PixlBit

I love when you go over comics. Comics fascinates me so much and I really want to get into some but never know where to start. I don't know of any local comic bookstores that I can go to. But awesome, the Star Wars expanded universe stuff always sounds amazing. 

I'm trying to figure out in my mind what makes this Vader series so good. It's the writing yes, but it's also the art and the rhythm of the story. How it ends, how it builds to that end. It's a bunch of stuff that contributes to such a great feeling when you get to the end of the issue. It's not always a lot of words too. It can be just a few. Comics are a cool medium. Underappreciated.

Awesome, Vader is just a super cool character that isn't explored too much in the movies. The prequels......yea lets forget they happened. Comics are unappreciated. I don't really like reading but comics can always hold my interest, I think it is because it has art but great story telling and character develop. 

Dark-horse always featured really deep stories and great illustrations to accompany their yarns. I kind of get the feeling when Bioware made Kotor they looked more to the dark-horse comics than the original trilogy. There's actually a lot more "lore" and "history" in the comics.

You're not kidding me. In the back of some of them there's a timeline showing all the different periods where Star Wars comic stories have been told. It's huge, from the distant past to the far future of the movie's time period.

Sadly I got out of comics back in the 90s. Too many special issues with flashy covers, and overhyped stories killed it for me.

I've heard other people say that period was a bit of a low for comics. Those shiny metalic covers and some bad stories. But there's always something good lurking amid the bad stuff.

I can't maintain a membership at my comic store because I usually am only following a handful of comic series. They require you follow at least five. I often change what I follow too. If I don't like a series, I drop it. I'm real picky so I don't end up spending too much. I always find something interesting. There's so much out there. It's not just super-hero stuff anymore.

That Star Wars comic sounds pretty interesting.

There's been a bunch of Darth Vader centered comic series. I'm always getting them because they're almost always good. 

and yet you speak not of this "digital comic revoltuion" that is supposedly taking place right now. I want to know if your local comic book stores feel that "dark shadow" looming over their republic.

My comic store moved down the street recently and I immediately thought they were moving to a smaller store because of this "revolution", but I asked them and apparently the new store is bigger. It is possible though, that they got a better deal on rent in the new place, so maybe the pressure is on.

     I mean, book stores are about to disappear because of e-books and Amazon. I hate to think of what's to come for comic stores with online places like comixology selling to your tablet.

     A comic I just got had an ad with a code for a free copy of issue 0 of Original Sin. They tried to get me to make an account on Marvel though to get it, so I didn't download it, but if I had a tablet, I might think about going download with my comics, but I'm not sure. I'm pretty attached to my paper issues. I don't want to see my comic store close up. I like going there every week. I think I would stop reading comics if it closed. Downloads just don't appeal to me that much no matter how good the story. Call it my inner caveman that needs something in my hand to be satisfied.