junoro

April 16, 2010 9:15 am @deezer The USPS is now considering and as far as I can tell from the news ceasing delivery on Saturdays and not on Tuesdays.  Tuesdays has the least quantity of mail, but seems to have disappeared from the conversation, my guess is because it would effect many businesses.

April 16, 2010 12:54 am If they can do this, then why every time there is a holiday the books come out on Thursday even when the holiday is not on the same week?

April 15, 2010 9:00 pm

I wonder if the killing off of characters and the bringing back of characters are both similar things.  They do both becasue the character was failing.

 I have no opinion of either Flash and have never really read many Flash books.   I think he like any character can be interesting if the stories are good and in my mind stories are good if there is character development.  I have been primarily a fan of the DCU since the Death of Superman and Breaking of Batman that got me into comics in the first place.  But I am tired of what Conor says of just telling the same story over and over again.  

It is for that reason that I wonder if real stories can be told anymore in the DCU or Marvel.  Because for me stories are about character development and if the same stories are told over and over again then there can be no development.  Having said that there are lots of stories that seemed hopeful when they begain but did not turn out well in the end.  The New Kryption stories had so much possibility to show Superman in a new light, and did for a while, but then they drifted off.  I hold out a lot of hope for Brightest Day.  The characters could have really interesting struggles with being alive again and with the relationships they had, something hinted at in Flash Rebirth.  But too often those possibilities are not fulfilled.

 

April 15, 2010 10:43 am

Really? 

I thought it was good as in fairly average.  The art was great, but it seemed to lack something.  But I am not a believer in the Johns midas touch.  I think he has done some great work, but also put out a lot of average stuff.  Along with the fact that I feel like he is trying too hard to bring everything back to the 80's, only occasionally moving forward.  

 I thought Blackest Night was sort of a disaster.  I just don't have a taste for comics that are just about the fighting and that seemed to be all it was about.  Give me some character development.

April 13, 2010 8:51 pm Looking forward to the oneshot, but I wish it was not a cofeature in a book I don't care about.  If not a monthly think of another option for this book.

March 28, 2010 8:27 pm

Have to agree Gerard Jones's Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of the Comic Book is great.  I was always surprised I have not heard the ifanboys talk about this one before.

 Another good book is not about the history of comics, but more criticism of comics, if you are into that, is Reading Comics.  It focuses more on idependent books and comics as art so if you are just into comics for the escapism its probably not for you.  If you read for escapism, but also are interested in comics as art then it is a great book and will turn you on to a lot of stuff.  He is not a complete snob and will recognize a great superhero book when he sees it.  There are chapters in there on Alan Moore and Grant Morrison among others.  

March 12, 2010 8:12 pm The idea of teasers is to create buzz.  I think this title would have been better served with no images.  I think less people might buy this because of the total absence of someone recognizable.  I agree with an earlier comment, it could have been better with some known (Young Avengers, Runaways, some young X-Men) and some of these unknown.  It seems like this book will have to fully depend on getting readers after the book comes out, if there are some good reviews.

March 4, 2010 8:04 pm I don't care all that much about covers, but if the Spiderman one wasn't on this list I would have protested.  Its great!

February 16, 2010 8:29 am Elseworlds becomes canon.

February 16, 2010 8:26 am Dropping this. has lagged in the past few issues, but more than that I'm not going to pay $4 for it.  Might look for back issues when my local shop has dollar back issue day.