Headphone users R.I.P.

I remember back in the 90s bringing 3.5"discs full of DOOM WAD files back to my dorm and trying out all the different mods... then you get too stoned and stop disabling the earlier ones as you add new ones... and you end up in a nightmarish hellscape inhabited by Barney the dinosaur screaming Cheech and Chong jokes as…

I honestly love the fact that Kotaku is constantly exposing not just video game artists but also new branches of fine art to the gaming community. Just learning to appreciate the aesthetics in a still frame from a Star Wars scene or simple allowing your eye to joyfully travel across the screen at the imagery. It…

Agreed. I read the first two trades of his run. The rest of the books seemed...off. I did kinda like Shazam where Billy Batson is a dick irl.

They're so determined to make the perfect "nothing is the same anymore, read everything to find out" that everyone's going "nothing was ever the same or made any sense anyway, why bother?"

The only good stuff DC has been putting out is Injustice. This is because Injustice feels like it has actual stakes and consequences as well as development arcs. Seeing Superman turn into Mussolini by painful inches is great.

Until the new 52 there was one. It was called a wiki. I spent a bunch of spare time on Wikipedia and the main DC wiki checking out the backstories and such and by the end of it, you know what? I was fine. I knew the general stuff I needed and specifics were usually exposited anyway. I knew where Damian came form and…

Speaking as a True Believer, let me tell you that the good ole 616-verse has had far more than its fair share of "Hot #1 New Look!" issues. True, continuity reboots have been rare, but I can't begin to tell you how many "X-Men #1"s I have from over the years...

I don't read comics precisely because of this. But, yet I love the industry. I watch movies, follow issue synopses/reviews and read articles like this to remain knowledgeable about the world of comics — but I haven't actually bought a comic in years. I feel like I'm part of a growing trend that may hurt comics in the…

I was away from comics for over a decade. It became hard to follow.

As Oracle, Barbara was truly unique, the first "information age" heroine, fighting crime with her brain and computer skills, a heroine created before the dawn of the internet really took off. She became defined as more than just "female" Batman, she created the Birds of Prey herself and lead them, and she refused to…

DC's problem isn't that they rebooted, but that they handled it badly and when their customers got upset instead of smoothing ruffled feathers they started insulting their customer base for not getting it. Then when that, remarkably, still didn't quiet things over they mashed the reset button again and again. It was a…

Anyone who reads Marvel or DC with the mindset their they are emotionally invested in the characters and are building a coherent history with their favorite superheroes, is a chump. Continuity is a complete and utter joke to the two big players in the industry. They care about continuity only so far as your loyalty…

Personally, it was the end of Oracle that really did it for me. I feel like Barbara Gordon is a much more generic character now. They've basically made her a redheaded Stephanie Brown.

Still seems to me that the whole thing was pushed on DC by Warner Bros for a big boost in sales. DC had just done that big "Brightest Day" thing with stuff like setting up a new Justice Leauge International, obvious how they had plotlines for so many other books and such and to have it all thrown out seemed crazy.…

It's hard not to read DC's dependence on the various changes and reboots—which come with increasing frequency— as a foundering lack of direction by its editors and a loss of confidence in its creators . Somewhere, close to the top of its pecking order, decision-makers are steering by editorial fiat, insisting that…

Thank fuck it was cancelled.

half life 3

As does having a plasma tv from 2007!

None of these made sense, until i realized i read them as a manga.