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hrm... allow me to rebut...

i disagree, but i do think they floundered with the character ever since Infinite Crisis, and that it was a big mistake to destroy Bludhaven. Nightwing as police officer was one of the better decisions they'd made with the character. But then came Bludhaven's destruction and then OYL and the series fell apart. I still like the character, i actually like him more than Bruce. (Tim's still my favorite of the Bat crew though, and seeing him wearing a version of the Bat costume was one of the few high points of that idiotic Battle for the Cowl mini)

I like Grayson as Batman, his choice in sidekicks, not so much. But even at first he didn't want to be Batman, it was only in seeing no one else was really suited for the role he stepped up and took up the cowl, and i think most of the writers have done well in showing him become a new Batman. Having Bruce back is only going to end retarding Grayson's character development.

and there will be helicopters flying out of the sunset, IN SPACE!!!

also at least one scene where the Transformers are driving up towards the American flag in the moon.

i tend to pick up the trades when it comes to mini series or arcs in comic titles i dont normally collect. i try not to do that when it comes to regular monthly titles anymore since folks waiting for those to come out in trade collection affect the decision on whether or not to continue publishing the monthly titles.

the only thing im not gonna be happy with in the price drop is seeing the page count drop back down. with DC they at least upped the overall page count and split the comics into a main story and a backup feature. it gave some face time to characters that couldn't hold a title on their own.if they regularly put out a few 40-page books that did that, i wouldn't mind shelling out 3.99$, but that's me.

actually a drop in prices will probably be a good thing, because (and this is according to the folks running my own FLCS) it means more folks will be willing to drop the money to try other titles, or that some people who are wondering whether or not to drop certain titles will hold onto them in the long run. the profit margin between 2.99 and 3.99 is minimal as far as the FLCS's are generally concerned. of course, this is going to be something talked about quite a bit in New York.

for me this is a good thing, since i pick up quite a few DC titles, and the drop might mean a few extra $$s back in the wallet. (or knowing my stupidity, it'll mean i grab a couple extra titles or one-shots a month. fekt)

well Marvel really wants to push their digital stuff since it means they cut out the middle man almost entirely and trying to charge normal comic price on top of it. but, AFAIK, Marvel isn't exactly friendly when it comes to dealing with retailers. DC tends to throw incentives left and right, Marvel, not so much.

no, he found a way to incorporate the whole thing into the universe and moved on. it's one of the few Bendis works i still dig these days. some high quality awesome normally, though im not so happy about some of what's gone down in this latest storyline.

i wouldnt put the blame on DC, but on Warner Bros. WB has plenty of other franchises going for it that they never gave a rat's *** about comic book movies that weren't Batman or Superman. Here's hoping that starts to change soon.

Though if they are doing this for a Superman movie, i am less than hopeful for it. *sigh*

that's more thought than the writer's actually put into their own idiot "no more mutants" comment.

according to the wiki, the mini and the regular series takes place after Return of the joker, but before the JLU epilogue episode.

Scarlet witch. 'no more mutants' and 'disassembled' were worse travesties than the 'RETCON PUNCH!' and there are only a few errors directly attributed to the RP, the last few years they've even admitted in the DCU itself that a lot of errors have sprung up because of the original Crisis (and a lot of the subsequent Crisis trying to 'FIX' the first one). In Marvel's case, they aren't continuity errors, it's Joe letting his popular writers do whatever the hell they want without editorial oversight unless it's one of his pet characters. (Spider-Man for example)

how about we try to fire the guy and put an actual EIC in place that will exert actual editorial control without being a frak up?

by writing an Ultimate version and NOT letting Loeb frack it up with a crappy uber-event? oops, too late.

never shall i complain about a character in their for fanservice, so long as I am the fan being serviced. that being said, and with all the dirty implications in mind, i actually meant Eli.

well Atlantis was far mroe prepared obviously than the group of SG:U was. They were actually meant to go over there and brought the supplies for an extended stay with them, though they went through several episodes in the first season where they made trips trying to hunt down supplies, but it wasn't the driving focus of the series the way it is in SG:U. SG:U is set where the folks are supposed to be all the wrong people for this kind of mission.

But the problem i have is that was the concept they were pitching for BSG. None of these folks were the 'best of the best', tossed into the situation and forced to make the best of it. At least THAT was peppered with moments of action because they were getting chased by Cylons.

I sort of want to like the series, because it is the only Stargate show left, and from all indications right now, the movies are dead in the water. But thus far, there is very little in it that's worthwhile, much less making it a decent Stargate series. ah well.

eh, i dont know about BND, but i will nominate both One More Day and One Moment in Time as actually being the worst atrocities with the Spider-Man name on it. up to and including the Indian/Bollywood Spider-Man.

my thoughts exactly. Atlantis started off as if was going to be something akin to this. then they evolved past that after the first season. but that's too much hope for the current Stargate since they're so bound and determined to make it unlike the other shows in the franchise.

they have at least ONE likeable character... but yeah, i'd like the thing to look more like a stargate show and less like BSG.

sounds like a job for Stargate SCIENCE! Get Rodney, Zelenka, and Sam on it. They'll have them home in two, maybe three episodes.

i dont know if it's really all that much more powerful. they tapped the energy of a planet, and it caused it to become unstable. they used to use a full ZPM to establish a connection to Atlantis a few times before even considering whether or not it would run dry. Presumably, if they tapped a ZPM generator or whatever that thing in Atlantis is that holds 3 of the buggers, they could easily drum up the power to dial the Destiny.

unless theyve said otherwise in the show, but that just sounds stupid.

eh, most of those types of changes wouldn't be due to parents groups, but because of George himself. remember, this is the guy who changed the Cantina scene so that Greedo shot first because he didn't like the idea NOW that Han blew the green mook away. and why was Anakin so blasted young in the first place? was there seriously ANY reason that he had to be a 9 year old runt? you're right, some thing have changed, but other folks have managed to produce quality films aimed at children and at families without having to stoop to the crap George did.