Definitely!

At this point, I think of it as the "Big Three", at least from a business perspective.

Image Comics are indie books? Hell, they're just superhero comics with the serial numbers filed off for the most part.

I mean, there's obviously Mignola with Hellboy, though Corben and Fegredo have done great work on the character, it doesn't get much better than his creator.

While I'm still working my way through the 2003 Aquaman series, and cracked open Vol 4 of Stray Bullets, I've decided to give Astro City another go. It's one of my biggest comics blindspots and I regret not finding the same joy in it as everyone else. This is being fixed.

Probably Aquaman. I've always had an affinity for the character for whatever reason, and I'm glad that his movie has picked up probably the best director of the DC movie line-up.

It's actively pretty great for the most part, particularly on the art side with maybe the best work of Ivan Reis' career, god-smackingly wonderful Frank Quitely layouts, and very good contributions from Cameron Stewart, Doug Mahnke, Ben Oliver and Chris Sprouse. I could take or leave the bad inking on Jim Lee, but he…

I went to HeroesCon in Charlotte, and beyond picking up Rich Tomasso's She-Wolf and Dark Corridor collection, I did some dollar bin (or less) diving and came out with about 65-70% of Aquaman vol 6 - the Veitch to Arcudi to Busiek run. I'm kinda stoked to read it. I'm fascinated by a title that kept switching…

Final! Crisis!….clap clap clap-clap-clap.

The slower roll-out of titles will work to their advantage I think. With The New 52, you got the good and the bad and all at the same time at a 52 issue a month clip. I like their newfound focus. We'll see how it holds up!

Rebirth has been shockingly enjoyable, at least as much as I can judge over three weeks worth of comics…but it's the first time I've been excited about a set of Big Two comics in some time. We'll see if it holds up.

DC is just eating Marvel's lunch right now creatively, and I couldn't be happier about it really.

They renumber and relaunch it because it sells pretty poorly post its initial couple of issues each volume. The first KSD run was moving about 17-18k units before it had to be relaunched to get a first issue bump.

I've got a few Image books I still need to read, but I busted through all the Rebirth comics that came out this week:

I'm buying this against my better judgement, but I haven't read a Tynion comic that I've really dug yet. That Joker starring Batman Annual probably comes the closest.

The Superman bit is the one that's most hindered by Rebirth. They relaunched the character completely, with a full blown 8 issue origin, and unlike Wonder Woman, it's going to be impossible to wave away or pull a "all of this counts" like they're probably doing with Batman.

Supposedly the most recent issues address the connection between Abe and the frogs, but I can't find any issue synopses anywhere that confirm that. The Hellboy wiki isn't updated in enough detail to help.

My big fear is that we're going to get more Abe Sapien/The Exorcist type stuff without Arcudi around. Hopefully we'll hear some news soon that will assuage those worries.

It also sounds like shit tbh, Sims needs a better microphone. Maybe he got one recently and I'm just not aware of it.

It also gave us that really great Calvin Ellis issue that was a direct prequel to Multiversity, which was some A+ Morrison superheroics IMO. I also remember some fond feelings towards the Krypto issue and the zero one.