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* Do you pre-order? - From a mail order service (DCBS, Sci-Fi Genre, etc) - Pull List at a comic shop There's what I normally do, and what I do right now. Right now I have very little disposable income to spend on things like comics, so I'm not preordering anything, just buying a few issues or book...

I'd love to have one of these, but as a 1:100 chase cover, there's no way. I'll need to find a picture of it on-line somewhere. You can see it on The Beat here: http://www.comicsbeat.com/2012/08/29/marvel-showcases-scarlet-witch-on-covers-by-manara-and-granov/#more-57627 As you can tell if you read...

abysslord wrote:My only point is if you're going to watch a comic book movie, don't make fun of people who read superhero comic books

That doesn't seem like too much to ask, does it?

Bah! I passed by stacks of these at Image Expo. I should have bought a bunch of them. Those are probably the same editions I saw at ECCC. They aren't first prints. I predict that holding onto these for a significant length of time would be a mistake. These comics are skyrocketing purely because The...

I was not reading it as "only for kids", I was reading it as a pejorative, exactly as you meant it. Don't tell me what I meant. I'm 40 years old, and I like comics, and I liked the Avengers. I don't think I'm a child with childish interests, so why would I accuse others of that for the sa...

You can't judge comics as a medium based solely on Marvel super-hero comics (even though people do), just like you can't just movies as a medium based solely on Die Hard (to pluck another mindless action film out of the air) when there are movies like My Dinner With Andre. You don't know me, Bob, b...

Of your girlfriends fervent comics reading, what (if any) "big 2" super-hero comics are among them? None, but that's kind of the point. She was excited about seeing superheroes in a movie, but had and has no interest in reading comics about them. Also, I don't think mindless action entert...

I like the Avengers movie a lot, but I would still say the movie was "childish" (as in flashy entertainment without much emotional or intellectual depth) and nerdy. It was basically two and a half hours of fan service (Hulk vs. Thor! Captain America blocks Mjolnir! And so on.) There was ab...

The Sword (Image) - I just finished reading this, it came out a few years ago. I think the first issue, and actually the first handful of issues, are perfect. From there it remains very well done and there is a LOT of story here within 24 issues. The ending is very satisfying except for one small d...

I have little love left for DC after the last year or so. The only real surprise about this announcement was that it took them so long. I don't think they're screwing Moore and Gibbons; they're well within their rights to use these characters. I do think it's sad that this is pretty much the best th...

Valen #1 (Boom!) : I'm a sucker for a lot of the stuff Michael Alan Nelson writes. I can do with some dark fantasy once in a while, and this scratches my itch for that nicely. A good job with characterization, as usual, and enough to distinguish it from other fantasy stories. I liked the second iss...

Congratulations. Longevity like yours with quality to go along with it is a rare thing indeed.

"lets just put all our characters, written by all our writers, and drawn by all our artists. Everyone will LOVE it" :roll: sounds kind of like 52. And so they did. And so they did. Kinda true, but with 52 there was an idea or three driving the story. "X-Men fight Avengers" is no...

Trev wrote:
have you read any of his captain britain run? if you don't like that then completely agree you would not like this.

Yeah, Trev, I did. Only one issue, but I had the same reaction to the writing in that. Oh, well.

After being tempted for the past month or so I broke down and bought Demon Knights #1 & 2. First, the good: I thought the art was gorgeous. It was consistent, it was dynamic, it was pretty. Absolutely no problems with any of the visual elements of the book. On the other hand, I'm rapidly coming ...