From the sounds of it Sims' comments really directed a lot of harrassment D'Orazio's way, so it's not just what he said but how he acted. A "legitimate" critic spouting hateful crap tends to open the floodgates for lots or worse stuff from anonymous assholes.

How about, Batgirl is a series that is being pushed at a younger audience, with a more fun tone, and referencing Babs' crippling in The Killing Joke is kind of inappropriate for that?

The art's very Quitely-esque, almost a bit too on the nose even. But then, if you're going to imitate someone, you could do a lot worse.

Up with Sawbuck Gamer! Down with Great Job, Internet!

Is Miguel's speech still packed with shocking future swears?

It's a really wonderful, and wonderfully consistent, series. It's probably about time I gave it a reread, actually. Some of Bendis's best work ever.

Enough people here are saying Black Mirror is worth checking out, so I'll probably give it a shot at some point (still a lot of the Morrison run to get through before I do that though).

I'm making my way through Morrison's Batman at the moment and it is glorious. Start from the start, Batman and Son, and let the story unfold from there. There's a lot of foreshadowing and setup that you'd be missing out on if you read the run out of order.

This exactly. Anyone who found Pretty Deadly to be incomprehensible only read the first issue or two. I mean, the art is fucking phenomenal on this book, but the story is actually really great too.

Better than a void where your gronch used to be.

Man, Detective and Death and the City seem to be REALLY hard to find now, which is very frustrating. I've been wanting to start at the start with Dini, but I might just jump in at Private Casebook and work backwards if I ever get a chance.

I had pretty much the same reaction to Alex + Ada. Volume 1 is all setup — interesting setup, and I think it got its hooks into me enough that I'll try out volume 2, but still just setup. I hope it goes somewhere good!

What is that called exactly? Noirish Wolvie sounds great.

The name of Dr Lepetomaine, a psychiatrist who appeared in one episode, literally means "farting maniac" in French.

Sounds like I need to get caught up on some Swamp Thing. I'm part-way through the Original Writer's run, so I need to finish that first obviously, but after that, start with Snyder or go straight to Soule?

I stormed through Batman RIP this week. I loved it so much I ordered a Batman of Zur-en-arrh (with Batmite!) action figure immediately after, along with volume one of Batman and Robin.

I just cracked into Orc Stain this week! Stokoe's artwork is great. Lots of gronches on show/getting chopped off so far. Seems a little light but it looks so good I can forgive it that.

The timing is just way, way off, which with the weird background silence makes the jokes seem worse than they are, I think. If it sounded more like actual people talking in an actual place it would have a bit more charm and likability.

Honestly, I think you're nuts for trying to read "all of" a series like X-men or Batman or whatever. There's fifty-plus years of total garbage strewn in amongst the good stuff, and there's just not enough hours in the day to wade through it, as far as I'm concerned. There are too many great comics out there — why…

Came here to post this. Gail Simone or, as the kids say, GTFO.