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Highlights From Comic-Con 2012
Comic-Con 2012 got underway yesterday, and some interesting bits of news have been filtering out. Digital comic sales boomed over the past year — something to be expected given the trend with ebooks and newspapers. But oddly, print comic sales are up as well, to the tune of 18%. At a Firefly panel, Joss Whedon spoke briefly about how the series would have ended if he could have done it on his own terms. "I don’t think I would have killed anybody," he said. TV shows are a strong theme this year, which much discussion around The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones. All in all, about 80 television programs are represented at Comic-Con. The show is also highlighting the recent trend away from strict superhero stories. "Image Comics is indeed banking on 'superhero-ed out' readers, not only with Kirkman's The Walking Dead, (Kirkman has been called the 'unofficial mayor of Comic-Con') but with books like the spy-fi The Activity. The title's second issue, out next week, was co-plotted with actual Navy SEALs."
Yes, they're fat, white nerds. But this is slashdot. They're *OUR* fat, white nerds!
What political party do you join when you don't like Bible-thumpers *or* hippies?
But were there ponies?
So its TV-Con now, with a highlight being yet more discussion of a short lived, long dead show that still manages to be at least as interesting as anything that has been made since.
Spider man recently had a second "reboot".
Superman has been somewhat rebooted.
Batman has been rebooted countless times
Star trek... many different series, and now a TOS reboot.
There are a lot of book or even game-based movies/series coming out. Nnot that it's bad, some are very good, but sometimes the networks seem to scrape fairly far down the barrel for original stuff. Why not reboot Firefly? Hell, they could probably make a killing by turning it into a kickstarter project or whatever.
What is this? 1988?
Superheroes have been less and less dominant in comics for 20+ years, walk into any comic shop and you'll see many more genres these days on shelves once dominated solely by the super-powered set.
Superheroes have also turned into Soaps. How many of them are now being explored for personality issues, character flaws, self doubt, etc.? To be fair, in the mid-50s, before the Comics Code, there were some pretty deep stories in some of the EC comics, one I recall featured bodies of dead soldiers floating down a river in Korea. But these were soldiers and reality inspired publications, where Superman, Batman, et al are about as unreal as you can get.
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A summary generally has a verb somewhere in it. Here are some alternatives for what you wrote, all of which include verbs (some even include direct objects!).
"Lots of fat white people talked."
"Lots of fat white people met together."
"Lots of fat white people got to see things that I wish I could have been there to see."
"Lots of fat white people, many of whom look quite similar to me, got to bask in the glory of celebrities that I've been dying to meet."
"Lots of fat white people with comic collections larger and more impressive than my own were able to do something special that they will be able to talk about with friends for months to come, while I've been stuck at work this week filing TPS reports."
Granted, those are just alternatives. Whether they were what you intended to say or not is something that I'll leave to you and everyone else to decide.
Lots of fat white people.
Hey I once thought comics were cool. Then I turned 13 and discovered girls. Never been back to comics since.
Then you discovered Slashdot. Never been back to girls since.
Why yes, there were ponies and girls. I know, it's hard to believe so here's a photo from Comic-Con proving both: http://twitter.com/bonniegrrl/status/223841022533304321/photo/1/large
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Hey! That's unfair to the slightly off-white blueish nerds, freckled pinkish nerds and all the other myriads!
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I'm still waiting for the 250lb Princess Leias on mobility scooters.
Yes, they're fat, white nerds. But this is slashdot. They're *OUR* fat, white nerds!
I'm still waiting for the 250lb Princess Leias on mobility scooters.
I'm afraid most of them are 250lb Galadriels, hanging out at the various Renfests.
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Who cares about comics. Bring on the girls in cosplay!
Dude - seriously. When you post a headline that says "Comic-Con Highlights", people click on your click on your link looking for THIS. I mean, come on, right?.
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