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May 23, 2012 11:34 pm Trusting the Picks usually pays off for me. The cartoons and toys were after my time and I've always been a bit put off by them. But like Bryce31 I picked up the first trade based on the rec and much enjoyed it. That was true with this issue too--very nice story telling. Don't know if I'll stay on but will certainly keep it in mind.

May 16, 2012 11:40 pm Wonderful choice. While I consider the last issue to be one of the best issues of Fantastic Four ever, this one was amazing too. Some of the atmosphere of Philip Dick's The Man in the High Castle but in the realm of superheroes.

May 16, 2012 9:43 pm Heck of a way to run a railroad. It would be funny save that creator's livelihoods and the work we all so much enjoy depend to a substantial degree on those numbers. I suspect this may further push things towards digital. Presumably companies can have real time sales data, and that would probably be an advantage to the companies that learn how to use that data in allocating resources.

April 25, 2012 11:26 pm I echo 7thton. Read the real thing--Don Rosa and the master he was honoring, Carl Barks. No Launchpad McQuack in those stories but rather some of the finest comic book work ever done by anyone.

April 18, 2012 11:45 pm It is a creative idea, well executed. But I wonder if there will emerge a character whose fate I care about. I was hoping it might be Feynman, who was such an interesting and very human person in our reality. Perhaps Einstein? I had the same problem with The Shadow--creative in that it was a somewhat novel take, but so far no characters that grab me. Oh well, at least we are seeing something new.

April 4, 2012 11:52 pm I agree with the first set of comments--the digital /Infinite story to me was far more impressive than the regular story. The main story was hard to accept--after all the shared history it takes so little for the Avengers and the XMen to go at each other? How interesting are characters that are so obstinate? It seems a weak basis for 12 issues--any excuse to start a plot that can be mostly fights. And I'm afraid I saw the art as a bit off--esp the shots of Cap's face on p. 4, panel 3; p. 5, panel 2; the last panel of the first page where Cap and Iron Man are briefing the White House, etc.. Small thing but for once I respectfully disagree with Conor. But given his enthusiasm I'll stick with a couple of issues and hope I'm proven wrong and this will actually prove as interesting as one would hope with all that talent in play.

March 28, 2012 11:17 pm Thanks for this pick. It is wonderful to see such creative energy on the family of characters that were the heart of the 60s revolution in superheros. Fantastic Four has been too much neglected. And this issue was the perfect encore to the finale in Fantastic Four #604.

March 21, 2012 10:52 pm Thanks for this pick; I wouldn't have read it otherwise despite being a long term ERB fan. When I think of Barsoom I always see the Frank Frazetta images, but this was a wonderful alternative vision that tells the story well, much more dynamic and alien than Frazetta. Perhaps it's time for a Tarzan that captures the spirit of the books.

March 15, 2012 7:48 am @Conor: Hope the MRI gave results that are good for you. I respect Conor’s analysis and love the art so I’ll stay on for a few more issues. But in a period when we have little science fiction (perhaps for the same reason science is denigrated in political arguments?), I had high hopes for this that weren’t met. Multiple planets don’t make science fiction to me. It takes innovation within the coherent rules of a universe. In this issue I saw lots of ideas but no coherence. I don’t enjoy Lost or Kirby’s New Gods for the same reason, and the end of Ex Machina struck me as “ex machina” and a let down—Hundred wasn’t who seemed to be up to that point. Oh well. Glad others like this and maybe I’ll see more in future issues. De gustibus non disputandum est.

December 14, 2011 7:41 pm Based on Ron's suggestion, I decided I would try it. So perhaps I'm a klutz, but I've searched on Graphicaly on my iPad for "sacrifice" "five hundred comics" "sam humphries" and "dalton rose". None of those searches turned up anything. I continue to be amazed at how slowly and awkwardly the industry is dealing with online/digital.