Bingo. I'm a sucker for creator commentary of any sort, so his annotations were great to read.

My own DCMRr stalled out temporarily after New Frontier, but I still have Selina's Big Score, Superman: Kryptonite, & The Spirit on deck!

Plus lenticular masterpieces as far as the eye can see!

I have no idea how well they actually sold, but as I said above about X-Men '92, the best part of Secret Wars as an event was the mix-and-match, throw-things-together-and-see-what-sticks approach to continuity books like '92, 1872, Ghost Racers, Secret Wars, Secret Love, etc. Marvel's apparent failure to capitalize on…

Coincidentally (synergistically?) enough, I read this issue of Patsy Walker, AKA Hellcat just last night as I made my typically slow way through the ol' TBR pile, and I enjoyed it for all the reasons Oliver described. I didn't recognize Allegri as the artist of Bee and Puppycat at first, though I really enjoyed the…

"Bruce, honey, we've been through this every time Mommy wears a name tag—because it's Mommy's name. Now hush, Daddy's talking to the nice vagrant."

Oddly, his contribution is entitled, "Last Decade, A Hack Writer Ruined Superheroes' Lives With A Misguided Attempt To Inject Misunderstood Conceptions of 'Realism' & 'Maturity' Into A World Of Flying Spacemen And Talking Gorillas (And That Hack Was Me Oh What Have I Done?)".

What's really been missing from the lore is a scene of Mrs. Wayne
wearing a sticker that says "Hello! My Name Is MARTHA" as she falls bleeding to the ground.

I am, with complete sincerity, just glad that it didn't immediately involve death threats.

Seconding War Rocket Ajax, and also seconding the caveat re: Chris Sims. (I can tolerate/forgive him, fwiw.)

Go-to answer: Thor the Mighty Avenger, because it is excellent and will teach them about the inevitable disappointment and despair that comes from this hobby.

Yeah, there was a time when everything I knew about Greg Land's work was because of Sojourn… Would that I could return to such a simpler time.

Or Jem & the Holograms!

I've wanted to like so many Dynamite licensed titles more than I have… The Shadow has been pretty standout, but I was crushed at how much of a missed opportunity stuff like Masks and that The Shadow: Over Innsmouth one-shot turned out to be.

I mentioned recently that it was dearly(?) departed CrossGen that 1) kept me in comics at a time I was dissatisfied with the Big Two and 2) revealed to me that comics could encompass other genres than superheroes at a time I wasn't familiar with most of the other publishers. But CrossGen's a weird example in that it's…

We're through the looking glass here, people!

That sounds even worse than the Battle of Derra IV.

I'm still cheerfully in denial and just finished rereading Starfighters of Adumar, because you can have the EU when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

Yes! I'd had it pre-ordered from Amazon since last year.

It's not as widely known as his Dresden Files urban fantasy books, but Jim Butcher's Codex Alera is a good heroic fantasy series. It's over and done in 6 books—so it's got that edge on WoT and ASoIaF—plus it gets some novelty points for drawing from ancient Rome rather than medieval Europe for its setting.