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Lister Sage said on July 2nd, 2008 at 4:18 pm

I’ve been reading Avengers/Invaders as well. I have no idea what to think about it. While I’m in no way invested in it and could easily drop it, I haven’t seen anything that makes me think “Oh, fuck this.” Plus last issue, having Cap call Iron Man a fasicst, I admit, gave me a moment of fanboy glee.

I’m interested in the Hellcat mini, I flicked through her story in Marvel Comics Presents, but I didn’t buy it as I wasn’t going to spend $4 on 8 pages with what I feel is another 22 of filler (Though I bought the one with Deadpool. What can I say? I’m a whore for Deadpool). I liked what I saw in MCP and am glad to see that they’re doing something I’d actually be willing to drop money on, but we’ll see. My one disappointment is that Stuart Immonen is only doing the covers and not the interiors.

Everything else I just don’t care about.

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GoatToucher said on July 2nd, 2008 at 4:28 pm

Where does one go for these downloads?

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DC++ is a good option. Newsgroups. But I don’t endorse that at all. Not me, no never.

Jenkins isn’t doing Front Line, and Sally isn’t in it. Reed has the writing this time, not remembering who his cast is. SO SAVE YOUR MONEY

Oh I make joke.

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Salieri said on July 2nd, 2008 at 5:19 pm

You don’t have The Filth.

To quote a certain confused cartoon individual: “Oh, you sad worthless human!”

I actually only buy single issues when they’re stand-alone stuff – Director’s Cuts, Annuals, One-Shots. The rest, I can weigh up whether to get in trade or not. I save more money that way. There CAN be an advantage to all the nearest comic shops being at least six miles away.

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Andrew W. said on July 2nd, 2008 at 5:22 pm

“SECRET INVASION FRONT LINE #1 (OF 5): Another train wreck waiting to happen. I eagerly await the new adventures of Sally “Stupidest Bitch In The Marvel Universe” Floyd. What stupid thing will she say this time? Truly, Paul Jenkins is one of the great comedic minds of our time.”

Iron Man didn’t friend her on myspace, so he’s out of touch with America and not fit to lead SHIELD.

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Sofa King said on July 2nd, 2008 at 5:33 pm

I’m surprised MGK doesn’t like The Initiative. I would have expected him to eat ti up. I think it’s damn good, personally.

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Unrelated to comics coming out this week, but you should read Star Wars: Legacy. Greatest material to come out for the Star Wars universe since the first Knights of the Old Republic game. Unless you hate Star Wars, of course. ^^

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David Fullam said on July 2nd, 2008 at 6:32 pm

Wait a minute, Blue Beetle and Manhunter are still being published?

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rwe1138 said on July 2nd, 2008 at 7:20 pm

MGK, if you like Blue Beetle, then definitely check out Manhunter #32. Not only do Jaime and another BB cast member (who shall remain nameless because I thought it was a cool reveal) appear, but it brings up a new connection between the Scarab and the Darkstars.

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@Sofa King

I didn’t like The Initiative until #14. Neither the characters nor the story appealed to me. Now this Hawaii team, this I can see myself reading regularly. The new 3-D Man is pretty interesting, and unlike certain other Marvel titles out that I won’t name he feels like someone who could make a good hero (and leader, maybe). Also, they fight giant monsters. How can you go wrong with Giant Monsters?

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I don’t follow All-New Atom, but isn’t Rick Remender writing it now, and not Gail Simone?

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I’ve been liking Guardians of the Galaxy. It’s a great start, and come on, Rocket Raccoon? What an awesome character.

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Captain Ultra said on July 2nd, 2008 at 10:11 pm

Also, I though SI: Front Lines was written by Brian Reed.

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Why do you angry at Dan Slott?

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“I’m not technically breaking the law (since I’m not offering the items for download and thus “trafficking” the materials).”

Is this true, though? I mean, I’m presuming when you say “download” you mean a torrent, and isn’t the entire torrent mechanism predicated on sharing with loads of other people everything you’ve downloaded? (Until you delete it, anyway. But even for a short time…)

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Nich: there are ways around that depending on what software you use.

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^indeed. Many let you set your upload to 0.

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The download model might be what it takes to get me back into comics. When I moved last month, I gave away 11 long boxes, filled with 1000’s of the finest comics of the 90’s. As well as an absolutely obscene number of assorted issues of the X-Men, some dating back to the early 1980’s.

I simply did not want them taking up space in my house anymore. To read them, I would have had to open innumerable mylar bags, not to mention figuring out what was in an individual box in the first place.

I wanted to talk about Starman (and how awesome it was) last year, and instead of messing with the boc in the bottom of my utility closet, I downloaded the series.

Because the electronic edition let me put up a single page to show people. It let me have access to the images for social purposes- ie, making LiveJournal icons, or otherwise commenting on the source.

At this point the only comics stuff I’m buying is Adam Pollina pages of mid 90’s X-Force issues. Something about being able to say “I have the original art” is wonderful. After all, how many people have the original art for their long term default icon framed and on the wall?

(Probably not enough people).

And at this point, i’d love to spend about $10-$20 a month on comics. And have them readiy for iconing. And not taking up space in my house.

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Andrew W. said on July 3rd, 2008 at 2:25 am

“filled with 1000’s of the finest comics of the 90’s”

As someone who reads comics on the internet, I’m required by law to mock that sentence and say it’s an oxymoron. This has been a federally mandated fandumb moment. Thank you.

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@MDF:

yes, Remender wrote the final arc of All-New Atom. And it was awful. all the silly weirdness and humor Gail Simone put in it was gone, save for some of Head’s dialogue.

@TA:

as I recall, Dan Slott is very vocally against downloading comics despite admitting that he torrents other forms of media himself.

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Salieri said on July 3rd, 2008 at 5:09 am

@Captain Ultra: Nor will it feature Sally Floyd. I didn’t mention because it seemed obvious, so I presumed he was being sarcastic.

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You know what comics I read at the moment? None. Having had to tighten my belt at the moment comics fell into a distant fourth behind books nice stuff to cook and going out with friends. They were ahead of CDs and DVDs, but only by a bit. This was mainly to do with the amount of entertainment per page to cost ratio. So if a single, white, twenty something male geek is cutting back on the comic consumption because of the price then the industry really is fucked.

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Peppy — thanks for the explanation.

And, you can tell I didn’t follow All-New Atom — seeing as I didn’t know it was ending. 😉

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Jonah Hex is one of the best comics out today.

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Sally “Stupidest Bitch In The Marvel Universe” Floyd.

Poor Ms. Marvel. She just can’t win.

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You know I do not understand the whole the Invaders are idiots for thinking they’re dealing with Nazis things.

The Avengers are the ones going in with all their muscle looking like thye’re ready to attack.

They want to avoid this they should’ve had a four star general in uniform meet up with them.

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I love The Initiative, and I say this as someone who hated pretty much everything about Civil War and everything related to it. I mean I’m actually even pretty sure I hate the Initiative, but damned if I can make myself stop reading the comic book about it.

SUPERGIRL #31: I kind of download this one every month, in the hopes that I will see a Supergirl that I actually want to read about and maybe even spend money on. It hasn’t happened yet, but I’m optimistic.

I actually think the Supergirl they’re publishing now would be sorta-kinda okay if this had been how they’d originally introduced the character, instead of the Superboy-suckerpunching failfest they originally handed us. But as it is there’s just too much baggage of crap-awfulness for me to get on board with anything she does.

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Supergirl: I actually liked Joe Kelly’s run on the book, but I realize that admitting that publically will make me a pariah like unto one who molests puppies.

My more important comment is a question: MGK, what do you use to *read* all the comics you download? Do you just read them on your desktop computer? I do most of my reading while commuting, so that solution really doesn’t so much work for me.

(I have read comics on my desktop, but it just seems unnatural.)

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i’m one of the heaviest purchasers at the store i use, but there are still lots of titles i don’t get, obviously, and more than a few that intrigue me, but i’m trying to cut down, not add into my load. so how does this downloading thing work? i looked into zcult but they seem to have dropped everything marvel and dc, and using torrentz.com doesn’t really give me that many titles- certainly not the selection implied by the post. and the couple i got won’t open with comical, so maybe i’m doing something wrong there, too. how’d you guys learn how to do this?

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ineptitude said on July 4th, 2008 at 6:14 pm

I was under the impression that Dan Slott was off The Initiative. Isn’t it Christos Gage now? I dropped it after the horrendous art in #13.

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Funny thing, I was just showing a friend how to do this last night.

Please note: USE VIRUS PROTECTION. SCAN ALL FILES BEFORE OPENING THEM!

I use uTorrent to search for and download torrent files. Of the searchable sites to use, I prefer Piratebay and Mininova, in that order. Search for specific titles, or look for the weekly torrent files that come out.

I use CDisplay to view the comic book files. I download files in either cbr. or cbz. format. These are just rar. and zip. files of the scanned jpg. pages renamed in order for CDisplay to be able to read them. If you change the extensions back to the original you can unarchive them and look at the jpg. pictures.

I own almost every appearance of LSH from Adventure #247 to date in hard copy form, from archives to actual issues. In the past few months I’ve gotten it all in digital form. Believe me when I say it’s a whole lot easier searching through files than long boxes.

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MGK, you’ll be pleased to know that the artwork of Murky McMuddy on Angel: After The Fall is being replaced by the fellow who did the short, neatly drawn “Wesley” vignette in a recent issue. Don’t think this’ll change my mild-to-severe issues with the storyline itself but meh. An improvement is an improvement.

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I encourage everyone to try Patsy Walker Hellcat! The art is great, the writing is funny. I’ve never read anything with the character in it before and I still loved it. She fights demon bears, with antlers, in Alaska! How can you not try this book?!?

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Trinity 5 is the least lame since the first issue. Make of that what you will.

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