Tuesday, January 8, 2008

I'm Back.....Miss Me?

Probably not. But that's OK too.
So how was everyone's holiday? Hope you survived the drinking and eating binges that you all had at one point or another. Me? I'm fine. No serious injuries to speak of.

Where have I been, you might ask? Well, my initial time after Christmas was spent trying to get my wife's computer up and running. I had her brother build her one so we can play WoW together. It was her wish for the past few months and I was able to pull this off with JR's help. Even got her to cry when she saw it. She said that she was crying because she never thought it could happen. So, after some stops and starts, we now have 2 computers. One for her and one just for me. Makes it much easier to download porn now.

I have not spent as much time as I wanted to reading comics. Money and time were major constraints on me. I did get there last week and thanks to Shawn, I was able to purchase my books. I plan to put up a posting later on in the week about everything that has come out lately. Not the "One more day" crap though. I think that Jim and Shawn have said it much better and more eloquently than I can.

However, I will say one thing. I took some heat about my roasting of Joe Quesada for inflicting his opinion on the characters. After reading this, I stand by my comments. Someone asked me if I thought he should be fired for this, as they thought he should. I disagree. In the ledger of what Quesada has done right and wrong, this is a big check in the wrong column. However, he has done a lot of things right. He has brought great writers and artists to Marvel. He has overseen some rebirths that have made the character fun to read again (Cap, Daredevil, Iron Fist). So while I don't give him a pass on the OMD crap, I don't think it's that egregious to warrant a firing.

But he is on notice.
Thanks for stopping by and hopefully this will be the start of a lot more to come!

4 comments:

Jim said...

Dude - Every book you mention is a Brubaker book. So he gets credit fro hiring Ed Brubaker, but that maybe it.

Ron said...

Well, Bendis actually started the Daredevil thing a year or so ago.

And I thought it Matt Fraction and the artist (Aja?) that was really doing Iron fist.

Jim said...

Read a Fraction book without Brubaker and I think a lot of Iron Fist is Ed.

Shawn said...

I disagree.

The crazy ideas are all Matt Fraction. Ed probably brings them back down a bit to be understood.

It's a collaboration like a really good garage band.

RON: Glad it helped. No bud of mine should be without his comics.

Love ya.

And yes, I missed you.

Love,
Shawn