Actually, having seen the lineup they've pulled together for the four Action titles, putting Matt Kindt on an Earth 2 book, and another shot of Dial H, there's actually some hope for something decent to come outta this whole thing.

With The Wake, Astro City, new 100 Bullets and the eventually should be solicited Sandman story…DC is definitely starting to kick the tires on Vertigo again.

All told, I've been to worse weddings.

I liked the Earth 2 annual alot, Robinson continues to do more with the New 52 concept than pretty much any other writer…shame it's all ending soon. 
JLA sucked, New Avengers was good but not spectacular, and The Wake is off to a nice start. That's all I bought, though next week, I sure have a hankering for that…

@avclub-7e22822e15643aa8cfd383da87abbf1e:disqus I can't stand USM and its constant spreading of 2 issues of story over 8, and Powers…well, it just made me long for the far superior Gotham Central. Sorry, I've enjoyed Johns' work on the whole alot more.

No, I was only referring to the stuff that was in the Superboy: Boy of Steel collection which didn't include the two Blackest Night issues and was about 5 issues (plus a backup or two) long. A perfect little run that was a great lead-in to Jeff Lemire's all too short lived Superboy series.

This. A Thousand time this. The people that go on and on about Johns' "hackiness" yet praise Bendis utterly befuddle me. I haven't enjoyed a Bendis comic since Daredevil.

His Adventure Comics run was amazingly good, as was his Superman and the Legion of Superheroes story (which I'd argue is the only great Superman story post All Star we've had thus far). I also quite enjoyed Batman Earth One.

If it's any consolation, I think Venditti is a much better writer than Johns generally…I guess it all depends on editorial mandates.

This book was fun-ish…and had a nice ending, but it just felt like a string of…"this happens, and then this happens, and then this happens" without really any room to breathe. Granted this is more a fault of two straight crossovers filled to the brim with navel gazing until this conclusion where everything had to be…

Said suggestion shall be enacted upon tomorrow morning, I appreciate the thought! I'd love to love this one.

While I love Boxer and High Violet, I can't get into Alligator at all. I haven't listened to anything before that. But looking forward to putting this on today.

No, I'm suggesting that the geniuses behind the film did themselves no favors by hiding one of Trek's most iconic villains (maybe THE iconic villain) by white-washing the part and giving him a pseudonym. It'd be like if Christopher Nolan's Joker had no face paint and was called Richard.

For what it's worth, I give 7.1 a C+ at best, and 7.2 and A-, for a B season overall. Not bad…but the filler of the first half simply didn't work for me.

Sadly, that'll probably be called The Hangover III or Fast and Furious 6.

Right, the failings of STID lie less with Abrams and more with the idiots that were writing the script. Abrams has blame for sure for okaying the story and wanting to go "mystery box", but he didn't get much to work with.

Let's just say…The Dark Knight didn't make a billion dollars by hiding its villain.

I find it surprising that it's struggling so bad…the RT rating is quite good, and its CinemaScore is an A. I mean, I'm lukewarm on the thing, but I can't say I've heard alot of terrible word of mouth. Must have been the advertising strategy.

For what it's worth, I prefer Abrams' visual sense over Whedon (who is an incredibly pedestrian director), but Whedon is by and large a better writer. Not that Abrams wrote STID, that shit had Lindelof's name all over it.

I mean, not having Khan destroy the ship for no real defined reason would be the better alternative.