I saw Todd Barry perform at the Soho Theatre in London, and on the way out noticed Slash had appeared to schmooze with the man. I did not expect that.

I can tell you that PFT's ALW is actually way more charismatic than the real thing. And here in the UK, the main ALW joke is how hideous he looks. That, and his rinkydink musicals.

These are all great suggestions, but I am doubling down on X-Statix. Might be my favourite run ever.

The only thing that I enjoyed about Forever Evil #1 was the antsiness and paranoia of the Flash's rogue galler, convinced that he was going to turn up at any moment. Is the monthly title in that vein?

Death Comes to Town was much better than I had anticipated, and I remember hoping that it would get a second season, or someone would throw some more TV money their way once it ended.

Eh, this is good comedy for office workers who don't really like comedy.

Atillan floating above NYC, the Black Order (or whatever they want to confusingly refer to themselves as) taking down Atlantis and Wakanda fighting back against Thanos' forces - which take over the earth in the Avengers' absence - all events that pretty much take place off-panel. I'd call that the precise opposite of…

I think he meant "Lying About Rape Crisis"

No, this is a prequel issue, where we found out that The Joker has puffy red eyes but can't be bothered to put any alabaster concealer on them.

I think you *do* need emotion and character work in something like Infinity, to get us to actually give a shit about the consequences. It's one of the (many) reasons Man Of Steel sucked, because there was no human scale to Zod's onslaught.

See, that's obviously a riff on Grant Morrison's Crime Syndicate stuff, but the tone of the artwork and the writing is just too straightfaced and dull to pull it off as a Verhoevenesque joke.

The Joker didn't appear to give him any brain-enhancing treatment either. So yes, in the New 52 you can just raise a gorilla as a human and they'll be able to learn and comprehend language as well as complicated engineering concepts.

Well blow me, we got two shitty origins for the price of… well, that depends on which cover you wanted, I suppose.

I agree about Infinity, it feels suitably epic and universe-changing, but it seems to be an effort for Hickman to write anything emotional. Christ, The Manhattan Projects is the most human thing he writes, and that's about genocidal psychopaths with huge egos and hidden agendas.

So, the Joker is evil because of his abusive aunt, and also he raised a gorilla from infancy to adulthood, treating him like a son and taking him on all of his crimetastic capers.

@avclub-e95a45d0b1f5afdf0ab9cde82b4b1d06:disqus Well, they killed him off (for a month) when the last film was released.

That was directly addressed in this week's Avengers, funnily enough (SPOILERS: she's put it aside to team up with Skrulls)

haha no daredevil

J.P. McPickleshitter - because she was trying to get them to work with Todd. She mutters something like "I wish you'd given him a chance" as she sends through the signal.

Also Face-Ripper Monkey, Aaron Paul has clearly had weight fluctations between seasons (his jaw has filled out quite a bit), and Hank suddenly lost weight between so5e08 and s05e09 - are they both shitty unprofessionals too?