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August 19, 2013 1:02 pm I think to a certain degree, especially with music, that there is just an entire generation that gets their music that way, and that behavior has spread to their parents, their siblings, and their kids. I love music, but is buying it even still a thing? If I don't download it, is that even piracy? It seems like the accepted norm for music is, "As long as I'm just streaming it, that's Fair Use." If people even stop to consider it at all. If I like the band, I'll flip 'em the ten bucks and buy something: the record, the shirt, a ticket to their show. Interestingly, I've never felt that way about comics, TV shows, movies, etc. I'll either buy that content or wait until my tax dollars buy a public library copy, and stand in line for three years. I'll even pay to stream it. I've never Napster'd, Torrent'd or P2P'd huge chunks of music, movies, TV shows, or comics, but mostly because I was too busy using precious HD space for free and open-source FPS game mods. I still don't do my "leisure" reading digitally, mostly because I need a break from a backlit LCD after a long hard day of looking at monitors and projector screens from a dim, poorly lit control booth. I imagine that other people have a different ethical filter for content resolution, and it just doesn't seem like people find it such an interesting topic anymore. You like paper comics? Great. You like digital comics? Great. You steal all your comics? Whatever, dude. Arguing with you about that would be so five to ten years ago. I guess (?) I'm just happy (?) you like comics too. :-? o.0 :o)

August 15, 2013 12:47 am I was planning on jumping off at around #12 for both books. Might hang around till about issue 16, but then I'm out.

August 14, 2013 2:27 pm Jeff, That's what I was hoping for. IDW has a pretty good track record with reprints. I was hoping they'd be offering something less pricey than the 4-issues-for-5-dollars Archives price point. I'm a huge Wally Wood fan, so I'll eventually add all or most of the Tower stuff to the collection. I wonder if I'm still the only who commented on that solicit.

August 14, 2013 2:21 pm Filled up with consuming media that didn't come out yesterday.

August 14, 2013 2:17 pm Are you referring to the reviewer? /attempt at humor

August 14, 2013 1:26 am I'll put this on the list, for the eventual collection. I dig Lee Weeks, so I'm hoping I'll love this.

August 14, 2013 1:20 am Ha. There was a Half-Life training level or something that I messed up on. I was playing like eleventy-five other shooter games and mods of those games at that time. I ejected it, and took it back the next time I was at the store, which was probably the next day. I must've looked at the Gold Pack when it came out like a billion times. "I should really get this..." I even played Team Fortress when it was just an online-only beta mod. Never circled back around to HL, though. ;)

August 14, 2013 1:16 am The great thing about the Marvel vs. Capcom games was that all of my buddies who were into fighter games would play the Capcom characters, so I always got to play as the superhero characters. It even got a few of them to admit that they actually read and liked superhero comic books. Before they were cool dudes who only liked ninjas and anime. I torture those guys by buying their kids superhero action figures and DVDs. And asking them how much they liked that comic book summer blockbuster movie they took the family to see.

August 14, 2013 1:09 am That IS the gold standard: replayability. Lo, the many times and ways I played Deus Ex. I even played it though more than once using the Batman Ethos. The game forces you to kill just one character, iirc. Of course I also played it through after that using the Quake2/GTA Ethos. I killed everything and everyone on sight, no matter who they were. Really sharpened my skills for the Massive Multi-Monster Melee at the end.

August 14, 2013 1:03 am The entire Marvel vs. Capcom series will always hold a special place in my heart. The first five arcade games were some of the best coin-op I'd ever seen, and I'd been waiting since Androids came out for something to really kick me in the face for my quarter. I consider Children of the Atom to have some of the best sprites I'd ever seen up until that point. Check out the Psylocke gifs. Someone was very enthused to do that job, and did it quite well.