Well it's wasn't really made as a web-comic. It was a traditional monthly comic with quarterly trades. And then they said to themselves, "hey, almost all of our readers seem to prefer the TPB." "Yeah, but if we got rid of the monthly comic, how would new readers give us a try without spending TPB money?" "Why don't we have a webcomic instead of a monthly" Or something like that.

The marketing concept worked in my case, anyway. I had seen the TPB at the comic shop, and said "Eh. Maybe." But having the opportunity to read it for free, I got hooked on the storyline, and will definitely get it in TPB format also, as soon as my budget allows.

So if you just haven't enjoyed the style of most comics that were designed and intended for the web, that doesn't really apply here.

Or if you just don't like reading comics on the computer screen, well, you can give the TPBs a flip-through at the comic book shop, then.

This is kind of fun. The premise is that Mario and Luigi hire a bunch of other NES protagonists to form a team. The gags are silly, and I didn't play enough NES to get some of the in-jokes, but I'm really kind of digging the storyline.

I also like that Link is the bad-ass of the team.


Here's an example of Link being bad-ass:

or become a better theif

Fuck. I completely forgot that WW was on my JLA roster.

She's so firmly ensconced in the "big 3," but so forgettable otherwise.

Thanks, Oppy. I meant out of current continuity, which should be clear by the prominence of Cap on the cover.

And while it was basically just an intro to the characters and the storyline, it was still fun.

Why, yes.

Yes you do.

read this on saturday. yeah, it was really good. i was hesitant to read it cuz i'm not up to date with my GL stuff (i read GL and GL corp in harcover and trade respectively, so tend to be 3-6 months behind on what's going on) but then i said fuck it and decided to read it while i was working at the comic store on saturday. i really enjoyed it. loved the anti-monitor showing up at the end. too bad it'll be about 5 months before i get to read the rest of this story.

Currently, all of my comics are in the closet of what is slowly becoming the new nursery. When I was going through them this morning, I came across a complete set (save for card #1) of Skybox Batman trading cards, circa 1994. They include scenes from many major events from around that time, i.e. Year One, Knightfall, Death in the Family, etc. Does anyone else remember these, and do you know if they are worth anything? Is it worth my time to put them up on eBay?

they should kill him. ever since infinite crisis he's an been utterly useless terrible character. they should never have aged him and as far as i'm concerned he died helping pull superboy-prime into the speedforce.

Helena's too old to play her. Jessica and Scarlett don't work for me. Death isn't supposed to be conventionally hot.

I read a couple issues, but it wasn't my kind of thing. Wife liked it. It was a lot like an action movie translated to the comics, so translating it back shouldn't be much of a leap.

Greg Rucka's Wonder Woman arc where he actually focused on her as an ambassador.

It wasn't really secret, but it was pretty damn neat in that her "Wonder Woman - costumed hero!" persona would take a back seat in her life to her "Wonder Woman - ambassador from Thymescria whose goal is to promote peace and understanding in the world of men by using America's political system to the best of her advantage". Rucka spent quite a bit of time showing what she did as an ambassador instead of the usual "Oh. She's an ambassador. But we'll never see that, because she needs to fight KHYZDRAK, THE FIVE HEADED MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE!!!!"

Hmm, are you missing out with BoP? I don't know. I love Canary and I've grown to dig Oracle so I dug the book. And stu's right, Simone did a great job establishing Canary as the standout character she really should be and not Green Arrow's girlfriend (although I personally feel they SHOULD be together so I'm ok if they are). On the other hand the Savant/Creote characters/story isn't one I go crazy over but I did enjoy it. And it was huge for that Canary development. Canary's long term story with Shiva and that one issue where Canary collected DC's most kick ass fighters for a brawl are the most memorable to me. Have I mentioned I love Black Canary? Although I also enjoyed the sort of gradual acceptance and warming of the Huntress as she opened herself up.

I'd recommend reading it. Skip the pre-series specials unless you really want to see how the Canary/Oracle relationship first starts. They really kinda suck. But I'd say its a good read if not a necessary one. And with Canary seemingly getting a renewed place in the DCU I think its fair to say Simone made that possible.

I've only read the first couple of issues of the OYL BoP though and got completely turned off. Huntress never did a lot for me and I range from hate to complete apathy with all the new characters. Very turned off by the whole thing. But I'll probably give it a chance sooner or later. I read that book for Canary though so I'll just go to JLA.

There aren't a lot of comic shops in Glasgow. Two are in the city centre, one (which I know Mark Millar has used) is a little further out, and I don't know the exact location of it, while one's a mystery. So of the two in the city, I go to A1comics, because it's literally round the corner from where I catch the bus back home, it's quieter and roomier and a bit more friendly than Forbidden Planet (in so much as if I browse at a particular section for an extended amount of time, I don't get unsubtle members of staff hovering nearby watching me to see if I'm out to steal anything). It's also on this street which has a row of cool collectible type shops, and an affiliate tabletop strategy place that tends to have some cool displays in the window (there was a replica 300 shield for instance).
That said, we get the short end of the stick in the UK. Our comics come out on thursday, not wednesday usually, and friday if the monday of that week was a bank holiday. It's so bloody stupid.

If Dick's already going to be Nightwing in it, I take it this'll be the "young 20 somethings as Teens" style of casting?
I really hope Deathstroke's going to be in it, and the REAL one, not "Slade" from the cartoon. Preferably played by someone really good at being menacing. Keifer Sutherland's a popular idea on the Newsarama boards.

Oh SNAP! Masterpiece Megatron looks so dope!

if you've never seen the Masterpiece figures, check out Optimus Prime and Starscream. The only one that has been released in the states is Optimus. This is the American version, the one that sits on my desk at home . There are minor differences between the two. Not enough for me to get import the Japanese one.

Here's the Jap one with a trailer

I didn't like Fantastic 4, but am excited for this one because I was a huge Silver Surfer fan. I was such a big fan of his that I traded in a bunch of good comics to get a not-at-all-mint copy of Fantastic Four 48 and Silver Surfer 1.

I dropped by the comic book store yesterday, and as excited as I had been about LSH goodness I was not able to get into JLA or Countdown. I liked the scene with Jimmy and Joker (even if the "look, we're referencing Silence of the Lambs" aspect was laid on a bit thick,) but the Batman v Karate Kid fight--which should have been a fan-boy geek-out moment for me--was really lackluster. Both versions.

A fight needs to show more than just strikes and blocks, dammit! I refer the artists to the link above for a great hero v hero fight scene. Written and drawn by Jim Shooter when he was thirteen freakin' years old yet!

So I ended up getting the first three issues of The Spirit instead. Those I enjoyed a great deal.

I'm not sure if you can skip the "check for updates" step and all that at the beginning. I have DSL, so that's not an issue for me.

I've been fooling around with it a little, and right now I don't think it's for me. It only has a space each for writer(s), artist(s), and editor(s). There's no way to tell if someone was the penciller, the inker, or if two artists actually worked on two different features in the same book, or if one was the cover artist. It alphabetizes multiple artists, so you don't even get a clue from the order. For instance, on the early 80's X-Men the artists are listed as "Terry Austin and John Byrne." Which gave me a chuckle.

There's no way to tell if there were multiple features in a book or what the story title or titles were. It's just not doing it for me, I think I'm gonna stick with Excel. I sure appreciate the thought, though, Pun.

actually, if you put in the numbers manually, there's 16

well... 15, cuz there's no "01"

Oh, yeah, like you had so much respect for my opinion before now.

I'm not sure how I feel about the Spirit series. I've read two issues so far. It's interesting and cheesy. I'll probably give it a couple of more issues.

New Frontier was fabulous. I read Vol 2 by itself a few years back. Didn't care for it. Read Volume 1 and 2 a couple months ago. Completely changed my opinion. The series was top notch. Do yourself a favor and check it out.