RickyStardust

May 7, 2012 6:15 pm This looks pretty cool!

April 23, 2012 2:43 pm This is definitely my pick of the week - mainly because it's the only thing on my pull-list. But it looks great anyway.

April 16, 2012 4:07 pm If Marvel were serious about introducing new readers then they wouldn't be charging 25 dollars for 136 pages.

April 7, 2012 12:37 pm Make that 4 years!

March 31, 2012 9:59 am We just need to bide our time, keep dropping it into conversations and it will come back into fashion...

March 31, 2012 4:29 am I was hoping for a massive omnibus with the moon on a stick as a free gift; but this is acceptable.

March 14, 2012 5:04 pm The .5s are brilliant but not essential. You might as well push on without them but definitely go back and read them at some stage.

March 12, 2012 4:38 pm Thank you, that just stopped me making a mistake. I really want a nice hardback of Year One though. I wish they'd Absolute it, I don't care that it doesn't have enough pages to warrant it.

March 9, 2012 4:39 pm On the art shuffling, "A guy in a bar" told me that DC and Marvel have a general policy of not really liking creators on books for long runs and so mix things up on purpose. I don't know if that's true that it really is policy but it seems to happen a lot. One reason could possibly be the fact that changes get press. Another reason could be that if a creator/book get synonymous with each other then both suffer as when they eventually part company it seems like a bad thing for the book and the creator. Essentially the big companies want you to jump on because of a creator (star pulling power) and then not leave if that creator does. So they pull you in, get you interested in the character, then quick change the creators while you're still interested enough in the character to stick around and see what happens.

March 7, 2012 6:55 pm Alan Davis is maybe too expensive for Secret Avengers. His page rate is pretty high I think. Although obviously worth it! On this subject, a colleague of mine collects original Alan Davis artwork and is selling me some tomorrow...preliminary sketches for FF covers, and other stuff. The ones I've seen have been beautiful...