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@AMuld: I noticed that too. Weird. ' I have very little desire for comic book "news" as it were, and while this is going to sound so totally ridiculous, I think we have some of the best comic writers out there working on this site.  Who am I going to read that's better than Jim, Paul, Mike, or Sonia?' Well, what the iFanboy writers do are more 'lifestyle' articles (centered...

Yeah, what strikes me most about comic ads these days is how half of them seem to be for kids 10 and under...and the other half seem to be for adults capable of purchasing cars. I'll be reading a new Marvel or DC comic, and on one page I'll see an ad for Fantastic Four-themed birthday party stuff, then an ad for a Spider-Man sippy cup...and then an ad for a new Honda. Real strange. I guess it k...

These things make me happy almost beyond words: The writing on Batman & Robin (and the art again once the next storyline kicks off--and hoo boy, the way I'm anticipatin' the focus of that next storyline). The art on Detective Comics (and the writing's beginning to win me over too). The bi-weekly goofiness/quaintness of X-Men Forever. The lore of Marvels Project. The slick production ...

It always made sense to me, during the '80s to the mid-'90s--and particularly under Claremont and Hama's stewardship of the character--that Wolverine would lecture other heroes about not being violent. At that time Wolverine had grown out of his initial '70s hot-head days, plus they were building up the backstory about how murderous the character USED to be before he appeared in Marvel continu...

Ron talking about X-Men Forever--hell ya. The bell--hell ya.

$2 on issue. Hahahaha, I say with sad frustration. I should have seen this coming. Everyone expected the  pricepoint to be $0.99. Why? Because that's what everyone wanted. But we forgot that this is Marvel, and the company wants/needs to start charging $4 for regular-sized books. So of course they're not going to sell digital issues for 75% off. Of course not. Yeah, same way people wi...

Good advice why it might not be a good idea to open a comic shop these days. I'm not sure, however, that there have been ANY rumblings about Marvel or DC pulling out of Diamond, though. All your other info is right on target, and in general things really are "up in the air" as you say, but on the point of Diamond: While it's true that either Marvel or DC pulling out would basically ki...

Great choice for the pick. I love Detective Comics these days. However, until this issue I really don't think Rucka was doing anything special. You write that Rucka's so-called he "in the first story arc began to sketch a personality". I agree, but I think that in order to have been deemed a success he should have been able to do more than just "sketch" a personality. He had...

It doesn't ruin all I thought of Astonishing X-Men, which was the continuing series that got me back into reading comics regularly. But the idea of it makes me sick and makes me not want to give Marvel any more money than I absolutely "have" to. I'm sure Disney didn't have anything to do with this, but crap like this reminds me of how I felt when I learned that Disney bought Marvel...

Yeah, I ran across a thread on a message board somewhere else recently, where someone was expressing disbelief that there could be a Howard the Duck Omnibus, a Tomb of Dracula Omnibus Vol. 2, and also an Iron Man Omnibus Vol. 2 . . . without there first being an X-Men Omnibus Vol. 2 or a Spider-Man Omnibus Vol. 2. Sometimes I think obvious collections--such as those of Marvel's biggest franchi...