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Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Too tired to think of a clever title
Our Diamond shipment arrived via UPS again today, only in time for us to deal with it this week. Of course, one of our boxes was mis-routed, and will hopefully arrive tomorrow. Probably, a little less than half of our DC books were in that box. So, much as I'd like to gripe about the LA warehouse packers fouling up our shipment, I can't do it in good concensience.
That being said, going over our invoice for the week, it looks like there's a bit more missing than I'd reasonably expect to fit into one of the boxes, so I may still get to gripe.
I'm officially sick of people talking about Identity Crisis and the prospects of Jack Black as Green Lantern. I wash my hands of it all.
Everybody else has already excerpted all the choice quotes from the new Grant Morrison interview. Of course, the real treat is going through the "responses" on the Newsarma boards. For a change of pace the discussion was almost sane and stayed mostly on topic.
Apparently Millarworld is discussing the "Spider-Man/Power Pack" comic I'm trying to find so I can do that piece about Marvel's history of portraying gay characters I want to do. But I wouldn't know, because I can't get Millarworld to load at all. I'm sure the discussion is just about as rational, on-topic and fair-minded as I expect...
I was not gifted with a "funny" squirrel name by Milo George. But I'm not bitter about it or anything. The way I see it, I already have a perfectly good "funny" name in Postmodern Barney. Besides, squirrels are just rats with bushy tails. I certainly wouldn't want to be compared to one.
{And just to be on the safe side, Ringwood Ragefuck is one of my favorite blogs. He's not the one with no sense of humor.}
And lastly, Pete and I have been absolutely horrified by the amount of money we've spent on comics in the last two months, and so the culling has begun. Smallville, Doom Patrol, Fraction, Excalibur, X-Men and Weapon X have already been dropped. All other X-titles are on probation, but will probably be dropped. Aquaman, Kinetic and Firestorm are on probation too. They each get one more issue before a final decision is made. The only titles that are safe for the moment are DC team books, because we're both too much of DC fan-boys to drop those, the Ultimate universe, mostly at Pete's insistence, and the Fantastic Four and 4, exclusively at Pete's insistence. I'll probably make mentions here when something gets culled, possibly stating why, depending on how much I feel like boring everyone.