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A bit too many silent panels (the last panel is clearly overkill, expecially if you change Marissa’s text in the third to last panel to “It’s all right. Go talk with Josh.” Other’s may be a bit extraneous.)

Hee!

I liked that one a lot.

Another good comic. Look forward to the next one.

I thought it was the right amount of silent panels. I enjoyed it.

Nice! Hey, I just remembered… This is just the first one this week isn’t it? We get another on Friday?
Just what we needed to lift the mood after Ampersand, Invisible Trooper and Imaginary Spidey.
Cheers guys!

The twice a week schedule starts in February so the next new comic will be on 01/28. Then on the 02/03 we switch to new comics on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Nicely done … though I’m sure I’m biased by the fact that yesterday evening, after reading the *fantastic* concluding issue of non-capes-&-tights miniseries, I KILL GIANTS, I went to Blockbuster, noticed SAW V on the wall, & realized that most of what comics fans read & write about — i.e. the latest insultingly stupid Marvel & DC superhero garbage — is the artistic equivalent of SAW V.

*sigh*

Hooray! Ignorant ramblings from people who don’t understand subtle comedy, now TWICE a week!

Thought this was great. Reminds me of the guys who review comics at my shop and do podcasts for their website.

Hooray! Ignorant ramblings from people who don’t understand subtle comedy, now TWICE a week!

Are you talking about the comic creators or the commenters or both? I don’t really know who this comment is directed at.

I love Comic Critics! Seems like it’s the only comic out there that really has their finger on the pulse of fandom. I’d plop down some coin on a collected trade of these!

“Hooray! Ignorant ramblings from people who don’t understand subtle comedy, now TWICE a week!”

So do I have to deal with this sort of bullshit twice as much now?

Thanks, Nathan.

We may do a trade some day in the future. Not anytime soon. Probably a few years or so.

But since we have stopped having a vertical limit to our comics, a print edition would be tricky to setup. I would have to probably break up the longer strips to multiple pages. But that is a design problem for another day.

“I went to Blockbuster, noticed SAW V on the wall, & realized that most of what comics fans read & write about — i.e. the latest insultingly stupid Marvel & DC superhero garbage — is the artistic equivalent of SAW V.”

Anybody ever tell you fruits that you are just fucking INSUFFERABLE?

“Don’t hate me, hate whoever fucked you up so bad when you were a kid.”

…I can’t tell if that was a compliment or if you were using that against me.

>>Anybody ever tell you fruits that you are just fucking INSUFFERABLE?

You’ll have to define “you fruits” (I’m heterosexual, for what it’s worth). If that means “comics readers who hate Marvel & DC,” the thing is, probably, I dunno, around 35 percent of my pull list is DC (would’ve been higher a month ago, but several titles I bought got axed) & something like 25 percent is Marvel, with indies accounting for the remaining 40 percent. Rough estimates, but probably within the ballpark. (And the very IDEA of “artcomics,” like those so many CSBG posters seem to get all weak-kneed over, sort of makes my flesh crawl.)

But, I’m sorry, anyone pretending that the latest Big Events are anything but sad insults to the intelligence of everyone involved is … well, pretending. As well as helping ensure with their pocketbooks that we keep getting more of the same, which I’m sorry to say makes them part of the problem, not the solution. (I don’t know what the solution IS, but I know what it ISN’T — buying the crap shoveled out to you & asking for more with your actions, regardless of whether you whine about lateness & shoddy art & confusing storylines & innumerable tie-ins & continuity gaffes & whatever.)

But hey, it’s a free world. SAW V didn’t get made because people won’t watch it. They will, just like they read SECRET INvASION & FINAL CRI- … uh, I mean watched SAW III & IV.

I use fruit as a general term for “dandy” or “prissy”, I didn’t mean to imply that you were gay.

You didn’t mention Event Comics, you said superhero comics, period There are good superhero comics out there-a lot of it is total garbage but it’s the same with any medium.

Event wise, also, Final Crisis is a RAGINGLY intelligent piece of worth. Other than that I sort of agree with you on the state of comics, I just object to the blanket statement.

It’s not really a blanket statement, actually. He said “the latest”, meaning that he’s only referring to the most recent work which happens to be garbage.

So, stop freaking out, you fruit.

It’s not really a blanket statement, actually. He said “the latest”, meaning that he’s only referring to the most recent work which happens to be garbage.

Forget it Dan, it’s the internet.

@FGJ

What? You got a problem with the internet or somethin?

“So, stop freaking out, you fruit”.

Fruit you, motherfruiter!

What? You got a problem with the internet or somethin?

It’s my sister!

It’s my daughter!

It’s my sister and my daughter!

Forget it Dan, it’s the internet.

Yeah, I know the feeling. Scrolling through the comments makes me stop bothering to add one many times.

>>Event wise, also, Final Crisis is a RAGINGLY intelligent piece of worth. Other than that I sort of agree with you on the state of comics, I just object to the blanket statement.

Which I can certainly understand. I’m probably not the only one given (intentionally or otherwise) to blanket statements, but I do harbor that tendency, which can be awfully damned offputting.

To be more specific, I tend to avoid titles that are really intrinsic to the core DC or Marvel universes, which of course tend to feature superheroes, & which of course tend to be mired in the Big Event That Will Change Everything Forever Including Splitting teh Internet in Half!!!111!!!!!ZOMG!!!1111 Which means the superhero titles I do read from the Big Two tend to be, I guess, somewhat “fringe” … & hence, unfortunately, more subject to cancellation (BIRDS OF PREY, BLUE BEETLE, SHE-HULK, IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN, etc). JSA, one of my faves, isn’t fringe, but it also doesn’t seem to get caught up in the Big Event stuff. (INCREDIBLE HERCULES did, & I went & dropped it for the duration of its involvement in SECRET INVASION, which luckily didn’t last too long.) And apparently LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES is being cancelled just because Dan Didio hates me for my first name.

Too, some of the indies I buy are superhero-oriented — INVINCIBLE, DYNAMO 5, FIREBREATHER, etc.

Also, y’know, I’m old & cranky. So there’s that.

I do have one complaint about this comic, I do wish they’d spend some time skewering some of the lazy hackwork that is prevalent in indie comics as well. For example I went on an all-indie kick some years ago, and while some of it was very good, there was a high percentage of uninspired dreck as well. After a while it was like “Oh wow, another semi-autobiographical book about some outsider loner nerd who can’t get laid.” Even more cliched was when the loner nerd was a cartoonist too. It was like a bunch of varaiations on the “Last American Virgin” theme. There’s plenty to skewer in the world of indie comic fandom too.

Undoubtedly so, T. I assume it’s just that lazy hackword that sells, what, 30,000-100,000 copies an issue is more noticeable than lazy hackwork that sells I guess 1,000-5,000 copies.

This elitist/anti-mainstream/indie vs corporate argument is in every form of entertainment, and there are always the same groups.

Basically it comes down to simple groups of:

Those that only follow the popular brands, those that enjoy the best of the popular brands, those who enjoy the popular brands and the indie, those who mainly enjoy indie but get a pleasure out of the standouts from popular brands and those who only enjoy the indie and think the popular is for the brain dead.

As has been said before, there are some terrible popular brands (yes I bought Secret Invasion, for some reason I was hoping it would get better or deeper, I was wrong, totally wrong), but there is some fantastic popular stuff. Just like there are some fantastic indies, along with a lot of terrible.

Sometimes things don’t sell because they are too deep and inaccessible to the majority of people, but sometimes, the reason why a product isn’t popular isn’t because it’s very, very good/intellectual, it’s because it’s crap.

And sometimes the reason why something sells, is because it’s just plain good.

If you limit yourself to genres, you limit your experience.

It’s the same with music and movies. If you don’t expose yourself (heh heh heh) to other things, you’ll never know what you’re missing.

It just wouldn’t work very well at all with even one fewer silent panel. You especially need Jamal’s eyes to look in each direction at least once for the joke to be effective.