Sorry for missing Wednesday… this is the last week of school and I was a little busy getting the last of the things I needed for school done… and then there were meetings that will be occuring randomly during the summer, along with the fires that needed to be fought (your child got the grades they did because they didn’t do any work the last 9-weeks of school).  Not a good excuse, but the truth- My summer vacation starts once I get my classroom cleaned out & I find out what grade I’m teaching next year, so I can start planning- so hopefully sometime next week.

I hope you are enjoying Cecil’s little lair hunting he only has a few more places to check out before deciding where he’ll end up.  Then again, maybe I’ll be like DC Comics and restart the entire comic in September!  New creative team, and renumbering… so read these while you can because pretty soon they won’t be part of the continuity!

Actually DC does have courage to try that (Marvel has done it a couple of times and always ends up going back to the old numbers).  I remember (gather around children- old guy about to talk about the “good old days”) when the original Crisis on Infinite Earths finished and they rebooted every title… kind of.  It looks like after almost 25 years they are actually going to do what a bunch of people hoped they would… then again all it takes is another “infinite secret civil war crisis at zero hour” to bring it all back.  18 months… that my guess.

Sadly, the other news from DC (which means Marvel will follow suit) is that they will be releasing both print and digital editions of their comics on the same day and at the same price.  You’re saying “Wait?  Bruce is a geek and love technology!  Why would he be against such a move?”  Two words “Comic Shop.”  While I will still visit my local shop (Hi Dan!  Hi Tim!  Hi Terry!) because I know that to learn about new stuff, the place to go is a comic shop, many people won’t and those fantastic small independent titles might never get discovered or read, because DC & Marvel will have you using their app (there’s an app for that) and the independent won’t get the readership they deserve because they aren’t hooked up to a big publisher.  I’m now reading more and more independent stuff because it is good and because one time I went in to my local comic shop and said “Hey!  any suggestions?”  WARNING: that can be a costly question.

Off that soapbox and onto another… If you knew the world was ending in September (and someone was going to hit the “Reset button” would you really care about the the comics being produced now?  SO someone explain to me why I should read DC Comics from now until September (except that I have already preordered the titles I usually read and paid for them).