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September 1, 2013 8:59 pm I'm going to echo similar comments. This is sad, but I totally understand the decision. Thanks for the fun memories! I'm glad that the weekly podcasts will live on.

January 18, 2013 9:06 pm I hate to see you go, but I understand why. Congrats and good luck with your new position at Image!

October 3, 2011 1:40 pm I have a colleague at work who loves the comics, but honestly hasn’t picked up a comic book since pre crisis. So I’m putting him in the “new reader” category. He heard about it from the new and was pretty excited for the re-launch. He told me that he went to the comic book store this past weekend and flipped through Superman #1 and it wasn’t as he thought. His thought he would be getting an origin issue instead of being dropped in mid story. I haven’t stopped collecting since I was 13 (now 36) so something like that wouldn’t phase me. But as a new reader, I can see how that can be off-putting. I told him that Action Comic is the origin story. But how is he going to know that if he is picking up a book cold turkey. It also didn’t help where the store he was at sold a bundle of the new 52 week one at a premium price (which is another issue itself when dealing with a new reader). It makes you wonder, should Grant’s story be in Superman instead of Action Comic? The advertising worked, it brought a new reader into the store. But Superman didn’t sell him. Like other people has said before in their comments on this article, USM #1 did an excellent job with being a true first issue. I feel that the super hero stories are the hook that get us to buy our first comic book, but after that we start exploring different areas of the medium – Westerns, Indie and off the wall sci fi books. A launch like this could have positive ripple effects for the whole industry….okay I’m off my soapbox.

September 13, 2011 3:19 pm I can't wait to read Habibi. I should be getting it in the mail in the next week or so. If I lived near Brooklyn, I would be there!

June 29, 2011 8:35 am

June 28, 2011 8:44 pm The scary part is that I would have answered the survey differently if it was applied to the my addiction of working out....hmmmm.....

June 24, 2011 11:53 am Sweet Christmas!

June 22, 2011 2:03 pm I'm going to try Optic Nerves.  I am digging the art.  I will also take try Shortcomings & Habibi!

June 20, 2011 10:43 am It does seems like Marvel is better with putting out quality movies in the last couple of years.  I do want to stay away from the Marvel & DC thing.  The pubilc may not see it as a DC movie or a Marvel movie, they will see it as a comic book movie.  I hope this movie doesn't have a ripple effects with other comic book movies - Captain America, Spider-Man and so on...

June 10, 2011 1:54 pm