Andrew

January 19, 2013 12:13 am Indeed. It all does come back to wrestling, and the Nature Boy, to be specific.

January 19, 2013 12:08 am I hope these comments keep streaming for a long time. Add me to the giant list of folks that will be sad to lose Ron's weekly presence but are also tremendously happy for him to go on to such a terrific opportunity! A bit bittersweet, but this is really exciting news for someone that we've heard talk about his passion for comics for 6+ years. Paul's a wonderful choice to keep the three man dynamic and I am extra glad to hear that the Fuzzy Typewriter podcast won't take too much of a hit. Congratulations and heartfelt well-wishes all around!

January 10, 2013 10:25 pm After a bit of research José Luis García-López gets my vote. Like many folks have said, I could make a case to myself for most of the suggested artists, so I spent a few minutes looking up samples of each artist's rendition of Batman. While Bruce Timm and Neal Adams jumped out to me at first, I finally realized that García-López drew the Batman, Robin, Riddler, Penguin, and Joker that were indelibly planted in my mind before I was even close to able to read. As great as Brian Bolland is, García-López's Joker is cemented in my mind as THE Joker, though that may be a different conversation. Images of his art for the Superpowers toy line seemed to be all over the place in the 80's, which is when I was young and impressionable. I think I associate García-López's depiction of the Batman characters the way I do Romita Sr.'s Spider-Man and John Byrne's Superman, though García-López's Superman is pretty darn definitive, too. Looking through The Internet it seems that his art was the model for most characters that DC used in house, so there is that.

January 9, 2013 8:31 pm Glory be! I'm the sucker here because it didn't occur to me that such a story point in an inherently ephemeral overall story would cause such stir. I wasn't able to get the to store two weeks ago and plumb forgot to get 700 last week, so I figured I'd just pick it up today and that there would be dozens of copies left. Sadly (for me), I was wrong and they've completely sold out, even though the store I frequent is huge and the only comic I can recall being sold out was Chew #1. In any case, I know what happened, so maybe I've just saved $8, but it tickles me that sooooo many people hated #700 before it was released that it sold like gangbusters, especially considering that it does cost $8. Seems kind of steep, considering so many folks apparently purchased it already knowing that they'd hate it. Having now read Superior Spider-Man I can see how a reader could be displeased with this direction, though this seems to be essentially a story that could have been told starting in issues 463, 587, or 639 and lasted a year, but it just happened to be saved to be told around an anniversary issue and a temporary #1 that isn't the first and won't be the last.

January 7, 2013 10:09 pm Whaaaaaat? It's been a while since I took Economics, but I would pay $4 for any comic with $5 stapled to it!

January 7, 2013 8:52 pm Yeah! I'd throw out Jim Beaver of Deadwood or James Spader (after seeing Lincoln), though he'd outshine everyone else too much.

December 22, 2012 12:14 pm That's my favorite line, too.

December 21, 2012 6:22 pm Boy, what a great list! I really want to get Tale of Sand soon, but since I haven't read it Uncle Scrooge gets my vote.

November 26, 2012 9:55 pm Listen, there was a billboard for Crystal Pepsi in south Austin until 2002. When my friends and I discovered this in 1998 or 1999 we would drive by every few months to see if it was still there. When I came home from my first semester of college in 2002 it was gone. I really think my days of being a child ended that day and from then on I was whatever we'd call a non-child, non-adult human.

November 26, 2012 9:33 pm This is wonderful.