RiD (off topic)

[Shockwave]

I didn't see Inception. My parents saw and told me about and it sounds like an easy skip for me. Which is too bad because the commercials for it made the concept look good. But yeah, if it's open ended like that it's probably a good thing I skipped it.

[Sparky Prime]

As an aside, oh hell no.

If a stanger creature comes up to me obviously disguised as somebody who I know has been dead for years, I am going to (at best) mildly offended, if not afraid that it is a predator trying to eat me. Just sayin'......

Ellie is a rational scientist, I'm sure she could appreciate the aliens reasoning for assuming a form already familiar and significant to her. As he says before sending her back to Earth, "small moves".

[138 Scourge]

As an aside, oh hell no.

If a stanger creature comes up to me obviously disguised as somebody who I know has been dead for years, I am going to (at best) mildly offended, if not afraid that it is a predator trying to eat me. Just sayin'......

Ellie is a rational scientist, I'm sure she could appreciate the aliens reasoning for assuming a form already familiar and significant to her. As he says before sending her back to Earth, "small moves".

Yeah, it's like, even if she knows full well she'll be meeting with alien life, if the aliens in question look like ravening horrible monsters despite being highly advanced and civilized, it's gonna do bad things to her brain meeting with one. It's like the Ood in Doctor Who, sure they're good critters, but man, they look like a living nightmare. And faced with one head-on, without warning of what to expect? Yeah, I don't blame the aliens for taking a familiar form. Besides which, I got the idea that the movie (and probably the book) is more about the process of making contact, and a possible way it could happen than it is about showing us crazy-ass aliens. Lots of movies have that bit down.

I dunno, I saw Contact when it was in the theaters and rather liked it, but I haven't seen it since.

Man, Shocky, have I told you to read Stephen King books before? If so, I think I kinda retract that. Especially in King's more recent stuff, he's had several books that end really ambiguously, and a couple that straight-up say "You should stop reading now, because you're not gonna like the ending. No? Still with us? Okay, then." Dude just does not like an ending. I liked those books, so I'm not mad at him for it. Sometimes it just works. The lady or the tiger story would be kind of lame if it ended with either one.

[BWprowl]

Not quite.

Toys. Those do not ship, let along get shelved, reliably by any stretch.

Regular books are even worse. Book stores around here are lazy as hell. I have seen books on shelves at one place and not bought them, (say for lack of money). Then, later, I would be in another store and able to buy the book. Not only is the book not on the shelf, but the people there are swearing up and down that it is not even out yet.

And, when books do show up, they are not guaranteed to be in good condition. Bookstores need to take a lesson from comic stores.

Yeah, but you’ll have a hell of an easier time finding toys on shelves for a while after they’re supposed to be out. Ditto books, actually. One (of many) problem with comics is that they still cater to this mindset that you *have* to jet down to the store on the day they come out and grab not just one for yourself, but all the variant covers and if you get down there a day late or even *too late in the day* you’re SOL if you wanted to read that comic. Comics should reinvent themselves to be sold to people more like books or toys or even, hey, movies, where people can just see them on a shelf at any point and go “Oh, that looks cool, I’ll buy it”. Comics don’t cater to impulse buying at all, and *that’s* one reason why they can’t get any new readers. And I understand that increasing print runs on something that thrives entirely on niche appeal just to fill stands for potential impulse buys would be economic suicide. If only there were some way to sell comics without having to actually print them, possibly via some sort of, I dunno, digital model, onto a platform that is seeing rapidly increasing use amongst mainstream culture. Sadly, as far as I can think of, no such distribution model exists.

Dom
-thinking it might be time to lock this thread and make a new IDW "Robots in Disguise" thread.

Aw, quit complainin’, we’re havin’ fun (and you’re the one that started a topic two weeks before the comic was out, what did you think would happen?). We can just start a “RID #1” thread once it comes out next week. Having lots of little threads (even dedicated to similar subjects) make a board look active and lively and easy to get into anyway, as opposed to one monolithic, 50-odd page ‘dedicated’ thread that no new user would want to read through just to get in on the conversation. It’s a message board dude, let it grow freely based on what people talk about and start topics on because they feel like it, rather than trying to pen all the discussion into one dedicated thread you think we should have for *everything*.

[138 Scourge]

Just gonna throw this out here, but back when Marvel's Hercules books were coming out, they'd have "Also this month" boxes featuring books by the same editor with the date they came out on it. Doesn't seem to happen as much these days, though. Shame, that was a nice feature.
Yet another reason that Hercules was the best book, you guys.

[Onslaught Six]

I didn't see Inception. My parents saw and told me about and it sounds like an easy skip for me. Which is too bad because the commercials for it made the concept look good. But yeah, if it's open ended like that it's probably a good thing I skipped it.

See it anyway. It's open-endedness is literally confined to the last scene. And is partially the point anyway. (And honestly, it doesn't make sense for it to be ambiguous at all.)

[Dominic]

Yeah, I am thinking we might want to have a new thread for the actual comic that is coming out this week. (Off topic threads can be annoying for new members/readers.)

Dom
-taking further replies down to the comics thread.

[Shockwave]

Nah, I like the idea that we keep this one going and just rerail it. I mean, this is basically THE site for off topic threads. Honestly, it's really one of the fun things about posting here.

[Gomess]

new members/readers

lollllll

[BWprowl]

Yeah, I am thinking we might want to have a new thread for the actual comic that is coming out this week. (Off topic threads can be annoying for new members/readers.)

Dom
-taking further replies down to the comics thread.

So two threads with nearly identical subject headings is somehow *less* confusing/annoying? *Sigh*

Dom, you seriously gotta chill out on this. We’ve already *got* a general heading to discuss all this stuff in: It’s the subforum labeled “G1 & G2”. Yeah, it’s good to have a thread for generally discussing the comic book, but all the discussion of everything in all the issues doesn’t have to be penned in there. This is quite literally an open forum, if I want to start a new thread about, say, how cool I think Metalhawk’s new design in IDW is, I should be able to, and let it go from there without a second thought of whether it should be later folded into the ‘general IDW RID thread’ or whatever. We’ve got all this space going down the index page for a reason, we should be able to start up threads about what we like and BS about it until it just kinda dies and new threads start up, rather than pinning up dedicated threads for encompassing whole portions of media in the franchise. I know you’re a moderator and I respect a lot of your decisions about how this place is kept, but in this case I think it would be best just to let the users talk about what they want to talk about, how they want to talk about it.

Also, if you *really* want the threads to take off and stay on properly, you may want to, uh, start a thread for IDW RID *once you get the book and actually have something to say about it* as opposed to an anticipatory thread a week early that’s just begging to get derailed, or alternatively forgotten and duplicated once the book actually comes out and someone else wants to talk about it.

I mean, you obviously visit forums other than this one, so you know that the primary way people post stuff other places is just to...uh, post stuff. No one really worries if a certain reply 'belongs' in a certain thread/subject/general/whatever, we post it there because that's what we want to reply to. It's how normal conversation flows, and it's a testament to the tight-knittedness of this group that our discussions online do swing so close to normal conversation.