I am all for mocking a good 75-90% of the Loki fans I've run across

Tom Taylor put in, among other things: 1) a not-remotely-subtle "the 1% reference" 2) his young Jimmy Olsen was a hacktivist and clear authorial mouthpiece and very obnoxious 3) the whole arc of his time on the book was a wallow in gratuitous ultra-violence that ended in a lecture about how unnecessarily gratuitous…

Ewing is the first writer in quite some time who feels like he legitimately cares about the weird metaphysics of Marvel Cosmic as more than just a setting for pew pew space lasers/hey look kids, movie costumes.

I've also seen a big split between fans who find TKJ as so noxious/an eternal weight around Barbara Gordon's shoulders, versus those who find it noxious but consider it to have been worked through enough to their satisfaction. Certainly de-aging Babs like they did for the New 52 has brought back all kinds of…

There's nothing quite like The Killing Joke for this. Loved by many, also hated by many; but some of the love is for what Yale/Ostrander did with it, not for the story itself, because you got (as above) Oracle out of it. And Oracle has become so much a part of DC that I knew the recent Batgirl ambiguretcon of TKJ…

Sarah Horrocks had an interesting strong take on it:

I can also tell a little too closely when Gillen really likes a character shading into "this is the designated moral mouthpiece". It annoys me even when it's speechifying I agree with. It's why I will never pick up another Tom Taylor comic, after Earth 2.

You then also get the fascinating issue wherein people become deeply invested in creators as not just 'people who write things that I like' but also as 'people who are good people and responsible moral agents', which means creators are watched closely for missteps or saying the wrong things or liking bad things.

Wacky Races is ending at six issues, but it's rolling into

I've never fully been able to warm up to the combo of Gillen/McKelvie, and I think you put your finger on both ends on it: the antiseptic nature of his linework (and it's never colored in a way that helps me, YMMV) put together with Gillen's mix of extremely self-aware cleverness and youth culture that he's just that…

That has my single favorite issue EVER in it, the Jay Garrick 'Still Life in the Fast Lane'.

We were talking about that over in the Moon Girl preview thread, and now Cain has dispensed more Word of God about it on twitter:

Now Word of God:

It's all in a profoundly unreliable narrator/wish fulfillment/Bobbi's power fantasy book, and yet something about this really irks where nothing else in previous issues had outright offended.

You mean "Yaas, queen!" isn't an appealing pitch for the fourth launch of the same title (now with adjective added)?

Anyone interested in a Marvel niche book should expect six issues at most and be happy with anything above that, these days. (Says the one person excited for FOOLKILLER.)

It's in the last issue; it pinged me when I saw that in the preview pages she calls the Phantom Rider her "ex" and then what the heck, someone posted the page on twitter:

Was anyone else kind of unsettled by the Mockingbird retcon for Bobbi's backstory with Phantom Rider/her marriage to Clint Barton? I completely get what it's going for, but it still strikes me as a weird misfire for the sake of 'agency'.

"It's okay and it looks nice" is how pretty much all of Rucka's current WW that I've looked at has struck me. It's probably my biggest disappointment of Rebirth on the what I hoped for vs. what I got scale.

It's getting a nice new reprint soon.