I didn't mean that in response to you. That being the case, I probably shouldn't have quoted you. Sorry my bad.

No problem!

I find myself hating the art in GLC. It's a shame, because the book had direction.

Hey, I will give Simon credit on this point.




He is usually on the money when it comes to this stuff. I appreciate him buying "The Next" and thashing it so that I don't hav to now.

But you're off about Green Arrow. Just my opinion.

I didn't read Next, Green Arrow, JLA Classified, or Green Lantern Corps.

Sorry if that seems like a nada post. I actually had some comments I embedded in the original quote. They're a little hard to see. I didn't know it was going to look like that. Anyhow, they're in there for those who care.

The day I stop reading DC comics is the day I stop reading comics period, and I"m not ready to do that yet.

I really wasn't going to bother replying to this comment (didn't want to dignify it with a response), but with all the unexpected support, I felt I should at least say something.

First of all, the comment that people giving negative reviews should stop reading (or watching TV or going to movies) is always the evil, insidious half of the reviewer's Catch-22 . If I read a book and don't like it, I should stop reading it. But, if I stop reading a book and still say I didn't like it, then the noncritical anti-negativity crowd comes along and says, "How do you know that you don't like it, if you're not reading it now?" Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Leave me alone. Whether I read or don't read is my business. If I pay my money for the books, I'm allowed to not like them. And yet the anti-negativity crowd, the people that think *everything* is wonderful, the people who would never criticize any modern comic (although they'll tell you how terrible (by comparison) comics used to be, since they never read them back then) never seem willing to accept that these comics are anything less than wonderful.

"Yes, but why would you *want* to read them?" Well, when a comic is 70% awful, it still may be 30% great. Now, I wouldn't call 30% a passing grade by any means, and I would therefore warn people away from such a comic. However, there is nonetheless 30% worth of enjoyment to be gotten from that comic. And since there is no comparable source for that 30% worth of enjoyment, if I want that tiny amount of pleasure, that miniscule amount of superheroes-done-right, I have to turn to comics to get it.

And there's another issue as well. Imagine you have a family member or close friend who has a terrible disease, cancer or whatever. And this loved one's condition is constantly deteriorating to the point that it's emotionally painful to be around them or even talk to them.

Would you abandon them? Would you stop visiting them? Not if you've got any kind of heart. Even though a sickness has transformed your loved one into a pale shadow of their former self, you can't just stop caring about them. Even if this cancer, this rot, has taken root in everyone you care about, still you will stay with them, hoping that some day a new writer (or, uh, doctor) will come along and fix them.


And that's why.

I thought that this week's little 'one-shot' in Superman bodes extremely well for the new creative team they've got on the book. This comic wasn't part of some big crossover, didn't have a universe-shaking plot, but did feature some great characterization and set-up the next few months of Superman stories really well.

Till next week when the Kryptonian monkey and horse appear.

Actually, I have an odd question, that's "what ever happened to the Wonder Twins" (The Donny and Marie of the dcu) ?

Don't knock Beppo, man. Dude can fling super-poo.

No final fate was ever recorded for the Superfriends version of the Wonder Twins, even in the comics which at least gave a nice farewell to Wendy and Marvin. However, there was a fan-created parody thing that had some rather stupid developments happen to them.

As far as the current continuity version that showed up initially in Extreme Justice, they're still around but don't really do much.

I knoew Wendy and Marvin have shown up recently, made me wonder where the twins were. Weirdest set of twins since Marvel's Wanda and Pietro... Tho not as weird as the Ultimate versions of Wanda and Pietro, but that's a thread for a psychotherapist's forum.

Comics <> sick,dying family members...not the best analogy. I don't think any offense was meant by the original comment. I took it to mean, if you don't like what you're reading, why keep throwing your money away on it... which is a valid point. I don't really think the accuracy of your opinion was called into question. You're allowed to not like things. The point was... why, if you dislike something, would you continue to waste time and money reading it. No one's saying you don't have "the right" to buy and read and comment on whatever you want. Everyone is welcome to their opinion.

Thanks, I've been looking for a respectful way to answer that all day. I think you covered it well. Rep points to you good sir.

Simon, no offense meant.

nicely put.