I suppose Tower of Babel is almost there, obviously it never goes quite as far as to suggest Bruce is an outright villain but it does grow out of that Miller-Lite wank that Batman gets hit with every 4/5 years.

Bad writing mainly, the Injustice tie-in tries it's hardest to make a decent story out of the nonsense plot the game dribbles out over it's story mode and has some fairly strong writing for characters DC have spent the last decade or so shitting on but when it comes to Clark and his "motive" it just collapses into…

Drop a Rebirth title at random, Wild-Storm's better than the lot of them.

I agree, it's Miller-Lite Batman at its worst.

I'm not a fan of his run but Vision and Omega Men are solid books, I think the indifference is DC has a clear idea of what they want Batman to be as opposed to the other two where he was given carte blanche to do what he wanted, plus with 12 issues he's forced to streamline his plots where as Batman feels meandering.

I'm enjoying the pace to be honest but swings and roundabouts, everyone seems to have a function and distinct role within the world Ellis is building so I'm more than happy to keep reading it.

I met Grant Morrison up in Dundee for a talk he was giving, signed my original edition of his Dan Dare series. Just an utter pleasure to talk to, he took the time to talk to everyone getting something signed as well.

You know I hadn't really considered The Wild Storm as a product intended for a digital format but like you say Ellis is ahead of the game on that front given digital is about the only direction comics can really go anymore.

The Wild-Storm #4 continues the slow burn of the first thee issues, spending most of this issue exploring the wider horizons of the extended cast. Craven and his husband's casual discussion about the insanity of his work really helps sell how low-key hum drum way the extraordinary is viewed by the various people aware…

Yeah, for all it's treated as an integral part of the character none of the runs have ever really provided any reason for people to actually give a fuck about Hell's Kitchen.

Gruesome's not really something I'd define Hellboy by personally, BPRD has it's moments but the parent title is at its best when its focus on atmospheric horror. Nothing I've heard about this film makes me think it'll be anything other than a generic action horror with Hellboy clothes on, but the same could be said…

I'm pretty fond of that one, I love the original design though because of how well it gets across the notion that the people who became the Cybermen weren't working towards anything other than basic survival and those creepy sing-song voices brrrr.

Yeah the Cybermen basically pop up with a new design anytime they show up in the 60s, the Invasion design sticks after that give or take a few alterations from Earthshock up.

Morrison, Moore, Ellis and Mignola are buy without reservation, Samnee, Quitely, O'Neil on art but I tend to go by creative teams for comics anyway. There's few characters or set-ups I care about enough to just blindly buy.

Frankenstein Underground - An odd book even among the fairly electric Hellboy spin-off range not to say that it's bad but at times it feels like it's more of a catch up on the Hellboy universe's background that just so happens to feature the Frankenstein's Monster. That said Mignola's writing of the creature is on…

Hot Pie's Grain of Thrones, like Bake-Off but with more disembowelment.

I quite enjoyed the Captain Kronos meets Doctor Omega in the City of the Vampires one, but that's more because Captain Kronos never really got his due as a film character.

Yeah when Newman employs other character's there tends to be a reason beyond "wouldn't it be cool," not that he doesn't do that but he's one of the few that pulls it off well. His version of Colonel Moran meeting Bret Maverick in Angels of Music is just great.

The trades were at least, and the new collections they are putting out.

They talk about Norma's mother dying in '85 I think, Frost's suggested these mistakes might be intentional but I'm honestly not sure it's not just cover.