I decided to go really far back in my reading, and decided to pick up the first Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse collection and the first Carl Barks' Donald Duck boxset. I just had a hankering for some broad adventuring and this was a big blind spot. Man oh man, this Mickey Mouse comics are DARK in places. He tries to…

Geoff Johns wrote one of the greatest Superman comics of the modern era with Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes, definitely track that down. Additionally, the first 25 issues of his Green Lantern run are primo superhero storytelling. After that, it meanders, and just kinda retells the same stuff over and over…

Saw Spider-Man: Homecoming, wrote about it at The Beat if you wanna read it, but long story short…when it wants to be a Hughes movie, it's really fun. When it wants to be a bog-standard Marvel entry, it loses a lot of steam (some of the blandest action of the entire MCU is on display here) Interesting villain though.…

If Marvel announced a bunch of stuff at SDCC this year, I'd be surprised, they very little comics presence at the show - which has basically defaulted into the DC show between the two of them. They're way more active at NYCC, but I'd welcome a change of pace from them.

Thanks to the Vertigo sale, I picked up just about all of Astro City…so I'm excited to finally catch up to that book 20 years behind everyone else.

We're covering DC and Marvel stuff weekly at The Beat if you're hunting around for pieces to read.

Best comics I've read this year so far:
- Doom Patrol
- Shade the Changing Girl
- Wonder Woman
- Superman
- Deathstroke
- Moon Knight
- Black Hammer (good year for Lemire)
- Love and Rockets #2
- Pope Hats #5
- Ganges #6
- The Super Powers backups in Cave Carson
- The Flintstones
- COPRA
- Slasher

To me, it plays like this perfect mix of Morrison and Los Bros, which is basically the ideal comic. It wears its influences on its sleeve, but I love those influences so much, that it's hard for me to not dig this. I don't like it quite as much as Shade, which has been perfect throughout, but it's right behind it.

I've tried my hardest to get into Mother Panic, I just don't think Jody Houser has the goods to be honest…it feels like it offers very little beyond a Batwoman archetype with curse words and a few unexplained quirky things. And the backups….yikes….but the rest of the Young Animal line is absolute gold.

Super excited to dig deeper. Read the origin last night…my only wish is that I could get these archives without spending an arm and a leg.

I haven't, though it seems like maybe his contribution to it doesn't go far beyond co-creating the characters and writing a few stories. I might be wrong though.

In fairness, Tony Daniel cut off Joker's face, for basically no reason, except to promote his own Dollmaker character.

I thought The Forge was pretty fun, and a hell of a deep dive into DC continuity. Lord help the person coming into that book cold. Given that Tynion's writing on Detective has hit a bit of a wall lately (the League of Shadows arc was pretty pitiful), I was happy to see him bounce back a bit here.

I kinda hated Batman #25, as I thought it was endemic of a writer just not able to get out of the way and let his artist tell the story. On the other hand Superman #25 was pretty glorious. And Aquaman #25, holy cow! What a level-up for a run that I already enjoyed. It suddenly rockets towards the top of my DC reading…

I think calling this run of Aquaman "bland" is a disservice to it. It's not high art, but Abnett is actually making better usage of Atlantis, its political climate and the relationship with Mera than any of the New 52 stuff. I think it's great fun, and I'm loving the cast that he's building up. I wish the art was more…

Thankfully, I can get the rest on Comixology at least if I get a real hankering, which I'm sure I will as soon as I clear this first Goon Library Edition I just got.

I really enjoyed Chiang's art and designs. I've heard that book was created Marvel-style, which I think is why it's better than your standard Azzarello fare.

I'm just assuming they were constructs created by the real gods, otherwise any other character's interaction with them (like Orion or Superman, who has also been wiped away) doesn't make a lot of sense.

I read all the DC books again this week, the standard stuff I always enjoy like Aquaman, Superman, Deathstroke, Shade the Changing Girl etc were all good.

I can't blame them for retconning that New 52 take though…it was pretty wrong-headed in a lot of ways.