…I take this to mean Bendis is the one who reimagined the character in DD?

I hope there's a bunch of Helfer/Baker Shadows in there - that's when the book got truly WEIRD and amazing.

Back when I used to lurk scans_daily (I had gotten out of comics for several years, and whatever your feelings about that site, it got me back in), Simone would drop in from time to time to chat and have discussions about her work and other things going on throughout the industry. In fact, it seemed like every…

Was the current version of Night Nurse - speakeasy superhero Florence Nightingale - created during that story? It's an awesome use of a non-cape Marvel character, but I don't know if that was original to The Oath.

Wow, it sounds like you pretty much got My Formative Years In A Box. All of those things (even the bad stuff) made me who I am today.

Any experience with old undergrounds? An issue of Zap or Weirdo can be a real palate cleanser - rarely is there a story that lasts more than a page or two, and the perspective and energy is completely different than regular narrative comics.

There, there, Mrs.——

For people reading that actually know who he is, and have a less abstract feeling of loss, that throwaway comment stung.

No worries, it's just that it was kind of a lovely (if kinda nonsensical) turn of phrase, but I couldn't help spoiling it with that dragon clarity.
Anyway, BKV is a good writer, you might like his non-superhero stuff too (though Ex Machina does sorta have superheroes, it's in a very non-616 world).

Forgive me, but I have to know: by "never really touched the universe", what exactly do you mean?

Now an Inhumanoids movie, I'd be sold on unreservedly. I still find it hard to believe a Saturday morning cartoon ran with the theme song and overall aesthetic of a Dio album cover.

Runaways, Saga, Ex Machina, and the Pride of Baghdad graphic novel are his most acclaimed and popular works other than Y. He's done work for the Big Two, Image, Dark Horse, and others. But his highest profile work was as a writer for Lost at its peak.

I agree in principle - though, given that Chabon is a huge comic book nerd and Vaughn's one of the medium's most acclaimed writers, and that three of the mentioned properties produced some genuinely well-regarded comics (despite having every possible reason to suck), there is a weird sense to it. Though it really…

V.

"What? Another goddamn shared universe?! I barely have patience for one, and I'm a comic book fan! And by Hasbro, no less? Ugh, unless they're adapting a bunch of Larry Hama stories I have negative interest. Micronauts? Bah, space fantasy has to be super-weird camp for me to see a movie, no sale.

Now can we get the Unicode Consortium to encode MarsVenusAnkhSquiggly as an official emoji?

Red State is just as you say. It's evident that Smith really, truly tried with that one, attempting so many things that were completely foreign to his ouevre, and the fact that the majority of it all actually worked is impressive enough to make an open-minded viewer think that there is indeed a legitimate filmmaker…

White meat. Dark meat. All will be carved.

Just a couple of months ago, I was talking to a a professional session musician about his brief experience at Paisley Park - he claimed he got to listen to a reel-to-reel recording of Prince and Miles Davis jamming together, and that it was one of the most beautiful things he'd ever heard. I almost died on the spot,…

He's not a celebrity. He's Prince.