Yeah, comic store employees can sometimes turn out to be like the guys who work in the record store in High Fidelity.

I find bouncing a little helps with that.

...yes, um. The guy @ the shop today was VERY helpful, and I give no little credit to the fact that today I'm a cleavagey slutbomb - they hadn't put Astonishing out yet, but he said several people had already come in asking for it. (Ummm. That sounds - just never mind.)

Dickwiki! I'm going to be saying that ALL. DAMN. DAY. Dickwiki!

It comes trippingly off the tongue.

And next thing you know, I've got the entire Batfamily in my box, and I'm hitting the backissues bins twice a week, and trolling eBay for bargains, and getting my crackhits from Milehigh Comics.

Why, is there something wrong with this lifestyle?

This was me, when I was on full scholarship with assloads of spending cash.

Hmmm, at my comic store, I believe almost the entire place is alphabetical by title. They used to separate them by publisher, but now they're all out there together, Marvel and DC cheek by jowl, with little shelf talkers to tell us what's "New This Week!"

This is my comic book store.

amych, where do you get your comics? Books Do?

Books Do?

Yep, unless I happen to be in Raleigh that day.

Whee!

Ultimate was the ultimate, and Astonishing astonished me.

Sadly, I also picked up Secret War. Which I like. Dammit.

The comic store near work separates publishers, and then sorta by grouping -- Batstuff is near each other, X-Stuff together, and all that.

This is good, because I can never remember Extreme from Excalibur from Alternate X-Whatsit.

When I lived in New Orleans, I shopped here:

Crescent City Comics & Cards:
6111 Elysian Fields Ave., New Orleans, LA, 70122
Ph: (877) 992-6642 Fx: (504) 286-0465

Pretty good, but maybe a bit out of the way -- it was near where I was living.

This is probably the wrong place to ask, but does anyone know where I could find a bittorrent "how-to"? In case I decide ::cough:: I want all Nightwing back issues.

Crescent City is where I was thinking of going, it had the best rec's from DH's coworkers. But it is about half an hour away from me. The one hayden mentioned (that I have already forgotten the name of, but wrote down the address) is maybe a mile from my house. Possibly two. I'm willing to go to the more distant one if it's really the best, though.

I suppose I'll have to visit both to gauge their relative worth...

Snacky, I learned everything I know about bittorrent (which seems to be enough to get by) here

Sadly, I also picked up Secret War. Which I like. Dammit.

Mwahahahahahahaah.

Astonishing astonished you? nsm for me. Well one part did. But it reminded me, in a good way, of my early fanfic - all the elements to make the story "right" were there. Does that make sense? You know - with any show, or comic book series, or even novel series, there are certain features that each instance (ep/ish/book) has to have. Par example, Buffy requires witty quips, Giles taking off his glasses and rubbing the bridge of his nose, and Willow using a computer. (I'm operating on a S1-4 thingydo here.) Sailor Moon requires that Usagi be late to school, forget her lunch and have to go back to it, transform at least once, etc. Astonishing had the things that the "old" X-Men had (I'm thinking in the 80s) that make it familiar to me despite not having read anything later than 1984 or so.

Astonishing was totally retro, and I think that the reboot needs to be. So we don't get disconnected from the franchise just because they're changing everything. Also, Joss probably hasn't read X since '84 either. Okay, maybe I made up the last bit. But if he likes the old Kitty a lot, the first half of the comic isn't at all surprising.

As for the final reveal -- yeah, I was astonished. I think it's pretty ballsy to bring up something with such a potential far-reaching effect so early on in a new title with a new writer. That has to span titles.

Secret War is so pretty.

Astonishing is mostly set-up for the first story arc. Nothing truly major happens...

spoilers ahoy!

Kitty is reintroduced, the new five person core team of Astonishing is established (Kitty, Emma, Cyclops, Beast and Wolverine), the current status quo of the Xverse is established (school is publically known, filled with students) Scott introduces core concept of the comic, that the X-men need to act as superheroes in order to have public acclaim and acceptance and the impetus of the first storyline begins, a doctor claims that mutants are a genetic disease that can be cured while a superpowered terrorist holds people hostage in building, with the possible connection between the two being a little girl.

Joss has read a little X-Men the past 2 yrs or so I think, I think in an interview I read that's what he said - that he'd been reading some Grant Morrison? so since 2001ish, according to my sources.

The final reveal was astonishing, you're right. I've been so caught up in my LJ icon-making of earlier stuff in the book from my scans that I - um- forgot. That's why I'm gonna go back and read that comic overandoverandover again.

I love old Kitty and she's the only Kitty I know, though I've seen a little about a newer more grown-upper Kitty. I lovers her this way, though, for the overidentification.

Also? [ Emma Frost ] ?

So. HOT.

Can you explain this "reboot" thing to me? Are they using some sort of Crisis/Zero-Hour reset button?