I find myself saying this a lot on these boards: GO DIGITAL.

The answer is "The best."

PAD's Young Justice. I don't remember any adult themes creeping into it, it features my favorite character in my handle's name sake (Tim Drake, not the dumb wings), and the art is kid-friendly and mangaish stuff from Todd Nauck.

I like the whimsy of Aaron's run—especially compared to the life-or-death, extinction-is-upon-us tone of the previous 10 year's X-Men books, but I did feel that the stories were a bit inconsequential to merit $4 a month. Also, I don't give a fuck about any of the students besides Broo. That's what I decided to wait…

Ha. After having read latter-day Lobdell, I was dreading reading his X-Men in and around AoA. I was pleasantly surprised. They weren't the best X-Men stories ever told (WHY was Scott sending every X-Man possible in to infiltrate Graydon Creed's campaign?), but they were entertaining enough.

Wow. What don't you like?

The 10 year anniversary mini was horrid. From impractical plotpoints (the White House, civilization, and a free press system rebuilt a year after Apocalypse's fall) to shitty Chris Bachalo art and for-some-reason manga-inspired new character designs to a final issue that's all exposition dumps, it was garbage. I'm…

I'd really like to see PAD tackle Kitty Pryde; she's a character who would thrive from his "Everybody's a Comedian"-style dialogue. Too bad Bendis has her.

Glad to know I have company on the Bendis front! Have you tried Aaron's stuff? I like it, but am not sure if I love it enough to keep buying during the deluge of good stuff coming with All-New Marvel Now.

OK. Looks like that's the next run I'm going to tackle on Marvel Unlimited.

What's great about it? I might honestly have been more turned off by the Greg Land art than anything.

How was the Miller art, everyone? Didn't he draw a story in addition to that awful fucking cover?

Why did Marvel let Larry Stroman draw so much of the previous series? I understand he was the artist on the 90s series, but his art was horrible then too.

Ha. I don't know enough PAD to have seen other examples of this. What else have you seen?

Not seeing any excitement for Edmondson's Punisher here. Nothing quite as solid as a good Punisher run (Fraction, Rucka, most of Ennis); the character is just a great device for creating superhero-tinged crime/war comics. I look forward to seeing what trouble Frank finds in LA.

Eh, I feel like Fraction's creative successes (Casanova, first 24 issues of Invincible Iron Man, Hawkeye, Iron Fist) are balanced by his outright creative failures (Uncanny X-Men, everything after issue 25 of Invincible Iron Man, Fantastic Four, Defenders.) He's still got a good enough average that I'd try anything he…

Have you read X-Factor yet? I was surprised that PAD did the impossible: making Gambit tolerable. He basically wrote him as Madrox-who-steals shit and downplayed the phonetically rendered patois.

I didn't realize Michael Walsh was the Secret Avengers artist. Shit. Guess that's one more book I'll be adding to my pull list…

Or split the physical copy and digital code with another person; each of you gets one and pays $3 a piece.

The Brubaker/Phillips announcement surprised me most. I'm happy that this promises continued output from the two of them, and I'm also pleased to see Fatale actually has an end-point in-sight (#24.) I might get caught up now!