I read the 1910 volume of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen just the other day and… it was okay? Except actually nothing much happened apart from (SPOILERS) Nemo's daughter being raped into agency, so that she eventually takes over her father's warship in order to exact revenge on her assailants. So maybe actually it…

I've been wondering about whether to get into Revival. How are you finding it? Recommend?

Usagi Yojimbo is one of those books that I'm sure must be great, but which is so massive that it's always been too intimidating to try to get into. Do you have to start at the beginning or is it okay to jump in at some later point? Is there a period that is generally considered the best in the run, or is it…

Oh my god that sounds amazing.

I have a ton of admiration for Ware's layouts and design, but the stories I've read (Corrigan, one or two ACME Novelty Library books) I've found so depressing that I didn't really enjoy reading them. His protagonists are so anxious, so completely passive, and so socially incompetent that, while I feel sorry for them,…

Get into Morrison's Batman and Robin run. It's tops.

Yeah, I feel like there's a big difference between switched on, firing-on-all-cylinders Ellis and in-it-for-the-money, auto-pilot Ellis. He's done some great stuff but he really coasts on his reputation with some books. Just look at the amount of unfinished books on his resume.

Nobody seems to do that with capes, so I guess they haven't thought of it.

Maximum Carnage the book is not good. Maximum Carnage the game, however, is awesome!

Ellis wrote an update on his site a few years back about writing the series, and it sounds like a total disaster. http://www.warrenellis.com/…

I'm about to get stuck into his Fantastic Four run. I've heard good things.

Well, I finally read Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis by Warren Ellis and Kaare Andrews, which I never got around to at the time because I was, basically, sick of Ellis's shit, and felt he was taking the piss by phoning it in on one of my favourite books. I still don't feel like the previous volumes in his Astonishing…

That seems to be the common opinion, yeah.

I read the first trade of Morrison's Batman and Robin and man, I just fucking love Frank Quitely. He is so, so great. I wish he had drawn the whole series. The story was fantastic, too, of course. Professor Pyg was just… oh man, what a character. His monologue as he prepares to operate on Robin is chilling and funny…

This is a good list.

No you're boring.

Whedon's Astonishing X-men is a great, mostly self-contained, 25-issue run. It's great stuff, one of the best X-men runs ever, I reckon.

Are you a fan of Jason? I Killed Adolf Hitler is one of my favourite books.

Okay, for one thing, we still don't know what Secret Wars is going to entail or what it's going to mean for most books. But whatever happens, books that are good now are still worth reading now. How does what happens to them months down the line (which is always up in the air with the big two anyway) make any…

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