Yeah. I'd just be surprised to see him going from emphatically insisting he wants time to cool down and work on his creator-owned stuff (love East of West) to now jumping headfirst into a Big Two relaunch.

Yeah… Grayson this week was… muddy. And nearly any art quality drop off going from Mikel Janin and Jeremy Cox was going to be steep, but this was… particularly ungood.

Batman 50 — I expect opinions will be as split as they ever are on Scott Snyder's Batman, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Despite enjoying the arc as a whole, I was getting a bit worn out on GorBat, so I'm glad he got to wrap up his story and that we get Bruce back now.

Jon Hamm - Superman.

You have now seen this episode.

BOO THIS MAN.

Not a super strong week for my weeklies. A lot of DC is hitting this flabby pre-Rebirth period, with the main creative teams jumping off to presumably get ahead on Rebirth work and essentially being replaced with fill-ins.

B&R Eternal definitely felt like the kind of place-setting issue we get right before the finale of a weekly series. Messy, definitely. I've enjoyed this weekly series more overall than original flavor Eternal, so hopefully it closes well.

Hickman's Marvel work and Morrison's DC work are probably the two most high profile instances where I felt the quirks of the creator were being given more editorial leeway than the marketing efforts of the line.

It's also why I'm anxious about King being placed on a more high profile book at DC where he's likely to be sucked into these big crossovers. Robin War was not great.

Rucka, Trautman, and Lark do some fantastic world building in that series. Thankfully, I find some of the characters just as compelling as the broader universe.

I'm sure a tag in italics at the end of the article that just says "Hey go read these underselling Tom King books." would be fine.

You do not need to read anything else. In my opinion, if all you know of Vision is from the latest movie and that he's a synthetic humanoid (or whatever), you will be fine. The book does a fantastic job of referencing Vision's place in the Marvel universe without relying upon it.

I think Uncanny Avengers may have been a big reason Remender left Marvel. He had these grand plans which were evident through several of the characters (Red Skull, Havok, Wasp) that then got pulled into an incredibly rushed and overhyped crossover and then fizzled out. Add on top of that his being handed the…

Read a few things this week, all pretty good, but nothing compares with The Vision which has rapidly become one of my favorite books. I'm both sad it's limited to 12 issues by King's exclusive DC signing and relieved that it's only going 12 issues so that it will hopefully be able to maintain this incredible level of…

I completely agree. As a TV watcher/comic reader, I've become so gunshy of stories being cut off before I felt they've been told, that the promise of a closed arc (either initially or as a mini-series) is often more appealing.

Has it never been covered? I could swear Oliver covered it once…

Jason's care for Cydney during her scare almost moved the needle for me on him, but then he and Scot went right back to berating Alecia, and I'm officially done with needing to see either of them onscreen.

The only thing I would recommend for reading Midnighter Vol 1 is the first two volumes of Grayson. This version of Midnighter essentially spins out of there. No additional knowledge is required, but the character started seeing more use as a tertiary character in Grayson.

RIP Nova