Agreed.  It was a great idea, but this opening issue was waaaay too Ennisian for me to really enjoy.  Seems like an ideal book to trade-wait, though at least it's only 4 issues.

Agreed.  It was a great idea, but this opening issue was waaaay too Ennisian for me to really enjoy.  Seems like an ideal book to trade-wait, though at least it's only 4 issues.

I think what they were going for has more to do with making the biblical connection so LITERAL.  The Phantom Stranger always fit in with that crowd, but he was a mystery - Fallen angel? Wandering Jew? Judas? - the first issue Didio wrote for the character literally just said, "Nope, no mystery here. Judas. Hey…

I think what they were going for has more to do with making the biblical connection so LITERAL.  The Phantom Stranger always fit in with that crowd, but he was a mystery - Fallen angel? Wandering Jew? Judas? - the first issue Didio wrote for the character literally just said, "Nope, no mystery here. Judas. Hey…

I actually liked him for a long time.  Batman: The Black Mirror is a modern-day Batman classic - that last page is fucking haunting - and American Vampire is charming enough.  I just think he's stretched himself too thin.  I've disliked Swamp Thing for a couple months now, though it wasn't until #0 that I realized…

I actually liked him for a long time.  Batman: The Black Mirror is a modern-day Batman classic - that last page is fucking haunting - and American Vampire is charming enough.  I just think he's stretched himself too thin.  I've disliked Swamp Thing for a couple months now, though it wasn't until #0 that I realized…

Outside of Batman 12, I really haven't.  I thought Swamp Thing #0 was one of the two or three worst issues of comics I read this year and is responsible for me dropping the book on the spot, while the conclusion of the "Court of Owls" story was literally just the villain monologuing for TWENTY PAGES to explain the…

Outside of Batman 12, I really haven't.  I thought Swamp Thing #0 was one of the two or three worst issues of comics I read this year and is responsible for me dropping the book on the spot, while the conclusion of the "Court of Owls" story was literally just the villain monologuing for TWENTY PAGES to explain the…

But in the most important comic book news of all…

But in the most important comic book news of all…

In defense of Christy Marx, the first issue of the original Amethyst series ALSO featured attempted rape, but of Amethyst herself (it's what triggered her powers) rather than of her friends.

In defense of Christy Marx, the first issue of the original Amethyst series ALSO featured attempted rape, but of Amethyst herself (it's what triggered her powers) rather than of her friends.

I liked it a lot, though it didn't stick with me the way Morrison's better books did.

I liked it a lot, though it didn't stick with me the way Morrison's better books did.

I was genuinely nervous to watch Antichrist, but when I finally sat down with it, I actually mostly enjoyed it - there was so much gorgeous, fascinating, creepy imagery in the film, and so many neat ideas, that I couldn't help but kind of like it.

I was genuinely nervous to watch Antichrist, but when I finally sat down with it, I actually mostly enjoyed it - there was so much gorgeous, fascinating, creepy imagery in the film, and so many neat ideas, that I couldn't help but kind of like it.

Carano, Yeoh, Torres, Strahovski, Pounder, Liu, Bell, Mirren, Lawless, Grier, Weaver.

Carano, Yeoh, Torres, Strahovski, Pounder, Liu, Bell, Mirren, Lawless, Grier, Weaver.

I think someone should just adapt Wizzywig. I want interesting, character-driven hacker stories, dammit!

I think someone should just adapt Wizzywig. I want interesting, character-driven hacker stories, dammit!