Wow. You must be loving life then!

They do. Mach V even plays a part in the series.

I actually picked up volume 1 of the New 52 Batman and Robin during DC's Comixology sale last week; started reading it yesterday and loved it. It made me not hate Gleason's art! When he was on GLC, his large panels, splash pages, and covers were incredible, but his smaller panels always felt phoned in. His B&R work…

When you get to The Last of the Innocent, your mind will be blown. Not even kidding. Totally worth slogging through 4 and 5.

What did everyone read this week?

You can set up an account with MyComicShop.com that'll tell you the moment they get Triumph and Torment in-stock. It's pretty tight.

I think the problem is that it takes a few years of reading his "formula" to realize he's telling the same story over and over again. Blackest Night was the turning point where I realized he just writes fan-favorite action figures smacking into each other for 22 pages at a time; the "kewl, new" Lantern costumes for…

I also find the revelation of Cassidy's true nature as a shitbag to be heartbreaking.

Start writing your Amazing X-Men comics like you're writing an anti-royal pamphlet during Colonial times and Nightcrawler is King George/"K___ G_____."

As the public, I ACTIVELY reject Gambit.

Why do people like Gambit? I could never figure that out.

I like Kitty Pryde quite a bit. But #1 X-Man? Are you fucking kidding me?

Yeah. If you told me that without context, I'd read it in a heartbeat.

I've heard that his absence from the comics industry is part because of his shitty work and part voluntary. For instance, he could be relegated to the digital-first ghettos of DC like JT Krul or Adam Beechen, but he took such a heavy beating from fans that he no longer wants to be in the industry.

How was Haspiel's art? I like him, but I wish he'd do a non-superhero monthly.

I still find it hilarious/sad that fan reaction to Austen's X-Men was SO bad that it persuaded him to never do interviews or, ultimately seek work in comics ever again. But God damn it was awful. The communion-wafers-that-make-the-faithful-disappear-when-Nightcrawler-is-revealed-to-be-Pope arc was my breaking point;…

High-School-Me LOVED Preacher. I haven't revisited it since about 2006, so I wonder how it'd hold up now that I'm almost 30. Because I'm pretty sure high school dudes are the crowd that would enjoy it most. However, I've had friends read Preacher in the past year or so, and they've all had the same enthusiastic…

Austin's first few issues actually weren't horrible. "Hope" is a pretty great arc. However, it all goes to shit immediately after that.

MCCLOUD!

The Diggle run immediately following is pretty great; however, it was cut short because both Roberto de la Torre and he were reassigned to Daredevil. Which ended in… Shadowland. (::UGH::)