This week on The Watchtower, it’s time to weigh in on the biggest thing in the world right now: The iPad.
What will it mean for comics? Is it a good investment? Or another nail in the print comic coffin?
Then, it’s all about The Avengers. There’s a new team in town come this may, being handled by some old pros. Bendis and Romita Jr are unveiling their new (not New) Avengers one by one, but why is there always a Gorilla?
Also, DC has some more bling for your fingers! The next round of ring promos have been announced, and shockingly they will come with books you might actually want! But is it everything it seems?
And of course, there’s The Forecast, Questy’s Rant farm and oh, so much more!!
11:17 pm on February 3rd, 2010
For once I actually agree with Questy. “Never underestimate the power of convenience” is a tag line I’m starting to get sick to death of when it comes to the iPad, as I’ve heard it lots of times.
Ok, you no longer have to get out of the house to get your newspaper. You no longer have to scour your favorite music shops for that rare CD. You no longer have to troop to your favorite comic book store every Wednesday to get your favorite comics. You don’t have to go out and take a bus or drive a car to go watch a movie.
You just have to sit on your ass, at home, and get all that in just less than a minute. How much more convenient do you want it?
I’m really concerned that the coming generations would no longer have to work for the things that they want because they would get everything they want to easily, and so quickly, without having to tax any muscle in their body other than their finger. They would never know the thrill of working for things, hunting for things, being frustrated at not having seen this or that, or not having read this.
Gone would be the mysteries, the holy grails… things that make living freaking FUN.
And with the coming generations getting things so easily, they will never learn to value things. Everything will be devalued and taken for granted. A comic book that we in the older generation would consider valuable in that it’s rare, and we searched ages for it, worked an extra job just to afford it… to the kid in the new generation it means nothing. It’s just another throwaway comic book that he downloaded in a second, browsed for a few seconds, then deleted.
10:11 pm on February 4th, 2010
Amen Gerry, Amen.
8:51 pm on February 9th, 2010
okay where the hell’s the uncut Kevin Smith interview you guys promised (actually it was only Jeff who promised, Questy just said “Uh Huh” or something like that).
4:09 pm on February 10th, 2010
I am against the comics going out to the Ipad. i love going out and geeking out with my friends talking about green lantern or uncanny x-men and how much better scott summers has been since untied the shackles to his balls which was called jean grey.
taking humanity and condensing it into machines we might as well live in the matrix and be fed by machines and just live totally oblivious to the fact that machines take over our lives. personally i love the consumption of tree’s to give me my 13-25 page bit of entertainment. with things going to the electronics it means now they can do half assed stories and over saturation of characters who should not have over saturation in the first place… (deadpool)
What good is downloading a comic when its better to have that hard print of one more day and smack the editor of marvel comics and rip it up in front of him while saying how could they do something so foolish and end up trying to bring them back together again so soon…..
I whole heartly agree with you gerry. and i hope the companies will make a good choice and not go with the downloaded content.