Matt%20Adler

January 4, 2011 11:33 am I figured there would be a lot of debate about the order, but I'm glad there seems to be consensus that these are all worthy books.

August 17, 2010 3:30 pm It'd kinda be a nice irony if he was confessing to a machine.

August 17, 2010 3:21 pm

Basically, yeah. He mentions that people blame him for events like Bush in a flight suit on the aircraft carrier and Schwarzenegger winning governor of California (presumably because they felt he launched the trend of the politician-as-superhero), but he says these things would have happened without him, because after 9/11, people were looking for heroes.

He goes on to say "This is the story of my four years in office, from 2002 through God-forsaken 2005. It may look like a comic, but it's really a tragedy." Kind of fourth-wall busting, but it's possible he's talking to another character. So with #50, it looks like we're going to find out what makes it a tragedy, and what his role in that tragedy was.

July 31, 2010 12:43 pm Yeah, Eric Masterson was a supporting character in Thor for about a year, then was bonded with Thor (sort of like Don Blake, except he was real) for about 2 years. He took over as Thor when Thor was imprisoned by Loki for 2 years, and after he rescued Thor, he was given the power (and mace) of Thunderstrike, and had his own series for another 2 years. So he was around for a while.

July 22, 2010 10:12 am  I think if you compare issue for issue, and adjust for era (ie; pre and post direct market collapse) you'd find Spider-Girl sold as well or better than those other female books. Could being "in continuity" help a book? Maybe, but you lose something even more important to the appeal of the book; the fact that she's the daughter of Spider-Man.

July 21, 2010 4:02 pm Yeah, but which Batgirl? Which Supergirl? I mean, by that logic, Spider-Girl will continue too. The fact that the series keep getting cancelled and retooled only shows that the companies are trying to keep the trademarks alive. The rare thing with Spider-Girl is that it's been almost 150 issues with the same character and creative team, not just the same name.

July 14, 2010 1:19 pm Renato Arlem, who previously worked on Annihilation: Silver Surfer.

May 5, 2010 10:39 pm I don't know that it's that close. This is daily digital strip; that was a weekly on tabloid-size newsprint. This is a single strip initiated by a single creator; that was a huge project organized by an editor bringing in dozens of different creators. The only real similarity is the strip form, and given that all comics originated in that form, it's not that much of a coincidence. Also, Karl has mentioned elsewhere that he first kicked around this idea with an Indiana Jones series he did for Dark Horse, so this is obviously a long-standing desire of his.

May 5, 2010 9:00 pm As Karl notes, comics in newspaper strip form date back to the first half of the last century (not to mention predating the comic book form itself). Wednesday Comics is a bit more recent than that, and DC made no secret of the fact that they too were inspired by the adventure strips of years past.

May 5, 2010 5:43 pm

@GrandTurk: Kesel mentions in the interview that this is being collected in print.