jmstump

November 15, 2011 9:45 am Hopefully it leads to more awesome cartoons.

November 10, 2011 2:44 am I would have assumed it would have been "Blowing shit up without a permit"

November 10, 2011 2:42 am Yeah I remember watching video of this a couple of months ago.

November 7, 2011 8:41 pm I thought JMS said back at SDCC that we were going to see the last 4 issues after they were fully completed. I know he said he had completed the scripts for them. I guess the timing matches up with what he said. It's nice to hear Marvel confirm that it's coming out. I've held off from purchasing this trade till it was completed.

November 7, 2011 11:12 am I never pay cover price for my comics. So 3.99 for Digital is crazy.

October 31, 2011 2:39 pm I agree. Although I didn't really see it as a stealth relaunch I guess :P. All of the books I've enjoyed reading for Marvel recently are the ones where they've dropped much of the prior continuity and started fresh. I got the first couple issues of Punisher and then forgot to order it for subsequent months. Now I can't wait for the Trade. If they had played off of previous stuff I would have been less interested. On the other hand I do love when Daredevil references something from the Bendis/Brubaker/Diggle run. Mostly because you don't really need to know that it happened, but it's always done in a fun way.

October 31, 2011 2:34 pm @StoreGuy - It is weird, but the theory is they started running a tight ship to show Disney that they aren't afraid to cut fat as soon as they see it. Also they're better off killing a book and bringing it back as a number 1 with a new team because sales for that first issue will be way higher than if the new team came in on issue 13 or something.

October 27, 2011 11:16 pm No mention of Con-Boyfriend for Wondercon? *sad* ;)

October 20, 2011 2:20 am Comparing the theft of a car is an unfair comparison to Digital Theft. They are two different things as there are more victims of physical theft than there are of Digital Theft. Stealing a car, a brand new one for example, has a victim of the car salesmen and the potential customer for that car. When downloading a comic book, you're not taking a comic book out of the hands of someone who could have paid for it. I think the only way I can see that argument is if the comic was cancelled while having hundreds of millions of downloads. I would then say it's essentially taking a book out of the hands of others who would be legitimately paying for it. Also one of the Pirates brings up one of the hardest things to argue, he doesn't really know the actual amount of downloads one of his scans has received. Also there's no context. Is that 300k Unique downloads? What if the same person downloaded it to their Laptop, desktop, and phone because they were too lazy to transfer the file. OR the download was killed multiple times, is that counted by the system he has? If it's Rapidshare or megaupload, when does it count the download, when they click on what type of download they want or when the transfer starts? Without knowing how that number is tracked, it really doesn't mean a whole lot. It's the biggest black hole in the digital piracy argument. No one seems to have accurate numbers nor the best way to report them. The one thing that is agreed upon by a number of analysts is that they are grossly overestimated, even by different "tracking" systems. Also how many of the 300k already owned the book? How many of them purchased the book as a result? The 300k number means nothing to a numbers guy without the context. Sadly we'll never know the conversion rate, unless every person who downloads something reports in when they purchase it or have purchased it and wanted a digital backup. Right now the 300k number is the equivalent to when one finds out that for years Steve Jobs was one of the lowest paid CEOs at $1 per year. Without knowing all of the perks he got along with stock and the fact that he was already worth billions, you'd be baffled how he was able to survive. The argument one way or the other will always be flawed to me without the whole picture. Sadly there's no way to get the whole picture, for now anyways. I continue to state this: Piracy is here. For a creator to get paid on their content, they need to differentiate themselves and play the game: http://paperkeg.com/post/6251048547/3-things-creators-should-know-to-combat-piracy-of #shamelessplug In regards to the idea behind the post. I find it interesting that there are people who will devote the sheer amount of time and talent (especially with photoshop) to creating scans. Especially when the only value in doing so is having a digital backup and recognition behind an anonymous name. Shit if I were converting that much content digitally each year I would want people to know how efficient I am at it.

September 15, 2011 9:35 am One of my favorite moments from that series. I hope the new Justice Society brings us back to this kind of quality.