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December 3, 2010 1:23 pm Batman and robin 13. Easily.

August 2, 2010 3:22 pm Hell's Kitchen is Clinton, not Clinton Hill.  Clinton Hill is a neighborhood in central Brooklyn, just west of Bedford-Stuyvesant.

June 30, 2010 10:38 am I'm guessing Bendis?

October 11, 2009 1:27 pm Gabriel Ba, I'm gonna let you finish, but Frank Quitely had some of the best pencils of all time! Also, Y #60 wins and ex machina 40 not even nominated? Brian K Vaughn was robbed! By Brian K Vaughn!!!1!!!

September 24, 2009 7:54 am

However gauche this may be, and however tired Moore's "i hate superhero comics" schtick may be, I actually think he's kinda right here.  Blackest night is derivative, and poorly written.  It's not provocative or interesting at all.  It's tired, it's old, it's crass. and it's transparent.  And if someone was doing that kind of thing with stories I created, I'd be disappointed too.  

There's a reactionary quality to a lot of Geoff Johns's storytelling that i think is the antithesis of Moore's project in a lot of ways.  Is Moore being a jerk about it?  Is he being disrepectful to Johns in the particular way he phrases his objection?  Yeah, i guess.  But does he have a point about the failures of Blackest Night as mega-event comic he's probably never read?  I think he does...

September 3, 2009 11:57 am Also, i forgot the torture porm.  WTF, James Robinson?  And then there's the whole "coasting on the coattails of something Grant Morrison wrote twelve years ago" thing.

August 1, 2009 10:18 am Property is theft.

July 31, 2009 5:29 pm

@ Conor

That's the digital millenium copyright act and subsequent similar legislation, yes, but there are some very valid critiques of that argument...

July 31, 2009 5:24 pm

@Conor

And if I buy a cd, downoad it into itunes, and email copies of it in .mp3 form to my friend?  I don't think your definition of stealing respects constitutionally protected "fair use"doctrine.  The notion that any uncompensated copying is stealing ahistorically restricts how folks have used and circulated cultural texts and objects for a very, very long time.  Just my two cents...

July 31, 2009 5:17 pm

@Conor 

 What if i borrow a cd from a library and burn it into itunes?  Is that stealing?

And if someone were to download, say, Flex Mentallo from bittorrent, didn't someone intially have to purchase the series (probably from ebay) in order to scan, compress, and upload it?  Would it be illegal for me to make a high quality paper copy of final crisis and give it to my friend, or relative, or pet?  (Like, if my Iguana was a huge Grant Morrison fan?)