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The Superman line was surprisingly the most interesting, with sort of the "final hand-off" from the Morrison run to the Pak run, as Morrison back-up writer Sholly Fisch wrote two of the books and Pak and Aaron Kuder (whose Parasite was surprisingly very good) handled four of the titles.

Fox is an interesting choice, it certainly will look alot better than any of the CW shows, which always look cheap and compromised (and apparently the same goes for Agents of SHIELD, if last night is any indication). Fox also tends to cast decent lead actors, or at least name recognizable ones. I mean, who wouldn't

The thing about Gotham Central though…he's not in charge.

For a show with such a supposedly big budget, it sure looked cheap, like an episode of Lois and Clark in places. That opening scene with J. August Richards was borderline embarrassing.

You misspelled "Soft Targets" which was basically the plotline of The Dark Knight in alot of ways.

Yeah, God is Dead feels a bit like a cash-in on Hickman's rising fame. It's an old story that's just now being published. It would have been better served lining Hickman's desk drawers.

But Thor has a movie in two months, not next year. Captain America on the other hand…

Yep, the Bendis run is what got me back into comics in college. I wish the Brubaker run was as good after his excellent "Devil in Cell Block D" arc, but it all kinda just "was" rather than the same level of excellence that Bendis was producing. I can't help but think Bru's better ideas were going into Criminal instead.

Every title I read this week was great, but especially Infinity.

This whole arc must have been Dwayne McDuffie's "one great story" that some writers have. I can't say I've ever read a comic of his that I've liked, nor were his contributions to the Animated Movie line all that impressive for me personally.

I'm sure this has been pointed out already, and I'm sure they were going for the Shelley poem in the title more than anything else…but how about those pseudo Adrian Veidt references strewn throughout?
"He made up his mind 10 minutes ago"…and Walt re-directing all blame onto himself and away from his wife, making him

I think the first arc does that to alot of people, I dunno how far you read but the second arc and on really picks up the pace.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think the JSA Volume Savage Times has a good deal of Dr. Fate…at least Nabu or something, along with a kind of Metamorpho and Vandal Savage.

Me too, that and Prophet are the two books I just want to sit down and re-read someday when they're both complete and absorb whatever I missed, which is likely alot.

I'm sad to say, I haven't read a James Tynion comic I like and this feeling of having him (and Marguerite Bennett) forced onto us because they are Snyder's students/friends is annoying.

I want to second Sava's praise of Prophet…it, along with Manhattan Projects and Fatale are what finally got me looking at comics that didn't feature folks in tights (or armor as the case may be). I don't know whats going on 25% of the time, but that crazy distorted feeling I get everytime I pop open an issue of

I read Avengers, which was good if a bit of a slowdown from the previous "high-adrenaline" of the most recent Infinity chapters.

But what does this have to do with the expanded earth theory?

Juliet Landau was also Tala and Plastique….but more importantly Michael Bluth plays Hermes, this trumps all Whedon stuff.

Never thought about that…good call.