100000% in agreement. I see Squirrel Girl a little differently because her flaw is impatience and anger, but her strength is empathy, so the pull back and forth is important (the arc when she goes to Canada is a perfect example of this).

That whole "write a strong female character by making her loud and angry and prone to punching things in a way that endangers everybody else" attitude is…not my favorite, and super duper flawed. Which is why the Carol Corps has a hit out on me.

Nooooope. I was fine with just "what he writes is not for me" for a long time, then he "inadvertantly" sicced his fans on a woman who criticised another comic writer by calling her a liar publically. Later apologized and said he misspoke, but I have no respect for men in the industry who don't realize that telling…

I do, and that's weeding shitty, abusive people out of an industry that regularly treats women, POC, and LGBTQ creators like crap. The Rat Queens team is at the top of that list.

I'm not sure where this read of "smug" comes in. The guy is making the comic he wants to make, and when people want him to do something different he says no. That's perfectly damned reasonable.

For those of us that do not like Gillen, the book certainly was dour, as in "unyeilding" and "dismal".

Dude, there's TONS of story there. It's all slow burn and takes a while because he switches between characters, but hell, so does George RR Martin.

I mean…what does "fussy" mean? There are definitely webcomics out there that are BUCKETS better than what Marvel & DC are putting out. Two of them were in my "best of" this year.

Comics are frequently published, usually sequential. Creators have 22 ish pages to convince a reader to come back for next time. Slow burn reveals (especially with established characters and someone else's IP) are fraught and tough to pull off, because the barrier to entry is high enough readers will drop off fast…

I usually give books three issues to hook me. I have friends (professionals and fans) that only give a book ONE issue. That's part of the danger of comics, if you can't get someone to understand what you're doing in the first issue, the barrier of entry is high enough people are going to drop off fast.

It's great that it was relatable to you, but that's not a universal experience for ace/demi/queer folks that read it. Just like Oliver and I had HUGE disagreements about the way Bendis handled Bobby Drake's forced outing, North's run on Jughead feels like it's at the expense of the character, rather than motivated by…

I tried the first run (reviewed the first one) and hated it until #5. The joke pacing was just too tight and the easter eggs were rough. I hear he got over those issues, which is great, but his run on Jughead was phenomenal.

Until the writer pushed her out of the book and replaced her with another dude. The second woman to get bullied off the title.

He's a co-creator on a creator-owned IP. He definitely gets a lot of money for it, not to mention still going around the con circuit getting commissions from fans. Everyone's mileage is gonna vary on this one but two women got bullied off this book and the guys just come off like assholes.

Silk and I am having a brainfart and do not remember the other one I was thinking of. I don't think I'd classify Squirrel Girl as "upcoming generation", but I love it.

Sure. I'll admit I dropped Archie after #7 or #8 and Jughead after Zdarsky left. I didn't even get through the first two issues of Betty & Veronica without putting them down.

I've come to realize I like exactly two of the Marvel "upcoming generation" books, and the rest are just too cute for me.

Also gives money to a guy that abuses his wife. Generally suggest readers avoid it.

Waid and Adams's runs are also pretty generic and indistinct with beautiful art, to be fair. The whole relaunch was supposed to be about doing new things, fresh and exciting things, but we're already back to sex shaming women, pitting women against each other, prescriptive femininity, shitting all over LGBTQ+…

The whole "date falling apart" thing made me super uncomfortable from the get go, because it feels like they're forcing a failing romance onto basically the first recognizable asexual character in comics. The entire arc seems to be blaming HIM and his sexuality for the way everything is going, and Sabrina's social…