Well we all know Geoff Johns loves removing characters' limbs. Maybe that's his influence on the company?

New creative team starts in October.

How long did it take them to bring back Peter Parker? Roughly a year and a half? I say exactly that long.

The new Batgirl actually sounds like such a good, fun title that I'm pretty certain DC is pranking us. I'm pretty sure that, by the end of the first issue, a female character will lose all her limbs after 20 pages of being drawn in anatomically impossible positions that show off her T&A.

Ha. True. Once Lemire's Green Arrow ends next month, I don't think I'll be giving DC money for ANYTHING. Batman back issues on comiXology. That'll probably be all.

Word, word.

I want to read and like a Tim Drake story, which has been impossible in the New 52. Does Teen Titans look like it might be good for me?

HE WON'T BE DOING IT FOR MUCH LONGER, AMIRITE?

Yeah, I think this means my money needs to go in a more Ra's al Ghul-y direction than BATO.

Black Lightning has always been a favorite of mine. Does he get much attention?

Yeah, dude. When I was bought the Garcia Lopez Superman hardcover, I had it down to that or the Gil Kane. The thing that made me shy away from the Gil Kane volume was seeing that it contained his later work. He's loved and acclaimed for his 60s-ish stuff from what I understand, like his early Hal Jordan stuff. I want…

Yeah, I decided this is a definite "top of the Marvel Unlimited heap" title after #2.

Also, as relates to Batbooks, I'm thinking about making a Batbook purchase on comiXology soon.

Did Darkseid still "kill" Batman in the New 52?

Real talk: how many stealth firsties are people going to try to make with the title of this book?

What did everyone read this week?

Have you read Amazing X-Men's new arc? I used the $20 for $12 GroupOn at Forbidden Planet to pick up Cyclops and Miles Morales, and had money leftover. I picked up AXM on a whim and was impressed. Good fun, great art, and meat-and-potatoes, Chuck Dixon-style storytelling from Kyle and Yost.

Excellent idea. R.M. Guerra and Aaron join together to create something magical. And the final arc is just a fucking gut punch comparable to the final 5 minutes of The Wire.

That scene is definitely the best evidence as to why Matt should never have been a part of the Avengers. He is not physically or psychologically equipped to play in that league of superheroics. If Marvel didn't need him as part of the team for AvX, I doubt they ever would have had him join.

"The voice that could command a God—and does."