Dark One

In other words, exactly like the comics...

BA-ZING!

That Superman and Lex Luthor are going to be buddies and solve crimes along with Krypto and Lana Lang? They're going to ride around in this sweet, pimped out space van.

Wow...what a dink. Trying to force your customers to buy items that are going to be meaningless in a couple of months? Ya, that's the way to engender repeat business.

Nope.

Something that Waller says. No indication that Superman is known. Or it could just be that he's known, but they don't know he's an alien. Abin is definitively an alien. Kal-El on the other hand, is human looking.

No reference to any other super, iirc. They refer to Abin Sur as the first alien encountered by humans.

She was in the first TPB of Superman/Batman. Luthor ended up kissing her. Pam Grier played her in Smallville. Also played a role in 52 and with the Suicide Squad.

Waller is more of an all-around bad guy than specific to Superman.

Why yes, yes I do. It doesn't happen often, but I do occasionally get a good one.

Ok...has anyone ever seen Didio and Quesada in the same room at the same time? Cuz that reads almost like OMD.

There's actually two different versions of that line from the oath. I've heard it in trailers/commericals both the growly version and in the same tone/rhythm as the rest of the oath. I dunno what's up with that, maybe something post-production?

Two volumes for sale on Amazon, but they are pretty spendy. $26+ for used and $70+ for new. Supposedly, there's a Season 1 set that's been recorded but is pretty much in development hell and probably won't see the light of day.

Get a Life was one of those shows that was on Fox back before it became one of the Big 4. I would add Herman's Head to that list of shows, along with Married w/ Children.

If you have any artistic bent, you could always fashion one out of jade. Probably get more play with that than with a plastic one.

Batgirl is Babs' past. She can no more go back to being that than Dick can go back to being Robin. Plus, in doing so, that says that she thinks very little of Steph as Batgirl.

That's not to say she couldn't put on a cape again, but not as Batgirl. Take a new persona like Dick went to Nightwing. Babs has graduated from "girl" anyways.

How can they say that Killing Joke still happened, yet Babs is still, or returned to being, Batgirl? Removing the whole getting paralyzed thing kinda defeats the purpose of keeping KJ. Especially since she's really grown into the role of Oracle. Even if she managed to walk again (something that I think should've happened a long time ago), she'd still keep the mantle of Oracle and let the other women have a shot at being Batgirl.

Edit - Sounds like they know this is going to be a mistake, yet are still doing it. They want to placate the old-timers by telling them all that important stuff still happened, yet tell the newbies that there's nothing important in the past and they can skip it. The true results of compromise...no one leaves happy.

That's messed up, yo (if true). Did DC get bought out by Marvel or something? Are they really that bound and determined to kill off, well, everything?

I forgot to add...he'll be found asleep in the bathroom and on the toilet. With a bunch of burrito wrappers laying on the ground around him. Just to reinforce how utterly bad an idea this is.

Nope.

It's going to be a dream sequence perpetrated by none other than Ambush Bug. He'll be found to be asleep with a copy of Ultimate X-Men on his lap.

I want to say, "We'll leave the Monster on for ya...", but I think that's a riff on the Motel 6 phrase.

Gee, sales are "dropping", when you forcefeed multiple year-long events on the reader that require said reader to buy books they may not like or want, just to have the whole story? Reader fatigue combined with the general state of the economy as of late? Who would've thunk it?

Specialty retailers? I buy the majority of my comics from the supermarket. And yet, of those, I only seem to find a handful of DC titles, but Marvel has a lot more there. There's a lot more options out there, but the 3-month + advance ordering crowd ties into point #1. If you have multi-part stories in a plethora of titles, you're going to need to order in advance so that the regulars get their full stories.

You don't think this doesn't tie-in to the constant reboots, restarts, cancellations, MASSIVE SUPER ULTRA MEGA-ZORD EVENT THAT DOESN'T REALLY CHANGE EVERYTHING, that happens every single year? Instead of just telling good stories, there just HAS to be some event that affects everyone and everything, but don't worry because it'll be retconned in six months.

What's the point in reading something when it'll be wiped out of existence a short time later?

Both of these tie together. Paper cost and whatnot are going up yes. Not much can do about that.


But "creator" rates? How many people are salivating at the bit to get a chance to draw the characters? And yet, they throw money at guys like frickin' Liefield. Writers are another story entirely, but there's a lot of good artists out there. Tell the rock-stars to go take a hike and that $2.99 price point will be a lot better.



You don't think that has something to do with a) price point - $10 for a 2 hour movie vs $3 for less than 10 minutes of read time on a comic; b) self-contained nature of the movies - don't need to watch 8 other movies that week to understand it; c) the continuing characters are focused on the lowest common denominator and generally limited in the amount of material available; d) if you don't like the movie while watching it, you can generally walk out and get your money back.






Putting comics on digital devices? Hey, that's fine. Just don't try and price them the same as the print versions. It's just like putting games on Steam or XBL Games on Demand. Why in the hell should I pay $40 for Halo: Reach on GoD when I can get the disc-based version for about $25 used? Or why should one buy a release on Steam that costs the same as the disc-based release?

From Goliath Bird Eater's previous post:

Aye-yup.

Link.

Get a prepaid debit card with just enough on it to cover the cost.

The "week" comment was in regards to the sale on the Mutant pack.


*shrug* It doesn't really affect me, so I'm just throwing out ideas that would possibly let you get the stuff. I'm sorry if my attempts to help are not pleasing to you, I won't bother in the future.