Neat! I got a signed DH promo card from her.

I'm sure DW has it on order, but will check with her just in case.

Yeah, I don't know if they would include that in a regular subscription. I'm looking forward to checking it out.

Love me some Powers.

The encyclopedia looks pretty frickin' sweet! There are ten pages on Christian Walker. TEN PAGES. It's super fucking detailed, which is great. I look forward to reading it. Too bad it's not actually written by Bendis, though.

I enjoyed the DH one-shot. Moist got some good lines, and I could hear Nathan's voice in my head with every Captain Hammer line. It's a very amusing read.

My store didn't have the second variant cover, unfortunately, but I did get the first variant, which is a very clever design.

The 15 Dumbest Superhero Retcons Of All Time

All of Teppy's favorites are on the list.

Damn. I knew about some of those, but...damn.

Has anyone read Chew ? A co-worker recommended it to me, and it sounds pretty good.

Reading all those in a row actually made me a little nauseous.

I do understand the complaint of writers and critics that fanboys are too continuity obsessed and that it hems in storytelling.

But...those retcons are all So Monumentally STUPID.

The best thing about Alan Moore's forays into the DC Universe were that he always cared about the core elements of the characters. Okay, admittedly he did do a complete wipe and rewrite on Swamp Thing but he's fuckin' Alan Moore and he made it more interesting than it had been before.

How do you punch reality? If I punched this table hard enough would I crack Earth 3?

Beau loves comics and he is currently very pissed about what the Hulk as become. He told me, haltingly, about a red hulk named "Rulk."

WTF?

And then he went on to a 20 minute rant about other Hulk stuff that I did not understand.

Beau loves comics and he is currently very pissed about what the Hulk as become. He told me, haltingly, about a red hulk named "Rulk."

Yeah, there seem to be all these different-colored Hulks or something. And now there's going to be some sort of "Fall of the Hulks" story to wipe them out, I guess? I don't know.

Removing the Spidey/MJ marriage was not a retcon. It was a plot development. Doesn't make it less stupid, though.

Wolverine's not a fucking mutant? And Wolfsbane isn't either? Give me a break. And he can die? What are they doing?

They have some classic ones that everyone should hate, like Jean Grey and the third Summers brother. I'm glad they brought up ruining Batgirl too. She used to be my favourite character not named Ororo.

Okay, admittedly he did do a complete wipe and rewrite on Swamp Thing but he's fuckin' Alan Moore and he made it more interesting than it had been before.

He did a retcon. Call a spade a spade. He just did one that people like.

Wolverine's not a fucking mutant? And Wolfsbane isn't either? Give me a break. And he can die? What are they doing?

Yeah, I had no idea about that. Also, he has a son now or something.

I'm glad they brought up ruining Batgirl too. She used to be my favourite character not named Ororo.

Yeah, a friend of mine was pissed at that development, and I was all WTF about it too. I like Cass.

Removing the Spidey/MJ marriage was not a retcon.

It most definitely was a retroactive change of continuity.