So given the huge Friday to Sunday drop-off at the box office, it's clear this film is going to have zero legs.

Correct, I might argue that Morrison has written the lone essential Superman story of the past 25 years.

So if this doesn't break even, which would be a hell of a task given the budget…what happens? They're already committed to releasing Suicide Squad and Wonder Woman. Do they delay Justice League and/or find a suitable (hopefully George Miller) replacement? Cancel that film altogether?

Yeah, the first six issues of Animal Man were great, and then it teetered off into Snyder-led crossover land. It never quite recovered after that.

I feel like the rule of thumb here is that Lemire really only works best when he's illustrating his own stories. Sweet Tooth + Essex County + Trillium + Underwater Welder basically outweighs everything else he's done I think.

I'm fairly left of center, but I kinda…liked The Fountainhead??? Certainly moreso than Atlas Shrugged. Please don't throw things at me.

Yeah, I think Y:TLM is the only "creator-owned" Vertigo work that starts off running in its first arc.

There's also that second arc of Scalped that kinda superficially is repeated in the Homecoming arc of Southern Bastards, where he takes an issue to focus on all of his main players at the time. It's a good device, I like it! But yeah, I too prefer Latour's art.

Scalped also feels a bit like a dry-run for what he's doing with Southern Bastards now, structurally especially.

I think the same can be said of American Vampire too.

I'm not sure tbh, there's just a coldness there that I haven't quite been able to get fully invested into any of the characters. I'll try again…I've got all the trades that are out right now after all, bought on a whim.

If he's going exclusive, I wouldn't be surprised if he's working on something bigger.

I'm going back and reading all the Vertigo that I never read in high school/college. I mean I've read a lot of the superhero based stuff, and things like The Invisibles and Sandman, but a number of the more obvious things slipped through my grasp in my formative years either due to funds or lack of awareness/interest.

You'll be fine

I dunno man, I've read four volumes of Stray Bullets, and while I like Lapham's art, I can't say I'm in love with his storytelling. Certainly not to the extent that I enjoyed Criminal. Those Amy Racecar stories are especially aggravating to read.

Cloud Atlas the book >>>>> the movie. The actual plot, which the Wachowskis are so in love with, is no great shakes really. The appeal of the book (at least to me) is in the formalist experiment, watching Mitchell unfurl these various literary styles is pretty impressive to behold.

I understand the Superman ones did well too, at least on the NY Times Bestseller list (for whatever that's worth). Not sure about Teen Titans. I imagine Wonder Woman will be a big hit in April with Morrison's name attached and her big debut on screen hitting just a few weeks before.

The Earth One books have sold pretty well in the bookstore market. The first Batman volume topped the Bookscan charts when it was released, for example. Compare it, if you will, to Marvel's failed Season One line, which is now being liquidated.

Yeah, but if their names build up on bigger books, it gives them a chance for a longer healthier run on something more idiosyncratic. Kinda like Matt Fraction bouncing off Iron Man and Thor over to Hawkeye, but the latter was able to maintain sales after Fraction became better known among the LCS set.

I just cannot get into Lazarus for the life of me. I've read 16 or so issues and it never clicks.