It is incredibly hard to explain the mindset of someone who is terrified by the silliest things. I remember this one year I helped run a haunted house and my best friend was one of the principal actors there. Her scene had her dying horribly at the hands of the mad scientist. Although I know it was all fun and games,…

I'm literally writing an adventure-horror-fantasy graphic novel based on my rather shaky relationship with certain holidays. They have been the source of much alienation in my life, so why not capitalize on that, yeah?

Buying a new TV because having my original TV shipped from Ohio is roughly the same price. And I'm not buying the same TV twice. That's dumb.

In my experience both paths have a pretty high miss to hit ratio. I'm as likely to not enjoy other things the creators do as I am sticking with a favorite character. Which is why I think a better approach is to only pick up stuff that interests you/sounds good and to generally avoid buying stuff that you wouldn't want…

Yeah basically. And the people who dislike the TKJ seem to do so less because of the story itself (though there are plenty of issues there) and more because Barbara Gordon could never get out of its shadow. Like I feel if Oracle had been reached by a different path in the past everything would be hunky-dory, but since…

Whoa! Happy anniversary! On both fronts!

I get it. I don't necessarily agree with it. And when it happens it's usually with a character or comic I have next to 0 stake in. But I do get it.

I'm a very odd person in that I abhor nail polish. I don't know where it came from but I cannot get rid of it. I find it distracting and gross looking? But I don't judge anyone for it. I've heard it described as everything from artistic expression to color therapy. So I don't begrudge anybody for wearing it. I just…

Sympathy upvoted.

It's less a fact than a feeling. In order to make the current storylines functional they'd have to ignore fundamental parts of the show's core continuity. They've rendered time travel so nonsensical and so contrary to almost everything they've written before that they essentially had to write character dialogue to…

Sneakers and then flats. Can't tell you why. Just how my mind works.

Aww. Now I wish there actually was a Spacebook.

Might just be a creator thing. There are more than a few creators who've openly talked about intentionally scrubbing away the nastier aspects of certain characters and their histories. Given how flexible so much of comic continuity is, I can see their arguments for such a thing. But it also seems the wiser thing to do…

Following creators does seem purer and there's even a logic to it in a superficial way. But it feels false to push it as a principal guideline simply for the fact that many of our favorite creators don't mesh with some of our favorite characters and often lose the plot when they tackle their own stuff.

It's interesting because I've even seen some of the long-time hardcore crowd adopt the "Follow creators, not characters/IPs" stance lately. And that's a relatively new wrinkle. It looks like a mixture of experience and marketing pushing them in that direction.

I've not read Squirrel Girl, but given what I know of North's other writing, the captions seem to be a sort of writer's quirk that he refuses to part with. He seems really enamored with the idea of bringing webcomic sensibilities over to print comics. And absurd alt-text looks like one of those things he just won't…

I've launched entire projects for no other reason than the fact that the wait between then and another project was just too long to bear. So being put on a shelf for two years is something that feels kinda wrong. But if I take the job I'll never have to worry about outside funding again. I'd be fully self-sufficient…

I'm similarly glad that you may have found the solution to your current predicament.

I always think of Boom and IDW in the same breath. I keep thinking they're connected even though they're not. Though the Internet kinda makes Boom seem far bigger and more popular than it actually is. Which has the effect of making IDW seem that much bigger too (because of the dumb link my mind makes)

Doesn't someone over at Marvel HATE the idea of DC crossovers? I can't remember who it was? I wanna say Joe Quesada though. Something to do with them killing one of his project babies at the turn of the millennium.