Pioneer Comics? I guess it would be those pamphlets disgruntled Europeans liked to make about their royals.

In that case, my favorite Pioneer Age comic would be "The Austrian Woman on a Spree," which depicts Marie Antoinette learning new sexual techniques from her valets and brothers-in-law and helping her maids-of-honor learn them through experience.
Chad | Email | 03.24.05 - 11:58 am | #

If I may...
I think the trade dress on the Rogue cover is a throwback to the actual cover it's aping. Uncanny X-Men #173 (I think...it's the one with Wolverine in the foreground with Rogue behind him...a great Paul Smith cover.)
That issue still had the Marvel Comics Group banner across the top.
Aesthetics, I suppose.
Craig
craig | Email | 03.24.05 - 12:34 pm | #

Twice in a row. Is this "heroines' backsides"-thing some kind of obsession you want to tell us about, Mike?

Nah, just kidding. But possibly the New Avengers cover is simply a hommage to this Spider-Girl cover. Maybe it's some kind of leitmotif...
Björn W. | Email | Homepage | 03.24.05 - 2:57 pm | #

The Countdown title confuses me a bit. Is there going to be a series actually called Infinite Crisis, or are they referring to a seemingly infinite number of terrible events hitting the DCU that spin out of this book? And if the latter is the case, shouldn't that be Infinite Crises?

Sorry. These are the things you worry about when you have an English degree.
Bill Doughty | Email | Homepage | 03.24.05 - 4:30 pm | #

The thing that scares me the most is that I thought I was offering up the stupidest possible name...and yet, that's what the Overstreet editors chose.
Dorian | Email | Homepage | 03.24.05 - 10:28 pm | #

Just how much more offensive is the new Fillerbunny book?

I used to love having the little Fillerbunny-inna-jar on my desk, but it's a weird thing to have to explain over and over again.

One hopes that Jhonen is doing well. The last couple of projects have appeared even more unhinged than the ususal way in which they are more normally unhinged.
DougBot | Email | Homepage | 03.24.05 - 10:30 pm | #

Chad - that's gotta be an Eros book waiting to happen.

Craig - I can't believe I didn't see that myself. I'm a chump.

Bjorn - why, I have no idea what you're talking about.

Bill - uh, I think it's just one crisis that's going to go on and on and on for a really long time.

DougBot - it's so offensive that at one point, other characters in the book are brought to a complete standstill by the sheer offensiveness of it.
Mikester | Homepage | 03.24.05 - 11:00 pm | #

So, assuming "Modern Age" will always refer to the current period minus N years, does anyone have any suggestions for the future name for the period of '92 to (whatever), once it is formally ended?
Fred | Homepage | 03.25.05 - 12:05 am | #

"The Final Age?"
Mikester | Homepage | 03.25.05 - 12:13 am | #

The Final Countdown.

Do do DO do. Do do do do do!
Joe Rice | Email | Homepage | 03.25.05 - 5:47 am | #

I think your "extra butt" crack (um) is outrageous. Clearly all the effort went into getting precisely the right distention on her left nipple. Please correct your insulting imputation.
Jim Henley | Email | Homepage | 03.25.05 - 7:38 am | #

I've heard "Chromium Age" tossed around as a joke for 1992+, but it's fairly fitting, I suppose.
Steve Pheley | Email | Homepage | 03.25.05 - 8:27 pm | #

Tin.
M | 03.25.05 - 10:22 pm | #

Alan Moore suggested silicon.
Tom Smith | 03.29.05 - 6:13 am | #