I'm "Like"ing this grudgingly.

I read the first two issues of Flash and liked them, but am iffy about picking up the entire run since the series will play such a big role in Faces of Evil II: The Evil-ing. It seems like well-illustrated, light-hearted, fun comics. Am I right in saying that?

I was gonna say, I thought it was a fairly long run, encompassing Officer Down and Bruce Wayne: Murderer.

That's the thing. I miss reading about Bruce Wayne and Tim Drake and Kyle Rayner and other DC characters… but cutting DC out of my pull list has allowed me to read and enjoy some of the best Marvel books on the stands (Daredevil, FF, Hawkeye), some of the most innovative books on the stand that don't pay heed to a…

That better not be a jab at Chuck Dixon. Dixon is the MASTER of the above-average-entertaining-inconsequential-piece-of-character-drive-fluff.

I remember being PISSSSSSSED when it looked like Tim Drake was fucked. I was happy that the story brought him to becoming Red Robin, though. That was my favorite role he's played in the DCU.

@avclub-3d90679db7c4964280d596fe6a031930:disqus I still maintain that JLA was his best superhero work because editorial kept his head and his ass far apart from each other.

You bring up a good point: do you think the New 52 will ever end? Some people seem confident in that fact, but keep in mind that DC never flat-out undid the massive changes of Crisis on Infinite Earths; sure, dead characters were brought back to life and the Multiverse returned, but the previous goings-on were all…

I was reading Snyder's Batman until I got tired of the darkness-for-the-sake-of-darkness he seemed to be promoting in his books. I really miss reading Batman, but I feel a moral imperative to not give any of my money to the New 52. I disagree with DC's business practices, and the characters aren't characters I give a…

Yay. It was a great story that advanced the Doom plot while giving Allred a chance to flex his imagining-weird-things muscles. I haven't been this happy with Allred's work since X-Statix!

INDEED. I was quite happy for him. Maybe his normally-morose Facebook posts will brighten up now.

ALSO. What's with everyone's love of Paul Smith? I've seen his work in old X-Men stories and found it kind of generic. I wasn't reading comics at the time, though; was there some kind of contextual reason his art is so revered?

Also, everyone's reading Lazarus, right? Because I can imagine that'll be cleaning up at next year's Eisners.

How about them Eisners? I was happy for all of Saga's wins, but the rest of the categories kind of fell flat for me. There were no massively pleasing, well-deserved winners like Green River Killer or Jim Henson's Tales of Sand in the Graphic Novel categories. I thought Get Jiro would at least get nominated to draw…

He did Batman/Huntress: Cry for Blood, in which the Question figures prominently. It's post-No Man's Land and relies heavily on the goings-on of that series. While I love Rucka, I would cite this miniseries as one of his few missteps.

@avclub-e95a45d0b1f5afdf0ab9cde82b4b1d06:disqus Kate's from Jersey?

Heresy! Next you'll be saying you prefer it to any artist on the current volume of Daredevil!

Thanks for this. I had a great laugh.

Great issue!

Don't forget about the 5 faces he draws again and again and again:
1) Man
2) Fat Man
3) Hot Woman
4) Haggard Woman
5) Punisher