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Review Group Week #265: Ultimate Spider-Man #155

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by Tintin Quarantino » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:31 am

Punchy wrote:
Amlah and you have been calling me a corporate whore for a while.

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Hmmm... One search response and it's you calling yourself a corporate whore.

EDIT: Now two, both you.

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by Tintin Quarantino » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:31 am

Punchy wrote:
Amlah and you have been calling me a corporate whore for a while.

EDIT: Now two, both you.

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by Punchy » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:33 am

Frank Einstein wrote:
Got you to pick MG over a FI tie-in, did it not? Mission accomplished!

And don't play like you were always planning to pick MG. We all know it crushed your soul not to pick Marvel.

Not really, I had 3 possible choices in my head, either MG, Fear Itself: Book Of The Skull or THUNDER Agents.

That's one Marvel, one DC and one Indie.

I have balanced tastes.

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by Punchy » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:33 am

Frank Einstein wrote:
Got you to pick MG over a FI tie-in, did it not? Mission accomplished!

And don't play like you were always planning to pick MG. We all know it crushed your soul not to pick Marvel.

Not really, I had 3 possible choices in my head, either MG, Fear Itself: Book Of The Skull or THUNDER Agents.

That's one Marvel, one DC and one Indie.

I have balanced tastes.

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by Punchy » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:33 am

Viscous Skid wrote:
search.php?keywords=corporate+whore&terms=all&author=viscous+skid&fid%5B%5D=2&sc=1&sf=msgonly&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search

Hmmm... One search response and it's you calling yourself a corporate whore.

EDIT: Now two, both you.

Pedant, you may not have used the exact phrase, but you implied it!

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by Punchy » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:33 am

Viscous Skid wrote:
search.php?keywords=corporate+whore&terms=all&author=viscous+skid&fid%5B%5D=2&sc=1&sf=msgonly&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search

Hmmm... One search response and it's you calling yourself a corporate whore.

EDIT: Now two, both you.

Pedant, you may not have used the exact phrase, but you implied it!

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by Punchy » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:35 am

Frank Einstein wrote:
Say I get 20 hours out of a $60 video game.

I would have to buy 80 Superman comics to be entertained for the same amount of time.

Comics aren't a super great value anymore. It's a boutique industry pricing itself out of relevancy, obv.

See, I think $60 is too much for a video game, they've gotten too expensive. That's why I only play DS, where games are on average about £20 (on Amazon).

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by Punchy » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:35 am

Frank Einstein wrote:
Say I get 20 hours out of a $60 video game.

I would have to buy 80 Superman comics to be entertained for the same amount of time.

Comics aren't a super great value anymore. It's a boutique industry pricing itself out of relevancy, obv.

See, I think $60 is too much for a video game, they've gotten too expensive. That's why I only play DS, where games are on average about £20 (on Amazon).

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by ****** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:35 am

Punchy wrote:
Not really, I had 3 possible choices in my head, either MG, Fear Itself: Book Of The Skull or THUNDER Agents.

That's one Marvel, one DC and one Indie.

I have balanced tastes.

That's 2/3rds corporate. Whore!

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by ****** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:35 am

Punchy wrote:
Not really, I had 3 possible choices in my head, either MG, Fear Itself: Book Of The Skull or THUNDER Agents.

That's one Marvel, one DC and one Indie.

I have balanced tastes.

That's 2/3rds corporate. Whore!

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by Punchy » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:39 am

Frank Einstein wrote:
That's 2/3rds corporate. Whore!

A real whore would have all 3 slots open for Corporations!

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by Punchy » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:39 am

Frank Einstein wrote:
That's 2/3rds corporate. Whore!

A real whore would have all 3 slots open for Corporations!

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by Tintin Quarantino » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:41 am

Punchy wrote:
Not really, I had 3 possible choices in my head, either MG, Fear Itself: Book Of The Skull or THUNDER Agents.

That's one Marvel, one DC and one Indie.

I have balanced tastes.

Those are all good books, THUNDER Agents less a good pick just because of the point in the story it's at. Would be interesting though.

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by Tintin Quarantino » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:41 am

Punchy wrote:
Not really, I had 3 possible choices in my head, either MG, Fear Itself: Book Of The Skull or THUNDER Agents.

That's one Marvel, one DC and one Indie.

I have balanced tastes.

Those are all good books, THUNDER Agents less a good pick just because of the point in the story it's at. Would be interesting though.

"Being offended is not to be confused with a state of grace; it’s the occasional price we all pay for living in an open society." -- Ian McEwan

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by Tintin Quarantino » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:42 am

Punchy wrote:

Pedant, you may not have used the exact phrase, but you implied it!

Until you provide quotes it's just more of your Straw Men..

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by Tintin Quarantino » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:42 am

Punchy wrote:

Pedant, you may not have used the exact phrase, but you implied it!

Until you provide quotes it's just more of your Straw Men..

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by Punchy » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:42 am

Viscous Skid wrote:
Those are all good books, THUNDER Agents less a good pick just because of the point in the story it's at. Would be interesting though.

Yeah, but it's in no more of a confusing place than Secret Warriors was, or this week.

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by Punchy » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:42 am

Viscous Skid wrote:
Those are all good books, THUNDER Agents less a good pick just because of the point in the story it's at. Would be interesting though.

Yeah, but it's in no more of a confusing place than Secret Warriors was, or this week.

Rain Partier

by Tintin Quarantino » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:43 am

Oh! I called you a French whore...is that what's got you all mixed up?

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by Tintin Quarantino » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:43 am

Oh! I called you a French whore...is that what's got you all mixed up?

"Being offended is not to be confused with a state of grace; it’s the occasional price we all pay for living in an open society." -- Ian McEwan

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by ****** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:45 am

Punchy wrote:
A real whore would have all 3 slots open for Corporations!

Pfft. A real whore (you) would include an 'indie' to disguise their corporate whore heart.

Besides, it's not like you picked a self-published comic, stop patting yourself on the back.

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by ****** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:45 am

Punchy wrote:
A real whore would have all 3 slots open for Corporations!

Pfft. A real whore (you) would include an 'indie' to disguise their corporate whore heart.

Besides, it's not like you picked a self-published comic, stop patting yourself on the back.

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by Punchy » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:48 am

Frank Einstein wrote:
Pfft. A real whore (you) would include an 'indie' to disguise their corporate whore heart.

Besides, it's not like you picked a self-published comic, stop patting yourself on the back.

I don't think it's really feasible to pick a self-published book, the logistics of everyone finding a copy would be hard.

Creator-owned is the best we can go for.

I'm not particularly patting myself on the back, I like Big Two comics, and consider them to be of equal value to indies, you have to judge each book on it's own merits.

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by Punchy » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:48 am

Frank Einstein wrote:
Pfft. A real whore (you) would include an 'indie' to disguise their corporate whore heart.

Besides, it's not like you picked a self-published comic, stop patting yourself on the back.

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by BlueStreak » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:52 am

Punchy wrote:
I don't think it's really feasible to pick a self-published book, the logistics of everyone finding a copy would be hard.

Creator-owned is the best we can go for.

I'm not particularly patting myself on the back, I like Big Two comics, and consider them to be of equal value to indies, you have to judge each book on it's own merits.

He considers them all to be 7/10s in his book.

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by BlueStreak » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:52 am

Punchy wrote:
I don't think it's really feasible to pick a self-published book, the logistics of everyone finding a copy would be hard.

Creator-owned is the best we can go for.

I'm not particularly patting myself on the back, I like Big Two comics, and consider them to be of equal value to indies, you have to judge each book on it's own merits.

He considers them all to be 7/10s in his book.

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by ****** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:53 am

Punchy wrote:
I don't think it's really feasible to pick a self-published book, the logistics of everyone finding a copy would be hard.

Typical reasoning from a Disney/Warners comic book consumer.

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by ****** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:53 am

Punchy wrote:
I don't think it's really feasible to pick a self-published book, the logistics of everyone finding a copy would be hard.

Typical reasoning from a Disney/Warners comic book consumer.

Punchy

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by Punchy » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:55 am

BlueStreak wrote:
He considers them all to be 7/10s in his book.

This is also true.

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by Punchy » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:55 am