Squirrel Girl #5 - a pretty hilarious spoof on various periods of Marvel history.
Spider-Woman #7- I'm glad I gave this series another shot, I didn't care for the first issue but I like the new tone.

No, it's great, definitely give it a try. I think the main thing if you're new to superhero comics is find some titles that don't require an encyclopedic knowledge of the continuity.

Daryl's Oompah Band
The Bass Player
Open letter to the guy who stole Bruce's bicycle wheel

Batgirl: Year One
Gotham Central: vol 2
Both excellent! And my kid picked up some fun comics for Free Comic Book Day.

Eh, I'm not a new reader, but I also don't care much about decades of continuity, and basically only read titles that can be understood on their own terms… the dumb ones, I guess.

Yeah, actually I bumped it up in my queue from your recommendation. :-) I'm pretty neutral about Batman generally. I feel like the character is almost too mythical for its own good. But they use that to good effect in this book.

I liked Iron Man 1 OK, mostly for Downey. But then I always dread sitting through the 40-minute boss fight at the end of these things. Maybe the recent ones aren't structured that way. Come to think, the last one I saw was probably Iron Man 2.

I was thinking the opposite: I don't care much about the Avengers per se but I'd read this just for the art, if those panels are representative. It's on the cartoon end of the spectrum but I tend to like that.

I don't really read Batman but I kind of miss the Joker who was a clown that did crimes.

- Gotham Central vol 1. Great stuff - I plowed through it and immediately bought vol 2. I didn't know if the Gotham setting was just an excuse for Rucka and Brubaker to write a noir crime comic for DC, but it's actually crucial to the book, even though "the bat" only makes a few brief cameos.

For some reason although I like superhero comics, I have little/no interest in superhero movies.

Also non-violence was used by King and others to force white America to look at itself in the mirror. It's not just walking around carrying signs.

She's been influential outside of philosophy, and I think totally un-influential within philosophy.

She-Hulk "Disorderly Conduct" trade. I really love Pulido's She-Hulk (not everyone's cup of tea, I know).

Also, is there really a new rule that we have to hate any story with a baby?

AVClub seems to attract people whose attitude is, "I read and enjoy certain comic books. Some other comic books are not to my taste." Which is kind of refreshing on the Internet.

So I wonder is it Miller plotting and then Azzarello writing a fleshed-out script? (If he's not well.)

In Starlin's "Warlock" run, the galaxy-shattering confrontation was a metaphor for religious fanaticism and the innate struggle between our good and evil impulses. I was never quite sure what Thanos was doing there, he seems to represent nihilism, he's the literal embodiment of the Freudian death drive.

Wait, is that another excerpt from the leaked script?

I just picked up v1 of Gotham Central - haven't started it yet, but the art looks great.