Well, I hate myself for knowing this, but the events of "The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky" take place over a year, so that's another year of the five year mission. As a kid, I just figured they flew around and did stuff that wasn't adventure worthy for an episode, and that those 79 stories comprised the five years.

Yes, I own a calculator in the shape of a TOS communicator.
Larry Young | Email | Homepage | 10.25.05 - 12:29 pm | #

I think many a young man has walked out of a comics shop with a pantsload of Spawn.
Dave Lartigue | Email | Homepage | 10.25.05 - 1:36 pm | #

Wait, we were supposed to stop them from taking Spawn comics?
kid chris | Email | Homepage | 10.25.05 - 2:32 pm | #

Yeah, but the "no origins" thing on the Teen Titans is slowly going out the window... we've learned a LOT about the character's pasts in the last season, such as Beast Boy's history and even his real name. Hints were dropped about Cyborg's past, which I have a hard time believing they won't follow up on. They may never do an "origin of the Titans" episode, but they seem to be treating the specific origins of each Titan as fuel for stories now.

I'm just waiting until they introduce Jericho... I think his power would look really cool on TV, but I guess that's a fanboy thing to say. So, um, yeah, how about Chris Ware?
Tim O'Neil | Email | Homepage | 10.25.05 - 4:09 pm | #

Years ago, I was witness to a thwarted attempt at shoplifting at a local comic shop. Some kid was caught trying to make off with a copy of a (at the time) brand new Valiant comic (I have forgotten which title). He was trying to leave with it hidden in his pants, of course. He raised quite a fuss at being discovered.

A few months later At said store, a guy tried grabbing a whole longbox and running out of the store, in this case a longbox filled with discount sets of crappy comics...only to be chased and tackled by the assisstant manager who was a tall but rather thin woman, but she managed to get this guy who was like 6'4 and of somewhat burly build back to the store so they could call the cops (sadly not the first time they had to call the cops to the store)
Thorpe | 10.25.05 - 4:12 pm | #

I can proudly say I never shoplifted from Ralph's though I do remember once being tempted to take some lead figures from the old store.

I think some of my "friends" (I use teh term loosely) were working the store over for merchandise though.
Evilbeard | 10.25.05 - 4:32 pm | #

When I worked at a Comic book store in a mall, we'd always have folks trying to shoplift stuff, but one time I went to use the mall bathroom, and caught a guy who had just shoplifted an Adult comic heading towards the bathroom stall.

"The Story of O" lived to see a legitame sale.
Chris Brown | Email | Homepage | 10.25.05 - 4:53 pm | #

From World's Finest

Episode #62 - Go
Original Airdate - TBA

How did ROBIN meet STARFIRE? What was BEAST BOY's first joke? Why did CYBORG build his Sonic Cannon? When did RAVEN first call the Titans her friends? Return to the very beginning and see how it all started – from the word "GO!"

Looks like we're going to find out after all.
David Lawson | Email | Homepage | 10.25.05 - 5:02 pm | #

What is the mysterious story behind the Coyote's hatred and appetite for the Road Runner? The story MUST be told!
Bully | Email | Homepage | 10.25.05 - 7:01 pm | #

Pricetag switching is the reason my shop doesn't have 'half-off back issue' sales anymore. All too frequently, shady newcomers would try to create their own super-bargains. After one guy managed to get away with it, and for a decent amount of money to boot, they put an end to sales.

Doggone thieves...
Loren | Homepage | 10.25.05 - 9:24 pm | #

"The Story of O" can be found in comic form? And no one has told me?

I mean...

I was always sad over the lack of backstory to the cartoon "T-Rex". As a child I always wondered how a group of midget T-Rex's decided to fight crime and in their spare time preform as the Blues Brothers.

I miss that cartoon.
Knitter | Homepage | 10.26.05 - 12:34 am | #

We got a little snippet of Robin's backstory in the episode where he was hallucinating that Slade was back--there's a memory of a circus and acrobats, and then swearing an oath on a book in a Cave Full of Bats That's Not Technically The Batcave, We Swear. (Am I the only one who finds it odd that DC polices Bat-appearances so incredibly tightly even when it allows closely-related adaptations? Why charge prohibitive fees--I assume--for Robin to be able to say "My mentor is Batman?" Why put a Bruce episode of Smallville completely out of consideration? Don't you normally want tie-ins in products you supervise anyway?)
Sarah | Email | 10.26.05 - 12:56 am | #

Yeah... I rememebr that episode - "I already have a father", and then you see the bats flying around.

I always assumed it was more to do with not wanting to muddy the waters with yet *another* animated Batman... considering that the Titans don't occur in "regular" animated continuity, it would probably be confusing... for the people who run the company, if not the kids who love the shows.
Tim O'Neil | Email | Homepage | 10.26.05 - 6:27 am | #

I'm amazed that they can't even do a one-shot "apperance" of Batman in silhouette or something like that on Teen Titans -- something on the order of Superman's cameo on the first episode of the Krypto cartoon.
Chris Galdieri | Homepage | 10.26.05 - 9:10 am | #

I'm not sure who exactly is responsible for the new Batman toon. If it's not DC itself, possibly the license includes some kind of exclusivity terms. That would make *some* sense (it would be directed against a potential competing Batman toon, but would incidentally take in Toon Titans). Live-action's a little harder to understand--surely the Batman Begins people wouldn't bother, and if the Smallville format's good enough in DC's eyes for Superman and his upcoming franchise revival...
Sarah | Email | 10.26.05 - 12:03 pm | #

Oh, and Wacky Races. How did they start?
Bully | Email | Homepage | 10.26.05 - 7:25 pm | #