and threatening suspension if the letters are reposted anywhere.
Well, that doesn't make any sense. Why not let the word get out about what is forbidden and what isn't?
I've been out of the abbey two days, I've beaten a lawman senseless, I've fallen in with criminals. I watched the captain shoot the man I swore to protect. And I'm not even sure if I think he was wrong.
Book ,'Serenity'
Other Media 2: It's Astounishing!
Discussion of comics, graphic novels, and more. Except for capes. No capes!
Please use spoiler font for new releases until after the weekend following release.
Consuela - Mar 06, 2009 9:24:01 pm PST #2139 of 5059
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Torque - Mar 06, 2009 11:05:39 pm PST #2140 of 5059
Bad Wolf
fyi watchmen rocked my socks off
Tom Scola - Mar 07, 2009 1:43:39 am PST #2141 of 5059
hwæt
The NYT now has a Graphic Books bestseller list.
Cashmere - Mar 07, 2009 4:30:32 am PST #2142 of 5059
Now tagless for your comfort.
Torque, did you see it in Imax? My comic book guy was driving down to Madison to see it in Imax.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 07, 2009 5:00:09 am PST #2143 of 5059
Oh honey, the mentally unwell people have been in the fanbase since Game Changers was Stucky fanfiction on the internet. The calls have been coming from inside the house the whole time!
Well, that doesn't make any sense. Why not let the word get out about what is forbidden and what isn't?
Because letting customers know what is and is not grounds for abrupt journal deletion would actually make sense. I think that's against the new owners' business model.
Steph L. - Mar 07, 2009 6:12:16 am PST #2144 of 5059
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I think that's against the new owners' business model.
Same as the old business model.
Steph L. - Mar 07, 2009 6:21:58 am PST #2145 of 5059
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
The NYT now has a Graphic Books bestseller list.
You know, the first sentence of the blurb preceding the list pretty much illustrates (see what I did there?) why the NYT is becoming really, really irrelevant. News/finance articles, fine. But when it comes to their Life/Society/Fashion pieces, they are so out of touch that it's mindboggling.
First sentence:
Comics have finally joined the mainstream.
I won't argue that comics haven't always been "mainstream." Certainly they were long considered the domain of kids and geeks. (And probably still are, really. Comic *books,* that is.)
But I'd say that the first Spider-Man movie yanked comics -- in the sense of the stories they tell, and how those stories are a part of pop culture -- firmly into the mainstream. Or the first X-Men movie, whichever came first. And that was close to 10 years ago.
t edit And really, do they not remember the Superman movies of the 80s? (Was it 70s?) Pretty popular.
t /cranky comics geek
Laga - Mar 07, 2009 7:12:06 am PST #2146 of 5059
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Superman had his own TV show in the 50s. Before that he was on the radio.
Steph L. - Mar 07, 2009 7:50:49 am PST #2147 of 5059
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Uh, I know. I don't think that proves that comics were "mainstream" back then, though.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 07, 2009 7:51:22 am PST #2148 of 5059
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Comics have finally joined the mainstream.
Comics have always been mainstream in one form or another. Being taken seriously as an artform is a whole other kettle of kippers.