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I don't think the camera work has as much to do with garnering interest as the story does

 

 

And what's this about the show dragging?

I was mainly thinking about the writing, and change is a-comin' .

Interesting social commentary with the "Disarmament of the hoi-polli" scene, though.

Hmm...I think that it will be refreshing, and in fact necessary at this point to have a new team behind the cameras, if they want to maintain current interest and garner new fans. The show has been dragging for a while now.

Yarrrrgh!

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Nice man, don't get any drool or anything on it!

The story about the Gov's wife was actually pretty cool. HATE HIM.

 

 

Doubt any of it was true. It was a psychological ploy to get under Rick's skin and perhaps make Rick think they had some common ground so he the Govs words gained traction and thus made his lie of a deal more believable to Rick.

 

That's what I figured as well, the gov is a master of subterfuge.

 

One minor thing, what did he claim his last name to be? Has this been covered before?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blake

 

 

Phillip Blake.

Well that makes total sense then. One rule of life is to never trust anyone that has two first names as a whole name. =)

The story about the Gov's wife was actually pretty cool. HATE HIM.

 

 

Doubt any of it was true. It was a psychological ploy to get under Rick's skin and perhaps make Rick think they had some common ground so he the Govs words gained traction and thus made his lie of a deal more believable to Rick.

That's what I figured as well, the gov is a master of subterfuge.

One minor thing, what did he claim his last name to be? Has this been covered before?

Wow, Lauren Cohan made Eliza Dushko look like five miles of bad road on TTD tonight!

Fiona Staples Art book is up at Essential Sequential.

http://www.essentialsequential.com/Fiona-Staples-Digest-1-Art-book_p_2047.html

 

They also have the signed TPB as well.

 

Not sure I want to pay $16 for Priority shipping (any lesser option and my post man will likely fold it up and ruin it!)

Thanks for the link!

But I'm more upset about the fact that they are actually collecting money for the government.

Kirkman actually leaves that up in the air...

 

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/03/03/walking-dead-robert-kirkman-clear/

 

Question: In the diner, we had a couple of glimpses of a zombie who looked very much like Morgan’s wife. I wasn’t sure whether that was a coincidence or a hint that Morgan’s recollections of events are not to be trusted.

 

Kirkman: Ah, you know, I think that might have been a coincidence. But maybe there’s something to it. I wouldn’t want to reveal anything if there was.

 

 

I just thought it was an interesting parallel with the comic considering the woman in the bar looked like his wife. But after this it's certainly a possibility. You'd think he would have killed her if she killed Dwane, but who knows.. :shrug:

He told Rick that he "did her" after she attacked Dwayne. What else could that possibly mean besides re-killing the un-dead?

I hate stupid people.

 

Ha! I'm sitting here trying to "Play" those screen-caps ^^^ ...

I asked what happened to the van driver because I began to infer as well that she was in fact Andrea. Makes very little sense, but maybe she feels the need to disappear without a trace from the governor, and to re-unite with her original crew. I Think that we are all in agreement that the driver was a female. Andrea could have ambushed the original van driver while it was being loaded and the Gov was still on his way to the prison. It's feasible that Andrea already had been outfitted with or knew where to get proper-sized riot gear long ago due to staying at a well-supplied town. The gov is using a Steyr AUG, for instance, so we know that they have some top-shelf ATF-type gear there. She feeds the driver to the zombies on the way over after extracting his plan, crashes through the gates as the governor expected to see (but gets the van stuck far away from the building to minimize the danger to the prison), shoots at Michonne to sell her ruse to anyone who was watching, and then found some cover until she can reveal herself to the group. The gov will assume that the original driver never made it out of the prison, and won't connect Andrea's disappearance from the town with the missing van driver.

But then she showed up in the previews talking to the governor, so probably not. =)

What happened to the van driver?

Marc is a good guy to work with. He paid promptly for TWD #'s 29 & 39, and let me know that they were ok when he got them. Thanks Marc!

two guys with low feedback bidding it up...

36% and 28% of their bidding on his auctions, respectively, by the by

Now what inferences could I possibly derive from that? =o

Am I the only one who thinks the ghost cover is the least attractive so far?

No you are not.

Wikipedia says (I know, I know...) that the original cover art (aside from ghost variant) is "painted" by Fiona Staples...does that mean hand-painted or what?

TAFKAdixie sent me a couple of Saga 6's for a good value, and they got here fast and safe and in the condition as described! Thank you!

I'm trying to figure out when I wanted to throttle down to about 50% of what I have been pre-ordering.

 

NEVER!!!!

=)

Yes, Saga b....

Trust me man, I just loaded up with a little stack of early copies despite some problems with a couple ebay orders and a bunch of cancelled or partially filled orders. I never did get a good line on a bunch of #5's at what I wanted to pay though...

When do people expect to see big bumps in print run with this? #11? Not sure that I would want to buy as much of those when that happens.

What future issue exactly will be the first one to see a (presumed) big spike in print run? I'm trying to figure out when I wanted to throttle down to about 50% of what I have been pre-ordering. I'm guessing that #10 could still be similar in number to the previous issues, but I could have pre-ordered more of #11 online when the run began a little while back.

Most of my flurry of orders from last week have begun to finalize, in one form or another. I always feel like a flight deck mechanic in combat, sending crews out and waiting to see what comes back. Well, right away some of my birds had to turn around because of computer problems, and later on some of 'em realized the load-master screwed up and put the wrong stuff onboard, or simply forgot 90% of the order! Scrubbed a total of 40 sorties to those problems. Then, later on, some more of 'em started to limp back, all shot up. Most of those guys took it on the corners, it was a bad scene. We got 'em all into quarantine, but it doesn't look good. Some of 'em are still out there somewhere, their fates unknown...

There have been a lot of discussion about lackluster art on some of the more popular books.

 

Peter Panzelfaust, Chew, Manhattan Projects, etc....and while I agree some of the art isn't up to more mainstream artists, I think writing is far more important than art.

 

Look at South Park, The Simpsons, Far Side, Calvin & Hobbes, etc.....None of these have the visual appeal of a Neal Adams book or a Brian Bolland or a Frazetta painting, yet they are captivating for the sheer brilliance of the writing.

 

 

I have to say that Bill Watterson would nail it time and time again when he was drawing a jet, or dinosaurs. Or dinosaurs in jets =) . Sorry to digress.

 

 

I would give away every comic I owned for a piece of original Bill Watterson art that was Calvin and Hobbes related.

Me too, in a heartbeat.

There have been a lot of discussion about lackluster art on some of the more popular books.

 

Peter Panzelfaust, Chew, Manhattan Projects, etc....and while I agree some of the art isn't up to more mainstream artists, I think writing is far more important than art.

 

Look at South Park, The Simpsons, Far Side, Calvin & Hobbes, etc.....None of these have the visual appeal of a Neal Adams book or a Brian Bolland or a Frazetta painting, yet they are captivating for the sheer brilliance of the writing.

I have to say that Bill Watterson would nail it time and time again when he was drawing a jet, or dinosaurs. Or dinosaurs in jets =) . Sorry to digress.

I don't know man, #5 I'd be grabbin', if it was for cover, even if it was not in the best of shape. I was only able to find two for under $10 last week online that were listed as nm, and I just got the first one and it's a second print (date code was for first print) . =/ So now I lose half of my money sending it back.

how are those online stores stock levels of the 2nd print stuff?

Probably buried in them, idk.

any online store selling Saga #5s, i need 3, not sure how that happened.

There are a few first prints at nose-bleed prices out there. Out of the regular issues, I feel that, once the big stores sold out, 5 & 6 have always been the hardest to find cheaply (in bulk), beyond #1.