Well, I am sorry for that. I did not work on that book, nor get a chance to proof it. Obviously, that was a mistake.

I am not sure what you are referring to...a new member joined a few issues ago.

All honesty, I did not see the program guide. But I know Gambit IS in AVX, and I know of at LEAST one BADASS fight for him.

Well, of course that is up to every person to decide on their own.

For me? Nah.

But then, I don't think Emma has, either.

And I am still mad at Colossus for cheating on Kitty during Secret Wars.

So, I'm hard to please.

Not sure what you're referring to. She has telekinesis and telepathy...and also this whacked-out time power where she can like...send her mind back in time? Sort of? That one doesn't come up much.

No spoilers.

I think there might be a small problem with that, given the large event planned to start soon...

Sure--it doesn't belong to me, and they will do what they want. It's a work of art that means a lot to me. I am sure you can understand that--there must be a work you care about. But the fact is, like I said, it's really an emotional reaction I am having to it, and I shouldn't need to rationalize that. The idea of doing these books upsets me, much like the travesty of a film did, so I am not going to read them. And, in my darkest parts of my brain, I hope no one else will, too.

I think writers nowadays have a tendency to take thinks to extremes. If you say something is unbreakable, they ask "Oh yeah? Well, what if we DID break it?". Like an extension of the Chekhov adage "If you introduce a gun in act one it must be fired by act three" to something like "If a doctor is driving a car home in act one, by act three their family must be killed in a car crash escaping a mob of plague victims."

And that is not a bad thing, just different. In the 70s filmmakers were comfortable putting in a minute of car driving footage. Now they would never. Just differing attitudes towards storytelling over time.

Assistant edited, but thanks! I think that was great, too! James is doing a bang up job on the series!

Not sure when exactly, but I know where he will be post Schism.

A satisfying experience in every issue that does not take for granted you already knowing and loving the characters.

Well, the talent agreed to work for nothing, so...it's the choice of the organizers.

Yes!

Pretty much. Well...one exception.

Keeping up with formspring.

No, the movie world is separate from the comic world.

No, I have not seen it. I agree, though...I am sure I will have major problems with Morrison's ideas.

No, they do appear in Schism in supporting roles. The space arc happens before Schism.

Even if you were right, and I had torrented something, what does that prove? Do the two wrongs somehow make a right? Does it make my statements about torrenting less true? No.

If I have ever downloaded something illegally in the past, it was the wrong thing to do. It was me making the wrong choice and doing the wrong thing. It was wrong. I never have justified anything--there is no justification. It is misappropriation of other people's property, and it deprives them of money.

And if someone were to say "Hey, you downloaded such and such album, and that band did not sell enough and no one will distribute their albums now" I would feel like a total asshole because I contributed to putting a band I liked out of business.

Comics are not a huge medium, and with the economy down, they sell less than ever. And we see online torrents of comics claiming to have been downloaded WAY more than all the copies we've sold. Sure, some of those are bots or whatnot, but if every person who read them paid cover price, it would be a HUGE BOOM in the industry. We're talking about an industry where the top selling book of the month is lucky to break 100,000. If a big Hollywood studio's biggest summer movie sold 100,000 tickets, people would lose their jobs. A network TV show whose pilot was only watched by 100,000 people would be cancelled before episode 2 aired. Yet, in torrent land, some of our BOTTOM selling books have more downloads than that.

I usually don't swear much, but come on. Downloading comics is an asshole thing to do, and it doesn't matter if it's a hypocrite saying it or Charles Manson. It's wrong, it hurts the medium, it hurts creators, it hurts fans of low selling books. You can call me whatever you want--if you download comics illegally, you are an asshole.