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Spanishizes countenance.careful ...

rampart atomizes weathers tractive ...

EXACTLY. You say it so much better than I could.

Yeah, I must admit he did a great job with that concise description. I'm actually jealous.

my guess is it’ll have the worst of both worlds - a premise that’s kind of offensive in service of an unremarkable story

EXACTLY. You say it so much better than I could.

Hey, it’s another desperate attempt to make WildStorm viable on page 75 as it crosses over with the DC Universe (16 April)! Are they just doing this to keep Jim Lee happy? Is he that petty? Or is there another, more sinister reason to keep WildStorm on life support?

DC has kept Wildstorm on life support. Problem is, before DC bought it Wildstorm was alive and kicking! Before DC came into the picture, post-Image Wildstorm was fascinating and Authority was the hottest book around! Now the Wildstorm universe is just like a DC book...crossing over with alternate earths and doing "simplifying" rebooting that just confuse and complicate everything.

unless Famed Angry Man T is correct* and teenaged boys these days are a bunch of wusses who like to talk about their feelings instead of, you know, smashing things.

I dunno, Shonen Jump manga is huge with teen boys and it's nothing but asskicking from cover to cover.

Anna Mercury, in case you didn’t know from reading almost everything Ellis has written recently, fights “political repression of an insane technocratic society.” It’s a “high-octane blend of The Shadow, Tomb Raider, retropunk science fiction and 21st-century ‘weird pulp’ action.” In other words, like almost everything else Ellis writes.

HA! Good one. Is she a snarky, smoking Brit?

Also, if Nicieza needs work, why doesn't Marvel just relaunch New Warriors with him. Lord knows the man is the only one who's ever been able to make that book work consistently. Yet they keep relaunching the book without him and failing, while putting him on Thunderbolts or Deadpool. Does he just not want New Warriors?

But I truly think that is because with the exception of simple sentence/questions like;
"Whom do you trust?"
might be the only ones where a preposition isn't present, such as:
"Whom are you referring to?"
(which should be "To whom are you referring?")
or:
"Whom do you wish to dance with?"
(should be: "With whom do you wish to dance?")

Even avoiding the prepositional phrase with:
"Whom did you go out with last night?"
(it is really better as: "With whom did you go out, last night?")

SO, just BEGINNING a sentence with WHOM is bizarre, because, truthfully, in sentence structure, it is just considered wrong.

Just my cents.

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On Ms. Marvel, I've heard people say Marvel wants Ms. Marvel to be "their Wonder Woman" - i.e., an iconic female hero with a very high profile. Thus (as with Wonder Woman herself not infrequently) Marvel might have a slow hook for the series, keeping the title going in pursuit of a longer-term goal for the character and the line in general.

I remember the Punisher miniseries and being confused by its "four or five" issue duration. I thought it was a case of it selling so well (which it did - it was a totally unexpected smash hit) that they extended it, but it sounds like that's not the case. I think the whole notion of the mini-series was still pretty new at the time, too. Nowadays, you can have limited series of whatever duration the story requires, but I think then it was "Miniseries last four issues," by definition.

Doug: I should have a post up soon about that particular arc. I disagree that the art being inconsistent is a detriment, because that is, after all, how it was planned. But that's a discussion for another day (that day being, of course, when I post about it!).