My Secret Shame

[Talavar]

I'm Canadian, so your milage (kilometre-age?) may vary, but an average Chapters/Indigo, our friendly book chain store monopoly, generally has a decent comics/manga selection that typically has a few archive collections, newer high profile stuff like you Identity Crisis, etc, as well as the newest trades of big-name characters, recent trades of the more popular Vertigo titles, Hellboy, and some indie stuff.  They also have spinner racks of up to date actual comics issues.

I buy a fair amount of comics, all as trades, but not as many as I read.  I buy the Vertigo titles I like, Fables, Y the Last Man, and Lucifer and Sandman until they ended, other series I'm into like Astonishing X-men, Ultimate Spider-man, and Birds of Prey.

I'm reading Justice by Alex Ross, and while the art is great as always, I'm not as into it as some of his earlier projects.  It just seems to deliberately nostalgic, and a little too Superfriends.  But then, I'm digging 52, and a number of modern DC books.

[BentonGrey]

I don't really follow you about Justice being like Super Friends.  I mean, it may have a Silver Age cast, but it's also got some pretty serious action and some pretty solid fights.  We're not really seeing tons of individual character development among the heroes, but that's not really what the book is about.  We see a bit between Bats, Supes, and Captain Marvel, but what we REALLY see, is an inside look at the villains.  It may be a tad nostalgic in its cast of characters, but they bear little resembalance to their Silver Age'd selves.  Brainiac is cutting people open, Luthor is ruthless and not just annoying...I don't know, I don't have a bad thing to say about this book.

[MyndVizion]

You can always buy comics online from the publishers or comic stores.  I too am 2 hours from the nearest comic book store, but they do have a mail order policy that I never seem to take advantage of.

Oh well.

I do agree that the cost of comics is prohibitive from buying multiple titles. I personally think there's too much emphasis put on the quality of art which makes the cost and time higher than it could be.  But then again, I find the art of yesteryear more appropriate for comics anyhow.  I'd rather read a comic from the 80s than one today. A modern comic takes about 2.5 minutes to read where as the older ones take 15 minutes plus to read.  Just due to all of the "stuff" in them (art/writing/action etc).

If comics were about a dollar cheaper I'd buy more of them and more often.

[thanoson]

I read them at my local game/comic shop. Though, I did buy DKR2.

[Jakew]

Hey Caravaggio ...

re: Graphic Action, I vaguely remember reading on another/post or maybe the Metal Storm site that you were from Newcastle. I used to live there, before I started working in Sydney. I remember the store owner, James aka Jimmy Danger, very well.

[detourne_me]

RE: The Super-Friends'ness of Justice

keep in mind ive only read the first 2 issues,  i actually want to wait for the trade. i see it being like superfriends in the fact that the legion of doom is really only the big 13 or so enemies that were the legion of doom in super friends.  i don't believe that roster has been in any actual comic LOD lineups.