mikeland

December 8, 2008 5:30 pm Great article. I live in England and have no local comic book shop in my home town. I travel into Birmingham on my way home (adds about 2 hours to my journey) on a friday to get my comics. I used to go to a store where the staff were unhelpful and very grumpy, I had got to the point of virtually not buying any monthly comics, and just getting trades from Borders and Waterstones (book chain). However I discovered another store on the other side of the city centre, and whilst this is a bit further to walk the staff are friendly, helpful and it has an excellent stock. So I still continue to buy some titles monthly. A good comic book shop can do a lot of good to keep those of us who have a more casual interest.

September 16, 2008 8:14 am Great article, I agree if you don't like a book you should drop it and move on. I have no investment in Spiderman either married or unmarried but I think it was a shame that OMD and BND took the cowards way out of the hole that Sipderman was written into, and re-booted. I would have been interesting to have pursued the world were Spiderman didn't have his secret identity, perhaps with Aunt May dead, perhaps they could have used good storytelling and intelligent writing to refresh the titles without the cheap re-con. Heck perhaps they could have even ended the marriage some other way, gasp, Spiderman divorced, now that would be a challenging story.

February 26, 2008 8:42 am I totally agree with 52878org. I would have dropped this at issue 2 if it wasn't for Jim Lee & Scott Williams on the art.