Jimski

Holy crap, it's not even 4:00! I don't even have my books yet! You are a dynamo.

DC sounds like it should be renamed ADHD. Watching their moves is like what happens when my baby gets her hands on the remote control. You hear these rumors about Batman RIP being launched and then having its ending changed, then you hear this stuff about the Superman plans flying out the window, now you're hearing that Final Crisis is being delayed to have its ending changed, and on and on....

I always appreciate the comments. I was sure there would be at least one person weighing in about the Star Wars stuff, but I'm sort of glad to be wrong, which happens more often than you'd think. @RaceMcCloud: oh, you'd like that, wouldn't ya? I just pop in and start calling writers douchebags. Well, no thank you, sir. I've found that any time I mention a creator by name in a column, they app...

Hats off for a well-deserved milestone. without being able to vicariously share your enthusiasm for the medium and discuss what I was reading, I might not have given comics a chance again. Let me know if there's anything I can do to keep those downloads coming, like promising never to cohost again.

Well done, and well timed! Always with the paper smell. People: just say no to the fetishizing of the paper smell! Buy some old paper and keep it by your computer. You can have my copies of Web of Spider-Man to hold and sniff. I love my *old* comics just as you describe them, but in this day and age I have become acutely aware of waste. So much paper; so much space....

The cents-per-page issue is one I can't help thinking about almost weekly, so I appreciate you explicitly raising it in black and white. The coming storm is going to be a pretty tough one for me to weather, because the truth is when you ask, "how much is too much for 32 pages?" my answer is "$2.99." "Rising paper costs." GRRRRRRRR. PDFs aren't a regional thing, r...

It's really too bad. I love love love digital comics; it's the only way I want to be reading them five years from now. The DVDs Marvel was putting out before they unveiled their online initiative were like a gift from the gods. I'm tired of having to build additions onto my house to store friggin' magazines. Every time I look over at my desk and see yet another accumulated pile of issues I ha...

Wasn't Longshot sort of... mentally challenged in the eighties? At best, he had a Tom-Hanks-in-Big thing going on, wandering around the world wide-eyed and innocent. I always thought it was a little weird that Dazzler was into him; Doc Samson needs to take a crack at those two. That said, this is another one of those things I was ranting about the other day. They have these characters, they s...

At the risk of sounding like That Guy, I think the real problem Runaways had was lateness. While Astonishing X-Men could survive anything given the longevity of it characters, Dead End Kids was building a whole new world with months and months between installments, which turned out to be murder.

Josh: how are we not married? Oh, right. Straight dudes. I am a big advocate of reading voraciously (especially as a writing procrastination tool; why, I'm doing it right now!) but I am hesitant to practice it lately because I don't want to inadvertently rip anyone off. The subconscious plagiarism angle is one I never hear anyone explore in any detail. How do you keep your influences from be...