Sir, for the last time, this is Frontierland, not Bartertown. Now please step away from the PA system.

Technically, it only refers to "arms."

Oh good, did they finally get rid of Test Track?

There hog. There castle.

Escargodirectlytohospital.

*It is generally thought, on those worlds where the mall life-form has seeded, that people take the wire baskets away and leave them in strange and isolated places, so that squads of young men have to be employed to gather them together and wheel them back. This is exactly the opposite of the truth. In reality the men…

I'm especially looking forward to an in-depth explanation of the "poison thing that lives in a shell, that sticks you when you pick it up."

With appropriately altered lyrics! "Crashing through the roof," etc., etc.

Corto Maltese, huh? Maybe it was heightened expectations, but I read Under the Sign of Capricorn and was underwhelmed. (Great art, but lackluster story.) What am I missing? Is it worth picking up Beyond the Windy Isles?

Yeah… Before now I never would have expected to be considering putting something titled Hitler on my Xmas list, but here we are.

The Devil in the White City, though it remains unfinished. I'd read and enjoyed In the Garden of Beasts well enough earlier this year, but have liked Devil considerably more so far. Looking forward to moving on to Dead Wake afterwards.

I'll inform Print's wife.

Just writing to confirm that Men at Arms is the next in the Watch series, but as others have said you can really pick any of the "starting point" books and be good to go. But (as others have also said) Mort is a great next choice since it leads into a fantastic run of the Death series—I'm rereading Hogfather right now…

"While positively sophisticated compared to later versions, Eartha Kitt’s
original 1953 recording is barely tolerable, her expertise as a jazz
vocalist only enhancing sonically nauseating phrases like “a ’54
convertible too, light blue.”"

At long last… Now dawns the Hour of the Interrobang.

Yeah, I briefly tried following Hellboy in single issues—around the time "The Island" came out, actually, so as an aside I really love your username—but it didn't last, for exactly that reason. Plus I've always enjoyed Mignola's story notes and his (or Fegredo's) rough sketches, and the trades make such a nice…

Holding fast. We're prickly and hard to eradicate.

You, sir, are one steely-eyed missile man.

It's "strategery" all over again.

Glad to see Ragnarok got a mention here—Simonson is a creator I knew mostly by reputation before this book, and based on what I've seen he deserves every accolade. (Although admittedly I'd say he deserves every accolade just for making his signature shaped like a dinosaur.) It's really a beautiful, well-crafted,…