I agree.

Local shop for single issues (an increasingly rare purchase), library for trade paperbacks and Amazon for things I know I want to own like Multiversity or Transformers vs GI Joe.

I have a hard time discussing this rationally because I love Alan Moore, and I used to love DC comics. Now DC seems intent on making their books as unappealing as possible and trolling Moore while they're at it. And I don't even own Watchmen! It's like my ninth favorite of his books! Just sad.

You've convinced me.

That book is ok. My kid likes it.

To me 1986 - 2000 was amazing, and a slow irritating decline thereafter. But I am also old and have kids now, so that's probably part of it.

The Before Watchmen garbage, the New 52. Basically everything they've done the last five years.

I know, but at least Paul Levitz kept up appearances. This Rebirth is just salt in the wound.

Yes you are 100% correct. The comics industry was built on fucking over the talent. It just irritates me that it still goes on 80 years later.

So renegotiate, I'm not a business guy. I just hate to see the creative talent get screwed. Surely after 30 years they could come to some sort of compromise. But now they are just actively trolling the man, with this Before Watchmen and Rebirth.

I don't much like Watchmen but Alan Moore is the best writer comic books has ever had, and this is the way they treat him. It's like not giving Kirby his artwork back, just reprehensible.

You have good taste, my friend.

Still objectively shitty.

Fuuuuckkk DC. This is the kind of shit that turns a drooling fanboy like me away for good. I used to have a pull list that included like 10 DC books, now I get one, Astro City. There is a room in my house dedicated to Batman, and I run a Justice League fan site. If you've lost me then how many normal people have you…

They told him he would own the rights when it went our of print, and then ensured it never went out of print. That's shitty.

A haiku:

Pretty good. I liked it.

The Kelly / Bachalo run is heartbreaking. So much potential in the first few issues then farrrrrrrrrtttttttt

I am happy to see the X-Men movies embrace the cheese. I had to learn to love Claremont and Morrison; my X-Men were drawn by guys like Liefeld and Joe Mad, in stories where they hung out with aliens and displaced time travellers and prophecied messiahs.

I have only read that one comic that was supposed to bridge Halloween 6 and H20. Who publishes Halloween comics now?