Title: By the Book ( Read more... )

I just realized I'm three issues behind on "X-Factor," and two issues behind on "Nightwing," but I've caught up on other things!

In no particular order and with minimal spoilers:

( just in case )

If you prefer print comics, for whatever reason (you're a reader and collector, you've got that weird smell-boner people sometimes have with printed things, whatever), then buy your comics as printed materials. No one is stopping you. No one is demanding you switch over to digital. Hell, Marvel is going to start including a code for free digital ( Read more... )

YOU GUYS

YOU GUYS

BENDIS AND KELLY SUE ARE GONNA BE DOWN THE GODDAMN STREET FROM ME ON FRIDAY.

Why, yes, I am tucking the first trade of "Alias" and the "Rescue" one-shot (where Pepper gets her own suit of awesome) into a bag and CAMPING THE FUCK OUT.


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Or, as I like to also call it: "Judd Winick, this is how you do emotional stuff and goofy superhero stuff. Take some fucking notes."

( minor spoilers and lots of pics )

Writer: Kathryn Immonen (with Chris Claremont)
Artist: Phil Noto

( mmm...spoilery, with scans )

If you recall, I recently sold you lovely people a bunch of my comics (and for those of you who are waiting for me to touch base with you since I'm back from the first leg of my vacation, gimmie another day). I have taken the money and invested it in new, digital comics. I'm replacing some stuff I had in trade, but I've also bought some shiny new ( Read more... )

This is a strange occurrence. When I first got into comics in a major way about seven years ago, I was basically all Marvel. I loved Marvel. Iron Man, Cap, New Avengers, Daredevil, and a stack of others were about all I read. Slowly but surely some DC got onto the list (most notably the GL stuff), and some smaller companies got in as well ( ( Read more... )

"Secret Warriors," "Secret Avengers," "Daredevil," and "Daredevil: Reborn" are all off the reading list. None of them are bad, but I find I'm not hoping to read them like the rest of the stuff I'm keeping up with. "Daredevil" and "Reborn" are especially like that, mostly because Daredevil is the Marvel U punching bag, and it's gotten very hard to ( Read more... )

I read a "Top Ten Slashy Marvel" moments thing today, and I came away pondering. Two things really pinged me hard on the list.

First Problem: While naming Billy and Teddy sharing a Bed in "Avengers: Children's Crusade" made the person's top ten, there was a lot of hemming and hawing about how the poster felt the relationship came off as kind of ( Read more... )