How many days away from retirement was he?

Wait, "alien doomsday device"? I'm starting to see a connection here…

Nobody asked you, Zack Snyder! You're a disgrace to delicious hard pretzels everywhere*!

I cannot recommend Pak and Van Lente's run on Incredible Hercules highly enough. It's great.

Thank you.

Dead Bowie's already a member of the Evil League of Evil.

No one will be seated during the thrilling Council of Cross-Time Kangs parliamentary roll-call vote sequence!

But, lacking a hyphen, canonically incorrect.

Too formal.

…. nobody tell him about Fort Hood.

Is he? Unexpectedly canny of him—usually they remember there's a 10th Amendment and fail to read further.

This will be an instance where SJWs offended by "white saviors" and neo-Confederates who loathe Newton Knight and his struggle, can agree on continuing to relegate Knight to historical obscurity.

No man is a prophet in his own continuity.

Last year I picked up a volume of the Val reprints from my store's half-price shelf (out of several that were sitting there), solely because that one's cover had Hal Foster drawing the Norse gods. Only too late as I read it did I remember, "Covers always lie," because that Norse arc merely started in that volume and…

Oh, rock on—will do!

Thank you all the more for the additional recs! Regarding Dini's Zatanna—is that different from his Zatanna/Black Canary "Bloodspell" miniseries? (I have that one, yet another thing I picked up but haven't gotten around to reading!)

OK, we've got dueling reminders going on—on the topic of "gorgeously illustrated trips through DC and world history," I also forgot that I reread Matt Wagner & Amy Reeder's Madame Xanadu: Disenchanted. I'd forgotten, too, until then how much I enjoyed that book for being a great distillation of DC's magical history…

The line, "It's plot exposition; it has to go somewhere," for one.

While I'd hoped to use the holidays to progress through my TBR pile, I mostly read newer stuff I received as gifts for the holidays.

Well, they are in the legal profession… I'm sure if one of those plummeting people had had them on retainer, they'd be right on it.