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They're pushing a 100 page comic for distribution at Walmarts

I think the killer is the nerd economy just keeps getting worse. I see more and more people here on work visas and less opportunity for nerds. A lot of the nerds I know still making OK money are working 60-80 hours a week to do it. You don't have time for comic collecting when you're pulling those kinds of hours.

Considering that one of his collections was titled Angry Candy, I'm sure he went to be angry and arrived in hell (or god-help-him, heaven) angry.

I've got everything he ever had published, except for one piece published in a 1988 Playboy (and I'll never forgive my ex for throwing that one away) and one issue of his short-lived comic.

You mean this one? :

https://www.amazon.com/Playboy... ...and these?

https://www.dccomics.com/searc... ..or is it the 5-issue "City on the Edge of Forever" Series? :

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=n...

If WPA is Cracked then is WPA2 Mad?

Alfred E. Neuman != mad-libs.

But he wanted to have one to wear with a costume. http://www.dccomics.com/dcdirect/?dcd=3468 "The rings are not designed to be worn."

http://www.dccomics.com/comics/?cm=5284

#6, I couldn't find a quick link to the series itself. Rushkoff has been doing a series about this through Vertigo since December, and its quite impressive. One of the best comics I've read in a long time.

http://www.rushkoff.com/comics.html?PHPSESSID=e37a e111faea64e93e76e9c2c57d8bf6

his more ties in with the bible, but its very much about the government and the things going on here.

Save one: The Spectre. (Warning: PDF) Superman is merely a super man; the Spectre, at least in some versions, has been presented as the literal Wrath of God.

Which 'Man' are you talking about?

Round these parts, we are talking about Alfred E. NewMAN But there are those who say we are MAD ! Thats just humor in a jugular vein, though....

You have to look for the good comics, I know they sell tons of crappy manga, just as much as crappy writers publish crappy books. http://www.dccomics.com/vertigo/ Go read "Y the Last Man" Go read "100 Bullets" Go read "TRANSMETROPOLITAN" And if you like your manga styled thick book with a solid binding buy the graphic novels. And if you feel like American Comics are just for kids, then you havent read any other these. And if you dont understand any of these, then maybe you should go back to the Kids books.

1. Watchmen (yes, finally gotten around to it)
2. Lucifer (the first 3 trades)
3. V for Vendetta
4. The Goon: Nothin' but Misery
5. Miracleman (Don't ask me how I got a hold of it... obviously through sinister channels)

I dislike the superior tone, "dumbed down, etc..." Especially as I also read regular books. I just finished Sorrows of Empire by Chalmers Johnson, which is not a novel but was still interesting. Besides, when I go to the science fiction shelf at my local Borders, I see way too many novels with things like Star Trek or Dragonlance in the title. This bothers me, even though I've read a few that were interesting. I think that something like V for Vendetta is comparatively intellectual.

Oh, from years back I have three E. C. library's (two horror, one miscellanious) which are interesting reading. I don't think you can get them any more, and they were kind of pricey anyway.

I wonder what DC Comics (and the other owners?) have to say about NetGear using their copyrighted character in a commercial product ?

500 issues? Here's $3. Call me when you read a comic with a long run.

(FWIW, I read both FF and Action.)

I have been a comics reader for many years but I must admit that I have never read any of Stan Lee's Silver Age Comics. I have always assumed that they were well written stories. I recently read his team-up with DC comics to created an Elseworld style retelling of the origins of DC characters called Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating the DC Universe that threatened that assumption.

I am now not sure if I want to read the Silver Age Marvel comics for fear of his writing. Has his writing always been this bad, or did he lose his edge?

Maybe I'm showing my age here, but anyone who remembers DC Comic's Crisis on Infinite Earths from the 80s knows that the primary difference between regular matter and anti-matter universes is that the anti-matter universe is EVIL!!!

Oh? What about Batman vs Predator, or Aliens vs Superman?

Both of those have already been officially published! BvP,
AvS

The best part of the comic was when Batman had to face up to the JLA after the attacks and got his ass kicked out of the group. Batman explained he made the files in case the group was taken over mentally like had happened before. Showed that knowledge, planning and a lot of cunning could take down or neutralize any superpower.

BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS

Batman kicked Supermnan's ass with the help of a biomech suit and some kryptonite. Doesn't matter how he did it, the result was still the same.

The faster you go, the slower time moves around you

Ok Mr. Einstien, then how come when we humans are having fun time goes faster, and when we are bored, times goes slower?? Its a paradox I tell you!

The only one I know who can move so fast and move time backwards is this individual in blue spandex

Frank Miller portrayed a Superman vs. Batman battle in The Dark Knight Returns (as well as DK2) - without a doubt one of the great graphic novels.

I hope Mr. Miller gets some credit/money out of this film.

Frank Miller created an excellent graphic novel treating this very subject entitled "The Dark Knight Returns" Link. This is a story that I truly enjoyed as a life long Batman fan. If this new movie is based on Miller's vison, I say hooray. If not, then we will have to wait and see.

...GameCube would be Marvel: continuously re-introducing old popular titles in the hope that old fans with new incomes will buy them and restore the company's fortunes.

...Sega would be Image: beautiful graphics time after time, but slow to realize that's not enough to keep them from crashing and burning.

...Sony would be Vertigo: late to the party, but chock-full of great stories with some truly radical, if not entirely beautiful, graphics.

...Microsoft would Dark Horse: rather than creating anything great on their own, buy up everyone else's popular ideas and market the hell out of them.

I know what this is... look closer, a bit cross-eyed... it's a stereogram !!!! And I see... I see... OHH, NOOO, it's MAD's Alfred Newman !!

I'd love to see an animated series based off of the 100 Bullets comic books
I guess it would have the same target audiance as Spawn.

Instead of giving you a t-shirt those now-defunct dotcom's would have given you a license to wear their logo.

The subscription service will not be for wireless service, it will be for designs and logos and phrases. Want to show off your enjoyment of the latest boy-band? Buy a license for their logo and go download their mod for your shirt. (aside: if it was named similar to winamp, would that be licensing a new "skin" for your shirt?)

Personally, i prefer to make my own shirts, though making a silk screen for one or two shirts is a laborious process and CafePress just doesn't cut it (industrial iron-on? *shudder*). A technology whereby i can easily show off a new design would be nice.

Clothes that change colour reminds me of Rorschach from Watchmen.

Going back to the original "news for nerds" subject, instead of Mad Magazine's opinion on the Starr trials, perhaps a better subject would be their Windows 98 Parody, from the same source. (I took the link from the frame to get there, so it complains, but the picture is hilarious. :)