When Words Collide  Mon, March 21st, 2011 at 1:58pm PDT  Comic
Books Timothy Callahan, Columnist/Reviewer   A little less than
a year ago, I wrote about my two-day excursion to New York and
Boston and my growing sense of the "D&D comics trend," or what I
felt was a critical mass of comics about edged weapons and ugly
monsters. It's not surprising that comics inspired by "Dungeons
& Dragons" kinds of adventuring -- you know, the stories where
your heroes carry swords and axes and the bad guys are scaly,
gigantic, undead or all of the above -- have gained in
prominence over the past year or two. Online games like "World
of Warcraft" have over 12 million subscribers, and the
generation who grew up on the red box rules from TSR and Willie
Aames voicing a Human Ranger on television have ascended to
positions of power within the entertainment industry.  You've
all seen the February 3 episode of "Community," right?  But
besides that lovingly vicious deconstruction of the charms of
role-playing games, and the repeate