GregSmallwood

February 6, 2012 4:42 pm I can certainly understand the appeal of digital if you consume a lot and keep a lot. But I only buy a few comics a week and purge my collection every year or two. There are comics in my long boxes that I will never read again and instead of holding on to them, I make a few bucks selling them on eBay. Over the course of 5 years, I've probably made about a grand on eBay, solely by selling back issues I will never touch again. Going to my local shop, talking with the awesome employees there, picking up my comics, reading them throughout the week...I love the routine. And when the collection gets too big...sell, sell, sell! If you look at your collection with disdain, GET RID OF IT! Especially if you're having trouble keeping up with the new issues every week. If you can't keep up on the new stuff, when are you going to have time to go back and dig through the old stuff?

February 3, 2012 5:15 pm Mr. Flanagan is employing a logical argument in support of DC publishing further Watchmen comics. The whole article is him making the case for "ought" to. It is logical, as a struggling business in a struggling industry, for DC to publish further Watchmen comics. Mr. Flanagan didn't just skip from "is" to "ought"...he made a reasoned case in between. And because morality doesn't factor in, the only proper rebuttal is a logical argument AGAINST DC publishing further Watchmen comics. I'm still waiting for that one...

February 1, 2012 11:32 am Azz and Bermejo tackling Rorschach is a match made in heaven. So I'm sold on that one. Hughes, Lee, Kubert, and Jones doing interiors is enough to make me plop down cash for their four books. I must read and own everything Cooke does so that covers the remaining two books. Yeah, I'm going to be buying all of them. The comic book industry was born from the idea of making a quick buck (stapling existing funny pages together) and it continued to grow by employing cheap tactics to sell books. DC and Marvel have never been about anything else. That said, waiting TWENTY-FIVE years to do this prequel and hiring the BEST talent to do it...well, that doesn't strike me as a "quick buck."

June 23, 2011 10:16 pm @jakeaidan and @pyynk.  I agree 100%.  I also don't think a lot of geeks are able to put their finger on exactly what is bothering them about the this new found attention so their frustration manifests itself into rants against pagaent contestants.  

What I think is bothering the geek community is that our ranks have been infiltrated by fair weather fans.  These new fair weather "geeks" do not read comic books (they watch the movies) or read the novels (the watch the HBO show) and they won't be here when being a geek is no longer chic.  

I'm sorry, but you're not a geek because you like the Iron Man movie.  So do most Americans.  

I recently had a conversation with someone who identified himself as a geek.  After I told him that I read comic books, he began to share his love of comics with me.  As I listened, he confessed that he nver actually read a comic but "always appreciated them" and "really found the characters interesting."  He then preceded to tell me why X-Men First Class was going to suck.  I have absolutely no problem with someone becoming a geek in these geek-friendly times (or identifying themselves as a geek) but a real, true-blue nerd is hard to find amongst a sea of ferds (Jonathan Ross's term for fake nerds).  Talking to a ferd is on par with being lied to.  It makes me cry on the inside. 

And in the interest of full disclosure, I was never made fun of for my geekiness and I've spent many an hour trying to convert my friends and colleagues into geeks.  Real geeks.  Not chic geeks.  Not ferds.  There's a world of difference. 

Comics Being Popular = Good
New Nerds = Good 
Ferds = Bad 

June 22, 2011 4:12 pm Fantastic issue!  It's a bummer the comic didn't reach every retailer...I'm grateful my local shop here in Kansas got it.

March 31, 2011 11:58 am Definitely looking forward to this.  I'm glad we're at least getting Fillion as Hal in animated form.

And you're right, Josh.  If we're going to bash the publishers when they drop the ball in promoting the comics, we should commend then when they don't.  The DC DVD's always include special features that delve quite a bit into the source material and usually spotlight a specific storyline or collection.

I don't think there's any doubt that people out there like (or even love) these characters.  I just don't think they have any interest in reading comics.  I know someone who loves the Iron Man films and could tell you quite a bit of Stark's history (presumably from Wikipedia) but has never picked up a comic book.  I gave him Extremis by Ellis and Granov and the dude still hasn't touched it.

Other folks will read the comics I put in front of their face but they fail to spark any interest in seeking out comics on their own.

We've got a long ways to go.

March 23, 2011 3:22 pm This sounds pretty exciting.  Can't wait for the Green Lantern series.

Oh, and I got a laugh out of the 30 Rock reference in the byline.  Nice!

March 18, 2011 4:53 pm @Superyan  I know fanboys can be extremely picky but, speaking as someone who NEVER bashes the costumes for superhero films or TV shows, I'm pretty sure that I'm not nitpicking when I say that this costume is FAR from the best they could do.  Costume designers of superhero productions often neglect one major point in execution.

Texture!

You can keep the primary colors if you give the texture of the costume a thicker, more canvas-like look.  The videogames have picked up on this (Arkham City, Marvel Alliance) but with the exception of Captain America, most designers go for the shiny, brand new look. 

That's where you get the Party City look.

March 18, 2011 4:32 pm Gotta agree with TheNextChampion...she looks like she just walked off the set of that XXX JLA parody film, fake breasts and all.

March 11, 2011 3:53 pm @lifesend 

You're in luck.  He did one of the Vertigo Crime books...Area 10, written by Christos Gage.