Meep! My big, black, dreadlock-ed coach!

Yes! And he seemed very cool.

He *is* very cool. Did you tell him you knew me? (And did he put 2 and 2 together and realize who I am? He spent the last class I was at calling me 3 different names, none of them my own. I mocked him hard for that.)

Actually, your whole club did -- they were one of the groups that really came out to support and cheer and generally help each other out.

We're the Bad News Bears of Cincinnati fencing. No real facility, but lotsa heart.

Did you tell him you knew me?

Yep! And he figured you out after a second or so, unless he faked it very well....

We're the Bad News Bears of Cincinnati fencing. No real facility, but lotsa heart.

Aww, yeah. We were very much the same way until very recently -- it's only in the last year or so that we've had a whole bunch of people who could qualify for things like this. Before that, we worked our asses off while the rest of the division would sort of shrug and say, "There's a club in Raleigh? Huh."

Yep! And he figured you out after a second or so, unless he faked it very well....

You could have referred to me by any S name, and it probably would have worked. (I think I was Sylvie, Sally, and Susie. I called him Jonathan for the rest of the class. [His name is Ed.])

Anybody in here knowledgable of where in IRCville to go for comic info and trading?

Anybody in here knowledgable of where in IRCville to go for comic info and trading?

Where in bittorrentland, I could tell you (namely, [link] but I don't do IRC, myself.

This is a really long article about the status of comic books as literature, and I'm only on the second page, but it's interesting so far.

Not Funnies

Now see, the article struck me as a bit foolish. I suppose there may just be no way to clue in the innocent to a subculture/subgenre without coming across as foolish, but it's repetitively tiresome.

Okay, re: Powers...have not read the white-font. I have another question.

Having read all the way through Supergroup...am I up to date? If I pick up the new #1 will I be jumping in right where I just left off?

Terminology question: graphic novel ... trade paperback.

What's the diff? Are they mutually exclusive? Synonyms? Overlapping? Unrelated, and can modify each other?

What do you call the work that's a collected run of issues published in book form? Is it different if it's a miniseries?

Does it have to be published just the once, in book form, to be a graphic novel?

If I pick up the new #1 will I be jumping in right where I just left off?

No. The new #1 picks up following the events of The Sellouts. After that was a storyline about Christian's history which isn't essential to the current plot. The Previously in #1 will get you up to speed without really giving away the specifics of The Sellouts, (though I have an inkling Deena might spoil it somewhere in the issue, and the ultimate effect the storyline had will of course be obvious).

Granted, you will get the most out of The Sellouts if you don't read #1 now, but you won't get less from #1 by not having read The Sellouts.