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September 15, 2011 11:44 am Is anyone else disappointed by how this is turning out ? "We fought some bad guys but we couldn't beat them because they had magic weapons so one of our guys went and got us magic weapons and then we beat them". I could accept that plotline from Axe Cop because it's written by a 5 year-old boy, but it's a little underwhelming if that's the best Marvel could come up with.

June 29, 2011 3:08 pm @josh This must be how doctors feel watching 'House'. :)
 

June 29, 2011 2:44 pm Two things:

1) If you're going to talk about Young Justice could you please ask folks at DC/CN when we're going to see new episodes again ?

2) For the love of god, close the lid on that barbecue! Please, you're letting the heat escape - you're not trying to heat all of Long Island, you're just trying to cook some meat. This is why the BBQ has a lid in the first place.

From the fine folks at Weber:
http://weber.com/blog/single/lookin-aint-cookin

June 16, 2011 12:07 am This issue is so good it hurts....both because Stephanie Brown isn't going to be Batgirl in a few months and because Bryan Q. Miller isn't going to be writing *anything* for DC in a few months. Both of these things are wrong.

Let me put it another way, which will only make sense to those who have also been drinking beer and watching the Stanley Cup finals: Cheerios and Frosted Flakes are both decent cereals.....but if I've been buying Cheerios faithfully for over a year, and you suddenly announce that the boxes that still bear the 'Cheerios'  logo will forthwith be filled with Frosted Flakes I feel I have a right to be offended, or at least impugned, by some marketing decision that Frosted Flakes are arbirarily better than Cheerios.

Or, more plainly said : I like Gail Simone and I like Barbara Gordon, but the Batgirl book I want most in the world is the one that is being published right here, right now.

On a side note: congratulations to the Boston Bruins.
 

June 15, 2011 4:46 pm re:Jonah Hex vs. All-Star Western - one of the great things about Jonah Hex was that there were very few multi-issue stories. Jonah Hex was the king of one-and-done stories, very little continuity, give almost any issue to a new reader and they could enjoy it. I realize they haven't given us a lot to go on, but having Jonah in Gotham to 'team up' with Dr. Arkham smells like continuity to me. I hope this works out, but I'm not putting any large bets on it.  

June 15, 2011 4:42 pm Jonah Hex, Red Robin, Batgirl, Secret Six, Booster Gold, JSA - throw in the personality transplants on Supergirl & Superboy and DC just drove a truck through my pull list. There's a bunch of # 1's I'm going to check out, but it won't surprise me if my DC pull list is smaller in October than it is now. 

June 15, 2011 4:20 pm I'm not sure if this has been discussed elsewhere, but that Subway add insert is the best worst thing ever. Aquaman says "I guess that'll teach me to go swimming alone". Seriously ? He's f***ing Aquaman! The dialog reads like something my stoner newphew would write. I hope this wasn't someone's chance to break into comics. 

June 13, 2011 2:33 pm Good luck to Bryan Q. Miller - I've enjoyed your writing on Batgirl. I'll stay on for the last 3 issues until the reboot, not sure after that. 
 

June 10, 2011 3:46 pm Unofficial DC September planning spreadsheet!

Since I go to a small LCS I try to give the owner as much notice as possible of what I want. So I threw together a Google spreadsheet that will let me find out how much damage DC's September is going to do to my wallet, then let my LCS owner know. (btw : I assumed the last 4 titles are Superman, Action, Supergirl & Superboy - if that changes I'll update the spreadsheet). 

So if you follow the link above, you can see the spreadsheet. Anyone can make a copy of it for their own use, as long as they are logged into a Google account. On the first sheet (titled 'All Titles') there is a row for each of the 52 titles and there are 3 columns where I can tell my LCS how interested I am - '1st Issue', 'Issues 1-3' or 'Ongoing' - put an 'x' in the appropriate column for the titles you want to get and the 'Totals' counts at the top of the sheet will update with how many books you're committing to. (Yes, only an 'x' will work for the totals - it's the easiest way to avoid accidentally counting cells with spaces in them and.....you don't really care, just use an x). Links back to the iFanboy discussion for each title are included for your convenience. :)

Once you've made your picks on the 'All Titles' sheet, click on the 'My Picks' sheet (at the bottom) and it will show you a list of (only) the books you have selected. This is the list you can print out or email to your LCS owner.....because with 52 #1's coming out that month they could use a little help. :)


For those who don't have a Google account.....sorry ? I can make the spreadsheet accessible to everyone, but then we'd all be editing the same copy and that wouldn't work very well. Once you're logged in to a Google account the 'Make a copy' option is under the 'File' menu. If you've never used a spreadsheet before please understand that I'm not going to teach you how. :)
 

June 9, 2011 4:25 pm @nudebuddha Newsarama says the Suicide Squad team is Adam Glass / Marco Rudy