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June 7, 2011 10:33 am Great resource thanks guys :)

June 4, 2011 4:12 am Excellent article and comments. Echoing the comments above: digital should not have been the same price as physical; between the mindset of digital equals free many have and the taking out of distribution/print costs DC have completely bodged on the value proposition. I'll buy some, probably not many. That said if they'd sold all 52 number 1 issues for 99c with all future issues at 1.99 i'd've been in like Flynn. Also Jim Lee is just the wrong person to do a universe wide revamp. Whereas GJ is the right sort of person. JL has never struck me as a sticker, flitting about from one thing to another, having the (all caps) big idea but not the depth to turn it into a good idea. Also also he only draws from a limited vocabulary - three types of colar for everyone, three male faces, three female, everyone the same height, give or take an inch... So, at least maybe he is the one to do consistency :) I love the idea that the Wonder Woman controversy is going to be magnified 52 times, as of they were saying "that was good press, how can we build on that..." Me I don't really follow any title or creative team - the craziness of current digital distribution tends to do that and every time I see 'originally released in 2003' I get a bit more grumpy (Marvel I'm looking at you and your Fear Itself freebies/no comics to buy online in the series yet). The only comic I do follow throughout are the excellent Invincible and Irredeemable (cough day/date). Maybe DC will help see more money escape my wallet :( but the creative team and price discussion don't fill me with pre-hope).

June 1, 2011 3:42 am Must admit I've never 'got' Jim Lee but the more I thought about this since reading the news the more I wonder if this will be the greatest 'jumping off' point in comics history. The costumes show Lee's porn star and muscle collar sensibilities and seem tonally out of tune with the age group they should be aimed at with the age of comic readers and digital device owners. Still, may be ace. I'll certainly be buying half a dozen issue ones... I hope some decent artists get to flex their muscles.

May 31, 2011 5:39 pm "faster than an oncoming train" sorry. .. A "speeding train" . It's an excellent way to drown out the positives of day/date.

May 31, 2011 5:24 pm Day and date = good. Although I do worry about comic shops in that. Jim Lee redesigned costumes? Can't help feel that the Wonder Woman revamp should have shown how well this is likely to go down. Anyhow, we all know this will last 11 issues right and then everything will go back to old numbering, right?

May 16, 2011 2:56 pm All of them = winners :)

February 25, 2011 5:01 pm The fact that my Doom pic is included makes me gasp especially next to the awesomeness on display. 

As it was an iPod pic (brushes app) it also dumps out the data of the picture being drawn which I'd been working on an edit for. Seeing the pic in the sketch up page was the spur for me to get it finished... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ5Vv61cHHY Hope you like. 

November 24, 2010 12:49 pm

Morning Glories covers are always well done and fab to look at.

Lots of  love for the Batman inc cover. Both use the text in clever and interesting ways too.

October 29, 2010 10:06 am

Cats are creepy though. Dogs are much better, and Mignola knows this in his heart of hearts.

And Heroic Age text destruction for the win :) 

September 24, 2010 1:10 pm

An interesting and related question might be does Watchmen ruin other superhero comics, as in can you look at super heroes again with the same eyes once you've seen them humanised as much as Moore managed, if you saw Watchmen first would you then find something like the Avengers tainted.

Also: The Killing Joke is an awesome intro to comics. Forgotted that as a possible pick but if asked that might well be the best suggestion so far. (My normal pick of Cerebus may not be the best easy to pick up intro after all :) ;) )