I don't think it's deluded to think that there's a mass appeal to comics that's completely different than what's traditionally been appealing to the Direct Market comicbook audience. One of, if not the, best selling comics in the US for the last couple of years has been Raina Telgemeier's Smile (and its sequel, Sisters…

So the Top Cow will out; if not in the art, then in the writing.

Being the place in which we talk about what we’ll be spending our money on this week (comics wise).

I believe that, but in addition to being outstanding, it's also sold out (and only in the last couple of weeks, too). Bleh. I was planning to have Youth in Decline throw it in with my first shipment of the new subscription, but that was a miscalculation.

Yup, she's/they're pretty dang amazing. What an embarrassingly rich age for comics we're living in.

Yay, Tomboy! I bought it on digital; how are ActionLab's production values on their print books? I want to support that book as much as I can, so I've been wondering whether to put it on my paper pull list or not.

Did he say it in a confrontational manner? Because that seems like a silly thing to lambast a writer for.

Aaron came out of DC, though; The Other Side and sixty issues of Scalped.

Hopefully, he's waiting for the right creator-owned collab to come along.

It looks good enough that I would at least have sampled it if it hadn't been for that price point. That $3.99 is just so ridiculously prohibitive for me; it's just a dollar higher than what I would have gladly paid, but I feel resentful every time I see a standard-length book (without any back matter) from one of the…

Perhaps he meant creative success?

I just read the first issue of Rocket Girl, which was utterly charming and intriguing. It's hard to tell how good this is going to be in the long run, but the cognitive dissonance created by the central time-travel conceit is scratching my brain in just the right way. Along with incredibly charming protagonist, that's…

Yeah, I'd not read it myself (I'm three years or so behind on Marvel), but I just found the concept of slagging off Pulido to be ridiculous. The thought that he might have done sub-par work on this one book didn't even enter my mind. Quintessential fan arrogance.

I haven't read any of those Titans issues myself, but according to Chris Sims over at Comics Alliance, #3 is the one to go for.

Things may have calmed down a bit after the Black Friday/Cyber Monday craziness, but there are still a handful of Comixology sales going this week,

You're not too far off. It works beautifully, though, more "real" sci-fi than the earthbound spaceopera you usually get when superhero comics try to do science fiction.

Thank you for the kind words, and for tolerating my attempts at critique. Differentiating between the contributions of various creators in a collaborative work seems to me one of the most daunting parts of analysing that type of work. I don't envy you having to get to grips with that, although I do imagine it gets…

You definitely don't need to apologise for talking about this stuff; I asked because I wanted to know.
It sucks to hear that the internship turned out to be such a stressful situation, especially given that it's in a field that you care so much about.

Spot on. Considering how well the book works on many levels, I feel a bit churlish complaining in detail about this one thing, but it's a bum note that for me just seems to resonate louder and louder as the story builds. I think you might be right in the pacing playing a significant part in how the deaths come off;…

That's really impressive. I've always had an ambition to be a critic; not so much as a professional aspiration, as a means of self-expression and engagement with the art forms I love. I'm trying to get back into it now, and your path (which definitely goes beyond traditional fandom) is inspiring.