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For those of you reading Final Crisis and feel confused or aggravated let me say two words to ease that pain, Grant Morrison. Nothing he writes makes the least bit of sense until the last issue. I think it will all pan out nicely but the ride getting there will be confusing.

As for the New Gods (and about ten other mini series), DC threw them away. Literally. Around the time 52 was wrapping up DC had their big pitch meeting and tossed out dozens of possible mini series and spin off's. Day, perhaps hours after that meeting someone at DC (all signs point to DiDio) saw Marvel's publishing schedule for the next 8-12 months and realized that they needed more titles per month. Behold, projects were brought back from the dead like a hoard of zombie minions. Sadly, much like zombie minions, a great deal of them completely stank. The only book from this culled batch that I really enjoyed was the Crime Bible mini series.

Oh, right, New Gods. It seems that the basic plot for Death of the New Gods was a part of Morrison's Final Crisis pitch and it was well received by everyone at the meeting. The original idea was for Final Crisis to open the way it did with the New Gods dead but with ZERO explanation. Sadly, DiDio took it upon himself to green light a mini series based on Grant's idea just to have another book on the schedule. He, of course, said nothing to Morrison about it and now Final Crisis is running late because chunks had to be rewritten on the fly.

This is my first month as a part of the Pathfinder community and my first post on the boards. My name is Tommy and I manage a comic book/gaming store in the Richmond VA area. For the past year and a half I have been working to build a D&D community and it has been slow going but rewarding work. WOTC helped quite a bit through it's Worldwide D&D Game Day and through that I met a DM who wanted to run an RPGA sponsored D&D group. That group meets once a month and starting this month, we're adding a second gaming group but this one is playing Pathfinder. It's very exciting as a gamer to find a new campaign setting that is this well planned that also listens to its readership. As a retailer it makes me happy to be able to stock another game that I can wholeheartedly attest to being excellent. I can't really afford the different subscription services but I am working to bring more Pathfinder books into my store. Keep up the good work!

As for my gaming experience, like many out there I started in high school with D&D. We played a hybrid of 1st and 2nd edition. I took a decade off from RPG gaming but now i'm back with a vengeance running D&D 4E and playing Pathfinder (and looking for a Shadowrun game as well).