What you've got there are the ingredients to a perfect storm.

See, now that one (Planet Hulk) I really want to read. It just keeps getting pushed back under my mountain of comics to read.

Yeah I've always been either ambivalent or repelled by the art in Civil War. I've liked some of McNiven's work since then but I'd never consider him an artist I seek out.

That one's moving to the top of my pile then!

Dude, it's like I wrote this comment. Get out of my head!

Does that second story have Alan Davis art? I only looked quick but I got excited because I love Davis.

Good point. He and Morrison always struck me as an odd creative pairing.

I tend to avoid Millar at all costs. I have heard that his run on Superman Adventures was AMAZING, though. I'm not sure how that's possible I feel like checking it out sometime just to find out.

Well, now is the time I admit I never read Civil War. I wasn't buying monthly during that stretch, or at least not as often, and my friend shit on it so badly that I thought "why the hell should I bother?" He and I have similar tastes.

That guy is such a cornball. I can only imagine how much band eye rolling went on behind his back during sessions for "Mr. Roboto."

I'm loving all of the Cheap Trick coverage on here lately. Very few bands move me like Cheap Trick does. Their best songs, no matter if they're light or dark in tone, are just ridiculously exuberant. No matter what's happening in my life, if "Surrender" or "Downed" or almost any other Cheap Trick song comes on, I'm…

Me too!

Your experience is much like mine. I was on a Rememder kick (loooove that first Cap arc and his Uncanny X-Force), read vol 1 of Black Science and really got into. Got the second volume but haven't read it yet. I really need to move it to the top of the read pile and then get the other trades.

Ah I've wanted to read that Captain Atom run forever! I never see back issues so I'll have to look online at some point. I just loved Pat Broderick art in that era. I remember buying a few issues just because I loved Broderick.

You're making me want to pick up the new TPBs of this run! I already have a soft spot for the Demon.

I still need to read his Suicide Squad. I loved Hawkworld and what I've read of his Spectre.

Doug Moench Lives!

I thought it was okay but wasn't wowed by it like most people.

Exactly and I've read interviews with Coates where he talked about how he wanted to deemphasize the creepiness of the Dora Milaje being brides in waiting, as if it hadn't been done by Priest already (and like you said, I think he created them). I never found Priest's treatment of them to be a problem at all.

That was my main complaint with the first issue. Incredibly dull and stifled dialogue. I loved what Priest did, and how his entire run just crackled with energy.