With Cyborg in JL and his solo title, Raven and Gar in Teen Titans, and Starfire off with complete amnesia in Florida, I think they were kind of taking what they could get.

*hisses softly* Maaayyyybe rethink that one?

Doesn't diversity of creators logically lend it self to diversity of experience and design? Can you understand how arguing for the former might be arguing for the latter?

Gotham by Midnight has officially ended, maybe that's what people were thinking about RE Gotham Academy?

:D I actually bought it in floppies rather than trade-waiting and honestly the reading experience is pretty different. In floppies, the two man characters' stories are literally flipped upside down, so you have to physically rotate the book as it switches perspectives between them. The TPBs I saw didn't do that, and…

Just FYI, Trillium was originally an ongoing title, rather than a graphic novel. More than that, the TPB was collected in 2014, disqualifying it for this list. Trust me, I freaking love Trillium and wish Lemire would go back to that kind of work more instead of the big two stuff he's writing now.

It's definitely emotional, but it's not specifically a tear jerker. You should definitely grab a copy of the epilogue comic that Weaver made if you can get your hands on it. She created three different alternatives for what happens to the guys after the main story arc ends and it's really sweet.

Plutona's definitely not that, for what it's worth. It's also only going to be 4 issues long, I think.

Keep in mind a) how many of these have to get written b) our word limit and c) we get edited for clarity. Also, I specifically referenced textbooks and that history has a reputation, rather than saying "history is boring". You just admitted to overlooking big chunks of my review, despite the fact that it "does a…

I like his Earth One Teen Titans, but I also really enjoyed the hell out of Animal Man and Trillium, so take that with a grain of salt. I honestly think he might be stretching too thin right now, the more books he works on the more the overall quality decreases. I actively dislike his Hawkeye…I'm tired of him…

But Smith was still treated like a hero, the savior of his own story (not to mention his girlfriend's). I never got the sense I was supposed to be frustrated or unsympathetic to him, which is a huge issue. He's a dick, he's exactly the sort of person I would warn my friends never to get involved with, but he still…

SO GOOOOOOOD.

I absolutely agree. And my review of it a few weeks ago said something similar. But what makes it one of the best books of the year in my mind was the storytelling craft, and the fact that it was a not-romance that featured a queer sexual relationship with emotional intimacy was a cherry on top.

THANK YOU.

I taught world history to high school freshman and let me tell you even the history nerds in that classroom wanted nothing to do with our textbooks. I was specifically referring to history textbooks, rather than just history writ large, which is why I said that way. "If Beaton contributed to TEXTBOOKS." I mean…I'm…

I assume you checked out Bloodspell? If not, you really should. Dini and Quinones is a powerhouse team up.

I'll admit satire is not an exact enough word for what I think he might have been trying to do, and meta-commentary isn't quite perfect either. If his goal was to…inspect and investigate all of the themes that (in my reading) he wallowed in unselfconsciously, he failed a lot of people who just didn't get that…

A huge chunk of the book focuses on selling out versus art for art's sake. He rails against his friends' and competitions' behavior because they've "sold out" or don't have "real" talent but still make money. That's a pretty narrow view of how art works, it's dated and myopic and more than that is INCREDIBLY…

The day I can stop saying "It's a book about gay guys" and review something based solely on merit will be a very great day indeed. Saying it's a book starring two men who happen to like having sex with each other is sort of insulting and more than that tries to pin it into a genre I'm not sure it belongs in.

If you didn't like the story in Shoplifter I don't think you'll like The Sculptor. It's the same basic idea, but super heavy handed and not very self aware.