I really enjoyed the escalating batshit insanity was I went, but have not reread the series now that it's finito. I'd like to start again to see if it made more sense than it seemed at the time—not that I minded, I found it deliriously badass, taking his flair for noir and infusing it with deep appreciation for…

Having just read the David Lapham issues—which were AWESOME, with a totally rad/satisfying punchline at the end—I was kind of intrigued by the advert for the Palmiotti arc, perhaps mostly because I am reading a lot of Elmore Leonard lately and it has that look.

Daredevil Dark Nights is a great thing. I loved the Lee Weeks story. I wonder if it is new or something kicking around the vaults. Either way, as a longtime fan, seeing a strong Lee Weeks story was a real treat.

Y'know, Essex County is really beautiful & still, I think, his best work. But I hear ya on the cost factor.
He's a strange talent—a lot of his writing ends up seeming kind of slight. For instance, The Underwater Welder was a great read, but plotwise and thematically quite basic. Maybe that fundamental earnest…

Yeah, no accounting for taste and all, but some of the comments weren't critiques: the antichrist joke, the fuckin' Bill Burr link I wish I hadn't listened to and the comment (since removed) about Chapman "finishing the job" made it a bit more personal than not liking her singing.

I'll join your respectful corner over here. I'm blown away by the vitriol from some of the comments above. Yoko is a cool, stridently independent artist. Her mixed media art rocks (YES YOKO ONO was a terrific art show). On the music front, Approximately Infinite Universe is a stone classic album. I dug Cheshire Cat…

Awesome thread subject. Yes, that scene deserves all the accolades. I understand Punch's point because the cat's necessarily a one-joke idea, with the potential to come off like a bad AV Club gimmick, but this week LC was absolutely my favorite part of Saga!

Yeah. Like Hawkeye's Hurricane Sandy issue, Waid deftly acknowledged a serious social issue without stepping on a soapbox. Bravo.

Yeah, it may be a stretch but after seeing PJ from "Stone-side" vantage recently I realized that he's almost Fripp-like in his circular rhythmic riffing.

Oh, nothing personal. I listened to it again last night after ranting here and found it not so bad after all. Nothing to get as worked up about as I had been. Reckon I might switch to half-caf.

There are some serious quality control issues apparent, with the band's decision to release this as a single. Good grief. I'm guessing that there will be eleven better songs on the album.

I listened with a straight-up biased mind (in favour of the band) and I'm thrown by the devastating blandness. Mind Your Manners is a way, way better tune.

As an ardent PJ fan who recoils anytime their name pops up in a headline here because out comes the knee-jerk PJ trashing—though not without some sensible folks reasonably defending the band—I am really concerned about this post. This song seems to openly court ridicule.

Well put. Pretty much my reaction (save Vertigo books: Unwritten, Trillium, The Wake and American Vampire still offer very satisfying reads).

Apparently Ann Nocenti, whose run on Daredevil I actually quite liked, is stinking it up pretty bad for DC.

Because of the awesome creative team, Batwoman's been the only Batbook and only non-Vertigo DC book I still read for some time (Snyder & Lemire's lackluster superhero efforts wore me down). I guess I'm down to all-Vertigo now.

Yeah, I hear ya on that bassline. Pretty sublime, stands out well on Scott 4.

Boy Child and Rhymes of Goodbye, tied for original composition while If You Go Away is my favorite cover.

Does anyone have a favorite Neko Case song? Mine's Star Witness.

It's got a dreamy late-night vibe that sounds great if yer drunk. I think that's what it's going for.