RoninDont

April 17, 2009 8:51 pm

I'm going to say either Brooklyn Dreams or Moonshadow by JM DeMatties, I asked you guys about him on a video show many moons ago and the look of confusion when I got to his smaller titles could have been seen from space. So that's my vote 

February 14, 2009 12:29 pm Jason Aaron brings moral ambiguity to all of his characters, a sense of what is right and wrong and a knowledge that sometimes something wrong has to be done to achieve something right. He brings the world of grey into what is typically a very black and white world. Marvel will try to tell you that the difference between their comics and DC comics is that their characters live in the grey area more, but I think that in the last ten years that fewer and fewer of their comics have actually mined this idea. Lately it's been writers like Bendis and Brubaker who have really grasped that, and Aaron is another of those names.

February 4, 2009 1:02 pm X-Factor is completely worth saving, but I think that ditching the supporting cast is a bad move. Sure some of the characters are frustrating at times but it's Madrox dealing with those characters that makes it interesting. I think that the problem with interweaving it with the Marvel continutity is that Peter David plays so well in his own world but hasn't been shown to deal so well with outside influences and while I understand that the hope behind putting the banner of some crossover on the top of the cover might bump sales a little here and there that just making the book consistently good would give it good numbers without the need for an artificial bump every now and again. I think that the book worked great for the first trade worth of material and then the train kept getting knocked from the tracks and that getting back on point would make the title great again. It proves that point every time it gets back to the heart of the series and people start loving it again ... but then two or three months later it gets distracted again.

December 8, 2008 6:10 pm

*cough* Manages a Saint Louis Comic Store *cough* ...

As a matter of fact the comic store pictured is the former location of the store I manage ... here's hoping that the store mentioned in this article wasn't that one. Stop in some time Jim, we'd love to show you what The Fantasy Shop is capable of.

 

-Scott

Manager of The Fantasy Shop South County Location and Co-Host of The ComicDorksCast

May 3, 2008 12:31 am

I thought it was really, really good ... and I think that I agree with what some of you have said: that this movie might just get some people into comic stores ... kind of makes me wish that (as a fan and a retailer) that Invincible Iron Man #1 and Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas #1 had come out this Wednesday as opposed to next

 

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April 30, 2008 11:37 pm

Definitely April 30th, not April 1st ... I read this book and I understand that for serious Sim Fans that this book is pretty cool and anything new from Sim is going to be instantly grabbed up into their grubby (not that I think that all Sim fans are grubby) little hands and devoured for what it is worth, but to be honest I find it a little shocking to see this as the pick of the week. Moreso I look at this and as a fan, a retailer, and a struggling story teller, I am a little perplexed as to how this can be a series. But, it's your pick and I gotta respect the pick.

 

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April 26, 2008 6:10 pm I only go to Wizards World Chicago for the most part each year due to financial concerns and whatnot but I generally have a really great time, and the first time I went was just purely as a fan, the second time I went I started to have the feeling that I was doing it a bit for myself and a bit for work (as I, at the time worked at a comic book store). The third year (last year) I felt like I was there more for work than for my own enjoyment as by that time I was now managing a store. This year when I head up to WW:Chicago it will be for myself, for my store, for my company, for my podcast ( http://comicdorkscast.blogspot.com ) and it will be for myself. Oddly the more reasons I had to go the more fun I had as each year went along. Part of it involved the growing group of people i had to go with me, and part of it was having a better idea of what i was looking for each time I went. I hope everyone has a good time at the conventions they head off to this year and that if you haven't gone to a convention before that you should make the plans to go out to one of the many conventions that are going on all around our great old world!

March 26, 2008 11:45 pm

Thank you oh so very much my dear friend Ron, I have loved this book for years and try to turn people onto the title at any chance I get. And now you go and give me a great tool to turn people to when they ask me what is going on in this incredible book.

-RoninDont

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February 19, 2008 7:24 pm yes it is that one though the 4th issue was drawn by Will Volley and only just came out a month or so ago