I literally just started reading this book the other day - I think I'm really going to enjoy it. It's odd, people who know of my love of comics have been telling me for years that I had to read it. (I think I tried once ten years ago and just couldn't get into it.) I guess it finally feels like the right time for me -…

I shopped the hell out of the Dark Horse sale on Comixology, picked up some Kurt Busiek-era Conan, B.P.R.D., Resident Alien and Lone Wolf and Cub. (Also - the fourth issue of Action Lab series Spencer & Locke, which - if you haven't seen it - is a clever little send-up of Calvin & Hobbes.)

Sometimes I'm not quite sure anyone in the world even noted that book's arrival and/or passing - but yes, it's well worth a read. It's truly a shame that the artist issues disrupted the publication schedule so much, not least because I thought Ellis was going to re-invigorate/re-define an under-utilized (or maybe just…

I'm in exactly the same place, loved the first one and then drifted a bit. (I read a few single issues in the second arc, mainly for Otto Schmidt's work.) I *think* the third trade is about to come out, and I'm planning to pick it up.

Excellent. Going to hunt those down. Thanks!

Oh, I know, I know. I should probably just save time and burn myself.

Just checking, which Starman book? (There was a Roger Stern title and a James Robinson title as well, right?)

Good to hear. It's funny, as much as I worship both Cooke and Sale, I've never gotten around to reading it. Putting this at the top of a long list of old Super-books I intend to catch up on. All-Star aside, I'm woefully under-read when it comes to the major Superman specials, GNs, etc.

I had a fairly similar experience with Black Science. I was actually kind of into it at the start - hadn't read much of Remender's sci-fi work (and still haven't read Fear Agent). But it started to drag for me sometime around Issue 18 and I took a little break from it. Came back a few months later and found it had…

I picked up Aquaman mainly to see what Sejic would do, and I thought the book turned out… ok? I must admit, I don't think I've EVER read an Aquaman comic - I know Mera is a major recurring character, but how about all those other people? I'm curious to hear what Aqua-fluent readers thought about the start of this new…

Seconded. Perhaps like some other folks, I only discovered him on the Vision book. Then I went back and read Magneto. Now I'll follow everything he does. As Oliver suggests in his review, Walta's style is ideal for these sorts of intimate stories (though he can definitely do bombastic action too).

Just chiming in to co-sign for both East of West and Black Science. Both lost steam for me at various points in the past year or so (E of W in the early/mid-20s, Black Science probably in the late teens) but I think both recovered. Two of Image's best books.

I'm ancient and I was working an after-school job at a comic shop at the time - so I was in the bubble - but from my recollection, the Burton Batman movie was EVERYTHING. Even the nitpickers I knew had zip to say against it. As you say, people were ecstatic to see a "serious" take on the character. (Personally, I can…

One vote for Green Arrow!

Interesting to hear your take - I'd followed Snyder to the Batman title after loving his Detective run, liked Court of Owls quite a bit and then pretty quickly cooled on him (sounds like we agree on his Joker work). I had dropped the title by the time he got to the mecha-Bat run ('Superheavy') but I figure I'll circle…

Understood, but the Vol. 1 pencils appears to have been driven mainly by Joe Bennett, at least if the book credits are to be believed, and that's fine but just feels a bit vanilla. I sort of wish they'd mixed in folks like Cowan and Cary Nord from the start.

Confession #1: I'm one of the folks who'd been trade-waiting this, so I haven't been as helpful as I could've been in supporting this book so far.

Absolutely agree on Bunn's Magneto. I was late to discover that book, but once I did I quickly became obsessed. Even explored buying some of Walta's original art. I still hope against hope that someone will figure out a similar re-invention for the original and/or classic team.

Now that you've said it, I cannot stop thinking about this idea.

My pick this week was - I never thought I'd say this - Valiant's Divinity III: Shadowman book. I'm just going all-in on the Kindt-ization of the Valiant books, and I loved the central idea of the Divinity story from the start.