I got to see LOGAN last week, you guys are in for a treat with that one. Best X-Men movie by a mile, though I realize how low that bar actually is.

The Wildstorm #1 was pretty boring I thought, part of it was the art, and part of it is that talky Ellis-style that does an okay job laying out concept but not characters you care much about. I felt the same way about Injection and Trees.

I'd guess because of a lack of traffic for this stuff? The standard news article gets as many or more comments than Big Issues does regularly.

The Allreds on Bug! is number 1 in my heart.

The movie is better off without it. Our press screening didn't have one, and that lack of potential set-up for future installments made the whole thing feel much more poetic. Perhaps if it's an Iron Man 3 type post-credit scene that's actually germane to what came before, I could see it working…but ugh otherwise.

Young Animal is on fire, and this is maybe the most exciting addition yet. Wow!! Forager!! I love the Fourth World more than just about any other DC thing. Give it a Madman type spin and I think I'm in love already.

I just wanted to take a moment to say how great the new JLA is. Steve Orlando is my favorite writer at DC, and given their current talent roster, that's really saying something.

The problem is, they don't have DCYou level talent, it's more like: have the people behind the middling New 52 (editors included) try to do a DCYou approach. That REALLY doesn't work.

I had to give up on Island about 12 issues in. Other than the occasional Farel Dalrymple story, nothing was really hooking me…and once they cut the page count down in order to make production costs cheaper, I knew my time was gonna be limited.

Well, a Rebirth of their own is all fine and dandy, but it doesn't change the underlying problem, which is that they have an incredibly thin bench of talent and editorial seems to be all over place - reminding me a good deal of the New 52 era.

That's the one where you had to reset the machine in order to beat Mojo right?

I pre-ordered this against my better judgement. I haven't liked one bit of Gaiman's prose, while his comics work usually interests me (Sandman Overture was a recently strong effort). But the concept here is something I can get on board with. We'll see what happens…

Still deep in my Kirby kick, enjoying issues of 2001: A Space Odyssey, while also finally reading Stan and Jack's FF. I picked up copies of The Losers hardcover and Challengers of the Unknown as well. Might nab the Romance book for shits and giggles tonight.

I remember when Ewing was compared favorably as Marvel's answer to Tom King, but while the latter has continued to blossom and become basically *the* rising comics star, Ewing has basically bounced around from team book to team book, barely making a blip on the larger comics landscape.

I can appreciate what Marvel is trying to do, especially in their attempts to expand the comics audience into that scholastic marketplace, but they need an influx of new talent in order to make any of these status quo changes sing a bit better. The Image exodus of folks like Hickman, Fraction, Gillen etc really did…

Funny you single out Batgirl, which I usually cite as one of the worst comics of the Rebirth era thus far. But agreed about the quality of the other two, though I'm quite high on Rebirth in general.

I just wanted to chime in and state how much I enjoyed Kamandi Challenge #1 and it's got me on a 70's Kirby kick again. I almost forgot how great this stuff was.

When it comes to King's Batman…I don't love everything about it, and I think it hasn't quite hit the highs of his other work (Vision and Sheriff of Babylon especially), but I find it exciting in a way that I haven't with Batman in quite some time. There's a sense of narrative unpredictability, which is refreshing I…

I know you're not talking to me, but I'll throw in my faves while you're waiting…

yeah, it was long and pretty glorious run, I'm happy that DC is finally reprinting a lot of their back catalog like Perez and Rucka's Wonder Woman, a few different eras of the Legion, Doom Patrol, etc…they're really wising up!