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November 16, 2008 6:26 pm Cheers to you guys! Keep up the great work - I'll keep listening.

October 29, 2008 9:08 pm I'd love to see a new 6-8 issue Adam Strange mini...  This series is starting to drag a bit for me but the campy sci-fi feel is actually pretty great.  Gotta love the DC cosmic.

September 28, 2008 8:36 pm sad to hear - maybe we can still get a surprise installment of "it came from the storage unit" from time to time? maybe?

August 6, 2008 1:56 pm

@SixGun - Correct me if I'm wrong, but the first arc of Northlanders took place on the Orkney Islands - Scotland is not exactly Scandanavia - However, I am genuinely curious as my Anglo-Saxon/ Pre-Anglo British history knowledge is certainly lacking - Would the characters in Northlanders actually be Vikings?  I keep hearing that this is a Viking book, but aren't these people the pre-viking conquest inhabitants of the Orkney Islands?  The Native Orkneyites so to speak (Celts perhaps?) Not to get all scholarly here... Just curious. Any iFanboy members from the Orkneys out there?

If anyone has yet to pick up Northlanders and are curious, #9 would be an excellent jumping on point - very good stuff. 

August 6, 2008 10:31 am

Outstanding bit of nostalgia, Conor - Wonderful.

Growing up in a small town in North Dakota, we had no newstands or comic shops.  I remember going to Bob's Super Value with my mom when I was about five and staring at a spinner rack and begging her to buy me a comic - she allowed me one and I got an issue of Peter Parker the Spectacular Spider-Man that had Kraven in it.  I also remember being home from school with the flu and my mom brought me home a copy of the Teen Titans from Corner Drug that she bought along with my medicine.  Then there was Simonson's Station Store where I bought Groo and G.I. Joe... Ah, the memories. 

July 31, 2008 11:04 am AlexG - I liked this issue but can feel for you - this issue did feel a little stretched.  I think he could possibly have said in 12-15 pages what actually took the entire issue.  Nevertheless, the sentiment of this issue was subtle and powerful.  I hope the art going forward works as well as what Gianfelice did with the first arc - beautiful stuff.

July 28, 2008 6:11 pm I've liked Davide Gianfelice's art quite a lot on this arc, but noticed that he isn't listed as the artist for the next two arcs.  Does anyone know if he will be doing any other work for American comics in the near future?

July 14, 2008 6:06 pm @Brandon2 - Hop on.  Issue zero was but a snack.  It may have been a tonal introduction to the new series but was basically unnecessary to understanding or enjoying the coming arc. I'm excited to read some new interpretations of the older, wiser, and badassier version of Conan.

June 26, 2008 9:20 am Interesting topic.  Interesting thoughts.  I was talking to a good friend of mine about this topic a while back as he has always been more of a Marvel guy while I have leaned DC.  We found that it is really very hard to actually articulate 1) What the tangble differences are between the two companies and 2) Why we have always gravitated one way or the other.  Whatever was intuitively working on our childhood selves seems to still be working on our adult selves - while I buy some Marvel books and enjoy them quite a bit, there is something about the DC Universe that attracts me more on a gut level.  I have to agree with you that, at the moment, Marvel has more good writers than DC.  I think this is at least partially the reason for Marvel's monthly sales dominance.  Yet I still lean DC.  What can I say?  I'm just a DC guy...

June 25, 2008 7:50 pm OK - I had to check - according to the DC site, the final issue of the Secret Origin storyline is #35.