Dark Clouds Everywhere
I was just thinking this morning that we've had a delightfully mild winter here in the District and that was basically awesome. The New York Times, however, manages to come through and find the dark cloud in the silver lining: Retail disaster for people who sell coats. And, indeed, it's true. Through some kind of screw-up, I accidentally wound up losing my three winter coats when I moved at the end of August. As the temperatures got chilly in late October, I bought a new coat. It wasn't, however, a super-warm one and I figured I'd wind up buying another one as winter wore on. But it never happened, so I'm part of the problem. It did free up a lot of resources to buy X-Men Unlimited trade paperbacks, so the money circulates anyway, but Filene's Basement has definitely lost out on some potential sales.
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Expect to see a whole raft of stories after Christmas, in which retailers of all sorts whine that sales were disappointing because the warm weather didn't put people in the holiday spirit.
It it had been cold and snowy, there would be a whole raft of stories after Christmas, in which retailers of all sorts whine that sales were disappointing because the weather made it too hard for people to get out and shop.
Myself, I bought a spiffy new winter coat at Filene's, so clearly I'm more patriotic! Although this probably was just an undesirable transfer of wealth from New York's pub industry...
X-Men Unlimited sounds interesting. How is it?
It starts very strong. I'm up through Book 11 of the trade paperback series and, as tends to be the case with comics, it starts heading downhill as time goes on. Have you read The Ultimates -- that's the best in Ultimate Marvel series, IMHO.
Do you mean Ultimate X-Men trades? I can't imagine Unlimited every being collected, at least not on its own.
Yeah, Matt has to mean Ultimate X-Men. Unlimited was a dumping ground for X-Men stories that didn't fit anywhere else - a mediocre anthology title full of stale inventory and work that didn't justify its own release. I can't imagine Marvel releasing collections of it, much less anyone going out of their way to read and enjoy it.
Ultimate is pretty good. Mark Millar is a one-trick pony, but it's a pretty good trick the first time you see it. His The Ultimates is giant stupid superhero fun, full of Cool Scenes that fall apart on a moment's reflection. The best of the line is Bendis & Bagley's Ultimate Spider-Man, which is excellent, and very consistent.
Wingnut watch: noted crazypants sci-fi author Orson Scott Card wrote a six-issue Ultimate Iron Man that was pretty dreadful (but had nice art).
I don't understand this line of thinking. Just because it hasn't gotten real cold by Dec 21 means that it's not going to happen all winter?? And I'm sure that the squirrels are doing something other than storing up nuts too. There's an Aesop's fable in there somewhere... But at some point, maybe around the end of January-beginning of February it will get true winter here (and you know it will happen - why pretend that it won't?) and you'll go to Filene's and all the spring sportswear will be out. Maybe you can use your X-Men to line the insides of your not-so-warm jacket.
Wingnut watch: noted crazypants sci-fi author Orson Scott Card wrote a six-issue Ultimate Iron Man that was pretty dreadful (but had nice art).
Right, right. Ultimate X-Men, that's what I meant. I liked OSC's Ultimate Iron Man.
_Now_ do we believe in global warming?
SFG,
I'm waiting for the conservative think tanks to pivot on the climate change issue and start releasing studies showing the economic benefits of global warming (Cleveland Rocks: The Snow Belt is the new Sun Belt!).
Hey, some of us live in California, and we had to put up with sub-freezing temperatures this year! We're not all as lucky as you pampered east coasters with the weather!
If anybody should support global warming, it's Canada. They're ready to be the new breadbasket of the world. The US is going to get screwed.
But, yes, absolutely right. ;)
Matt - be warned, you'll be forced to put your X-men books on e-bay to put together some scratch in late winter (Jan - March) - when it really gets cold in DC - always. Just look at what happened to William Henry Harrison...
"I'm waiting for the conservative think tanks to pivot on the climate change issue and start releasing studies showing the economic benefits of global warming (Cleveland Rocks: The Snow Belt is the new Sun Belt!)."
Competitive Enterprise Institute, at your service! (Warning: may contain intellectual dishonesty and outright sophistry)
http://www.cei.org/gencon/019,05650.cfm
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