Get Final Fantasy Theatrhythm: Curtain Call if you're a longtime FF fan. It's surprisingly satisfying and addictive, and you can find it for $20 from most places.

Their color themed Marvel books were pretty great too, and were the last quality books Loeb ever worked on. Wasn't there supposed to be a Captain America one?

I read the first tpb of the new Dan Slott/Michael Allred Silver Surfer series. He's not my favorite writer in the industry, but I do enjoy most of Slott's work and he occasionally surprises me with all the tricks he has up his sleeve. Or maybe he's just been writing Spider-Man so long that I assume that's the only…

I think Villains United and all the other books technically came out in the lead-up to Infinite Crisis, so you might be good to go! I think they later released specials for each of the minis during IC to plug a hole in the release calendar, but you should be able to at least read the initial series.

There kind of already is a character like that: Sharon Carter. Except she's Peggy Carter's niece who coincidentally and somewhat awkwardly becomes Steve Rogers' main love interest in the comics.

Seriously? As someone whose parents had to flee from Vietnam under great duress, literally escaping by boat under threat of imprisonment, I say fuck these guys. This is yet another egregious, blatant display of white privilege. Fuck these guys so much.

There was at least one villain loosely connected to Peter Park during the Lee/Ditko run: Frederick Foswell was a reporter at the Daily Bugle who ended up being a crime boss known as Big Man. He was more of a background character than a substantial supporting player though.

The first Rhino scene at least has some fun web-slinging. Mind you, this happens after an interminable opening that feels like it is 15 minutes long, primarily featuring an action scene with Peter Parker's dad. My mouth was agape. I had never seen such a misguided opening to a superhero film. The kids wanna see their…

Next issue seems to be the real launch of her solo book. The opening story arc was an average Spider-Verse tie-in that could have been its own mini-series. It ended with Jessica Drew pretty much dismantling her own status quo in time for the next issue. Her new costume is pretty impressive and the new artist Javier…

The art was pretty great all around on this book. I may have preferred Tradd Moore's issues, but I thought this was also a great return to form for Damion Scott. I absolutely loved his work during the Cassandra Cain Batgirl series but his art started to become a bit incoherent on later projects like Spider-Man and…

That's a pretty good point. Captain America: TWS was surprising in that aspect. I had no idea how they'd be able to keep the Winter Soldier's identity a secret since he's a fairly new (well, you know what I mean) character and his identity was pretty well-publicized around the time Captain America died. When I saw it…

Perfect! The Hickman run is best as a follow-up to those other runs because it's more obvious how much he breaks the mold of previous stories.

It's probably the smart choice to make the new trilogy as accessible as possible. If Mara Jade appeared in the sequels, a ton of nerds would lose their shit (myself included), but the cost would be excluding the audience who couldn't wade through all the EU to look for the diamonds in the rough.

Are there any other fans of the recent Brian Wood run, set during the exact same time period as this new book? I thought it started pretty strong and had a pretty badass depiction of the characters. It was a good marriage of Wood's writing style with the Star Wars universe.

With Fantastic Four, you can probably cover your bases by going in this order: Lee/Kirby —> Byrne —> Waid/Wieringo —> Hickman.

I finished the All-New Doop mini-series that ended a while ago. X-Statix is my favorite book of all time and Peter Milligan has been more miss than hit since then, so I was curious to see what it'd be like.

I assume most of the plot points in Original Sin were editorially mandated anyway. I remember the plot about someone committing a heist on the Watcher's home was started wayyyy back when in a "Point One" anthology special in a segment written by Ed Brubaker.

I miss pre-New 52 Wildstorm. When they cancelled WildCATS 3.0 was pretty much the end of an era. It seemed like they didn't know what to do with any of their franchises after that. I still have that one bizarre issue they did for a relaunch with Grant Morrison and Jim Lee. All-Star Batman & Robin was launched soon…

I've heard that the Dark Horse comics actually are on Comixology now, but they're under the Marvel page as of January 1st. The new license holders to those old comics. Kind of like how Dark Horse published the old Marvel SW comics in collected format.

There's apparently one guy at Lucasfilm (Leland Chee) who is the main person keeping track of what is canon and what's not. From interviews in the past, he's suggested that there are other parts from the Expanded Universe that could be in the canon, which I assume is just whatever lines up with their current plans. He…