The superhero "genre" isn't the sum total of that medium, though, however much swathes of the comics industry and its audience acts like it is. I agree that Ennis has beaten his superhero satire drum a couple dozen times too many over the years, but regardless of all the great work that has been done with superheroes…

Empire is a good shout. As for me, though I have no problem seeing its (many) shortcomings, Munich might very well be my favourite film of his.

'Tis a familiar dirge in my house, to be true.

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I'm starting to develop a theory that Daytripper only really hits home emotionally with a narrow section of its audience, and that all the other people end up more or less annoyed with (or bemused by) the book. Also, I worry that the aforementioned narrow section (which includes me) is exclusively made up of people…

(Someone was asking about this in the Comics Panel comments earlier in the week, and I responded to that, so apologies if that was you, and I'm repeating myself)

Too right it's one of the best yet! Stray Bullets Über Alles is worth the $20 minimum all by its lonesome.

I remember a lot of rereading to prepare myself for new issues. That sounds like a slog, but I didn't mind it. Like I said, having to work a bit for it paid off as the series went on, and Johnston and Mitten found their feet.

That's a lovely observation!

(sales post up now)

You're so right about Island and such mainstream genre anthologies in general. I have to read them in a slightly different way than the other books in my stack; I've found they serve as a valuable exercise in slowing down and really taking in the art. Reading this Nate Patrin review of the first Island issue really…

Better late than never etc, here are your Comixology sales of the week(end)!

Nice one. Good thing that's the first run coming up after Delano's. Also, if it wasn't for the sometimes iffy art, I'd argue for Delano's Hellblazer run as one of the all time greats. It helps that almost all of the iffy artists are good-to-great at layouts, even though their draftsmanship's awfully poor at times.…

The first issue of Airboy was interesting, at least, with fantastic art. I had a hard time judging whether it was going to be worthwhile or not from that single slice of the story, though.

I'm writing it as we speak, between various and sundry household tasks. It'll be up in an hour or so, I think. I usually write the posts in advance, but this week has been crazy.

Yay Wasteland! It might feel a bit impenetrable (or opaque? Opaque might be the right word here) at times, but I think it pays off in a major way. And you'll get to see Christopher Mitten evolve as an artist, which was really satisfying when the issues were coming out, at least.

Last night, I read Pope Hats #3, which was absolutely amazing (and I stand by that hyperbole). I'm normally so anal about continuity and completism that I wouldn't start reading a book in the middle of the story, but missing out on whatever happened in the first two issues didn't keep this from blowing my hat clean…

How was Batman/TMNT?

No shame in that! Given the sheer amount of titles in the direct market alone, it's a huge boon to be able to tap a community of discerning comics readers for their opinions, especially when I can only afford a small handful of books a month myself. And an "I liked it" or an "I wasn't feeling it" works beautifully in…

Thanks! Disappointing to hear that a six-issue mini falls off after a couple of issues. Interesting to hear if they manage to stick the landing; could I convince you to drop by the Big Issues comments on Friday with the final verdict?