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February 4, 2013 5:43 pm I suspect that regular, online commenters about comics do make up a small percentage of the readership, simply because I have observed that in anything that people enjoy, there are always tons of people who just enjoy the product but don't get so worked up over it that they seek discourse with strangers on the internet over it. That said, I also believe comics fans are probably stronger Internet users than the national average simply because comics fans tend to be nerds, who are also heavy technology users.

February 1, 2013 9:58 am My 2-cents: 1. I think there is an audience out there who would be perfectly happy with the current product if they were just exposed to it. They are just as willing to commit as we are, they just haven't been given good exposure. 2. As part of #1, you have to make sure they can get the books when they are interested. Digital is a big help in that. 3. The next step is to make some minor tweaks in the content. Shorter arcs. Better representations of women. More recap pages/Web sites. Better integration with TV/movies. Stuff that will make it easier for someone to jump on. Because Big Two Super-Hero Comics can't survive on the current audience and the one generated by step 1 above. We need some people's money who are more casual about getting in. 4. Once you get the audiences on board from #1 and #3 above, you may have enough volume that you can start lowering digital prices and/or at least hold off on further increases to print prices. Which will grow even further.

January 18, 2013 9:16 am It seems to me that having a sliding timeline makes a lot more sense than having people age differently and/or have everyday issues be different.

January 17, 2013 4:51 pm RE: All-New X-Men - yeah, you're right, it doesn't make any sense. That is, it doesn't make any sense to assume that younger Cyclops wouldn't know about bottled water. He can't be from much further back than 10-12 years.

January 14, 2013 1:45 pm In what way does this series take away whatever enjoyment you got from Runaways, Initiative and Academy?

January 13, 2013 3:29 pm The Mal Duncan thing was in the late 1970s. Mr. Terrific and Steel were in the 90's, so it was a different world. I've never necessarily heard anything about Julius Schwartz being racist or at least having any issue with black characters replacing white ones. Since he wound up becoming a completely new character (Hornblower at the time, later reconned to Herald), it might have just been that he was planning on exploring more with the old Guardian over in Superman Family and therefore didn't want two Guardians running around.

January 12, 2013 7:32 pm I suppose it's worth mentioning that the reason the Titans had the Guardian stuff is because Roy Harper turned out to be the nephew of Jim Harper (which I'm pretty sure was just somebody at DC realizing they had two characters with the same last name and deciding to use it). This was back when "modern" DC characters could still be feasibly only one generation from the WWII heroes, and it kinda ignored the whole Earth 1/Earth 2 concept. The Speedy/Guardian connection was followed up in Superman Family as Jimmy Olsen and the Newsboy Legion tracked down Speedy to help them find the clone of the original Guardian.

January 12, 2013 7:27 pm Apparently it came down to the new editor not liking it: http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2013/01/10/abandoned-love-mal-duncan-as-the-new-guardian/

January 12, 2013 3:17 pm I assume that there's enough blue energy to power the two Blue Lantern rings on-planet without the battery, but the battery will be necessary for them to leave the planet and/or expand their Corps?

January 12, 2013 3:15 pm It did sorta dawn on me this week that the reason for the whole "Justice League needs to go resolve issue on Rimbor" this is essentially just to get them out of the way so the remaining characters can have more to do.