megavikingman

December 8, 2012 10:30 am Hey, if you're not using that Calvin & Hobbes collection, can I have it? I'll gladly pay the shipping...

October 22, 2012 3:16 pm My first since X-Wing Rogue Squadron, sometime in the mid-90's!

October 6, 2012 6:45 pm I totally agree with the sentiment behind this article. The only things I'll hunt for online are expensive, limited edition hardcovers that I know I won't be able to find at a decent price elsewhere (such as almost every single English language translation of anything by Moebius) or, if my LCS forgot to order the latest issue of some indie series I'm pulling, I'll order it online and look up a few cheap issues of something else interesting from the same seller to make the shipping costs cheaper on a per-issue basis. I have a lot of obscure and weird tastes, so the things I'm looking for aren't always easy to find. I love to volunteer for and go to events for the local charity Superheroes for Hospice (Google it if you live anywhere near NJ), they have hundreds of longboxes full of nearly everything you could imagine. I help them sort the collection, it's reaonably well-sorted by title (at least as much as you can expect from a handful of volunteers on the occasional weekend before each sale). I've found almost complete runs of many Vertigo, Dark Horse and other indie titles, and they have a MASSIVE amount of DC and Marvel stuff I've barely looked at yet (and I've gone to three of these sales already!).

October 2, 2012 1:53 pm Miles Morales is the shit. I hope they don't get rid of him because of all you haters out there.

September 11, 2012 4:03 pm I am a comics evangelist, and not exactly a "Catholic school" evangelist--although certainly not going door-to-door. It's kind of a step-by-step process: 1. Get to know someone, become friends, find out what they're in to. 2. Casually mention comics, that I write about them "professionally" and hope to get my own published some day. 3. If they express any sort of interest, I will lend them a great comic tailored to their interests - I gave my anarchist friend a copy of "Wild Children," my bohemian ex-girlfriend "Tank Girl Vol. 1," my philosophical friend got "Action Philosophers" for Christmas, my poet friend I showed "One Soul," etc. 4. If they like it, I recommend them something else they might like, and so forth. If not, well, whatever. I tried. As long as you're not overbearing, a lot of people will be receptive to comics, especially if you can prove to them why they're so good by only giving out the best ones, about things they'll like. NEVER start with "Big Two" comics, unless it's something easy and self-contained, like "DKR" or "Watchmen." Just starting them out with "Amazing Spider-man" #6XX is just going to confuse them and lose their interest, similar to when my brother tried to get me in to Marvel by giving me a "Civil War" hardcover. I didn't know who 80% of the characters were, and had no vested interest in what happened to them. The whole thing seemed a little silly to me, because I didn't have the experience with the characters and their individual personalities that really makes the book effective. (Don't worry, "Ultimate Spider-Man" and "Daredevil: The Man Without Fear" did the trick later on.)

July 17, 2012 11:59 am Isn't Baltimore: Dr. Leskovar's Remedy #2 coming out today? Says so on comiclist.com and the Dark Horse website.

July 7, 2012 1:05 pm Books you should add: -Saga -Fatale -The Massive

July 2, 2012 6:15 pm Typed that before I saw above... OK, I guess I will get Infernal Man-Thing #1 to tide me over until I get my Swamp Thing fix.

July 2, 2012 5:56 pm No Swamp Thing this week? Animal Man #11 Creator Owned Heroes #2 Dial H #3 Fairest #5 Mind MGMT #2 Swamp Thing #11???? Thief of Thieves #6 Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #12 BQ: Whichever one is served wrapped in bacon.

June 1, 2012 9:34 pm Yeah, in Falcor's opening scene, "I'm a luck dragon" is the line, I think. It was one of the movies I watched the shit out of as a kid, but haven't seen in over a decade, so I could be wrong. Hell, I even read the whole damn book at one point. It was really good, but really long...