My first was Happy-Go-Lucky, which I absolutely loved it.  It was an incredibly powerful movie that made me want to try and be a better person.

Dexter Soy REALLY didn't work for the first arc, but his second arc in the title (#7-9) were much better.  I just read Captain Marvel: Down last night, and it was an enormous step up from the first volume.  I highly recommend it.

I like Sleeper and Criminal a bit more, but it's close.  Really, I think Brubaker will go down as one of this generation's best comic writers.

It's still not cheap, but instocktrades.com basically has 45% off everything Marvel, DC, Image and Dark Horse publish. I got my second Criminal Deluxe Ed from them.

Yeah, but… "WOULD THAT THIS HOODIE WERE A TIME HOODIE!!!!"

Yup. That looks about right.

Having seen it - the action gets away from him a little, but it's still the second best Marvel Studios movie after The Avengers.  Black's script is laugh-out-loud funny and has some really impressive action set-pieces.  There's a bit of bloat, but Shane Black makes it work just like he did with Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

And pretty much everyone else said, during awards season, if you use the Oscars as a benchmark for the year's best films, you're going to be a disappointed filmgoer.  Argo was fine, but it wasn't even in my Top 15.

I want this in my eyeholes RIGHT NOW.

Isn't admitting his faults the greatest penance of all?

Seriously. This is surprisingly hard.  Losing "New Cult Canon", "World of Flops"… hell, Koski is responsible for introducing me to, like, 2/3ds of my favorite bands.  This is surprisingly hard for me.

Very true. That's always been a huge problem - people don't seem to realize that you can start almost wherever you want, in a lot of cases.  That's always been a big problem - when you have 8 different people telling 8 different Batman stories at the same time, it can get confusing fast.

Generally not quite to this level.  Most superhero covers are just either poses or fight teases - these tease major conflicts and status quo changes (as part of their WTF month initiative… ugh) but then chicken out narratively. Which is fine, really - most Marvel/DC covers are so relentlessly bland that it hardly…

It does have a small, temporary effect on graphic novel sales; it has functionally no effect whatsoever on periodical sales.

They didn't replace Diggle, he quit, though he hasn't yet said why.

@avclub-61e626641b507015d1d403d2ecdd02fb:disqus - I partially agree.  "The Hunt" was good bordering on great, some of the best horror storytelling I've seen from Marvel or DC in a long time.  The second arc felt like it was just killing time waiting for pretty literally ANYTHING to happen in Swamp Thing so the…

Rotworld is okay - the Animal Man build-up was actually generally very good, though there were times Snyder's Swamp Thing was almost unreadable - it's just waaaaay too long and nonsensical, and, ultimately, it doesn't really do or say anything new.  I suspect it will read a lot better in trade than it did in single…

Apparently, Shawn Ryan has said that, if he knew the show were getting picked up, he might have paced things a little differently, built up Terry's death over three or four episodes, showed Vic trying to find another way, etc….  As it is, because of the demands of making a pilot, he felt that he needed to 'wow' the…

It's been a couple years since I watched The Shield, but, yeah, there's no way in hell I'm missing any of these articles.

You can tell it's a perfect TVC Classic show when there are fans who put this much work into the replies.  Buffy had Sophist, Star Trek had, like, 70 different obsessives, and now we have @avclub-f6f154417c4665861583f9b9c4afafa2:disqus - woo, AVC Commenter of the year 2013!  Woo!