won't be republished, or it is not known when. Something as great and significant as Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse strips is finally getting republished and it only took a lifetime, some others have a good chance of never seeing reprint.
I admire those publishers who do their best to keep their back catalogue in print, because that is also a sign that the back catalogue is actually worth reading. Tintin books have been in print quite consistently (except the couple of first ones, for "Song of the South" reasons) as has Cerebus, and whatever else is said about Dave Sim, he is a man who really gets comics as an artform, better than practically anyone.
"5. On the same note, in matthh's first comment, who's going to pay for the digitization and for the digital storage for every comic ever printed? How do company's monetize that?"
Theres the rub of course, as I was talking about the other day, nobody on the internet wants to pay for much of anything, so of course companies aren't going to pay somebody for a week's work to sit down and convert something that generates 50 bucks in sales. Maybe geeks should start speaking with their pockets more and they'd be catered to the way women are by ABC's terrible programming.
Isn't one solution to, I don't know, petition the company that publishes the work and ask them to put it back in print? If a company gets a certain demand for something, they'll discover it's in their best interest to bring that product to the market. If retailers are getting a demand from customers, they'll get in touch with the companies and ask why they can't get this book either.
@AS: The big reason that Cerebus has been continually in print for all these years is because Dave Sim owns the whole damn thing. As long as he's alive and can afford to do so, he'll bring out new editions. And he's making Cerebus public domain once he and Gerhard are dead, so anyone will be able to bring out new editions of it.
That's another rub with books like this — since the companies own the characters and the works, the rights "can't" revert to the creators.
Digital distribution is probably the way to go, but if Marvel doesn't see the demand, they won't shell out the cash to properly digitize the work.
Is there a "tracking system" for digital piracy? That is, is someone keeping track of what sorts of works are downloaded most, or is this really impossible due to the "black market" aspect of digital piracy?
One thought, actually —
given that, as some people said in the comments, this is in an Omnibus, shouldn't all the pages BE digitized, so actually it should be easy enough for Marvel to release this in digital form?
I think the big 2 actually are "pro comic shop", to a degree, because the comic shop segment is what keeps them going. If comic shops go under, comics as a medium will continue, but the big 2 and their superhero stuff will probably wilt away, supported only by the latest comic book movie to have come out, and that will only float them for that weekend. Selling digitally in a way that makes sense (a cheap amount, out the same day as the physical comic book, since digital distribution is cheaper than print) would probably increase readers on a grand scale, but would decentralize the distribution in a way that would ultimately hurt the big 2 (even though COMICS would survive).
Or som'in.
And blowing the Mutt would be bestiality, right, and that's DEFINITELY illegal.
Sim owning everything definitely helps. Of bigger publishers, those major francophone series like Tintin and Asterix are also doing the same though, but in those it has been assumed pretty much from the start that the lifetime of the series are longer…selling steadily for 50 years is of course unexpected but even the more generic also-ran series don't come with as harsh sell-by dates than many US comics…
Well, Watchmen probably will stay in print still for a long time, but otherwise the companies which are trying to sell their products like they are cultural artefacts and not bread tend to be the smaller ones.
The "pro comic shop" attitude of the big two is indeed true to some extent, I'm afraid, and for a while one can have also been arguing that ownership of intellectual property has become increasingly important and making comics as a goal in itself less important. Considering that, there is little value to be gained from digital distribution because they are just comics, who cares about them anymore?
I'm saying if you make exceptions for some theft then who are you to say it's wrong when other people do the same? And besides, I'd say eating babies is a pretty modest proposal.
Not to speak for Ms. Harris, but I do believe she was getting at the point that classic work by seminal creators should always be available one way or the other. Think of the children, as it were…if kids still read comics, and they probably shouldn't read Elektra: Assassin for a bit. (Not because of content, but it would be a bit much for a new comics reader, yeah? Kinda have to build up to it…)
Still, I've got mine, so who cares! Single issues from the back issue bins, suckas! You can keep your new-fangled trades and downloads!
Good discussion going here folks! Some additional thoughts:
* Who's going to pay to digitize? We are, by buying them when they're available. Marvel/DC have a massive pile of content to sell, and people who want to buy it, given the right price point. Of course they should choose carefully and based on demand which things they digitize first. I'm just saying that eventually 80-100% of everything should/will be available. Which brings me to my next point…
* Digital comics need to be available in bundles. Right now, DC is releasing Fables on Comixology. But they're doing it only 1 issue a week! At a minimum, digital comics have to be available as 'digital trades', giving the same price point discount that paper versions do. Ideally, you'd also have options like 'All of Transmetropolitan for $100′ or whatever. Right now, there's a disincentive for me to buy the individual issues (it takes 3 clicks to purchase each issue!) and I just know that eventually they're going to be digitally 'traded up' for a better price. Speaking of price…
* There's no reason digital comics necessarily have to be cheaper. There is nothing inherently less valuable about having a comic digitally vs. physically. Would I love for them to be cheaper, sure. BUT: instead of printing costs, now the publishers have to pay Apple 30% off the top. If prices have to stay the same price to ensure there's enough margin for creators, publishers, app vendors, Apple, AND my local comic shop, I'm fine with that. Especially as a starting point for the discussion
* Can we constrain the rest of this conversation to talking about people who want to pay for comics? Let's leave the religious war aside and focus on what we think is the right solution for paying customers to buy digital comics?
I haven't read Elektra:Assassin or any of Miller's Daredevil but it's something I definitely intend to get around to and it does seem ridiculous when things like this go out of print.
As for people saying it's maybe not as well known to the general public, well I think Sienkiewicz is one of those artists whose work should definitely appeal to non-comic readers as it's just damn good art and doesn't look stereotypically "comic-booky".
It's like the situation with Peter Milligan's Enigma which I don't think has been in print for a long time. I hear it mentioned a lot as equal or superior to Watchmen but because Milligan hasn't become a big superhero writer or had any movie adaptations of his work it continues to be neglected, as does most of his work in general.
Enigma by Milligan&Fegredo is great. Can't compare it to Watchmen as they were going for different things even if both were about deconstructing superhero genre, but it is great and a shame if it isn't in print.
About digital format, a problem is indeed that the formats for print comics are not necessarily good for digital comics. Let's look at my computer screen (ok, this is possible only for me, but bear with me). It is not the smallest ever but it is not quite as high as a regular comic book page. This means that if I want to see a spread, this involves a good deal of minor scrolling back and forth or I need to shrink the pages with a good chance of pages ending up looking like crap. And my screen is reasonably big for a laptop.
There is a good reason why I read only such digital comics which are made directly to Net and don't even try to mimic printed page. I am not keen on buying some iComic in order to be able to read comics.
Another point is that pamphlet size, trying to sell past issues in individual issues is ridiculous. Bigger packages which give you the whole story is the way to go, preferentially clearly marking if some packages are in sequence.
But considering how poor job Marvel is doing even with printed trades, I'm not expecting anything from them. A while ago I was thinking that I should probably check out some newer Marvel books, since my local library has some trades…but there on the shelf were sitting trades which IIRC were called "Siege" and "Siege: New Avengers". Looking at them, nowhere could I see any information if I could just pick one or the other and enjoy a full story or if they were part of the same story (I presumed as much from the shared name) or if they were supposed to be read in certain order or if there were more books which I needed to read to get the story.
The response of I, a casual reader positively inclined to comics, was "F*** this, I'll find something else to read then". And keep my Marvel reading restricted to Essentials, because they have the title and a sequence number clearly marked on the spine (DC is slightly better in this, even if not perfect).
I fully expect a similar experience from an attempt to buy digital comics.
I'm pretty sure Enigma by Milligan is out of print because I've looked EVERYWHERE for it and come up empty. I'm a huge Peter Milligan fan and would love to read it, so I might find it online. Best believe, though, that if it's ever reprinted I'll pick it up first thing on Wednesday.
Luckily I already bought Miller's Elektra omnibus so I can read that beautiful work. not everyone can fork over $75 bucks, if it's even available at all anymore in that format.
AS: definitely agree that viewing 'standard' comics in digital format does not work on landscape computer screens. We're definitely talking about portrait/tablet devices (which is why the market for digital comics exploded with the launch of the iPad.)
For sure, good bundling will be important. Publishers could get really sophisticated and sell a bundle like Siege that actually did all the interleaving of different issues from different series into a single chronological recommended reading order (Comixology: if you're listening, that was a feature request!)
One more data point: today Amazon announced that Kindle book sales now greater than hardcover and paperback book sales COMBINED! More details here: http://unthoughtdirections.tumblr.com In a few years, we'll be looking back and wondering why there was so much debate out the transition to digital…
I would have never discovered the wonderfulness that was Garth Ennis' Hitman without piracy, since DC only collected the series up to "Who Dares Wins" back in the day, and that shit was out-of-print too.
So uh…yay piracy?
And I think I read 3 issues of Elektra Assassin. It just seemed like this odd stream of consciousness propped up by some brilliant Bill Sienkiewicz artwork. I don't know if there was some coherent narrative to be found later on, but I wasn't in the mood to keep trying.
Really enjoyed Daredevil: Love and War, though!
PS: Elektra Assassin is the #1! Whether it was Sienkiewicz's art (whose New Mutants run, starting with #18 changed my perception of comics forever), the whole notion of just removing Elektra from Marvel Universe continuity, the character of Garrett, Ken Wind (OH GOD HE SMELLS LIKE MAYONAISE!), the notion of Shield agents who were potentially totally corrupt, and the general feeling that this book was full of drug filled mania, I was absolutely hooked.
If I had this on my iPad, I could just pull it up right now. As it is, I'm going to have to climb up into the storage area in my garage, dig into my longboxes, and pull it down to re-read it… Can't wait. I love comics!
I'm 99% sure that Panini still have Elektra Assassin in print in the UK…
"What does upset me is how much Moebius work is out of print. Arzach! The Airtight Garage, The Incal Vol.1 !!!"
No Moebius work is ever long out of print. In France, I mean. You should learn french…
However the Elektra Omnibus IS out of print. It's still readily available in many places, but that surely won't last long – and the secondary market prices of Marvel Omnibus go crazy VERY quickly!
Again – we must have been reading the same comics in the 80's. I got to comic stores at the time when there was all this stuff that looked the same, and then MAYBE 2 or 3 titles that were TOTALLY DIFFERENT. This was Elektra: Assasin for me. I now realize that I was challenging my mind, my literacy, and my visual intelligence by diving into the Miller/Sienkiewicz masterpiece. And to think I lent it to someone a while ago. Or maybe my brother has it. I can't remember. Either way, I read it so many times that it started to fall apart. Thank god for this comic books, just like the other seminal work of the 80's. But this work has always stayed with me, and I for one am thankful it hasn't been adapted or used in a crappy movie version.
I'm commenting a bit late on this one, but since you were lamenting the fact that it's been out of print I'm sure you were happy to see that Marvel is putting out a hardcover edition of Elektra:Assassin. Sienkiewicz's work caught my eye when I was younger, but I never picked up anything he worked on. I'll definitely be pre-ordering this new edition.
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Amazing work again, seriously!
Any chance we could get them with an "ascii" file? Useless to me without it. (Use a mac so I can't convert it myself).
does anyone have these in a .OBJ or .C4D format? i would love to get these models
They are made for this program: xnalaraitalia.deviantart.com/j…
You can convert them to .obj format in that program too.
You can convert them to .obj format in that program too.
would love them in another format Mesh files wont open for me
Onde está o link de download?
Awesome stuff! Thank you!
wow! Ifonly I knew how to bring them into my Sims-Game
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much!
Cool stuff. Thanks.
Awesome job!
I like that stuff
Thank youf for all of this !!
. . . heh, and thanks for these too . . .
oh yeah! this is very useful, thanks for your works!!!

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Shamus To The Stars
|Complete all story cases with a five star rating.
There's a total of 21 cases you need to 5 star to gain this achievement. You'll need to make sure you find the majority of the clues, branch all the interrogation questions correctly and have minimal vehicle/city damage and civilian injuries. In some cases you'll also need to make sure you pick the right suspect to charge. Sometimes it may seem that both are guilty, but charging the wrong one will only net you 4 stars, whereas charging the other will get you the 5 star rating you need!
|Rate this achievement
|Average Rating (Based on 18 votes)
|Comment #1 by Frasr
Saturday, April 23, 2011 @ 02:07:32 PM
this one may be tricky
|Comment #2 by samoan62
Saturday, April 23, 2011 @ 02:51:50 PM
KILLTACULAR lol
|Comment #3 by xuxa29
Saturday, April 23, 2011 @ 02:55:36 PM
here are 80g i'm not gona have
|Comment #4 by Bullit4YaBrain
Saturday, April 23, 2011 @ 04:46:08 PM
Looks like i'm gonna have to be the perfect cop, not the most corrupt cop on the beat.... damn there goes my fun lol
|Comment #5 by KongQuest
Saturday, April 23, 2011 @ 09:13:46 PM
So how does this 5-star rating work? Perhaps it's similar to TBoGT mission scoring? This is probably the hardest achievement for this game
|Comment #6 by vetteindreams
Sunday, April 24, 2011 @ 01:47:18 AM
having never played tbogt can you explain the scoring system please
|Comment #7 by ImaCyborgUK
Sunday, April 24, 2011 @ 03:59:46 AM
going by the latest trailer it looks like you have to find all clues, get all questions correct and cause little or no cost to the case for 5 stars. hope there is no timer cause i can not do ballad of gay tonys.
|Comment #8 by AMoDo94
Sunday, April 24, 2011 @ 10:05:06 PM
This one like TBOGT it'll be slightly normal
|Comment #9 by ceroc
Monday, April 25, 2011 @ 03:25:46 AM
Didn't one of the newest trailers say something about re-visiting cases you didn't do so well on?
|Comment #10 by clubsoda
Monday, April 25, 2011 @ 05:52:40 AM
I love the look of this game, but im really worried that it'll have no replay value once you solve all the cases and know whose guilty. (Like Heavy Rain.)
|Comment #11 by Dcon6393
Monday, April 25, 2011 @ 05:25:33 PM
@10, I think so too, but there are different avenues to explore in terms of getting to the answer, plus I do not think this will be a game I play 5 times in a row. This seems like one of those games I pop in every now and then.
This achievement looks like it will unlock on the way to 100% anyway, which I plan to get
|Comment #12 by LegendaryMSN
Thursday, April 28, 2011 @ 05:36:22 PM
this sounds like the Gold achievement in gay tony, that were impossible!
|Comment #13 by unholyro11er
Tuesday, May 03, 2011 @ 07:42:55 AM
@9 not sure but I hope so or I've got no chance.
|Comment #14 by knightdedede
Tuesday, May 03, 2011 @ 05:35:30 PM
@9... Yeah, we'll be able to replay cases, no doubt.
|Comment #15 by PIKERB10
Friday, May 06, 2011 @ 11:54:43 AM
@12 that achievement took me like 6 hours on 1 play through i had to go back and re do like 3
|Comment #16 by PinkScrapMetal
Sunday, May 15, 2011 @ 03:07:06 AM
xX~ Yeaaaaa....thiz iz...probably not gonna happen for me...but i will try..but 80g'z soundz good =P ~Xx
|Comment #17 by M 0 R T I K I A
Sunday, May 15, 2011 @ 09:33:20 AM
I think you might be more annoying then the guy who does this at the end of every thing he writes;
why do you put xX~ Whatever ...ect ~Xx sooo annoying
|Comment #18 by FoxViper1
Sunday, May 15, 2011 @ 07:13:48 PM
@17 LOL i was getting annoyed by ~Bryce to.
OT: RDR was an awesome 100%, so lets hope for the better. Only thing is,
different makers...
|Comment #19 by DENAz666
Monday, May 16, 2011 @ 03:34:36 AM
Hopefully this is as fun as RDR and GTA to 100%, will definatley be going for it :)
|Comment #20 by thirdeblue
Monday, May 16, 2011 @ 10:24:48 AM
Does it really hurt to take that extra microsecond to type a word out? I mean. We all probably type over 60 words per minute, right?
Or am I over the hill using a fucking keyboard?
|Comment #21 by DeRelic
Monday, May 16, 2011 @ 10:57:36 AM
this will be fun
|Comment #22 by illadelphiaLOVE
Monday, May 16, 2011 @ 11:36:44 PM
I think i might have to wait on this game, till we have a guide, like where all
locations are and how to answer each interview correctly because idk i dont have
too much time on my hands to play games like this let alone to get it perfect
and most liekly have to try over couple times to get it right.
once i beat creed 2 again on my new account and get all achievements which is
easy with guide for feathers n subject 16 stuff ill then got to this next, ahh
not enough time, duke nukem coming out soon, deus ex, then elders scrolls,
ghost recon, max payne, tomb raider, silent hill! AHHHH F ME! lol lets get started
with all nighters again
|Comment #23 by Ragman17
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 @ 10:51:51 AM
#22, Thats what a second playthrough is for. I plan to play through this once without any help and get things right and get things wrong as I finish the story. After that I'll get a guide that tells me which option to choose on which suspect since the cases will always be the same. I want to play once with pure surprise and not worry about 100% or 5-star ratings.
|Comment #24 by Bigfun4040
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 @ 02:22:34 PM
The good part about this is the ability to select the case @ the main menu & do it over from there as opposed to playing through the entire game again.
|Comment #25 by flechetteXXX
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 @ 02:03:55 AM
This is no where near as hard as it sounds. To get a five star rating on a case you just need to collect every possible clue and interrogate every suspect correctly. It will tell you at the end of each case what the totals for each are. If you want to do this in one playthrough just simply quite if you get a question wrong. It may take a few tries but its a sure fire way. If you want to just enjoy the game and would like to get this later there is an option to replay very case. Im sure I dont have to explain how this game works if you are going for this achievement.
|Comment #26 by flechetteXXX
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 @ 02:05:36 AM
* replay every case... sorry
|Comment #27 by mrdutchoven69
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 @ 02:50:08 AM
This seems super EASY!! I've played the game for just a little while, and I can see that it is completely doable.. So far, when people have lied, it has been super easy to call out. Even if you're unsure, you amass "intuition" (I think that's what it was called) and you can spend some of those points to either narrow down the possible choices, or find out what the other detectives would think.Oh yeah, and within the week, somebody will have written a complete guide on the correct answers and relevant clues... So, if you are too lazy to figure it out on your own, you could always wait. But I think that would ruin the excitement of the game completely... But who am I?
|Comment #28 by mrdutchoven69
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 @ 03:21:09 AM
Well.. Replaying cases is kind of a pain in the chili hole because this game doesn't let you skip cinematics unless you fail enough. So, you have to sit through them even though you've seen them. Just a fore warning.
|Comment #29 by Kaureen
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 @ 12:47:47 PM
Okay so this was simpler then I thought... and there IS a trick to it. From what I found, you can even get this and the one with ALL missions on 5 stars in one play through, but I am not that patient so I will restart when I get all the other achievements, I used my made up techniques and nails a case, I do not plan on taking my time with many others but now I know how. Also I haven't even used intuition yet and I got my 5 star...
as for getting the questions right, if you guess wrong, quickly hit start and quit before the game saves and try again... every time! works just fine but it will bring you back to the outside of the place you were conducting the interview, and if you are at the FIRST location for any given case, you may have to do clues again.
|Comment #30 by Kaureen
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 @ 12:48:54 PM
(I cannot do more then 2 para per comment so bare with me)
Next, or actually FIRST... look around everywhere in your current case, especially behind the house, bar, location that you are in... the clues do not seem to range to far for normal cases. This helps when you question people because you can often nail them the first time around if you have your clues, and it will help you skip BIG steps and still pass the case with a 5 star (example when I did the case with the wife/ life insurance on her hubby that supposedly got hit by a car, I never had to complete the chase after the hit and run guy and I still nailed the case with a 5 star, also all the clues were in/ around the bar and house.)
and last ... If you pick up a high speed chase during your case, I dont think the damage caus
|Comment #31 by Kaureen
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 @ 12:51:17 PM
(reposting from my last)
and last ... If you pick up a high speed chase during your case, I dont think the damage caused during this time effects the actual case... I caused all types of damage during these and just drove normally from place to place during the case locations itself and I still got my 5 star, just avoid car accidents or side walks... which us why I said I can do the ach with ALL 5 stars later, I do not have the patience.
So, if you have all the clues, questions right and havent caused any damage or injuries to anything/ anyone... you get your 5 star. But to me the big thing is getting all the questions right and finding all the clues.
|Comment #32 by Kaureen
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 @ 12:52:28 PM
Also, as for questioning people if anyone doesn't get it still, if they look straight and do NOT look around, its true, if they look around a little then doubt it, bu if they are looking ALL over the place with a really stupid look on their face, then it is a lie but you better make sure you have something to back it up, if you realize you do not have a clue when you look into your note pad... then hit the B button to get out and your guy will take it back, LIE accusation is the only one that works for... Hope I was able to help someone.
|Comment #33 by Kaureen
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 @ 12:58:24 PM
BTW... if you get everything but this one on your first play through, you can skip high speed or w/e they are called, chases, you do not have to do any side missions and yyou may just complete these straight through... there is also a "restart case" choice in the menu if you get to the end of the case (before it saves) and realize you did something wrong.
So far, I like it.
|Comment #34 by mrojitenma
Thursday, May 19, 2011 @ 04:36:22 AM
yea i find it kinda hard finding all the clues cause for some reason i always miss one
|Comment #35 by Prelude2disastr
Thursday, May 19, 2011 @ 12:59:20 PM
@34, just make sure you keep searching until the music stops. So far, this isn't too difficult an achievement. I thought it was going to be hell!!
|Comment #36 by clubsoda
Friday, May 20, 2011 @ 11:42:39 AM
I'll wait for a guide. :D
|Comment #37 by RCone138
Friday, May 20, 2011 @ 02:40:40 PM
taking a guess i'm the only one has a walkthrough for this... found one for half the cases on May 17 and its been updated to finish off the rest of the cases. very easy achievement
|Comment #38 by MADDOG900
Friday, May 20, 2011 @ 08:16:07 PM
all you have to do is branch questions correctly and find evidence. If you need a guide for this...
|Comment #39 by MADDOG900
Friday, May 20, 2011 @ 08:18:45 PM
...Wait... I need a guide for this. EVERY case would be rather difficult without replaying them a couple of times.
|Comment #40 by Bonus Pretzel
Friday, May 20, 2011 @ 10:12:43 PM
Is there a way to redo past cases (without starting new game), and do those count if I get a higher rating?
|Comment #41 by Duffman TM
Saturday, May 21, 2011 @ 05:42:26 AM
I think u can re-do cases on the main menu, instead of resume scroll down to cases
|Comment #42 by bozie69
Saturday, May 21, 2011 @ 01:50:57 PM
find all objects you can look at ask the right questioning on all ppl you talk to in the game and you should get this i got one wrong and got a 4 star wounded lol
|Comment #43 by CPL Haggard
Saturday, May 21, 2011 @ 08:44:13 PM
If you want a walkthrough, here it is. If not, then don't look...
|Comment #44 by xuxa29
Sunday, May 22, 2011 @ 11:24:55 AM
One must be careful replaying cases in the main menu. I almost replaced my main story save file. Some poor design there.
|Comment #45 by MightyD88
Sunday, May 22, 2011 @ 05:15:13 PM
Ha! I cannot get one case at 5-star rating, let alone ALL. If anyone wants to waste their time on this, you have my blessings and good luck!
|Comment #46 by CallMeCarnage
Monday, May 23, 2011 @ 10:18:36 AM
Got this one today, there is no 5 star ratings on the patrol case's or the very last mission.
|Comment #47 by xuxa29
Monday, May 23, 2011 @ 04:26:09 PM
I find verry funny people in the street keep telling me I'm playing for 5 stars during the replay sessions.
|Comment #48 by ltownsoccer11
Monday, May 23, 2011 @ 07:15:57 PM
gamesradar.com has an awesome guide to get all 5 stars as well as all the film reels, newspapers, and landmarks
|Comment #49 by Delusional King
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 @ 10:56:18 PM
how come I get all the clues and all the Questions right and still get between
2 stars for "slip of the tounge" and 3 or 4 stars for some of te others?
|Comment #50 by SmoothAsEgg5
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 @ 11:16:05 PM
#49, you might be wreckless during driving? i think that affects your score. but i wish i woulda used the walkthrough on my first playthrough *sigh*
|Comment #51 by RCone138
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 @ 08:21:35 AM
yes wreckles drving will destroy your rating. i found this out very early one and had my partner drive to ever place from then on, plus this is how you fast travel. the only parts i had to drive were car chases and you are allowed to make some damage. i think that after $500 worth of damage you lose a star but i'm not completely sure.
|Comment #52 by IGoob92
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 @ 10:03:17 AM
I got over $1000 damage and I still got 5 star so your facts are wrong.
|Comment #53 by IGoob92
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 @ 10:04:32 AM
You wish you used a walkthrough on your first playthrough...
Wow, that would of been fun you moron.
|Comment #54 by eNaRGe
Thursday, May 26, 2011 @ 01:03:20 AM
@51, he said "not completely sure" so pull that rod out of your
high horse's ass
|Comment #55 by eNaRGe
Thursday, May 26, 2011 @ 01:04:43 AM
@52, damn, where is the 'edit' button??
and yeah @50, first playthrough? then why play the game? just watch a movie
|Comment #56 by seonvittumeitsi
Thursday, May 26, 2011 @ 09:55:03 AM
i dont understand what was so hard about the gold achievement in gta:tbogt.
just as a tip to those who think its impossible, u dont have to get all the
requirements at once. for example u just need to complete the mission with the
needed accuracy and then its done, now just finish the mission again and get
enough kills and those are registered etc. it would have been next to impossible
if u would have to get all those requirements for gold in one playthrough of a
|Comment #57 by Aromatic Itch
Thursday, May 26, 2011 @ 01:38:48 PM
Anyone know if the DLC cases "Slip of the Tongue" and "The Naked City" count
toward this achievement? It would be pretty harsh if they were included as the
only way you can get them is either waiting for the DLC to come out or using
a promotional code if you got one with the game
|Comment #58 by HugTheBear
Thursday, May 26, 2011 @ 07:02:31 PM
#52.. No need to be rude. He didn't say he was stating a "fact."
|Comment #59 by XEliTeX Hitman
Saturday, May 28, 2011 @ 05:49:14 AM
easiest way to get this is after you finish the game they give you 5 intuiton points per case.just play through the case and use the intuition points on the questions only and write down what answer is right. that way if you fail you can use the intuition points on other questions. i started this yesterday and i finished all traffic and homicide on 5 stars
|Comment #60 by Mallardbro
Saturday, May 28, 2011 @ 05:27:27 PM
At first I thought this was going to be a pain to get, which it will, but now I'm glad they've put it in. Playing through the game and getting even one question/response wrong in a case can change it all so by going through again getting everything spot on gives you the full story and you get to see more of the cleverness behind some of the cases.
|Comment #61 by Mallardbro
Saturday, May 28, 2011 @ 05:36:24 PM
|Comment #62 by bozie69
Sunday, May 29, 2011 @ 10:12:48 AM
@57 no you just do the normal ones the dlc ones have there own achv to get :(
|Comment #63 by XTREME SUASAGE
Monday, May 30, 2011 @ 11:40:11 PM
Here you go this should help us all
|Comment #64 by TommyTranemyr
Wednesday, June 01, 2011 @ 07:29:36 AM
this one will take some time!
|Comment #65 by Jokerdatoker666
Wednesday, June 01, 2011 @ 09:57:55 AM
hopefully a guide comes out i dont have the patience
|Comment #66 by Melanopterus
Wednesday, June 01, 2011 @ 06:49:07 PM
Does this count if you just redo cases from the case log?
|Comment #67 by doublea
Wednesday, June 01, 2011 @ 11:17:36 PM
Attention to everyone without this achievement keep reading if u really want this achievement
|Comment #68 by doublea
Wednesday, June 01, 2011 @ 11:23:12 PM
Step 1:to all who just started traffic stop and write down the answers u chose and if the answer is right write or type down the question and the answer for it Step 2 if u get it wrong do the same as step 1 except put the answers u didnt put after the question so u have more of a chance to get it right and keep doing that for the cases by replaying them.
|Comment #69 by doublea
Wednesday, June 01, 2011 @ 11:24:36 PM
it may take time but it'll be worth it to get that 80G achievement Hope this Helps Anyone
|Comment #70 by iGrim SoMEoN3
Saturday, June 04, 2011 @ 10:23:57 AM
i have all achievements, YES you can go back and replay any level you havnt
5 stared... its actually not that hard, the hardest achievement by far is the 95
cars, seriously, good look with that, took me 3 days :/
|Comment #71 by Hoser117
Saturday, June 04, 2011 @ 12:13:08 PM
Just look up a guide dude...
|Comment #72 by Hoser117
Saturday, June 04, 2011 @ 12:14:18 PM
@ 70
Just look up the LA Noire wiki, type in the cars you need and they give you great locations to find them all. That's how I did it.
|Comment #73 by Miss Murder xx
Saturday, June 04, 2011 @ 07:33:04 PM
|Comment #74 by mrdutchoven69
Monday, June 06, 2011 @ 04:24:47 AM
Have your partner drive everywhere. You do no damage to your car or the city and it's waaaaay faster than driving yourself
|Comment #75 by DeSTroY3R xD
Wednesday, June 08, 2011 @ 02:52:58 PM
http://lanoiregaming.com/ this gives you a very clear guide in how to get 5 stars on every case enjoy!:)
|Comment #76 by Jhart2509
Friday, June 10, 2011 @ 09:53:13 AM
yeh but there are some cases were u get clues over the radio whilst driving, so if ur partner drives u wont get all the clues
|Comment #77 by Falloutkid22
Saturday, June 11, 2011 @ 04:20:33 AM
I used the wiki, although some of the questions aren't as they appear in the game (what I mean is that they are in different order), but it has every clue listed. I very rarely missed a clue or got a question wrong thanks to the wiki.
|Comment #78 by mrasskicker
Saturday, June 11, 2011 @ 12:23:54 PM
you do not require any skill like with GTA4:TBOGT as long as you use a decent guide
|Comment #79 by darkx3no
Monday, June 13, 2011 @ 09:44:19 AM
I used this guide to 5 star all cases worked great and easy to follow
|Comment #80 by GunLucky
Monday, June 13, 2011 @ 11:11:37 PM
I've only got 4 cases left to get 5 stars on, but going to have to find a new guide now as I just went back and tried doing one of the cases and the guide was missing one clue, very annoying. :/
|Comment #81 by Dragon86
Sunday, June 19, 2011 @ 12:59:56 AM
You are allowed to miss one question and one clue. The last case I five starred had both.
|Comment #82 by akibab
Friday, June 24, 2011 @ 01:26:17 AM
yeah this achivement is pretty easy, maybe not on your first playthough but since you can replay any case you want, it makes it just time consuming
|Comment #83 by Sconzee
Saturday, June 25, 2011 @ 10:14:01 PM
just saying what #82 said.This cheevo is easy with a guide,
it will take you about 8 hours (with guide),
plus the "magpie" achievement is linked to this.
|Comment #84 by gipito1
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 @ 05:24:56 PM
complete the game first so you won´t get spoilers
|Comment #85 by Broady
Friday, July 01, 2011 @ 12:21:04 AM
Does anyone know if you have to cause literally no damage on each case, or do you just get graded on clues found and questions correct?
|Comment #86 by PolarBear89
Friday, July 01, 2011 @ 07:14:08 PM
I think it includes damage aswell. But i've completed cases with a 5 star rating with 400-500 in damage so if you just drive carefully, it shouldn't be any problem. Or just just let your partner drive.
|Comment #87 by Itzz Sh0wt1m3
Sunday, July 03, 2011 @ 04:19:15 AM
|Comment #88 by NakedCommunist
Thursday, July 07, 2011 @ 10:24:34 AM
You can probably rack up to around $500 - $600 in fines before a star is taken off, I've occasionally had a couple of $400 fines and still gotten all Five stars.
|Comment #89 by DezSnaker
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 01:57:13 AM
Look guys, I have EVERY achievement for this game. Now if anyone needs help with anything, feel free to contact me. ;D
|Comment #90 by MarleyMon81
Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 09:35:17 PM
Going to be getting this one for my birthday and just had a question. If you don't get five stars on a case, I'm assuming you can go back into it at some point and replay it? So you can finish the main stories then go back in and clean up some of the cases that need five stars.
|Comment #91 by JMCx
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 01:56:30 PM
Yeah every case in this game is replayable
|Comment #92 by Kowpow Sundust
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 10:04:10 PM
Does this include DLC cases if you have them downloaded?
|Comment #93 by skalinic8785
Thursday, July 21, 2011 @ 05:11:23 PM
Does anyone know if there is a way to check what grade you got on previous cases either through the game or the social club? I already had a few 5 stars but I don't remember which cases. I don't want to have to replay them all but I cannot figure out how to check previous grades. Thanks!
|Comment #94 by Kowpow Sundust
Friday, July 22, 2011 @ 04:05:36 PM
You can see what amount of stars you have on each case (and if you got the newspapers) in the CASES menu.
|Comment #95 by The Demon Cat
Tuesday, August 02, 2011 @ 11:42:37 PM
...Does this mean I can run over streetsigns, cilvilians, and ruin peoples cars while driving??.....DAMN There goes all my fun))':
|Comment #96 by spinoir
Thursday, August 04, 2011 @ 02:35:29 AM
I dont think i will bother with this one tbh. Not a big fan of replaying storys in this way.
|Comment #97 by djhepcat
Sunday, August 07, 2011 @ 09:19:12 PM
I'll be leaving this one on the table. Just replayed a second case for 5 stars, but no way I'm putting in that much time for only 80g.
|Comment #98 by XBF360GH
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 @ 08:16:44 PM
Does that mean I can't crash into buildings and hit people anymore? bummer!
|Comment #99 by The RhinoFish
Friday, August 19, 2011 @ 10:48:16 PM
Hey guys I'm getting this game next week and I'm really excited for it. I
was wondering while you're doing the missions are you timed? To get this
achievement easy would just be following the walkthrough they present on this
site on your first playthrough... Is there a freeplay mode and if so can you
get the driving achievement while playing it?
|Comment #100 by cjdavies
Monday, August 22, 2011 @ 01:42:13 PM
@99 There is no time limit. I wouldn't bother using a walkrthrough guide as your first play as it takes away the fun of the game and well a waste of money buying the game in the first place.
The driving 194 miles is easy enough on the first run through, just don't let your partner drive.
I just finished the game and now going to do my second run through, and this time I can skip the driving and use the guide on cases where I didn't get 5 stars.
|Comment #101 by Lord Wookiee
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 @ 02:17:53 PM
@70 Ye the 95 car achievement is a pain am 6 cars away from getting 120G, 30G for finding all the cars an then 80G for completing the game 100%
Also if you don't wanna play the game twice then use the guides available, save you hours of play.
|Comment #102 by shinobigarth
Friday, September 02, 2011 @ 07:25:29 PM
when you start replaying cases to 5 star them, remember you have 5 intuitions to use, best used when searching for clues to make it a lot easier. dont use them on interrogations since you can just read the guide.
|Comment #103 by Aam1r
Sunday, September 04, 2011 @ 10:31:21 AM
ign has a good guide
|Comment #104 by Totenstaffel
Monday, September 12, 2011 @ 11:39:13 PM
The White Shoe Slaying case is pissing me off. 17/17 clues, 17/17 Questions, $0 in damages/accidents. Still just 4 stars. WTF??
|Comment #105 by barge1311
Sunday, September 18, 2011 @ 05:21:27 PM
do you have to get 5 stars on the 4 dlc packs to get the achievement
|Comment #106 by barge1311
Sunday, September 18, 2011 @ 05:22:59 PM
do you have to get 5 stars on the 4 dlc packs to get the achievement as im not sure if the game updates the achievement
|Comment #107 by Needle
Thursday, October 13, 2011 @ 06:07:02 AM
i know it's stupid, but i can't find the last newspaper even with the guide...
i have the newspaper with
upon reflection
driver seat
marriage made in heaven
fallen idol
lipstick murder
white shoe slaying
black caesar
set up
manifest destiny
walk in elysian fields
polite invitation
another kind of war (2)
|Comment #108 by LemmingOnTheRun
Friday, October 14, 2011 @ 12:41:12 AM
Ok, the damage limit is bullshit. For example, on manifest destiny, I specifically made sure to drive carefully in both chases, found every clue, got every question right, and still only got 4 stars due to damage. I didn't even hit anything really. I think the worst thing I did was knock over a traffic light. Is it generally better to try to take them out right away (so that they destroy less stuff) or wait until they get owned and then take them out?
|Comment #109 by LemmingOnTheRun
Friday, October 14, 2011 @ 12:43:05 AM
also 107, if you had all those you'd have the achievement (there are only 13). Better just go from the beginning again. Or maybe try watching some videos and find the one that doesn't look familiar.
|Comment #110 by Sigmund666
Monday, October 17, 2011 @ 12:13:37 AM
You must be doing something wrong than. I have missions with some damage, everything right. Maybe it's the question sequence you're doing wrong?
It's a bit misleading sometimes, because you get a noteblock with 3 questions.
First you obviously do the first one, THAN the third one, getting another answer. to get a new question.
|Comment #111 by LemmingOnTheRun
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 @ 03:09:53 PM
Nah. I got every question right. If you miss a question it tells you at the end. I think it was just a glitch or something, because I'm pretty sure hitting a traffic light should NOT cause over $2,000 worth of damage, lol.
|Comment #112 by Manlok
Friday, October 21, 2011 @ 02:33:32 PM
I had played until Manifest Destiny (disc 3), case 16 i think. Then decide to replay earlier cases for 5 star rating that i missed. All my save slot have 'replay' label.
How can i play the next case, which in my case, case 17?
NEW? - of course not. CASES? - just for one case. RESUME? - case 16 and it is end there. Not continue to next case...
Please help me..
|Comment #113 by potticus
Friday, October 21, 2011 @ 09:17:36 PM
Are you totally destroying their car?
If you ram it in to a tree or whatever, you get billed for the car.
If you let your partner shoot the tyres out so the guy skids to a stop, it's OK.
At least that was what I did most of the time, and I never had any issues with damage.
|Comment #114 by greco827
Saturday, October 29, 2011 @ 09:30:50 PM
Just wanted to mention that even though the achievement guide says you need to get 5 stars in 21 cases, it's really only 16.
|Comment #115 by an38hbk
Tuesday, November 08, 2011 @ 08:57:33 AM
For this achievement do you have to play the cases in reg game play or can I do the cases in replay mode
|Comment #116 by cptlaurion
Friday, December 09, 2011 @ 02:07:44 AM
So far so good with this. Finished disc one and even missed a clue on the last case. Just keep your questions right and as many clues as possible and you should be golden. And don't rack up the damage bills.
|Comment #117 by FakedAlloy
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 @ 06:43:06 AM
disc 4 1 case to do ended with a 4 star,have to go back and not crash the car too much and disc 5 two cases there
|Comment #118 by Ronn13
Saturday, February 11, 2012 @ 11:53:16 AM
WHAT??? :D @FakedAlloy you have 5 discs? WTF.. i have only 3 ;/ anyway i got this one in Arson desk "A Polite Invitation" got the achievement before finishing the last case WOO :D
|Comment #119 by Paulus Diaconus
Friday, April 13, 2012 @ 03:57:05 AM
On my first playthrough I only had a few 5 star ratings. When playing through cases again do I also need to get 5 stars on the DLC cases with them being on there or do I just need to get 5 stars on the original 21?
|Comment #120 by Paulus Diaconus
Friday, April 13, 2012 @ 03:59:34 AM
Why would anyone use a guide on their first playthrough? Why buy a game if you're going to get all answers given to you in your original playthrough.
|Comment #121 by NowIGottaWetCha
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 @ 04:30:37 PM
i like how if you don't get the achievement right away "IT'S A GLITCH". it really isn't that hard of an achievement, or game even. it's neck a neck with red dead redemption and assassin's creed (series) as my fav. games. i waited until the complete edition came out and got it new for $30. no online play, who cares. it's definitely gonna get a replay from me and probably a few friends. also, after spending about 2 1/2 days of total playing time on a game, does anyone really need to sink anymore time into playing the same thing?
|Comment #122 by liorfox
Tuesday, July 17, 2012 @ 03:51:40 AM
too much effort xD
|Comment #123 by Matite
Monday, September 24, 2012 @ 02:05:51 AM
Good god. I finally finished all the achievements in this game.
|Comment #124 by kdale22
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 @ 08:09:14 PM
Use ign's guide and you will get this so easily. I'm on 'manifest destiny' right now and so far have all 5 star cases from using their guide. http://www.ign.com/wikis/la-noire/Walkthrough
|Comment #125 by Tsaako
Friday, November 23, 2012 @ 01:54:47 PM
This isn't difficult at all, just follow a guide and you'll get this no problem. Theres 21 cases but you only have to do 16, seeing as you can only get rated from them.
|Comment #126 by BasqueNYC
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 @ 08:05:56 AM
That's a long ass challenging achievment but I don't have the time with work and my wife she'll get pissed that I'm hoggin the Xbox lol
All in all cool achievment though be the perfect cop goin after them like the fuckin terminator
|Comment #127 by GrumpyGazel
Thursday, February 07, 2013 @ 06:31:47 PM
I'm going for this achievement currently have 7 cases to go. It's been fun getting all the questions right and finding all the clues. But it'll be even better once i get the 80G!
|Comment #128 by thecomedian05
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 @ 03:18:37 AM
Just got it, the guide was super helpful
|Comment #129 by needtoboost
Friday, April 05, 2013 @ 02:53:08 PM
I am doing this currently, not too hard just is going to take a while, especially the Arson cases (I already played through the game once but didn't bother getting 5 stars on each case).
|Comment #130 by needtoboost
Friday, April 12, 2013 @ 10:52:13 AM
Just done this, tooe a while.
|Comment #131 by MrJohnMarston
Wednesday, August 21, 2013 @ 10:23:13 PM
Do the DLC cases count towards this?
|Comment #132 by Rainleaf
Monday, December 02, 2013 @ 01:35:00 AM
Got this achiv before the DLC: Nicholson Electroplating so the DLCs don't count .
|Comment #133 by mracree9
Monday, February 10, 2014 @ 05:57:09 PM
It's only 15 cases you need really, mine popped after I finished 'A Polite Invitation'
I take it the Patrol missions and the final mission are exempt!
|Comment #134 by YungAssasin32
Sunday, February 23, 2014 @ 04:22:26 AM
im following the ign walkthrough its easy to understand and aslong as you dont crash alot its pretty much a certain
|Comment #135 by trollingsaruman
Thursday, March 06, 2014 @ 02:25:19 AM
Def one of the most satisfying game completions I have done.
Great Game
|Comment #136 by Ninja Bush Runs XBL
Friday, September 12, 2014 @ 02:11:10 PM
This achievement may seem like it
's evil, but once you complete it, it seems like it was something you accomplished. I have this L.A noire book guide I got with the game so it helps tremendously. It may take forever but you gotta have the willpower. Good luck everybody:)
|Comment #137 by xMohawkWarriorx
Monday, November 03, 2014 @ 03:57:24 PM
i don't seem to get any stars in the patrol desk case log....?
|Comment #138 by Mr Magooh
Monday, January 19, 2015 @ 08:02:09 PM
Is there any way to check progress of cases? like if you missed anything?
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Can you take a case out of TTAB and put it before the federal court during the cancellation proceedings?
In general, you would not "take a case out of TTAB and put it" in federal court. Rather, you might file a federal lawsuit in US District Court involving the same trademark and then seek to stay the TTAB cancellation proceeding in view of the pending district court proceeding. This might occur where the federal lawsuit includes a claim, counterclaim, or defense that the trademark registration is invalid and should be cancelled. The merits of this approach for your particular case should be discussed with an experienced trademark attorney.See question
The database could be e-foia or ttabvue. Is there not a recommended format for citations?
Cite to the USPTO public electronic database. If a non-precedential decision does not appear in the
United States Patent Quarterly (USPQ) or the USPTO's public electronic databases, the citing party should append a copy of the decision to the motion or brief in which the decision is cited. See http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/sol/og/2007/week04/patcita.htm
Notwithstanding the above, using the Westlaw or LEXIS citation may be acceptable as well.
See also Blue Book rule 18.3.1.See question
We purchase factory overstock from China, it appears some designs may be the property of another company they have demanded we stop selling and remove all information about this product from our site (done) Also requested sales report so they ma...
You need to obtain legal counsel. It is not clear what IP rights are at issue here (and this may be relevant to the recoverable damages). At this stage, you do not "need" to provide the requested sales report, but the other side may sue you for past infringement if you do not (at which point you would have to produce such information in discovery). Again, you should retain an attorney to help you navigate these issues and hopefully resolve this without litigation.See question
iHookup.com and HookUP.com are both used for adult dating. Would one of them constitute a trademark infringement (specifically, "confusingly similar") against the other?
This is not a question that can be answered in a vacuum. I am assuming the question relates to trademarks generally, and not specifically to domain names. If "hook up" is considered descriptive for dating, then neither would have trademark rights until one of them acquires secondary meaning--that is, when the consuming public primarily associates that mark with a particular source, and not as merely descriptive of the goods or services. This tends to be a fact-intensive inquiry.See question
I am interested in patenting a product and there is no patent on it as of yet. But there are few people selling this product. If I file a patent and its granted what are my rights against others who are currently using it? Can I stop them? ...
"I am interested in patenting a product and there is no patent on it as of yet. But there are few people selling this product."
Is this a product that others in the market have independently developed? If the answer is yes, then it would be considered prior art to a patent application that you file after March 16, 2013, and may be relied upon by an examiner to reject your patent application. Also, even if there is no patent issued, that does not mean that there not a patent application pending in the USPTO.See question
I am suing a competing business for unfair competition. Because the conflict started with infringement of my copyright, I would like to ask for statutory damages. But my competitor tried to make me give up my copyright claim by bullying other ille...
"Because the [unfair competition] conflict started with infringement of my copyright, I would like to ask for statutory damages." Please note that a federal copyright registration is required to obtain statutory damages for copyright infringement. It would be separate from an unfair competition claim.
If you are asserting a claim under California's UCL (Section 17200), then you should review Kwikset v. Superior Court, 51 Cal. 4th 310 (2011); Clayworth v. Pfizer, 49 Cal. 4th 758 (2010); Saunders v. Superior Court, 27 Cal.App.4th 832 (1994); Allergan, Inc. v. Athena Cosmetics, Inc., 640 F.3d 1377 (Fed. Cir. 2011); and Pom Wonderful LLC v. Coca-Cola Co., 679 F.3d 1170 (9th Cir. 2012); if you have not already done so.See question
I had an idea about a possible tee shirt but it uses the face of pro athletes. If I cannot use it could I give them away for free but charge more for shipping? Or sell a smaller object and then include a free tee shirt?
You risk infringing the pro-athlete's right of publicity. For an in-depth discussion, you might want to read the law review article at http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1442&context=sportslawSee question
I submitted a product for davidson inventions and was told the idea would sell two yrs. ago. I see my product being advertised just in a different form and I want to know If I have a law suit because although I didn't have a patent I have extensi...
Without a patent, you cannot sue for patent infringement.
Are you alleging that Davidson disclosed your invention to the company now selling the product? Is there any relationship between Davidson and the other company? Do you have any proof?
You may find of interest the controversy over whether Antoni Meucci, Elisha Gray or Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone independently (and whether Bell stole the invention from Gray). As stated by the Library of Congress: "Attributing the true inventor or inventors to a specific invention can be tricky business. Often credit goes to the inventor of the most practical or best working invention rather than to the original inventor(s). This happens to be the case of the invention of the telephone! ..." see http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/telephone.htmlSee question
I want to start a rental business focused on one specific piece of electronic device . Can I use that company's name in my new business name ? i . e . " San Fransisco Product X Rental "
This is a difficult question to answer in the abstract. The key question is whether your use of the other company's name would likely cause confusion in consumers who may believe that the other company is providing the services you offer. For example, the use of the term "Volkswagen" by a car mechanic in an ad describing the types of cars he repairs has been held to constitute a nominative fair use. See Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft v. Church, 411 F.2d 350 (1969)). The court in that case held that extensive use of the word 'Independent' sufficiently distinguished his business from those affiliated with VW. However, these cases often are very fact-intensive, and slightly different facts can lead to different results. You should consult with a trademark attorney before adopting your business name.See question
I just wanted to know if there are documented cases of two firm suing each other for patent infringement and then they have merged their patent portfolios . Is it legal for one firm to buy all the patents of another firm , and then become a mono...
Sounds like a homework assignment. You may want to read up on the Mobil v. Exxon patent litigation in 1998. You can start at http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/04/business/the-lion-and-the-moose-how-2-executives-pulled-off-the-biggest-merger-ever.html?pagewanted=all&src=pmSee question


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I'm using "Hands Around the World: 365 Creative Ways to Build Cultural Awareness and Global Respect" for our K social studies spine. When I first got the book I thought it'd be rather self-contained, but I'm finding more and more that I need to think ahead a bit and bring in a few outside resources. I'm looking at farming around the world in the first few weeks of February. I'm thinking it will dovetail nicely with our science unit on the human body. Well, that and the fact that we'll need to be starting the seeds for our garden soon.
So...I'd like to take a look at it, but through the lens of the world instead of just the United States. Biodiversity, seed saving, remembering the "old ways", etc. I'd like to avoid the typical farmer books that focus primarily on tractors and other large farm equipment. I'd also like a slightly more balanced perspective on the green revolution than is typically presented in most non-fiction children's books. Yes, I know he's young...on the other hand I'm always surprised at how much he picks up. He already has slightly different perspectives on food just by growing up in our family so I'd like to build on that.
Have you done anything like this? Any suggestions on good picture books (fiction and non-fiction) or read-alouds?
AP Mom to 5
AP Mom to 5
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