Dave Slusher › Comments

If I lived anywhere near that place, I would eat there so much that I would have a "usual". Damn that looks good. - Derek Coward

Overall good times. Meat was smoked and had a good flavor. However the sauces were just so so and the sweet tea wasn't that sweet. - Andre Pope from Nambu

I will go back. The brisket was my favorite out of the bunch. Thanks goes to Myrtle Beach Restaurant News for the headsup. - Andre Pope from Nambu

O_O - Derrick

Geography saves Derek from himself! I'd like to try it some time when we're down that way anyway. - Dave Slusher

There is a place up in NMB that I want to check out Derrick you want to meet up? - Andre Pope from Nambu

I'm in Los Angeles. :( - Derrick

I loved in Portland being able to walk a few blocks and get tacos, cheese steaks, Indian or Thai food from the parking lot full of food vendors. Food tastes better when it comes from a truck of indeterminate hygiene. - Dave Slusher

Time to fire up the grill! - Andre Pope

I've now given up on the remake. I haven't seen the original in a long time but I remember it as mind-blowing TV. They used to run it on Saturday afternoons on Kansas Public TV, which is where I saw it. I'd be curious how the psychedelic swinging London aspects hold up. - Dave Slusher

My Little Bride pointed out the remake. I was gonna watch it, but forgot. Sounds like my short memory is advantageous sometimes. So, we'll watch the DVD collection.. - Ken Nelson

It wasn't a very bad one. One glass of cool refreshing orange juice later and she's feeling fine. But she was dragging for about an hour. - Derek Coward

If you don't spend part of it contemplating the pros and cons of suicide, it's not a true hangover. - Dave Slusher

She's a rookie. It was enough so that she won't be drinking any time soon. - Derek Coward

Have fun! - Dave Slusher

Where are you off to? I'm leaving for a two week road trip through 10 States. MI-VA-NC-FL-GA-MI - James Hohenthaner

I'd like them better if they were done in a very short period of time and self contained, but most of the events themselves are fine. What I don' t like are the ancillary books that are often uneven. For instance, in Secret Invasion, the Captain Britain title was great, but I don't think anything else was very good. The Young Avengers in particular seemed blah. I am looking forward to Siege, more than I care to admit. - RAPatton

So are you both saying that the problem is not with the main miniseries, but rather the "everything else"? Or do you evaluate this stuff on a case by case basis? Has an event ever caused you to drop a title? - Derek Coward

I dropped the non Ultimate Spider-man titles because of Brand New Day, and I read a lot less of 616 Marvel after Civil War because I disagreed with the characterizations of Tony Stark and Steve Rogers in particular. I don't think a DC event has irritated me, but they have the same issues with periphery series. - RAPatton

There are some crossever events where I've liked the overall story (like Blackest Night, for example), but I don't need or want huge storylines that tie lots of different titles together & push me to buy more than I already do. I'd be happy with a couple of titles that tie a bigger setting together (like a couple of team-up books) & having the occasional crossover between a couple of... more... - josh neff, geek at large

I think in Marvel's case, the company events are now flowing through their Avengers titles which is where they should be. DC's are more hodge podge, because the Justice League titles aren't gelling. I do think the Superman titles have a good synergy (everyone cringed from that word choice?) right now, and are almost their own expanded universe at this point - RAPatton

Which do you prefer, the ones that are based around a single miniseries and branch out from there (like World War Hulk), ones that have no corresponding miniseries but rather capture a "moment in time" (like Dark Reign) or ones that are miniseries that lead to other miniseries (like how the Countdown to Infinite Crisis minis lead to Infinite Crisis)? - Derek Coward

If it's organic, comes about naturally, I don't have a problem. I like that the publishers are putting out minis (SI: Spider-Man, BN: Batman) instead of disrupting the flow of the ongoing. If this is supposed to 'change the fabric of their universe' (COIE), then I can see why it would be company-wide. If it only 'changes the lives of these characters FOREVER' (Siege), then keeping it... more... - David Price

I like single miniseries that branch organically. I don't think of Dark Reign as an event, so much as a period in time. I didn't like Countdown because it was boring, but i liked 52 a lot, but their World War tie ins were bad. I thought it was a good idea, just poorly implemented and superfluous. - RAPatton

I don't read them, I don't like them. Best case is that I can avoid them on move on. Not reading Blackest Night, didn't read Secret Invasion, actively dislike Dark Reign. I'm hoping that it finishes soon enough and leaves things alone. I think these company wide crossovers are in part why sales slide - they increase the cost and time it takes to care about the company. In my case, it teaches me that I don't care that much. - Dave Slusher

Darkest Night is ok. I am reading it, and the superman tie in (good), batman tie in (wasn't that good), but somehow I haven't read all the green lantern tie-ins and I don't know that I harms it that much. I'd just rather Darkest Night some out all at once. like 8 in 2-3 month period. I've been liking the twice a month nature of X-Men Forever - RAPatton