nick7913

Anything after the Sinestro Corp has been silly, bloated and inconsequential. The whole point of having the prophecy of the Blackest Night by Alan Moore was to make it feel like Ragnarok for the Norse Gods. Something that one day will happen but we should never experience. It was an idea that could bridge the reality of having a Green Lantern Corp in the present to the possibility that in the future there might only be one Green Lantern. But once you take it out of the nebulous mid-future and pass it by, what else can you do to up the ante?  
The comics have been stuck in this rut, trying to outdo any previous event in magnitude, but nothing ever really happens.A few nameless people get killed. A couple of characters die. In a war that we are told spans the cosmos.  Then the dead heroes come back in a couple of years and nothing has changed. But since new heroes are constantly being created and none of the old ones die (or stay dead) the universe is filling up and there is no room to showcase anybody. The writers keep bouncing from character to character without focus, the powers of the heroes reach higher and higher levels and readers become unable to relate to them. 
There was a point in having the weakness to yellow or having the Lanterns have to refill the energy of their rings: So writers wouldn't overindulge and readers would know their capabilities. So they would have limits. But now the weakness to yellow has been expunged (which honestly they could have just left in and said that it's a weakness to fear and to yellow CONSTRUCTS only, but oh well) and now if you have a Blue Lantern nearby he can recharge your ring. But watch out for the Red ones 'cause they drain it. But which ones should be allowed to dominate? Is hope more powerful than anger. I don't know and don't care anymore. Stop pulling stuff out of your ass Geoff Johns. And go back to telling a good story, something you used to know how to do. 
 
Rant ended... 
Sorry about that. Needed to get it off my chest.

I was wondering if it would be possible to have a special window at some point in the future to get limited quests we missed out on. I missed the window for the 12 Days of Whiskey last year because I was on vacation and it's been bugging me ever since. Maybe as a special holiday gift this Christmas? :-)  
If that's not possible then allow us to remove it from our quest system so it's not just sitting there looking at us...

Really? Ghost Rider 0.1? The 0 wasn't enough, they needed the .1 initiative thing?

First of all, if people coming out of the movies were that interested in the characters, they would at least visit a LCS. How many people who know nothing about comics do you actually see entering your LCS? After that, it should be the employee at the LCS who takes on the burden of introducing the new reader into comics. Once you talk with someone for 5-10 minutes you can get a general sense of what he might like to read. It's not like anyone is coming out of X-Men: First Class and thinking "Wow, I want to read more about Angel Salvadore". They probably liked Magneto, Xavier, Shaw, Emma, Cyclops, Mystique or Beast. Or they thought Nightcrawler (sorry Azazel...) looked cool. There are comics out there about any of those characters out there and once you understand what that person liked most (action vs character development) you can find something to fit his taste.  
Same with Thor. Did you like the romance? Here's Thor the Mighty Avenger (also known as My Boyfriend Thor over on ifanboy)  . Did you enjoy the high concept ideas? How about Kirby Thor (if he doesn't have a problem with the old fashioned talking), The Authority or maybe Waid's FF? You can break OUT of the bubble presented in the movies if the person isn't necessarily interested in those characters. 
Did he read comic books as a child? Did he watch the Batman or X-men cartoon? People don't care if what you give them is the latest thing. They want to recreate part of the experience of watching the movie. Our job as comic book nerds is to find out which part of that experience they want to recreate and give them something similar. 
Finally, if we're talking about kids, give them a little credit. If you explain a little bit of it they'll see past the continuity (as long as the title you're giving them isn't continuity heavy right now - Yes, Geoff Johns, I'm looking at you.) and if they're interested they'll look it up. It's much easier nowadays than it used to be to get a condensed version of what's happened to a character. 
 
Still, the problem with the industry isn't solely in getting people in, but also managing to keep them interested. Unfortunately, that's the area where the Big Two fail the most. With multiple titles about the same character flooding the market, difficult to follow events and the constant wiping and rearranging the furniture to give the illusion of change, rather than actual growth and evolution, the plots quickly become stale and repetitive and the readers get bored and move away. If that doesn't change, it doesn't matter if you can get readers in from the movies.

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I was just wondering if there where any Starcraft fans on Comicvine and if so, did you buy the comic when it was coming out? I wish it had not been so hastily thrown together and the art wasn't so muddy. Half the time I couldn't really tell what was going on! Hope they give us a new one but with a little bit more attention paid to the final product...

#69 to finish. Hint hint, wink wink... 
 
Would have gotten it sooner but the 100% Historically Accurate quest is kind of fiddly. I went to the right Story Arcs but after spending some time clicking on individual issues and not getting it, I finally went to the Elseworlds page, clicked on the ones I wanted and apparently it wanted the VOLUMES... That's just silly. Either it should accept both, or it should accept Story Arcs. Why does They Prefer The Term "Relaunch" need to be arcs but this has to be volumes?

I've just finished reading the X-Men: First Class Special and there's a story where Cyclops informs Kitty that she's not the first X-Man (well, X-Woman) to have a pet dragon. Apparently Dragon Man had developed an affection for Jean and she kept him around for some adventures. Does anyone know if that came from the original X-Men run or is it something that Parker just made up? If so, can you supply the issue where he first appears? It can't be before issue #10 which came out on March of 1965 since Dragon Man's first appearance was in FF #35 on February 1965. It also can't be after issue #39 since that marks the first appearance of the new suits and in the Special the team was still wearing the old black & yellow ones (unless of course Parker was taking some liberties with those timings, in which case it could go up to the All-New, All-Different I guess). Thanks to anyone who can help out!

@sesquipedalophobe said:

Gwen Stacy should have never died. Uncle Ben served that specific purpose in Peter Parker's life. 

I disagree, Ben's death taught Spidey that he should be a superhero, Gwen's death happened as a result of his superheroing.

Superheroes who are not invulnerable should display signs of physical damage when being hit. I don't care how bad-ass Storm is (and she is, no doubt about it), if she loses conciousness and drops 50 feet, she should get broken legs. 
Mega crossovers are destroying the industry. One every five years is good. One every five months is not. 
Psychics would be ruling the world. Especially Xavier with Cerebro. 
Superman could take 5 minutes off, call someone to cover for him and go feed some kids in Africa. 
Likewise Reed Richards (as stated in any discussion about him) should take five minutes out of his day to rebalance the economy. 
Even if the Joker hadn't gotten the death penalty as stated above, there are plenty of people with looser morality than Batman who would have killed him by now.