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January 20, 2012 4:36 pm In my hometown of Newcastle CA you can learn all you want about Horse Apples. I found mid-late 90s and early 00s Cable to be awesome. James Robinson, Joe Casey, Ladronn, Igor Kordy, Michael Ryan, David Tischman... and a host of other creators I'm blanking on all helped flesh out the character and take him from as far from his "Clint Eastwood with Shoulder Pads and Guns" Liefeldian origin as possible. Add the Askani Son mini with Gene Ha art and a side of the great Cable and Deadpool series and I'd say he has mutated and changed quite a bit over the years.

January 20, 2012 1:50 pm "Cable is basically the same." Horse Apples! I will be coming back to this with an essay, but for now all I have to say is Horse Apples.

January 19, 2012 12:13 am @whynotmetamorpho I'm not on a high horse, but you might want to get a tad less defensive if you feel the need to justify theft. It never looks good. In regards to my delusions of which you speak, I have plenty of friends that think music/movies/comics should be free. Many of them are in their mid-late 20s and it's something that about ten years ago starting brewing and now it's just accepted that you don't need to pay for something. The only thing many kids these days know of is digital media, and it's as simple as a mouse click to get it. If you don't pay for it, you don't appreciate it. When it comes to comics, if you are pirating (and I don't care what your intention is, call it pirating, borrowing, sampling, whatever) the book - you aren't investing money in it. You aren't going to take time to evaluate it like you would if you spend time working to obtain money and make a choice to purchase it. When you actually pay for something, if you think you like it or not, you will take more time to evaluate it's quality as opposed to scrolling through a .cbr file at a rapid pace. I would have to say that not paying for what you sample does skew your opinion of the product.

January 18, 2012 8:28 pm @comicBOOKchris I agree with you so much. It does hurt the consumer, they forget what it is like to actually appreciate the value of something earned. The Entitlement Generation is so quick to consume and move on that they never actually take the time to appreciate what they have for the 5 minutes they are thinking about it before the next shiny thing comes along.

January 18, 2012 7:32 pm I actually really like the fact that Talon may or may not be an homage to Gary Frank's Nighthawk.

January 18, 2012 7:20 pm I highly doubt that Mark Z. Danielewski's only half decent book was the first to require the reader to turn it in circles to read it. I'd rather have that then the 100,345 typical fist fight ending that I'd most likely find in Detective Comics these days.

January 18, 2012 6:32 pm "The gist of this article seems more like a blog post of a disgruntled comic book fan." Eh, it usually happens on slow news days. DAMN YOU SOPA!

January 18, 2012 4:46 pm And don't even get me started on the quality of Art on all of the above. Some of the best looking books on the stands.

January 18, 2012 4:45 pm Agreed. And the list goes on.

January 18, 2012 4:44 pm I've always read comics for the stories and not the marketing, so I've had no problem purchasing their product. The creativity there is miles beyond what is going on with the mainstream books from across the street. I'm down to 4 DC non vertigo books, and my Marvel pull is steady if not growing. Secret Avengers, ASM, Venom, Ult Spidey, the X books, DD, Punisher Max and Punisher non Max, Thunderbolts, Hulk, JIM, Thor, Cap, and that is off the top of my head. Sure I'd like the books to be a dollar cheaper, but I swallowed that pill years ago and am willing to pay more for a superior product. Events? Don't buy it if you don't want to read it. I find it odd that a publisher putting out product one doesn't want sours them to the entire companies output. If you put that logic up against any Movie distributor, Music distributor, or Book publisher, it becomes completely illogical. Am I going to stay away from all Lion's Gate movies because I don't enjoy the Saw films? No...