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Comics : 00:01:33 - Josh's Pick of the Week , B.P.R.D. 1947 #5 , was full of foreboding and sadness. Looking forward to reading this in trade 00:09:56 - Fantastic art couldn't save Amazing Spider-Man #611 from Deadpool. For shame! Y'all know I love Deadpool. And while I realize that many don't like the character (he's an acquird taste), I can't understand why Ron doesn't love Wade....

Great point Conor, and it was indeed a rare feat for DC. As others have said, clearly this is a case of a successful and well received event for DC being matched up with the first window Marvel hasn't had a major event in some time. Obviously this is likely to normalize back to a more divergent market share as Siege rolls out, but DC still deserves props for putting up a better 'fight' (are th...

TOTALLY agree. As a kid of the 80s, G.I. Joe (and Transformers) were "MY" toys and I was as addicted to them, the cartoon and the comics as anyone walking the Earth. In spite of that, I've generally not held a passion for G.I. Joe comics since the Marvel series wrapped up. I would try them, but they rarely held my interest. But Andy Schmidt and the IDW creators are doing such a grea...

I'm certainly intrigued by this news, and hope it gets great comics in the hands of more people. I think for a lot of us who are already buying comics, the $1.99 price point is a deal breaker. But remember, this really isn't about (most) of us. This is about getting comics to new people; younger people who are living their lives digitally. Just take a look at the success of Marvel's motion com...

Alex mentioned this as the plan at the Windy City Comic-con; great to hear there will be more Proof. Hopefully the relaunch and new #1 will give the book a much needed bump in sales. This is too good a book to have such low exposure.

I think what makes comics magical (and why we're all obsessive about them) is that it's a combinatino of words and pictures. That said, I think there are examples where books are too wordy and others where there's just not enough. If you look back at the silver and bronze age, exposition was rampant. We've gone away from that (generally a good thing) but sometimes now it's overdone. Stan used ...

Great article Sonia. I completely share your view on this. I LOVE owning Absolutes and oversized hardcovers. I feel immense joy and pride looking at them on my shelves. I feel like they put the work in am amazing light and are so well made that even non-comic fans would have to take a hard look at the material if they came across one of them on someone's coffee table. And yet, I rarely read ...

Hey Jim, I appreciate the tenor of your article, but as others have alluded, the Gears of War example is an outlier that Jim Lee (self-servingly) threw out there even though it's hardly indicative of the 'state of comics' that you're referring to initially. Gears of War 'sold' that well in the same way Prine's last album was #1 in sales. Prince included his album with the purchase of a ticke...

Heyoooooooooooooo...nice hearing Chris on iFanboy! Now that the guys have had both Chris and I on the show, we're going to have to return the favor and have one of them on to an episode of 11 O'C sometime soon. I'm a LITTLE disappointed you all weren't drunk recording the show, but then again, we do have a patent pending on drunken comics podcasting.  

Mike, I appreciated the candor in your article and emphathize with your plight. I've been in the fortunate position to not really have a comic budget per se for a good number of years, but it's never been lost on me how superfluous and extravagant the hobby really is. If I were to lose my job, I wouldn't hesitate to cut comics for the very reasons you articulated (and this is from someone that...