pariahguy

December 12, 2012 12:11 am I don' know why but the shot from behind and below with the cape blowing behind him just gave me chills. I've only watched it once so far but that is the image that really struck me.

April 20, 2012 12:15 am I haven't bought any new comics since mid-February. A combination of lack of time, money and excitement for anything coming out currently has kept me away. I'm not out completely, I will come back to new stuff, just not right now. However, comics are in my blood. I love 'em and I can't stay away. The other night I was looking for something to read and pulled the first Preacher trade off the shelf. That was Monday. I have since crawled into the eaves of my attic and dug out the rest of the series (including the mini series and specials) and blown through all but the last storyline. I knew the book was good but I forgot how good. Also I realized how much of it I had forgotten (particularly the later issues), it was almost like reading new stuff. This has given me the jump start I needed to start re-reading the piles of good stuff I have packed away over the years. This idea started gnawing at me last year when I broke out the Simonson run on Thor after seeing the movie. Ennis' Hellblazer, David's Hulk run; Morrison on Animal Man and Doom Patrol; Giffen & DeMatteis' JLI; Ostrander's Spectre (the first 12 issues of which might be the best first year of an ongoing I've ever read), these are the things flashing through my head and getting me excited now. Speaking of flashing-- Waid's run on Flash. These books are bought and paid for and just sitting in boxes waiting to be enjoyed again. And there's been enough distance from the last time I read them that I can look at them with fresh eyes. I certainly wasn't reading Preacher 12 years ago the way I am now. and as inevitably happens something I read will strike a chord and I'll get the itch to start checking out new stuff again. Comics reading has always been about ebbs and flows with me. Maybe it's because I'm getting older, or the expense is getting higher, or it just doesn't feel the books I read are being written for me anymore but I just don't feel like riding out this ebb. It's ok if the books aren't being written for me, things change. I get it. Right now I need to recharge the batteries and the best way I know how is to read some good comics and get my excitement level up again.

November 26, 2011 10:39 pm Norm Breyfogle was the first guy I took notice of and his Batman is still the Batman I see in my head. Also I think I remember getting those George Perez anti-drug Teen Titans specials in school and thinking they looked much cooler than regular comics.

August 19, 2011 10:35 pm After going to see the Thor movie this summer I immediately came home and dug out the Simonson run on Thor from the early 80's. That was some of the most fun I've had reading comics in a long time. It's made me start thinking of making a list of runs that I want to re-read: Peter David's Hulk, JLI, Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol and Animal Man just to start.

May 24, 2011 2:47 pm Not that I think this is what it is but now that all the original heroes are back (Hal, Barry, Arthur, and J'onn)A Justice League of America book starring the original seven written by Geoff Johns and drawn by Jim Lee would be awesome. Not to mention It would be DC's best selling book by a mile. Of course Lee would have had to start drawing it in 1997 for it to come out on time. Add covers by Perez and its the world's perfect comic book. Again I doubt it but I can dream.

May 5, 2010 1:55 am No O'Shaughnessey's? A Mc Donald's stand-in from the mid-90's. Or if you're looking more upscale how about dinner and dancing at the Iceberg Lounge?

February 24, 2010 7:28 pm

I think this would make a great live action film but I would kill to see it in any medium:

STARMAN: SINS OF THE FATHER

(I think that's the title but it's issues 0-3 of Starman)