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May 4, 2012 7:56 am I think you may be so obsessed with your political view that you are seeing lefty commie conspiracies everywhere. As USPUNX points out, production on this film was basically over when the Occupy movement started.

May 2, 2012 9:06 am You missed a lot of exciting things while you were asleep.

May 2, 2012 8:45 am Seconded. Oh yes they do.

May 2, 2012 8:30 am Seen it twice already and $%#%% Yeah Joss was the right choice to direct The Avengers. Hasn't it already made over $200M. It's exciting, brilliantly scripted, hilarious in parts. Every performance is pitch perfect. My friends and family are seeing this film who would never go see another super-hero film at the cinema, and this is based as much on word-of-mouth as marketing. Everyone who sees this film is loving it.

February 29, 2012 7:45 am I think the opposite is true. Digital comics will impact most on single issues and increase sales of trades and hard covers. I personally buy single issues in digital and favourite runs in collections.

February 29, 2012 7:43 am Would a serious art collector be satisfied with a coffee table book reproduction of the art? That's what a comic book and TPB actually is. What difference does it make if the reproduction is on paper or on an LCD? The original art pages are the actual art.

February 14, 2012 6:10 am Jimski, I see where you are coming from but feel there is an assumption in your article that I don't see. As I read the New 52, I remain surprised at how little like a reboot the DC reboot actually is. These characters are established because their histories are still there. Sure, it's somehow been compressed into 5 years, but Batman didn't just start out as Batman, most of the recent GL history still seems to be GL history and the Alan Moore Swamp Thing is still somewhere in the new Swamp Thing's past. The first Robin still grew up and became Nightwing. Barbara Gordon was still shot by the Joker and was Oracle for 3 years (or something); she didn't get reset to pre-Oracle time. Really, the New 52 was just a line-wide "jumping-on-point". So, I don't think adding a new Earth-2 to that established history is such a big deal. The Elusive New Reader probably isn't as worried about the continuity, anyway, and will just read what they like.

January 31, 2012 2:38 am And it gets even crazier when you realise that in the condensed timeline of the Marvel Universe, everything from Avengers: Disassembled to Secret Invasion to Fear Itself and Spider Island probably happens within a year or two. The MU must be terrifying. I've been considering this a lot lately. And it doesn't just happen in "events". If I recall, an entire town of 5000 people got nuked in Thunderbolts recently (or maybe it was Hulk. It happens so often I get the catastrophic death tolls mixed up). The memorials alone would bankrupt nations. Tony Stark's position in Civil War made a lot of sense in this context.

January 14, 2012 12:14 am I returned to comics recently because of digital. The cost and the required storage space pushed me out some time ago, even though I never stopped loving the medium. I now buy singles digitally at the $AU to $US exchange rate (rather than massive import prices for paper) and then order the stories I loved in collected hard cover editions from Amazon. Best of both worlds. And no-one loses a bedroom to more longboxes. I personally think a digital alternative may bring more people like me back to comics and remove the "comic shop culture stigma" for some potential mainstream customers.

September 16, 2011 7:49 pm I can see why your handle is "Former" Poet Laureate.