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I'm late to the thread. But now that you've got him in your sights, don't let up, don't give up, don't let him off the hook. He's a lowlife scumbag. LIGHT HIM UP.

From an official or regulatory standpoint the two companies will have to be separate. In practice they will do everything in their power to make sure they both are successful by sharing information, costs, discounts, resources, payroll, storage, IT, everything that you can think of to save money to compete and maximize profit.

I agree. It also makes you wonder just how poorly Diamond was run as a business, poor reputation and not able to be profitable as a monopoly? I think they were either run by a complete idi0t or Diamond was just able to squeeze huge amounts of profit out of the system that lined the pockets of the owners. If they go out of business, good riddance.

If Liefeld was drawing it I wasn't buying it.

The beginning of the end?

Canada is a great country. It's not very populated for it's massive size (about 10 times less populated than the US) and probably one of the best places on Earth to live if you are poor.

The neck on the horse from Ghost Rider #4 looks really odd. Like he was distantly related to a dragon or other mythical creature. But I do think Frazetta is pretty amazing.

Couldn't agree more. I myself bought a firearm in April, stay safe and protect your family (and pets and comics, in that order!)

Why wouldn’t they steal comics? . . . Because they can't read? (although you would think looking at the pictures would be right up their alley)

This news in my mind is worse than the pandemic, totally avoidable. So freaking sad.

I guess agree to disagree. I read a some of Byrne's run on Wonder Woman, very basic story telling, phoned in art, when compared to the Perez on the same character, with the way Perez rebooted the character (from a writing standpoint bringing in the Greek mythology, and the detail he put in showing Themyscira was incredible. it couldn't be clearer which creator was "better". I like Byrne as and enjoyed his work on X-Men but it was a bit of being on the right book at the right time and having Austin create a very clean line (going back to books we are liked as kids, rose colored glasses as all). Notice how everyone who talks about him on this thread barely bring up any books he's worked on in the last 30 years (no mentions of his WW, Next Men, Star Trek, etc.) He just hasn't had much of an impact on the industry where Perez just seemed to care more and kept refining and getting better at his craft over the years (Busiek/Perez on Avengers, JLA/Avengers, his Brave and Bold was well received). If anything Perez was just a bit slow as he wanted to keep raising his game. His very detailed work on the Crimson Plague issues had hundreds of individual fans drawn into the backgrounds. (I don't know of another artist that could or would draw that many people so distinctly as to be able to identify them, truly amazing).

Perez became a co-plotter or co-writer with Wolfman (and maybe even co-editor) on NTT and rolled off that very successful book to Crisis where he drew the majority of DC characters. Both were massive hits and then we went on to re-boot Wonder Woman, where he wrote, drew and did covers. He was THE top artist at DC for multiple years. The NTT run was the basis of the rebirth of DC and it had a lasting impact all the way to the hit Teen Titans Go! TV show are still being felt today.

I like them both but prefer Perez for the reasons listed above.

I remember reading comics at the barber shop! Good times. As an adult I have on occasion brought my own book / magazine with me and stealthily left behind some comics in waiting area for kids to find.

Yes, I just asked about this (see page 81)! Just finished it, it was long but a page turner and hooked be right at the start. Great read.

I have not heard anything about smokers having any immunity, they are probably more as risk if anything. Older people, people will immune issues and obese people are most at risk and the numbers from China are completely unreliable.

Great issue as part of a great run.

Just going to do what the Bloodhound Gang do - "Giving myself a mullet, hook the Flowbee to the Kirby"

I had no idea he'd cancelled that often, I've seen him 3 or 4 times so I guess I've been lucky. Great music but he sure is full of himself.

That sounds incredible!

Funny story, the only time I've been lucky enough to win something on the radio was the grand prize to see him in Vegas (this was not too many years after The Smith's broke up). Flew with a friend and the DJ at the radio and his date to Vegas for the show. The show was awesome but there was such a crush of people that we watched the first half of the show from the 1st row and the second half of the show from the side of the stage (we had back stage passes). Since it was Morrissey we never did see him backstage, we ran into the band at the airport later that night (they were flying out of the same terminal) but right before the airline started boarding Moz (yeah, I called him that, deal with it Moz) showed up with security and was wisked onto the plane. He never even made eye contact with the band and the place was not that busy late at night. I always envisioned him flying 1st class with the rest of his band in coach with him being picked up by a limo and the rest taking a cab, but I flew home to a different city so I'll never know. The show was fantastic in his defense.

Have to say the most disappointed I was at a show was New Order back in the day. They had to pause between every song to get it together (retune and such), forgot lyrics, sounded like , etc. I think the whole band was drunk/high. They didn't sound anything like what you would hear on an album, again just terrible, nobody I've seen since has been close.

Very cool to see people with a wide range of tastes in music. Live music is great and it's always interesting to see which performers are as good or even better live (and I've seen a few that I wouldn't want to see again as they were so bad).