Shazam seems like it would be an obvious one. But who is writing Booster Gold? I haven't seen that confirmed anywhere.

Humphries is terrible, at least all of his Marvel work anyway. He's like the next generation of Fabian Nicieza. He'll probably be writing for DC in a year…ugh.

His Swamp Thing was pretty "drag-ass" I agree, and Rotworld wasn't really worthwhile at all, but I love his Batman run thus far…flawed ending to Court of Owls and all. I thought Death of the Family had a beautiful ending, and the stuff since has been really exciting, includin the nods to the Animated Series in his…

You probably nailed it. What's annoying to me, is that I actually enjoy some of what Johns does. I think Justice League has been big and dumb, but its fun in a way that title hasn't been since Morrison left, and I actually look forward to what's coming each month (from THAT book, JLA sucks on the other hand).

Right, if you sit down and think about it, Marvel constantly reboots with their shifting timeline. Otherwise, Peter Parker would be older than my father right now. Let's not even get into Magneto.

Funny you should mention Homer as Final Crisis drew directly from The Odyssey in one of its most fascinating chapters. I still think that is the best crossover either of the Big Two have put out in the past decade.

Again, Rob Liefeld was on three titles. DC still has stellar books like Snyder's Batman, Azzarello's Wonder Woman, Lemire's Green Arrow, Soule's Swamp Thing, Williams' Batwoman just to name a few of the DC books I look forward to each month.

Maybe, but the horror crowd is going to be a problem for at least one weekend.

The picture doesn't look much brighter for Pacific Rim next weekend either with The Conjuring opening and likely getting a bloated horror movie first weekend. Looks like we have this year's version of Scott Pilgrim on our hands.

Never Let Me Go is a different writer though, Kasuo Ishiguro I believe.

I was hoping we were going to do Inherent Vice instead, with the movie coming up and all, but having no grounding in the guy…maybe a short book is a better option. The concept sounded interesting at least.

I have a massive Criterion backlog that I need to work my way through (a friend gave me copies of all the DVDs he's upgrading to Blu-ray), so I really had no need to buy another one…yet, this has been on my list for some time. Are any of these good?
Le Cercle Rouge, The Wages of Fear, Play Time, by Brakhage, Fat Girl,…

Saw Pacific Rim, did not enjoy it. I had high hopes for GDT's entry into this summer's blockbusters and I think it might actually be the worst of them all.

This is a good thing for comics fans.

Yeah I loved that, but I generally love everything about that series, if Snyder didn't play in my wheelhouse so often I'd probably call it my favorite of the Bat-comics.

I would also like to see the Jackson Bostwick Captain Marvel as a part of that JLA.

For me there's, in this order:
56 Up, Before Midnight, and Mud….and then there's everything else, with nothing coming close. Though Pablo Larrain's No, which came out last year technically was a real marvel for me…I also got a nice kick out of Spring Breakers.

You misspelled Pacific Rim.

I was reminded of Avatar a little bit…an original property that took some care into its world building (and there's alot of really interesting stuff on the fringes here) but it all gets swept under the rug for the most conventional possible story. The characters throughout are paper-thin, and each robot-monster fight…

I'm very glad we don't see movies together then.