I thought the dialogue in Swamp Thing was pretty painful, but at the same time, I had this beautiful flashback to reading Wein Swamp Thing when I was kid…soooo…nolstalgia wins out I guess?

I thought this was an enthralling hour and a half, and maybe the best Sherlock installment since the very first one.

About to read the non-Morrison Animal Man that followed him: Milligan, Veitch and Delano. I have no idea what to expect, which is kind of exciting.

I've tried to get into these ancillary Hellboy titles, and outside of BPRD proper, I just can't do it. I found Witchfinder to be a bore and the first Lobster Johnson mini did little for me. I haven't even bothered with Sledgehammer 44 or the Abe Sapien book.

The thing is, I actually like Peyton Reed's films, or at least Down with Love. Everything Derrickson has made is awful.

I love this cast, I don't love the director or writer. What's a boy to do?

No, he regenerates in Time of the Doctor, the Christmas Special of that year.

No, it was The Name of the Doctor, the finale to Series 7.

I agree with the "no new arc" hopes. But I'm rather certain that Minister of War business will take up a big chunk of next season.

Wait till you get to Episode 11 where absolutely nothing happens. This was the start of a pretty steep nose-dive for the series that only somewhat recovered by the tail end of the finale…but good lord, what a bad place to have a lull.

I've fallen down a Moore Swamp Thing/Morrison Animal Man & Doom Patrol/Gaiman Sandman re-read hole. My girlfriend also got me the trades of Y: The Last Man, which I'm excited to read…AFTER I crack open these two Millar Swamp Thing trades.

The latter, its first hour is a slog to get through. I'll just say Brie Larson elevates the rather subpar material she's working with.

Very glad to see Room didn't make this list. The appeal of that film bewilders me.

with you. Swamp Thing, Sandman, Doom Patrol and The Invisibles are my all-time go-to British Invasion era stuff.

Funny, I thought Klaus was better than anything else that came out this week.

^ all of this. Thank you Tim!

I finally read Oscar Wao! It was quite good!

I need to get a copy of Bacchus at some point, but I need to get through the rest of Alec first.

I very much wanted to love Black Canary, and I just couldn't. Same for Vol 2 of Daredevil…though in comparison with that first terrible Soule issue, I'm now begging for the days of Waid.

For sure, the most recent Seeley written issue, once you got past some really bad dialogue up-front had some nice bits of plotting that I dug.