Kelly

May 21, 2012 12:35 pm Before I started reading weekly, I considered myself to be more of a Marvel fan than DC, but once the new 52 came out and DC was more or less all I read on a weekly basis, that needle definitely shifted. I've started picking up a few Marvel titles, but the "damage" has been done.

May 21, 2012 12:19 pm The good thing about Young Female Elusive New Reader (we call her YFENR at home) is that her attention span is short enough right now, she hasn't brought it up. Although, that could be because I've been playing D3 instead of reading comics this week.

April 2, 2012 4:00 pm i picked up DD #10 last week as a new reader and didn't struggle at all to figure out what was going on. Not sure what a .1 issue is going to provide.

March 22, 2012 11:55 am The author has a similarly exhaustive post about Brave, and how Pixar got everything absolutely perfect. It was a fascinating read, and educational enough that when I saw the Avengers trailer after reading it, I noticed some of the flaws right away. http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/02/new-brave-trailer-gets-it-right/

March 14, 2012 11:29 am my daughter and i had some serious conversations when the second movie came out about the difference between robots and guys wearing mech suits. :)

March 14, 2012 9:59 am Poor marc ruffalo. he should have had a clause in his contract like RDJ so he could get his face on a poster, too.

February 27, 2012 10:39 am I would watch the hell out of that movie. I'd also watch an Adrian Brody-led cast, if Hamm is busy.

February 14, 2012 8:49 am So we can't have Huntress or Powergirl without introducing the concept of Earth Two? This is a thing i did not know, either. I was confused because it sounded like we were introducing the Earth Two versions of those characters *before* their Earth One counterparts, especially with respect to Powergirl.

February 13, 2012 6:39 pm @hawkboy alternate realities are one of my favorite concepts. i'm not sure how many issues I 'need", it just seems a little soon to me as a new reader. many of the books i'm reading are still setting the stage for the character's first big adventures, so I don't feel like I "know" them well enough to appreciate what a different version of them would be. while established readers probably don't feel they need as much before it's introduced, they theoretically don't know these characters any more than I do. @Leo that's a good point about the timing. I'm still getting used to the announcing of things month before they occur. by that time most of the books i'm reading will have one or possible two mini-arcs under their belt.

February 13, 2012 6:33 pm FOR THE RECORD: I am the Elusive New Reader that Jim's article relates to. I am, despite suggestions to the contrary, capable of understanding things that a 6 year old or a tweenager can understand. I am fully and completely capable of understanding the concept of an alternate reality. Jim has known me long enough that this was never in question during our conversation. In fact, the start of our conversation went more like "So, since Earth 2 is that alternate reality that DC invented to tell different, fully legitimate stories while keeping the first reality in tact and just as legit, doesn't it seem a bit early to be bringing that out if they haven't even fully defined the first one?" Thank you for your time. Please feel free to disregard this and continue to imply that all of Jim's friends, especially the Elusive New Reader, are idiots.