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S3 Heroes. I'm high on Peter's personal plot, Sylar's personal plot, always dig Noah and the core thread of the superpowers being given to the world for better or worse. I want to know where different Heroes got their abilities. Why they got them. Adam is back... hrm, maybe I just like the villains. I hate Mohinder, especially as the observer voice, the Latina woman and Hiro's child...

In fairness, Girl One is a synthetic organism. She might not jiggle.

In Mr. Kirkman's defense, he never said comics needed to be fixed. He, in fact, said that comics themselves were as good as they have ever been or better. His concern was in growing readership and creating a market for the future. You can list all your stats, but the one you gloss over is the most important. Sales this year are down. Sales last year were down. Sales the year before were down...

Kirkman deserves it. He is the big mover that keeps that company in the headlines right now. They do other good stuff, but none as good as his work nor as lauded publicly.

Your premise is 100% confirmed by the big companies. At HeroesCon Didio talked about this to some extent, saying taht the movies' success rarely resulted in any long term benefit or strengthening of the book. Some of the bigger movies offered short spikes in sales that lasted one to two months, but never longer.

Now... read Matt Fraction's one shots.

Battle Royale. Lone Wolf & Cub. Neon Genesis Evangelion.  

Hey Jim. Don't worry, buddy. I'm in the same boat. I really, really want to like the DC characters. WHen they're written in certain ways, in certain stories I do like them. On the whole, though, I just don't like them.  The characters are often so far removed from the human realm you cannot relate to them. DC has thrown its continuity into tumult (I'm a mild continuity nerd, but I r...

I maintain that there are no bad characters. Just badly written characters. If we gave the Sentry to Peter David or Grant Morrison or Mark Millar they could do something interesting with him.  The problem is that he was created in a vacuum, and then they expected everyone to just roll with it when they added him into the main continuity as though everything in that vacuum were true. Ther...

Actually, I was expecting Final Crisis. This was the best book that came out this week, but there really were a few books competing with it.