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Having the ability to read these for cheaper than cover price is pretty nice. It will give me something else to do with my new Fire.

I wish marvel would get on board though, I'd love to read the middle volumes of Ultimate Spiderman I never got to, digitally.

I love Dan Jurgens' work with Booster. It's not the same when other people write him, so I hope he's involved. Much like the character himself, I think he's easily misunderstood.

It would also be cool to see Ted Kord on the show as well, as people have said.

This is probably one of the most badass Batman stories in a while. I love seeing Bruce go up against enemies with a similar skill set. This enemy is basically a murderous Batman assassin, and I love that idea.

Where do these statistics come from?

On subject, I actually really enjoy this series, and will be sad to see it get the axe.

It's just a shortcut to make you know that character is the dude you are supposed to hate. It's a writing crutch mostly.

There's more subtle ways to go about it, but really, it's been a part of genre writing forever, right or wrong. We all know people really talk like this though, and just as many assholes are going to survive the zombie apocalypse as those who are socially aware. It does serve a purpose in this story though, to demonstrate that even the asshole racist is still human and that we are all capable of overcoming social constructs to help a fellow man in a dire situation.

Racists overcoming racism after saying some fucked up shit and learning they have been wrong their whole life after a life changing event is a huge trope of movies and TV though, so we should all just get used to it. American History X, is a perfect example of this. That film, as awful as it may be, perfectly outlines this whole situation.

@xerox_kitty said:

@KainScion said:

MY GOD. they should be called EVENT COMICS.

Quote of the Month!

Very accurate.

"My opinion is to just not straight out state things didn't happen. Why completely negate past events? Just don't mention them if they don't exactly fit. This way, readers can pretend they still somehow happened if we really wanted to."

That's pretty much the only way to settle this argument.

I care about general continuity to the point that I want to make sure there's nothing crazy and conflicting, but the biggest barrier to any new comics reader is the overwhelming sense of "what did I miss in the last 20 or more years?"

It was to me at least. I love a 8-12 month story arc with some big changes as a result, but there's better ways to finesse things so that 3-4 years from there you don't have to go back and read every issue in-between to get back into the story thread if you dropped a title at some point. If there's a good story, I'll read it, but I hate to see good minis and one shots ignored because of the "isn't continuity, don't care" attitude.

I do feel that publishers should be a lot more flexible about the characters and backstory. If there is an awesome new backstory that is somehow cooler or more meaningful than what Stan Lee wrote for Spider-Man, I'm totally willing to read it. It's not like my old issues suddenly disappear, or another writer can't just pick up from the old story line.

The New 52 was a good idea, basically because comics needs more new people than even read comics at this point. I saw a damn TV ad for the new Justice League a couple weeks ago. The only way they're going to get new readers is to erase any doubts they might have about not getting the most out of the stories they pick up, and hope old readers enjoy them just as much.

I bet none of these people saw Super. Because if they had, there's no way they would keep on doing what they're doing.

@baal_sagoth said:

She seems to be really cool. I liked her in BSG a whole lot but I'm not sure I know any of her other stuff. I think I didn't make it far enough into 24 to see her part.

She was on the final season, but it was pretty much the worst plot/role ever written into the show.

With her new hair, she's practically a new person. It's really incredible how different she looks.