I'm at the DC Rebirth retailer road show

i understand that completionist approach but can't imagine doing it with paper.

as of late i found the online "complete marvel" / "complete dc" torrents (about two terabytes total) and am slowly absorbing full years

Speaking of ill-gotten DC torrents, I just spotted this precocious letter writer at the back of a Neal Adams Batman issue:

http://i.imgur.com/28M5BzQ.jpg

dave sim, champion of grim and gritty

I came across a few George R.R. Martin letters in silver age Marvel titles.

is there a tumblr or something for scans of before-they-were-famous letters that appeared in comics and magazines?

(or just scans of letters pages from old comics in general, I love that stuff.)

these scans of letters that appeared in 50s and 60s Superman comics and Mort Weisinger's responses are quite something

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/category/dont-send-me-no-more-letters-no/

The crazy thing is that the Darth Vader boo being stopped it is selling well. Vader and Star Wars are like #2 and #3 of all the books at my small local shop on the pull list with Walking Dead being #1.

To me, I think if Marvel really wanted to get it together they should do what they did on those Star Wars titles, which are in someways the most old school Marvel books they have done in a while. They have an inner continuity, they are written for a wide audience and are both stylistically and content wise true to the original creations with room for the creators to tell a story.

What could be fun if they do Empire Strikes Back as like a 25 issue (4 trade series) both adapting the movie and filling in back story with Jabba, Boba Fett and other players in the background like the search for Hoth etc.

like the radio play adaptions

the star wars radio play, which i listened to obsessively as a child before we had a vhs machine, was 13 30-min episiodes, so there was a LOOOOT of extra material

I came across a few George R.R. Martin letters in silver age Marvel titles.

― What's Your Definition of a Dirty Baby? (Old Lunch)

true fact: he was the first paying attendee at a comics convention

http://awoiaf.westeros.org/images/4/4b/George_R_R_Martin.jpg
You'd never guess from his physical appearance

To me, I think if Marvel really wanted to get it together they should do what they did on those Star Wars titles, which are in someways the most old school Marvel books they have done in a while. They have an inner continuity, they are written for a wide audience and are both stylistically and content wise true to the original creations with room for the creators to tell a story.

I think they had the same rules with the previous (pre-Episode VII) canon? All comics, games, novels, etc. had to be approved by Lucasfilm's continuity guards, and they were all considered canon... And then what happened was that, once The Force Awakens was in the works, obviously a lot of the old canon would have to be abandoned (since it depicted post-Episode VI events in ways that would contradict with Episode VII), so they decided that all of the old canon except for the movies + the Clone Wars TV series was now set in an alternate universe. I think the old canon is now called "Star Wars Legends" or something.

AFAIK Star Wars has been pretty unique in this regard that they've tried to include all stories in different media into the canon, so that the timeline of their universe includes all that material, and different stories shouldn't contradict each other. With Star Trek, for example, only the TV series and the movies are considered to be official canon, everything else is non-canonical.

IIRC there were levels of canon, so the book level was canon unless it was contradicted by the films, the comics were canon unless it was contradicted by the books or the film, and so on.

I like earlnash's point about the Star Wars books being "old school Marvel" - i.e. mild continuity, one author just getting on with it for several years, each new story really *is* a potential starting point for new readers, etc

i.e. the days before continuity was a beartrap and american otaku and children were the key demographics