I love that scene where Reba is getting hugged by Will and she tearfully asks "who are you??". Weirdly fitting.

Over the past few weeks I've been reading all of the Mignolaverse (according to a reading order I found online). I'm shocked John Arcudi isn't more famous than he is, as his tenure in BPRD is easily one of the best action/adventure comics I've read in a long time.

I think an argument can be made that this was the worst episode of the series so far, which surprises me given that I like everything else Tom Kauffman has had his hand in prior to. But this was trying hard in a way the series generally never does…and yes, let's put a moratorium on reality show premises, please.

Yeah, I think Hawkeye and Casanova are far better than the majority of his contemporaries' output, but the rest I could take or leave really.

Moss Man was my favorite toy as a wee lad. I hope to see him on the big screen someday.

I love how it pulled a bit of a bait and switch on its narrative, but not everybody is into the more esoteric stuff. I liked Zero because it was one of the few comics that Image put out that didn't feel like "Big Two comics with the serial number filed off", it sat there with Prophet and Nameless as two of the more…

If you're not into Zero at this point, I'm not sure there's much reason to go forward as it hits SUPER weirdness in its back-half.

Seeing episodes like this (and just about all of Rick & Morty's run really) reminds me of how willing the show is to "go there" with its sci-fi concepts in a way that Doctor Who disappointingly rarely has. I'm really glad this exists.

Yeah, The Invisibles is a comic where I can definitely say it has a very particular audience and that's all it'll have (though I think that's the case with almost all of his non-superhero stuff barring something like We3 and maybe Seaguy).

Yeah, that's the one place where I think he stumbles (but that's the general consensus on the run), let me know what you think once you hit the back-half.

Yeah, sure…it's a mileage varying thing.

Case is just a much more dynamic and daring artist…the way he incorporated Dadaism blew me away, for example.

Totally, and it reads that way…plus Truog's art is not great. Doom Patrol works better and is an actual warm-up for what's to come in Invisibles (and later in New X-Men).

I'm really enjoying it, the most recent issue was especially fun in a wild Kirby-esque way. I think Yang is still finding his feet in superhero comics overall, but the second issue was a big step up over the first one.

I don't think Morrison's writing was as strong then is another way to put it.

I agree, I'm one of the few people who thought the back-half was better than the front, but I liked it all really.

The Invisibles is probably the Morrison "ur-text" as a friend of mine put it, BUT I think Doom Patrol is a better read overall, with solidly consistent Richard Case artwork.

I love Casanova…it's easily my favorite Fraction book, but it takes some getting used to with a lot of narrative twists and in-jokes. It's basically his version of The Invisibles.

I liked that Chaykin made a guest drop-in, but even then we were getting tons of Aja fill-ins it felt like. Yeah, I agree with you though.

Fraction's Marvel work was quite spotty I thought. Hawkeye is amazing, FF is good while he's on the book, I thought Iron Man and Iron Fist were varying levels of okay (though Iron Fist's tournament story that he wrote was better than the stuff preceding it), everything else is rather sub-par.