Oh crap. I should have caught that gaffe.

I'll fix it for the trade.

Thanks for pointing it out, and for the kind review. It's nice to be seen in such good company.

“For years, there has been an uneasy truce between our town, the Engineer,and the strange company he is inclined to keep.”

Yes,a comma SHOULD be placed after "the Engineer" in this sentense.I am completely obsessive-compulsive about grammer and,while you won't get an F in English for this mistake,it is STILL a rule of grammer.

p.s.“Alright” -as much as i am aware that this bothers you a great deal,i do believe it is an acceptable term...

The penultimate comma is called a serial or Oxford comma. You should at least learn the terms for the things you want to discuss.

As for alright:

frequent spelling of all right, attested from 1893.

"There are no such forms as all-right, or allright, or alright, though even the last, if seldom allowed by the compositors to appear in print, is often seen ... in MS." [Fowler]

from http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=alright&searchmode=none

However I'd have to agree with the other posters that have commented that it's not as though a casual comic lover wouldn't know who that character was. I mean come on; the likeness to the actor portraying that character in contemporary films is clearly there.

On grammar: It is important to distinguish between bad grammar and bad style. For example, splitting an infinitive or ending a sentence with a preposition are bad style, but not bad grammar.

Of course, we have to accpet that languages change and evolve, but accepting changes to the language is not the same as poor English.

People need to ensure that their kids are capable of handling the language well, or they won't get far in life.

"Maybe I’ll get the next issue, maybe I won’t. In case you’re losing track of the number of books I read, it’s too many. I must cut somewhere!"
At the end of the year, you'll probably see a comic on a best of list and think, 'That sounds fantastic; I could have gotten on board when that came out and had a really fun, edifying experience reading that book. I could have featured that book on the blog and helped involve a lot of folks in good comics!' Chances are that comic won't be X-Men #209.

I also am a language purist. Decimate means to reduce by 10%, yet it is usually used today to cover any major catastrophe instead of devastate.

I agree with you about damned being proper, but it is an uphill battle to get that one back to where it was before.

I blame Disney---That Darn Cat (1965).

Is too correct grammar if you are from Canada or the United Kingdom.

And marvel probably should try to avoid having anyone bring it up besides Deadpool.

I know that’s usually the case, but both final pages aren’t dramatic based on what’s come before in that same issue, but based on our prior knowledge. I know that’s never going to change, and I don’t really want it to, because it IS kind of cool when a writer comes up with a neat reveal that isn’t terribly obvious, but it’s just a tiny bit annoying to me.

I'm with you on this one Greg.
I've been put off of series because of cliffhangers involving some villain appearing on the last page, that means nothing to me, but is apparently a big deal if you've read about them before.
If not, it's just a spalsh page with some random person on it.
Manhunter was the biggest culprit for this in recent times, but if I were to spend time thinking I'm sure I could come up with more.

I'll shut up now.

And alright is alrite w/ me.

(I'm reminded of Lewis Carroll, who was a stickler for using an apostrophe whenever a letter was dropped; he wrote "can't" as "ca'n't" to indicate that two letters were missing. I doubt he ever wrote "damn" in its adjectival form, however, given how shocked he was by the vulgarity in "The Pirates of Penzance.")

Whether correct or not, I suspect a desire to not sound Victorian lies at the root of "He's got no fear." "He has" can sound a little over-formal much of the time--comparing "He's done it!" with "He has done it!", for example, the second doesn't sound like modern colloquial usage. "He has no fear" might have sounded too stiff for the character and the circumstances (I haven't read the issue so I can't evaluate it in context), and "He's no fear", while probably technically acceptable, is worse (and unclear). Thus, "he's got".

Best,
Hunter (Pedro Bouça)