My CBR Shame

Surely also hearty laughing at this?

http://dreamers.com/xmen/images/comics/ons/Image26.jpg

I gotta admit, I love "Infinity Gauntlet". Giant huge crossovers have always been my biggest superhero comic fetish, and this was the first (non-Elseworlds) one where EVERYONE DIES. Knowing that of course they'd all come back in the end somehow didn't take away all that much emotional impact, for me. Also, handy two page guide to Marvel's cosmic entities! Also, the scene where Hulk and Wolverine are on the rooftops and suddenly it starts snowing and they're like "omg it's June!", felt really - ahem - chilling to me as a youngster.

Also the Thor "Casket Of Ancient Winters" storyline which had loads of really sly crossovers into other comics and tons of "How come its snowing" scenes, back in 85/86 or so, which was when I started reading comics so probably diminished the impact of Infinity Gauntlet for me.

But IG is good yes! Up to about #4 anyway.

There is a lot to be said for a comic wherein the writer does little more than parade his own obscure creations back and forth while murdering the most popular character in the Marvel universe with a blunt instrument, in terms of sheer chutzpah.

As a longtime Silver Surfer reader I thought the whole thing was just awesome, of course, especially when EVERY DEITY/COSMIC BEING EVER shows up, and the Living Tribunal is like "eh whatever." I was a bit disappointed by the Celestials' poor showing against thanos, but it is what it is.

The glove not fitting thing is obviously another manifestation of Thanos' sublimated desire to fail at everything. I can sympathize.

Not actually the complete Red Hood, it's just Family Reunion (Batman 635-641) a standalone (645) and the first two parts of Franchise (646-647). I went and found a DCP with 650 in it, which is the last one pre OYL, so I assume that there's just more fighty fighty in the two issues in between.

I'm not surprised that Winick (I guess) has brought in a sarcastic condescending villian in Black Mask, nor that the title is best when he's on stage, it's funny and snappy like Barry Ween. But he also does the grim brooding stuff well, and I basically enjoyed it throughout.

Question: Why are Oracle and Batman on the outs at the start of the story? Is it because she got herself technovirused up in Birds of Prey?

So I'm a little slow, sue me.

Fascinatingly, Todd takes over the writing with issue 20 and I can't tell the difference. There are a few less 'fratakta yaddaddas', it's a lot nastier in places, but it's the same tough police-procedural kind of thing. Bendis gets no credits at all, so either a) Todd pulled a fast one and failed to credit his input, b) Alex Maleev does ALL THE HEAVY LIFTING and Bendis is the archetypal writer being propped up by his artists, or c) this noir stuff is DEAD EASY if you've got a copy of David Simon's 'Homicide' and a few DVDs handy. Or d) Todd's a talented writer, which is certainly possible.

Download a t0rr3nt client (I use Azureus, but others use utorrent or BitComet). Azureus has a really good help wiki, you might need to open a port to get it to work as quickly as you might want and using the recommended settings re: number of active t0rr3nts etc.

Step 2

Visit a t0rr3nt host site. ZCult FM is still held to be the best, no? To register you need to validate your email address by replying to a message and posting in the Introduce Yourself thread. That's as complicated as it is.

Step 3

Find teh t0rr3nt you want. Download the t0rr3nt file, which is tiny. Your client does all the complicated stuff from there on, all you need to do is nominate the save folder.

Aldo, thanks for infoes.

which is the current page of an Indonesian site where people seem to get everything off DC++ and then upload it to most file-sharing sites known to man. Worth a look.

uh, new site for M@rv3ls anyone? Hit me by userprofilemail.

It's down at the moment, but pretty much everything usually turns up at
http://rapidsearch.yi.org/?

just type cbr into the search box

Yeah, that's what I've been using lately, but like you say, it's down right now.

It's now back.

I use www.h33t.com (actual site address, not google-proofed)

There's a small but pretty committed bunch of uploaders there, a lot of the fallout of Demonoid ended up there, including the guys who are seeding the Marvel & DC chronologies and of course the weekly DCP.

Also it's free membership and they have a good, healthy attitiude towards seeding/leeching.

If anyone would like to trade, mail me.

Do I have the patience to get Pep Comics #1-65, one file at a time?

I would, or at least for the issues (1-17?) with The Comet in them.

Urgh I have spent the last fortnight catching up on four months comics. My findings are that comics suck, or they're briefly good until Gale Simone stops writing them suddenly.

Just moved 4 GB of unread things that seemed like great ideas at the time onto DVD so I can forget about them entirely.

So what CBR programme do my fellow Mac users rely on? I'm having real problems with Jomic, it corrupts somehow and unistalls itself every time I shut down. I tried Comical for a bit, but that was even worse, prone to crashing mid-comic.

I use Simple Comic.

http://dancingtortoise.com/simplecomic/

I ponied up for ComicBookLover. Can't remember a crash or any problems whatsoever. There is a trial version that puts a little logo in the corner while you're trying it out.

Thanks fellas. So far so good with Simple Comic.

I use ComicBookLover too. It's like iTunes for comics. Totally worth it.

Simple Comic is great!

Thirding ComicBookLover

Simple Comic is great!

Yeah, I like it so well I actually gave the guy a donation for his donationware, which I'm not the best about doing.

So, uh, why the hell was Bl@ck P@nther 6 skipped last week?!

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