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December 15, 2011 7:05 am Hey! That's the bean! What's spidey doing in Chicago?

October 10, 2011 6:19 pm Are the quotation marks his own or did you add them based on the tone of his responses.

September 30, 2011 3:49 pm I wonder if DC really wimped out of trying for the non-comic book reader as you imply, or if they tried their best and it just didn't work out that way? I just finished Tina Fey's Bossypants and she talks about how she was trying to make (and I will grant that I take this assertion with a grain of salt, but still) a mainstream situation comedy and ended up with an edgy, alternative, non-hit fringe comedy show. And no matter how much the show's creators tried to course-correct to appeal to a mainstream audience, the show had a life of its own and kept re-directing itself to crazytown. Also, what would the comic book for a non-comic book reader look like? If you're aiming that purposefully for a broad audience, aren't you doomed to end up with a broad product? Isn't that aiming for the lowest common denominator? I haven't read all of DC's new #1 comics. Actually, I've read exactly one. (I'll be getting more as soon as my monthly delivery comes through.) But I liked it. And I liked (well, I think I liked) that I saw an ad for that comic on a tv show. I don't think the problem is with the comics industry. The problem is with the market. Most people don't know what a comic book is. Or how to enjoy it. And how do you conquer a market that isn't aware of your product? (Product that, incidentally, has a devoted following?) You advertise.

September 30, 2011 10:02 am There's mole.. women?

September 14, 2011 6:14 am That cover from 615.1 is so good it makes me want to give Mitch a giant bear hug!

September 8, 2011 10:07 pm Oh, that Colossunaut, just the worst.

August 23, 2011 3:03 pm We. Make. Holes. In. Teeth!

August 10, 2011 3:46 am Why are his claws cut off by the shadow, anyway? Unless they're sticking into someone. Like Armor or Kitty. Still kind of rude, though.

August 3, 2011 5:55 pm I think it should be Sue Storm. She's the most important woman in the Marvel universe. Give her her own title. She can still be in FF, (even though she's mostly a figurehead in that series anyway). But give her her own book. Have Carol Danvers, Jessica Drew, Jennifer Walters, and Jessica Jones guest star in it from time to time, both as civilians and as super heroes. Have it be about stuff happening around the Marvel U that we never get to see. Title it: Invisible.

August 2, 2011 11:34 pm What bothrs me most about the death of Ultimate Spidey is not that came out of nowhere (though I agree with that sentiment), or that it was precipitated by a pointless sacrifice in the midst of a dumb event (New Ultimates vs. Ultimate Avengers? Is there a third choice?). But more than anything else it bothers me that this Death of Spider-Man event follows less than 2 years after the fake-out death from Ultimatum and the resulting reboot of Ultimate Spider-Man. And I was glad that he survived (exactly how? nevermind it's comics magic). And I would have been fine if he survived this too. Even though Marvel would surely have had a false-advertising class-action lawsuit on their hands. Wait, what's that? They do this all the time? Ah. Actually what I was really hoping for was that he would survive but hang up his cowl and take it easy and just be a kid for a while. A la Harry Potter. Let someone else be the hero for a bit, fine, but did we have to kill off the coolest guy in the Ultimate universe?