biftec

July 31, 2009 5:04 pm

Hey Conor,

 

Do you consider checking a book or CD out of the public library stealing?  What abot borroing your friend's copy of ultimatum because you want to know what happens but can't justify paying for something that bad.  It seems to me that what's at stake here is at least in part an enclosure of the commons, the space in which objects circulate outside of commercial exchange, a space which has always been central to how folks have read comics.  (I.E., passed from back pocket to back pocket, discovered in uncle's basement, regifted, even bought at flea market, a secondary commercial transaction from which the publisher gets no $$.)  MPAA/RIAA claims notwithstanding, I am not sure downloading comics is any different.  I buy all my comics to support my local retailer and because i like being able to read the printed page, but the moral discourse around downloading falls short in several important respects.

July 18, 2009 9:16 pm No.  I've read every issue of GL since rebirth, and I think this is not where the story needs to go, badly executed, and just generally sophomoric.

July 17, 2009 11:12 pm Legacy villains in DC - Trickster, Captain Boomerang, Scandal Savage.  In Marvel, Sin.  And captain cold is basically just the silver age version of the icicle, right?

July 17, 2009 6:32 pm I agree.  Best letter ever.

July 16, 2009 8:23 pm Heh, I figured.  No worries.  

July 16, 2009 8:11 pm I'm a hardcore lefty.  I hate Ayn Rand, but i think Baker's doing interesting stuff and I'm excited to see where he's taking things

July 16, 2009 6:47 pm

I'm right with you on Loeb (I actually like Bendis quite a bit, even on Avengers, and I think Dark Avengers has been very good.)  But I expect Jeph Loeb to suck.  I know I am only reading Ultimatum to find out what happens to set up the new Bendis and Millar series.  5 issues and I won't have to read any more.

I expect better from Johns, because Green Lantern has been an enjoyable book since Rebirth, because he is certainly a better writer than Jeph Loeb, because he showed on infinite crisis and the sinestro corps war that he can do big cosmic crises that still respect the medium, tell good stories, and don't make me want to barf from disgust at cheap shots and poor writing.  This was women in refrigerators, brad meltzer brain hemmorage bad from a writer who, while admittedly not my favorite, is far better than this

July 8, 2009 9:57 am Next do a Flex Mentallo show.

June 20, 2009 10:38 am Do the math, you left coast hippy innumerates

May 13, 2009 8:00 pm The Jason Aaron story is great.  Way, not so much.  But hey, Tommie Lee Edwards' art is nice.