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It's a mixed bag for me. If I catch on to a series later in its run, I'll just by TPBs of it. Notable examples of this include:

Y: The Last Man
Walking Dead
Elephantmen


On the other hand, if I hear about a series that intrigues at the outset, I will pick up individual issues rather than wait for a TBP. Recent examples of this include:

Rachel Rising
The Manhattan Projects
Fairest


And on the third hand, if I like a series, and I've read enough of the TPBs to catch up to the monthly run, I'll start buying the comic monthly. I've done this with Irredeemable and Incorruptible, and I'm about to make the switch on Walking Dead.

While I agree that comic books are WAY overpriced these days, I do still enjoy them and the way I look at it is if enough people stop buying individual issues and wait instead for TPBs then eventually comics will cease to exist.

Hey Guardian, apparently we can still earn the "A Nemesis Plot" badge this evening, so I propose we all get together around 9 PM ET and take the fight to Nemesis wherever he shows his ugly grill.

Whatta ya say? You with me?

Tell all your friends - log in at 9 PM ET tonight and group up to take down Nemesis!

We spawned him with about 12 people, but it took nearly 3/4 of the invasion to gather that many heroes.

IMO, once he spawns he shouldn't despawn until A) he's defeated, or B) he's gone 60 seconds without taking any damage.

Y'know, what a bunch of crap. I was finally able to get a big enough group of people together on a low population server tonight to spawn Nemesis, we get him down to a sliver of health and he effin' despawns because the attack is over.

That is purely and simply BS. It's hard enough to get people together for these events to get the badge after the first week to 10 days, but then to have the freaking thing end before we can finish the objective off?

I've about had it with these "special events" and "limited time bagdes."

Holy hyperspace! I just found out that Julian Glover who played...

General Veers in The Empire Strikes Back




also plays...




Grand Maester Pycelle in A Game of Thrones!

Next week... we will kick some villainous behind!

I think I may have bought a few issues back in the '80s. Was there a series called Munden's Bar, or was that just a back-up feature in Grimjack?

Necris, you around this week? If we can get three, I'm in. If not, I say we skip and wait for bull to return next week.

was...

Speaking of Big Bang Theory, there's a flashback episode in one of the earlier seasons that depicts the first meeting between Leonard and Sheldon. As Leonard enters the apartment building to answer Sheldon's ad for a new roommate, Sheldon's previous roommate is moving out. The previous roommate is played by the actor who plays Glenn on Walking Dead.

Other recognizable actors who appeared in "Freaks and Geeks" include...

Trace "Dr. Clayton Forrestor" Beaulieu
Joel "Joel Robinson" Hodgson
Thomas F. "Biff Tannen" Wilson
Lizzy Caplan
Dave Allen (best known as "Gruber" on "The Higgins Brothers and Gruber")
Ben Foster
Shia LeBeouf
Rashida Jones

The guy who played Green Lantern, and the guy who should have played Green Lantern, were both on the short-lived sitcom, "Two Guys, A Girl, And a Pizza Place."

Great thread!

To be honest, I'm pretty sure my "very first comic book" was one of the Disney duck books, but I never saved any of those, so I'm going to discount them.

My first ever superhero book, or at least the earliest one I remember and saved, was an issue of The Mighty Thor. I still have it at home, but I don't recall the issue number, or much about the book, offhand.

The first comics I vividly remember (both with April '77 cover dates) are:



and




Additional firsts...

> In the summer of '77 my mom bought me the first six issues of the Star Wars movie adaptation in one of those bagged sets they used to sell at K-Mart, and that is what started me "collecting" a specific comics series.

> In the summer/fall of 1981, I purchased my first two X-Men comics simultaneously: Uncanny X-Men Annual #4 and Uncanny X-Men #150. This was the beginning of me become a serious comics collector. I have since established a near continuous run of Uncanny X-Men. I'm missing only 5 or 6 issues, including, unfortunately, #1.

> In 1985 I picked up an issue of Crisis on Infinite Earths, which, while not my first DC comic, is what opened up the DC universe to me as a reader and collector.

> Around February of 1986 I picked up issue #6 of the Comico series "Elementals." I was my first independant comic.

> In 1996, Leave it to Chance #9 was published marking my first appearance as a character in a comic book (seriously).

Definitely don't limit yourself to Marvel and DC. I grew up reading comics (and was a Marvel zombie until Crises on Infinite Earths hit the stands), and I can't stand most of the stuff the "big two" put out these days. Here are some of my recommendations for "super hero" comics, in no particular order...

Echo, by Terry Moore

Astro City, by Kurt Busiek

Irredeemable, by Mark Waid

Ultimate Spider-Man, vol. 1, by Brian Michael Bendis


That's just off the top of my head.

Star Wars almost singlehandedly changed the movie-going experience. With all due respect to Jaws, Star Wars practically invented the idea of a summer blockbuster, it revolutionized the visual effects industry and it revived the all but dead Sci-Fi genre.

Avengers was an excellent movie, and certainly one that I will watch and enjoy again and again, but it's no Star Wars (and I say that from the standpoint of its impact on the industry and pop culture).

If Avengers had appeared in the kind of vaccuum that Star Wars did (say if it was the first big budget superhero movie in a decade), it might very well have had the same kind of game-changing impact that Star Wars had. But we live in an era where one or more "blockbusters" are released every weekend, not every year, and where the modern superhero movie has been going strong since X-Men hit the screens in 2000.

Also the characters in Avengers are familiar, not just from prior movies but from decades worth of comic books. There's no way those characters can have the same impact as the imposing, black clad figure of Darth Vader emerging from the smoke at the beginning of Star Wars - that was something excitingly new and instantly iconic.

I'm gonna guess Poison Ivy. I know she was always seducing Batman and/or Robin, but she has seemed awfully chummy with Harley Quinn too. Plus they never said it was going to be a hero(ine).