Random fact, but Mark Bagley got into Marvel by winning the Marvel Try Out Book contest as a penciller. I took art classes growing up with Patricia Pasda, who won as colorist for that same contest. She enjoyed teaching though, so she stuck to coloring ads and pinups mostly, and didn't take on any books.

I don't feel so bad about the local scene, because I at least wound up with a solution to reading what I want to. If I didn't have my iPad now, I probably would have stopped reading comics again 3-4 months ago. The shop I've been going to for the last 6+ years started flaking out on actually being open their…

the aspect ratio isn't a perfect match, so you have the choice between black bars on the sides (granted not huge ones), or cutting off some of the picture vertically

i find the splash pages annoying. i'm using cloudreaders for ipad, and it does display it as a single page (because it's a single image), but at a much smaller size so the wider axis fits the screensize of the ipad. you can pinch-zoom to grow it, but then the image kind of wants to stay to the center, so you have…

great article. it kills me that i can't buy legit copies of new release comic books every week. i've been a collector since i was 10 years old - for over 2 decades. 6 months ago, i would have never in a million years thought i'd move to digital comics, and now i couldn't imagine switching back.

before i posted my initial comment i actually took a quick look online and found several. i suspected mine was (it is)

i think one thing that is definitely lacking in this article is pointing out the difference between, 10, 100, and gigabit wired network. it would make no sense to hard-wire an 80211n wireless device in close-ish range when you have a wifi router that broadcasts 80211n, but only has 10/100 ethernet ports.

i don't disagree that plenty of people legitimately deserve to get fired for making comments in public, but this was a ridiculous, undeserved case.

they are complete pricks for firing him.

There are plenty of tools available to search CL with a quick google search. not everyone needs to know how to script it.

I want to add to this.

i have a coat rack mounted on the wall in the bedroom for this purpose. the only caution i have is that it will leave "pulls" in sweaters, so my wife wrapped a bunch of cushioning around one of the hooks

2 big questions on my mind.

i just wanted to point out that the screen size multiplied by 2 doesn't fall in any of the ranges for the THX chart - it's all above them. I'd say screen size x 1.5 is more ideal really, and 2 is kind of the upper limit. going lower is going to be painful, going higher, you're not going to reap much benefit from…

I could tell he was a "doosh" nozzle in 2.6 seconds by that ad, which was either the a semi-serious look inside the mind of a psychopath, or someone's mostly unsuccessful attempt at sarcastic self-deprecating humor. Either way, I'm sure that guy is the life of the party...to himself and no one around him.

i withdrew a couple grand at one point from my bank to pay first month, last month, and security deposit on a place i was renting, and i got a large stack of 50's. one of the 50's was a 5 dollar bill. I of course noticed it not when i was at the bank, but the landlord sure noticed when i was paying the rent, and i…

I really would love to pick an M1009 up as a winter beater/plow truck.

buying in on any new system at launch makes no sense to me. you pay a premium price (for the console and any accessories) that are guaranteed to drop, and all for the honor of having a shitty game selection. besides the lack of games in general, there are no bargain bin games whatsoever. no thanks.

"I also feel that my 60 dollars should allow me to put a game into any console I damn well please and play it"

unlikely, but then again, it's a 30 year old cold case. you'd think someone may have found an obvious choice.