I'm still mad about what they did to Earth 2, enough that the writer who followed Robinson is on my "will not buy anything of, ever, nope" list.

Sabrina is wonderfully period, too. I've had a soft spot for RAS since his Marvel Knights F4 run.

I am sympathetic to Cho in as much as if he was told "The only person who you're answering to is the Head Art Director", and Rucka was told "You get highly unusual editorial control over other aspects of the book", that's some mutually incompatible stuff, there. I've seen some other artists say that in general,…

Yeah, I'm glad that people have liked it, but I was far more into Babs-as-Oracle in part because she was older and wiser, and I'm not really that interested in reading very early 20s. And the dynamic with Dinah made no sense/had no appeal, at least so far.

I am so goddamn excited for that Hawkman book.

Mainly on Twitter, people feel the art is ranging from tasteless to racist caricature, unhappy about the blaxploitation written by white guy angle on things. I'm not sure on the forum policy on linking tweets, but if you search for 'cage and marvel' you'll find some representative reactions.

I've seen mostly people being smoke-out-the-ears angry about it.

Flintstones was, for me, a perfect mix of surprise feels, funny gags, and the unexpected punch in the gut.

I'm kind of fond of the "Zemo trolls the everliving crap out of Bucky because he thinks he's not worthy of the Captain America mantle" story but it's diminishing returns after that, for sure.

I read a little bit of it and found it disappointing; as said below, it's really light and fluffy to the point of inconsequence, and I'm personally irked by how Patsy seems to have been de-aged into an early 20s at best feeling character. (Ongoing pet peeve of mine in comics, to be fair.) The humor feels lacking in…

I also suspect that it has something to do with DC selling back issues and making a profit off of them—if you take a look at Comixology rankings, especially when there's a sale on you'll see lots of old stuff climbing up the rankings. And DC is a bit better about trade collections of at least some things (although…

I also see that the "Why isn't DC basically giving their comics away for nothing, digitally, like I would like for them to?" argument for a DC Unlimited service is making the rounds, again.

Impulse is that rara avis for me—the All Ages book with enough stuff tucked in to make it delightful even for ol' me who came to superhero comics as a [age redacted] adult and still basically knows X-Men canon from the 90s animated series. And even the more cartoony parts of the art still have things like backgrounds.

Been reading Punisher 2099 floppies I picked up a while ago. Very Pat Mills, of course, but some of the more infamous panels ("I don't need a jetpack—all I need is HATE!") are even better in the wacky dystopian, still weirdly prescient context.

Squirrel Girl is the Platonic essence of "I'm glad this exists even though it is completely not for me in any way, shape or form", but I would be really fucking delighted to never get another lecture from the fandom, esp. Twitter fandom, about how great it is and what a dudebro I am (note: not dudebro) for not falling…

Yeah, it's Broderick the bulk of the way. It's such a clever series in how it takes on a lot of classic comic book tropes in elegant ways without being self-satisfied and overt in its metafiction, and there's a wonderful range of supporting cast with their own inner lives and conflicts. It will, however, make you…

Agree on missing Dragotta; I'm tempted to go back and re-read the tail-end of that run again except 1) I was annoyed at the time that I could tell it was Avengers setup instead of really being about the FF/F4 2) I haaaaated the Avengers run, so…

Oh good, I remember we talked a bit about the Hanley, so interested to read it. (I don't normally make it to these threads when they're still active.)

If anything, Priest's original Quantum and Woody is meaner and sharper-edged and more cutting than the reboot, although I'd say less goofy.

I normally have no time for this sort of comic—I like my leisure reading more actiony and blowing shit up—but there's something about MMO that's so great even as it's a painful read.