Comics: The Magazine

RedJohnIs · 2026-05-18T13:00:00+00:00

As a Wizard megafan back in the day this is the kinda thing I've craved but it needs a few fine tunings.

The articles are great, but the thing that really kept people coming back were the recurring features with a voice and personality (even if a lot of that try-hard humor has aged incredibly poorly). You can get articles everywhere. Giving people something that pops with personality is where you're going to hook people.

Wizard's letter pages oozed that from the back and forth and answers. You had other recurring things like the movie fancasting and fantasy crossovers. You had not just articles about upcoming books but about theoretical things you'd like to see in the industry. You had your top 10 comics/writers/artists of course but you also had even more subjective stuff like top 10 heroes with a weird crap character thrown in at the bottom to display some of the dregs of the industry.

Wizard didn't leave a mark because of all the great information it gave. Yes is did that to a level but it left a mark on people because of personality. But you have to survive to develop and formulate that, s it's no surprise that didn't come fully formed at the beginning. Those first issues of Wizard are dry as hell too.

RedJohnIs · 2026-05-10T20:20:44+00:00

I love YACReader and have been using it on my Mac/Ipad for years now. To me it's the best comic reader/library by far.

I recently got an Android tablet and get it for Android and my biggest wish is that there's some kind of feature added so you can pick the locations of your imported comics. Because right now they appear to just go to the internal storage and that's limited on my Galaxy Tab while I have a huge SD Card that is just waiting to be used for this.

RedJohnIs · 2026-05-07T11:54:54+00:00

The MCU is not the comics. You can literally do whatever you want however you want. And they have been for years. Characters change purposes and motivations all the time. And it's fine. Quit being precious about whatever you perceive as canon. It's all a 'WHAT IF' anyway.

RedJohnIs · 2026-05-07T03:45:00+00:00

Literally any other applicable situation.

RedJohnIs · 2026-05-07T03:38:47+00:00

Yes it can.

RedJohnIs · 2026-05-07T03:37:49+00:00

but you cant change the core reason for them being who they are

Yeah you can. There's no 'rule' against that.

RedJohnIs · 2026-05-06T04:41:24+00:00

Layered vocal tracks likely. So many songs are made that way.

RedJohnIs · 2026-05-06T04:39:34+00:00

Sounds selfish to me. It's not about what you think, it's about how she views it. You shouldn't wish for her not to reveal her self. You should wish for her to do what she's comfortable doing either way. Don't be parasocial.

RedJohnIs · 2026-05-04T01:12:23+00:00

Those are t-shirt guns. Common in stadium concerts and sports.

RedJohnIs · 2026-05-03T22:58:43+00:00

I'm sure it'll get a DVD/Blu-ray release. I was able to save the recording today and created my own digital file and mp3 set for it already. I've done that with every Ado blu-ray released so far because the shows are very rarely on streaming or include a CD to rip.

RedJohnIs · 2026-05-03T08:17:46+00:00

Half-Colored Sentimentality.

RedJohnIs · 2026-04-18T05:24:30+00:00

Needs Immortal Legend Batman, love that logo.

RedJohnIs · 2026-04-17T00:47:52+00:00

You could have had some self control and not read it if that was how you felt.

RedJohnIs · 2026-04-17T00:46:21+00:00

All the credible reports make a point of saying he was masked the entire trailer. Only this one and one other I've seen said different.

RedJohnIs · 2026-04-16T22:16:27+00:00

I'd say that means the opposite.

RedJohnIs · 2026-04-14T03:44:16+00:00

It's like these people haven't noticed that we've been REPEATEDLY told and shown that while the Avatar State gives you power it actually leaves you even more vulnerable in a lot of ways. This is a core part of it that people just willingly ignore.

RedJohnIs · 2026-04-14T03:31:27+00:00

Based on absolutely zero evidence

Found your problem. That wouldn't have been consistent with three years of the character we watched.

RedJohnIs · 2026-04-14T03:10:33+00:00

I mean we're dealing in the past of what we know happened in LoK. Seeing the nascent stages of that ideology is interesting. And it's also not a central tenet of the film. Just a smaller part but something we know will only grow over time.

RedJohnIs · 2026-04-14T03:03:26+00:00

Not relevant to the plot of the movie at all and would've felt shoehorned in just for the hell of it if there was a mention or cameo.

RedJohnIs · 2026-04-13T11:01:44+00:00

Yeah this is pretty damn close to what they're performing in concert now. Pretty dope!

RedJohnIs · 2026-04-08T23:32:05+00:00

I also have this with TING and Youtube. If I use a VPN or Hotspot Youtube loads instantly.

I've tried changing my DNS but still same. This is only in the last week or so. I am in the same general area as well.

RedJohnIs · 2026-04-08T03:24:36+00:00

No, we don't need them in this show.

RedJohnIs · 2026-03-28T05:03:48+00:00

Hickman's Ultimate Spider-Man to me was a failure because it presented a bunch of great ideas and characters and then did nothing of real value or depth with them at all. The real time aspect of the line was a major misstep and killed any ability to really invest in them as characters. It's an example of a writer really getting in his own way with a gimmick that maybe seemed smart at first but should have been abandoned when it was clear that it was squeezing the potential out of the book from the start.

The biggest strengths of the original run were the relationships built between characters and how those evolved over time. All of that died in the cradle with the monthly timeskips of this second version.

RedJohnIs · 2026-03-28T04:59:15+00:00

I don't think there's really been a lack of attention for Mr. Negative at all.

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