Okay, my problem with Flashpoint as a final send-off to the old DCU: Flashpoint took place in a completely different world which altered the classic characters completely. That would be like calling Watchmen the send-off for the Charleton Comics characters. They're completely different characters. And since Watchmen and Flashpoint were limited run ( Read more... )

Hello, friends old and new. Perhaps you saw my profile over on Made of Fail. If not, go ahead and take a look. (I'm really proud of our little growing website. There's so much there there now.) If you saw it and followed the link expecting lots of posts here, well, not so much. I'm on Twitter a bunch and here and there Facebook too, but I don ( Read more... )

Remember that pile of comics from the period after the reboot was announced, but before any of the new comics came out? Just forget about them. Pretty much anything published by DC between June and August was just filler nonsense and not worth the paper it was printed on. Move on ( Read more... )

The latest episode of Made of Fail came out about a week ago. It's a conversation about comics, more specifically, the DC reboot. My favorite part is that we have three women discussing comics and they all have different opinions. Women read superhero comics, you guys. But you knew that.

Pop Culture Happy Hour also covered the reboot and it ( Read more... )

(No, I'm not re-numbering this series because shut up. Besides, I'm not changing much here which is the main reason I changed the main series' numbers.)

(I might be putting too much thought into this.)

I Kill Giants is the love child of Daria and Scott Pilgrim. Linda Danvers was the midwife ( Read more... )

Because my fiancée loves me and because she's great and because her employer owns the venue it was held in and offered discounted tickets we saw the So You Think You Can Dance tour's Cincinnati show last night. Rather than bombard everyone's Twitter feed-which I very easily could have with "WOO"'s and "THAT WAS AWESOME"'s-I decided to somewhat ( Read more... )

One Tumblr I float in and out of is ANIMALS TALKING IN ALL CAPS. There's silly stuff there, sure, but a lot of it is tinged with an underlying melancholy. I hate to sound like the pretentious jerk who thinks anything worthwhile has to be a bit upsetting and who uses phrases like "tinged with an underlying melancholy." I don't think that; ( Read more... )

Friends, I am sad to report that the heart rate machine in emergency rooms does not make a constant beeping noise. It makes several beeps when it's first connected, then nothing. I really wanted to act out this commercial:

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What is does do is connect to your chest via very sticky tape. Your chest and chest hair. My torso now looks like a ( Read more... )

Last Sunday, Rachel and I were being lead to our table at Arthur's when I spotted someone in a Syracuse fleece ( Read more... )

So that's it. The first full month of the new DC Comics universe has come and gone. Enjoy some semi-organized thoughts.

Comics are a serial medium. Much like a TV show, things can and will change from the pilot (first issue). Right now as I type, DC people are checking sales numbers and (to a lesser extant) reviews to see what works (sells). ( Read more... )