I love to read your post, especially form "comics you should own".

And I have one question - despite your choose to "comics you should own" and canon, what you can recommend from Batman universe? What can you recommend from not so popular comics and titles? I mean comics that are for some folks forgotten.

Thanks for reply!

Oh, like the intended audience for a collection of Stan's columns would need that.

I was just wondering if Card's statements will affect sales. Again, I'm not terribly interested in buying Ender's Game in comic book form, but I wonder if his views will change people's minds.

What precisely did OSC say which is "over the deep end" or "calls for the overthrow of the government"? He's making an argument, which he's made before, which basically boils down to the typical religious conservative position. To me, that sounds like something with which one can easily disagree, but I don't see why ad hominem argument is necessary.

Besides, don't y'all separate the creator from the creation? Miller and Moore (for instance) would agree on very few things politically, but they both make good funnybooks.

He did indeed say something very, very close to that.

Especially given his background as a creative fount of fiction (sf & otherwise), I know of no reason to believe that Hubbard took any of that stuff seriously. The microcephalics who regard his words as Holy Writ are, of course, another matter entirely & can probably best be regarded as dangers to themselves & others.

"Jane" was parodied/satirised in "LOEG - The Black Dossier" as an insert... (The Absolute version of which by the way is an Absolute Waste of Money... The original Hardback is much better put together, and no disc either, or a Scripts book...)

As for Mr Card... hoo-boy! Ah well... at least I'm never going to have to sit through dinner with him or anything... Mind you the same goes for Mr Byrne... Mind you, at least he has obviously thought hard about his beliefs, which is more than you can say for the Scientologists...

I could cope with Heinlein's politics... Some of it actually made sense... (as most politics should) and you can kind of ignore some of the garbage that comes with it.. Fantasising about sleeping with his own female clone twins or becoming his own father by going back through time and sleeping with his mother? umm... right.. okay, Bob, nice seeing you... don't call...

Aliens who strap psychiatrists to volcanos and then nuke them?? That's right Mr Hubbard, keep taking the medication... yes.. with the other mediccation... good boy...

It dealt a lot with time travel, and telepathy, and I remember having to read it a couple times to really grasp it. I did enjoy it, but it's pretty involving for nine issues.

Well, I realize that's not much help. I've been wanting to read the original series for a while, too. I might be tempted to check this edition out.

Huh ... the characters or the actors, or are they the same thing on this show? I haven't had any sort of TV reception in going on 4 years, so I know nothing about this one except its name. Scientologists *are* remarkably creepy -- the fact that L. Ron Hubbard invented all that crap out of whole cloth makes me think they're the most willfully gullible imbeciles on the planet, to the point that I'm sort of impressed that the likes of Tom Cruise, Beck, etc. even remember how to dress themselves every morning.

Ah, I see. I've never paid any sort of attention to Card, I guess, never having read a single word of his fiction, though not for political (heck, I've read a couple of dozen books by noted near-goosestepper Robert A. Heinlein) or religious (the fact that his cult of choice basically amounts to adopting "Chariots of the Gods" as a belief system gives me some pause, but then again my favorite writer ever, Philip K. Dick, was pretty wacked-out when it came to theology) reasons ... his stuff just doesn't seem to be my cup of tea.

I do like how he calls them fascist for NOT forcing his beliefs on others. You'd think a professional writer would know what words mean.

Or, if you're a patient fellow like me, you wait 3-6 months until you start to see it offered used. I read Planet Hulk in trade for $2 plus a nominal shipping charge.