Glad you enjoyed WASTELAND this month – as for sales, well, this is why many of us moan about the sales figures released/estimated every month. Our issue sales are quite healthy for our market, and certainly more than the 2500 estimated here. That said, you’re right to assume many more people buy the collections. Nevertheless, as is often the case, it’s those monthly issue sales that keep the book going.

It really is a shame, too. Blue Beetle is a great bridge comic for kids who are too old to read the Johnny DC line but aren’t ready to read something as violent as, say, Green Lantern Corps.

Yeah, but if I was reading a comic about you, I’d expect that. If I was reading a comic about your buddy, though, I’d expect more stuff happening to him, rather than just him doling out random details.

Pity about She-Hulk, it was improving.

Let’s see – I bought four DC books, liked three of them, and thought Batman was decent but disappointing. I think you need to get a life instead of worrying about what books I like. And you might have noticed, if you were able to read, that I didn’t write the word “DiDio” at all in this post. But you stay classy, pal.

Don’t even pay that guy any mind. He’s been at this for months.

And you might have noticed, if you were able to read, that I didn’t write the word “DiDio” at all in this post. But you stay classy, pal.

Do you ever get the feeling that there’s some sort of jihad swirling around us that we’re just not seeing? That elsewhere on the internet the legions are massing, and we occasionally get their attention by accidentally mentioning certain trigger words? DC, Marvel, Morrison, Meltzer, DiDio, continuity, reboot, JMS….

I thought I’d quote that since it’s the most reasonable position to take relative to Morrison’s work.

Greg, you’re definitely missing story pages. I just double checked and my issue of Northlander’s has 22 pages of story. And it’s a good story, so you’ll want to get a new copy. The artist on this run is my favorite artist on the series so far, too. So it’d be a shame to miss any of his pages.

Morrison has said that he isn’t interested in telling every moment of every story. Some things that happen to the characters are never seen, but are just mentioned in passing, sorta like when I see my buddy once a week. He doesn’t tell me everything that happened each week. He just mentions what might be important. His son was riding a bicycle and he got hit by a car. His son wasn’t hurt very much, but the bike was destroyed. My buddy didn’t tell me what kind of bicycle it was, what kind of car it was, whether the driver was old or young, etc. He told me enough details to complete the story. Morrison writes like that. And because his stories aren’t full of nonsense details, the reader actually gets 22 pages of story every issue…unlike many writers these days who write decompressed stories where a six-issue story has enough plot for 2 issues.

s1rude: Perhaps “silly” is the wrong word. “Childish” would be a better word. I just didn’t like the joke, and I felt the entire issue was set up that way. And I enjoyed the first three issues despite the joke, so I hope it doesn’t become a series of dumb jokes. You’re right – lots of comics are silly, and I don’t mind them at all. But I don’t like childish comics. And I love the talking beer can!

>>And I don’t think Hester has presented these characters as stupid at all. Some, but not all, of them could be described as simple, or being interested in simple things.<<

After I posted my comment about GOLLY’s focus on a character I perceived as not being particularly intelligent, it occurred to me that I might be thinking about another comic (of which I believe the picked up the first — & my only — issue on the same Wednesday as GOLLY), THE HELM, instead. Regardless, for some reason GOLLY didn’t click with me.

That may well mean that *I’m* the one who’s stupid, but so it goes.

Oh, and MCR’s music is kind of a goth/glam hybrid, from what little I’ve heard of it. I say this despite the fact that I’ve really only heard one song in its entirety (“Mama,”) but it basically seemed to be going for a gothed-out Queen from what I remember.