Have any else noticed that Grant Gustin kind of sounds like he's doing a Bela Lugosi impression in the intro voiceover? "Iyam dee Flesh. Dee festest men alayv".

Couldn't disagree more. I wasn't too hot on it at the time it came out, but every time I've revisited it since, it seems to have gotten better. The fact that so much of it sounds fresh ten years later is a testament to Missy's unparalleled pop savvy; and the fact that she still killed it (mainly) without Timbaland…

Eff yes, Interiors. If you have any kind of inclination towards singer-songwritery stuff, "Americana", and/or Rosanne Cash, get on that immediately. Surprisingly many of these albums are favourites of mine, but Interiors is something truly special. The first time I heard it a couple of years ago, I was honestly…

He sure did; for Topps Comics, of all places. I first read it in a b&w reprint, and I really wish I'd kept that book, because Mignola looks so dang amazing in monochrome.

At least it's historically significant, so when you're wincing at the Millar-ness of it all, you can take comfort in that, I guess. Also, Hitch at the top of his game is a pretty big draw, to be fair.

I'm on board with that; and thank you again!

You're spot on regarding the character deaths; they've really whiffed on the balance there. I understand the desire to strive towards a sort of realism when it comes to depicting how lethal a state of war actually is, but this is one area where realism (or is it naturalism?) works against the storytelling, dulling its…

Thanks for the read on Monstress. It was hard to get a feeling for it from the previews. Curious to hear what you thought about Suffrajitsu. I was eyeing it in the sale section over on Comixology just now.

Sava was gushing about it on Twitter yesterday, saying he'd much rather have written this column on Midnighter instead of X-Men. Really wish he had.

The most frustrating thing about Land is that he's a good draftsman, if you discount his… divisive character work. I just read an issue of Supergirl he did when he was starting out, before he went all in on the photo-referencing. Turns out he was a completely normal above-average superhero artist back then, with a lot…

I'm hoping someone will chime in on this; the preview pages on there look very enticing, at the very least.

The Zeb Wells New Mutants run is pretty amazing, especially towards the end. I also liked what Abnett and Lanning brought when replacing him (their last book together, I think).

but a lot of people seemed to take issue with Greg Land's art

I actually started salivating a bit just now thinking about dat sweet Simonson typography.

I'll keep that in mind; I imagine my next Marvel Unlimited binge should bring me into his run. Not quite there yet at the moment; I'm still in the Gillen/Fraction run(s), iirc.

My Rogue is JRJR Mutant Massacre era Rogue, short hair with white stripe. So much happened to that character in the nineties (when I stopped reading the X-books) that I'd basically lost any feeling for who she was when I returned to it in the 00's.

Huh. I dunno then. It might be that my taste is for shit, or that I'm overestimating it because I was reading through the entire Ultimate line at the time, and everything else was so aggressively crap.

Welcome! Do look in on the "what did you read this week" thread above. There's also some "what are you buying this week" chatter in the Comics Panel comments earlier in the week. And I've been trying to start up a weekly thread of Comixology sales discussion, do chime in with your recommendations there. As for X-Men,…

Ta, I'll keep those in mind for when the sales roll around!

Have you read his Alien adaptation? Almost as strong as Mignola's Dracula, in the left-field-and-unjustly-forgotten-adaptations-by-comics-legends category.