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stevec50

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January 25, 2012 10:13 pm The book is already in my current Top Five, but this page alone may make me move it up another notch.
January 18, 2012 9:48 pm totally agree!
January 18, 2012 9:45 pm I was hoping they were bringing back the "Go Go Checks". :-)
January 18, 2012 9:42 pm You make a lot of good points, Mike. The line about "customer 3492342" struck home and I found myself nodding. I dropped all my Marvel books several months into the "Heroic Age" period. It was Secret Invasion that brought me back after years of reading almost no Marvel books (except the various Marvel Zombie series) and I stuck with over a dozen titles through Dark Reign and its follow-ups. I just found that except for the Captain America books I didn't care enough. Eventually, once the film came out I gave up on even Cap. At 61 yrs of age, I'm certainly not Marvels (or DCs for that matter) target audience. I'm just finding more titles from the smaller/independent companies that still give me the thrills & enjoyment that I used to get from Marvel decades ago. To be honest, I don't know how much longer I'm going to be getting all of the dozen DC 52 titles currently in my 'pull list'. I think my interest in super-heroes is waning again, as it has several times since the end of the '90s and I'll go back to reading nothing but stuff from Dark Horse, IDW, and WALKING DEAD from Image.
December 22, 2011 6:49 pm When I was a kid the idea of a Library having comics would have seemed far-fetched, now I'm surpised to find even a small branch library that doesn't have at least a small Graphic Novel/Manga section. The Library, where I currently work, has several hundred TPB collections (mostly DC & Marvel), graphic novels and manga series. We've got everything from Superman to Sin City, Bone to R. Crumb's 'Book of Genesis'. This is just here at the Main Library, but our two smaller branches have their own collections in the Teen Zones. Don't even get me started on the anime!
December 22, 2011 6:38 pm I was first introduced to Tintin in the pages of "Children's Digest" when I was in Junior High. My parents gave me a subscription for Christmas and kept it up for several years. Tintin's adventures were cut up into 8-10 page installments (not the best way to read them) in each month's digest, but it was easy to get hooked. A few years later, the local library got a donation/gift of about a dozen of the English translations, so i could finally see the characters in color and the size they had been intended to be seen. I'm not a big fan of this particular style of animation, but agree from the trailers that it might be the perfect way to bring Herge's creation to the big screen. I'm hoping to catch it in Imax sometime over the holidays.
November 9, 2011 6:41 pm Can I toss in Stan Sakai's USAGI YOJIMBO? Never less than entertaining and often far more than that.
November 9, 2011 6:39 pm If you ever begin thinking that nothing new can be done with a certain character or type of character, look at what Moore did with "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow" or that he and his stable of writers did with his America's Best Comics titles. Same can be said for Frank Miller's BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS. Both writers took characters we thought we knew too well and infused them with something memorable and fresh. I can't recall who said it first, but the line goes something like, "there are no bad characters only characters who are not well-written."
November 9, 2011 6:07 pm you're not the only one to make that comparison, trust me. :-) To give King credit, he has said that he began writing the book years ago and set it aside to work on other projects.
November 9, 2011 5:53 pm I'm assuming that this is just a physical section of what will be a larger CGI vehicle, allowing for close-ups of Batman in the cockpit or climbing in & out of the copter/Batwing.