JB, do you go into comic shops and have a look ?

(imagine being in your local and JB comes in?)

Right on Dave.

Yeah there's a ton of alternate comics that is fantastic. The whole trend of zombie comics and noir-inspired stuff alone has me giddy in that regard.

Superhero comics, or the "life's blood", is the problem. Rather than forging ahead and creating their own path, American superhero comics have decided to become what they were never, ever, meant to be: movies. And not good movies, but television movies, as already discussed.

Worse yet, the obsession with "Terrorism" in comics. All right, we get it...there's Terrorism, there's awful governmental invasions, right right, it's on the news every bloody day. What's the point exactly in having contemporary superheroes dealing with Terrorism? Again, the men running the companies are writing comics about contemporary issues to appeal to other men reading them...which would be fine, if they weren't using characters created for kids to enjoy. If you want to talk about Terrorism, then use character appropriate contextually to talk about the issue, like Agents of Atlas or Daredevil or whatever.

I'd really like to see a comic that had thought balloons and captions again. Seriously, just to piss off the fanboys who think that's low-brow in "their" comics. I loved that JB put in Jason Blood having a running conversation with himself in issues of BLOOD OF THE DEMON. The kind of conceit of the medium which at one time was perfectly acceptable. Marvel used this method to basically have a character, like Spider-Man, talking to himself and by proxy the reader, creating an even more intimate relationship between reader/story. It was a brilliant bit, a Stan Lee forte.

I never trust anyone who writes "lol" after anything THEY find funny. I'm sorry, but you come off as extremely self-conscious.