That film had more direct impact on our GI Joe action figures than just about anything else. Clutch became Lone Wolf McQuade so quickly etc. etc.

I like it. There's a surprisingly severe drop in quality when Johns leaves the book, and my favorite Hawks will always be space cops, but it was nice to read a pretty, decently written Hawkman title at the time. The JSA crossover was also pretty boss.

Ha ha ha! Space. My basement is filled with longboxes of comics. My closet is filled with shortboxes of comics. My bookshelves groan under the weight of trade paperbacks. Space, he says! Ha ha!

I think DC is reaping the benefits of staying at $2.99 if they actually have some top 20 books for the first time in ages.

Maybe Johns wanted to be able to make up neighborhoods and landmarks and stuff and not have to do a lot of research. The hell, I say! What city is more fun to do research in than New Orleans?

It's not like you can't just put the Stonechat Museum in New Orleans (although it doesn't work the way any museum I'm familiar with works, and apparently does archaeology the Indiana Jones way, i.e. steal a ton of shit and then put it in a museum). The setting was, in retrospect, a major distraction.

Ach die lieber! Mein Gott! etc. etc.

Is Meggan forgotten already?

Can you imagine that? How many minds would just fucking blow out in the theater?

Books are so expensive these days. It's a lot harder to take a chance on something with a few unknown variables.

Ha! Of course the Marvel Universe has provisions for this at the local branch. It happens so frequently!

Heartstrings: tugged.

I had my Hawkman: Endless Flight trade lying around so I picked it up and read it. I'd forgotten that I actually had Rags sign it, too. But anyway, the story still mostly holds up. St. Roch never really worked for me, and still doesn't. I don't know why Johns and Robinson didn't just use New Orleans. I know DC has a…

I'll second that one. I actually have a copy (copies, really, of the individual issues), so I might be able to participate.

I only visit the LCS once a month and there's another Wednesday in August, but the promise of a Christopher Priest comic book in my pull box has me practically salivating.

How does the "using inherited fortune to fight crime" thing work exactly? Isn't this Nighthawk from the Supreme Power universe? What's the exchange rate on intra-universe finances, I guess is what I'm asking.

Once I was old enough to realize that his raised by wolves girlfriend who was an empathic shapeshifter didn't just happen to look like a Playboy centerfold and have the intelligence of a 12 year old girl - I started to really hate Brian Braddock.

I find phonetic accents in written works completely abominable, and I think Claremont is the prime culprit for the formation of that opinion.

Trade Warlock for Demon Bear and just make it a straight up horror movie. But with superpowers.

He wasn't dumb. He was a decent person, in direct contrast to Deadpool.