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Next year will be the TWolves year. Even though he's hurt, Cassell is still more consistent than Parker.

The Streets is (that bit of proper grammar was for you IDRM ) amazing. You are just a hater.

I hate I95 south towards Philly where all the sudden it justs drops to 55. And I hate the Garden State Parkway with a passion in the summer.

I wouldn't say that Payton is worse than Fisher. The two of them are pretty much equal.

Haha. It's kind of funny. When Malone was still in Utah, Walton would hint at him playing dirty.

Try ebay. Sometimes you can find people selling TPB's cheaply.

Three GL books could be awesome, but after the initial hype of the return of Hal, I really doubt that they'll be able to sell one GL book

Check out your local library. They might have it becauses it is so universally praised.

The Death mini-series were amazing. I loved how he was able to make her so sympathetic.

I love the Sandman series to death and am amazed by Neil Gaiman. That said, I would say that at times the series could be a little overrated at times. All the stories were great, but they don't hold up by themselves. You can read DKR by itself and understand Bats' motivations and everything. However, if you pick up the TPB of The Sandman: A game of you, you will be lost. The thing is that it was an ongoing series, and you really can't compare that to important one shots/self contained stories like Watchmen, DKR, etc. It's also hard to compare the Sandman, because it isn't a super hero epic. One of the best parts of the Sandman is that Gaiman pretty much had complete control over the series from start to finish. Many creaters really don't get that opportunity to tell a story from beginning to end. I would rank Sandman propably somewhere in the Top 5 comic book stories ever. I would rank it as the best fantasy story ever in comic books.

I was never able to get into X-Statix. It (the first trade) was a good read, but I never fealt the urge to look at it ever again.

All the sketches I got were free except for the Norton one. It was $25, but it was a full quality, pencilled and inked. Quesada was really cool. Basically I just asked about their TPBs and stuff. Kinda related, I forgot to mention that I also got to talk to Jimmy Palmiotti over at the DC table. He was pretty much sitting by himself while everyone was getting stuff from Raney and Garney. I went over and talked to him for a bit about him making the transition from inking to writing. He said he enjoys the challenging that writing brings, but really loves to ink. He finds it relaxing.

Next weekend I'm going to Philly to check out the Wizard World East show. I'll be posting all the interesting things I see/hear there in this thread and stuff like that. I've never been to one as large as this, so what suggestions do you guys have for me?

Thor would win. He does get self absorbed, but he's a god... He really has no weakness. Batman's trickery would only slow down Thor. The only way Bats could win is if he could get someone on Thor's level of powerfulness for help.

Is Captain Marvel ending? Huh? Where have I been? I guess it makes sense, since the book doesn't. The series has been cancelled. I think it's ending either June/July.

It's unconfirmed, but one of the big rumors that people were talking about this past weekend at Wizard World was that the GL series was getting relaunched with Hal as the focus. I wanted to ask someone at DC about it, but there was no one there attatched to the project.

Okay. Here's my Wizard World story... DAY 1: When I got there, I was totally overwhelmed by everything, and I propably wound up spending the first half hour just wandering and looking at everything. So much comic books and toys and related stuff. So what was the first thing I did? I went out and bought the exclusive Muppets from Palisades Toys...Adventurer Kermit and the Tuxedo Gonzo. The first sigining I went to was Michael Turner's. Earlier in the day, a couple people came up with crates of stuff for him to sign, so from that point on you were only allowed 6 things. No big to me. Getting off tangent, I thought it was completely rude to expect someone to sign a ridiculous amount of stuff, especially when there is a large line behind you waiting. Anyway, I got him to sign the Superman/Batman where Supergirl comes back, and the promo poster he did for DC's Identity Crisis. Turner was very polite and his response for his favorite character to draw is Batman. After that, I went over to the Marvel booth for a signing with Adam Kubert and Greg Horn. Kubert was very quiet. Horn was really cool. I asked him about his paintings, like how long they take and his work schedule. Basically he said he likes to get them done as quickly as possible, and will work 14-15 hours a day. What was really cool about Horn was that he was supposed to leave Marvel's booth, but whoever was next never showed up and he stayed there. Then it was off to the DC booth. There was a big difference between Marvel and DC: Marvel's line tried to get you in and out as quick as possible. DC's was more inviting, as well as their staff. They answered all kinds of questions, had all kinds of advanced copies for you to look at, and giveaway posets, buttons, and all kinds of stuff. Just looking around their section I ran into Dan Jolley (the writer of the new Firestorm). He was really cool. I talked about the new series and such. He was very interested in my feedback and such. Anyway, I first waited on line to get stuff signed by Tom Raney, who was doing amazing sketches. He was putting 20 mins into each one and they were really detailed. I got a really cool headshot of Nightwing. It was well worth the almost 2 hour wait! Raney pretty much staid there for four hours and did great sketches for everyone. After him, I went to the other side of the line to get stuff signed by Ron Garney. I asked him for a sketch of the Green Lantern. He asked which one, and I said whatever he wanted. I wound up getting a really cool one of John Stewart. That pretty much was the first day. Day 2 I planned on getting their earlier, but sleep was more important. I wound up getting in before noon. It was really busy that day; that was when ALfred Molina and Eliza DUshku were there. I stopped by Marvel to get some stuff signed by Salvador Larocca. I wound up getting a Wolverine sketch from Avenger's editor Tom Brevoort! Ha! I also stopped by Mirage Studio's tables and got a bunch of stuff. I took Starvenger's advise and checked out the seminars. The first one I went to was for Devil's Due. They talked about their upcoming projects, like another GI Joe vs. Transformers, their collaboration with Aspen on a new GI Joe villain, their upcoming super hero line, and their horror special, Hack/Slash (I picked it up and it was a pretty good read. Worth checking out). After that I was starving, as I really hadn't eaten anything since Friday. I wound up waiting for 50 minutes for a damn cheesesteak, and they messed up my order and gave me a Diet Coke. I was uberpissed, cause I was late to the Avengers panel and walked in after they explained this summer's big Avengers: Dissassembled storyline. I also became more pissed as I found out that I wound up losing the Deathbird action figure I purchased earlier that morning. Just as I was about to swear off humanity as a whole, they announced a "Stump Brevoort" contest where they were giving away rare variants of a Ultimate Spider-Man issue. I was fortunate enough to stump him and was happily given the comic from Joe Quesada. All was forgiven in the world. Afterwards I spoke to Quesada a little bit. He was really cool. The day was finished by picking up the Aspen-designed exclusive GI Joe litho and getting it signed by Talent Caldwell and Jason Gorder (the guys who did it). I actually wound up talking about basketball with Gorder. Day 3 The last day I spent buying stuff and just going aound wandering. I'll spare you the details of my purchases. The highlights was getting to talk to Michael Avon Oeming about his plans for when his upcoming run on Thor (he plans on getting rid of Asgard floating over NYC ), and getting a quick sketch of Loki from him. The other was the sketch I bought from Mike Norton at Devil's Due of the Cobra twins, Xamot and Tomax. It came out freaking amazing! I also got a few sketches from some inkers at Marvel and the guy who pencils the Robin series at DC. The day ended over at the Palisades Toys tent where they were having a trivia contest for exclusives. I won the variant Janice from the Muppets fig and it was signed by their creative team. Basically, I had an amazing time. I bought a lot of cool stuff and can't wait for next year. Highly reccommended.

Wizard World totally kicked ass. I'm going to post my story later. Thanks for the advise. THe sketching kicked ass.

Justice League would mop the floor with them. The only X-Man who would cause some trouble is Jean Grey thanks to her telekinetic/mental powers.

When they are all healthy, the Kings are REALLY formidable. They don't need much. I do think they need a new coach, that's usually the easiest quick fix. They have a lot of good shooters, so I think Phil Jackson could get his triangle going. Adleman's not a bad coach; I actually like him a lot. But unfortunately, someone has to take he blame and coach's wind up being the quickest and easiest to change. As far as players, I say resign Vlade as a last resort and look for someone who can play the role of a defending PF/C for 20-30 minutes. Make Brad Miller the starting C. And I'm not saying that they should flat out ditch Chris Weber, but definitely ue him as trade bait.

Lakers/Piston will be awesome.

I know, but KM '98 is much different than KM '04. In '98 he had to do everything...defend, carry the offensive load, be THE rebounder, the baggage of being a recent MVP, and such. Lots of pressure. In '03, all he has to do is defend, help out Shaq on the boards, and pass the ball. Sometimes score if he has to. Karl may be older, but he doesn't have as many things to do. He'll be fine...

That's a very good answer. However, it would suck if they followed the current trend in the Hulk comics that he then wanders through the desert and accidentally kills a child who may or not be a clone of Doc Sampson's possible illegitimate son, and then the Abomination's ex-wife gets involved.....

CWF.com News Update • Last night at a CWF house show, Rosie suffered a potentiall career threatening injury while in a tag match with the Hurricane against Rikishi and Scotty 2 Hotty. Rosie wound up tearing both his ACL and PCL, and he will be out indefinitely. The two tag teams have been feuding for months. Rikishi has been bragging about how he finally has taken out Rosie, who is a disgrace to their Samoan heritage. • Randy Orton will not be wrestling this week, thanks to the chairshots from Raven. He will be returning in two weeks.

As someone who will consider Karl Malone a deity, I do see him having trouble defending against Garnett. KG's too freaking quick and lanky.