I've been waiting to have this discussion for a long time. His Detective Comics run was fantastic, I'd even say his Batman Court of Owls run was solid, but I've come to share your skepticism of his other projects. American Vampire, for one, happens to suit his tendency to introduce and then drop ideas quickly (Bored…

Now that was funny. (I still like the series — but curiously, it has spurred me to finally go catch up on Friday Night Lights…)

Psyched to see you highlight this series, Oliver. It's incredibly worthy.

Agree, this is the best Catwoman we've had in some time. Mob drama with extra context courtesy of real(?) letters from Queen Elizabeth!

This. All of this.

Pardon me if this has come up in other coverage of the Batgirl cover controversy, I haven't seen it — but I do think it's interesting to note that the current creative team (whom I love) ARE acknowledging and trying to wrestle with the legacy of The Killing Joke in their own way. I now appreciate the subtleties of the…

Can I put in a good word for the Manapul/Buccellato run on The Flash? If you're willing/able to abide Barry Allen — which you may not be! — you might like it. The artwork, to me, suited the character and tone as well or better than that of any other New 52 take, was up there with Wonder Woman and Swamp Thing.

I'm way behind on too many things, but this week I picked up:

I'm really happy with it as a comic. I also heard him tell this story at a Velvet reading event. (I could've sworn he said the pitch was to NBC, but ABC makes sense because I recall him saying in the course of this story that the network, whichever it was, had asked him if he had anything like 'Alias,' which…

I'm sort of sad to realize this, but I've cooled a bit on Snyder's Batman. I would say that his Detective run, the Gates of Gotham miniseries, and Court of Owls stand to me as some of the most interesting work on Batman/Gotham in a good while (and that's not a criticism of Morrison either).

Pretty strong list — nice job Tim & Oliver! Congrats on an excellent year of comics criticism.

I too just now read (well, am reading) Bendis/Daredevil, thanks to a recent Comixology sale. Pretty easy to see from the outset why it's considered essential.

In addition to co-signing on the Fraction/Aja iteration of Iron Fist, I would also maybe take a look at Kaare Andrews' current run on the character. It's different from Hawkeye in almost every respect, but it is a pretty immersive story and thus far has been very self-contained.

I will humbly mention that I thought Esad Ribic acquitted himself quite admirably in portraying the Surfer in the Requiem miniseries a few years back. There's something about the way Ribic captures otherworldly grandeur that just made him perfect for that story. (It also made him perfect for the recently ended Jason…

Funny, I was thrilled by the prospect of reading Manifest Destiny upon its release, but I ended up dropping it after the sixth issue or so. I thought it was smart, just moving too slowly to hold my interest. Maybe I should dive back in…

I remember thinking that the Arkham/Gotham tie-in was clever (if obvious and calculated) enough at the outset of the New 52 that I gave this series a try. I ended up sticking with it for 12 or 13 issues, but by then I think I felt like the Arkham partnership had more than worn out its welcome, and the series began to…

Eesh, those are some pretty incriminating examples. (The Gambit mouth thing is sort of unforgivable, really.) I guess I see most of Ramos' ASM work as sort of harmless watered-down McFarlane, and his cartoony-ness seems well-matched with Slott's typically wacky dialog/plot, at least to me, though you've convinced me…

I'm just curious - if I can ask, what is it about Ramos' work that bugs you? You're definitely not the first or only person I've seen object to him, so I fully realize there's a fair amount of opposition/unhappiness out there. I'm not a longtime Spider-Man reader — just been picking it up since Superior, off and on —…

Batman WAS really good this week, wasn't it? I must say, it reminded me of the scruffier, creepier stories Snyder crafted in his Detective run, and I realized how much I'd been missing that (even though he wasn't solely responsible for this week's plot). That's not to say I didn't like Zero Year, I did, but I think I…

I'm not a regular ASM reader (though I did go back and read a good chunk of Superior after the well-deserved praise crescendoed). BUT: I've been meaning to ask — it sometimes seems to me there's an overall distaste for Humberto Ramos' work on the title, and I don't know, I don't really see the problem. I suppose it's…