Strategy this season was best exemplified by Scot and Jason's Rock-Paper-Scissors at Tribal: The illusion of chance created by a modicum of planning undermined by UTTER CHAOS.

So I think the one thing this community is missing that I wish we had was a retailer voice. It's an unique POV for comics with an unusual relationship to publishers and, even moreso, distributors — namely, Diamond, which wields an incredible amount of influence on the industry.

I enjoyed Soule's Red Lanterns and his take on Guy. But around Godhead/after Soule leaves it's really not worth finishing, I thought.

Outside of that lackluster New Gods crossover, I think Sinestro has been the brighest spot in the Lantern books. Cullen Bunn has hewed close to Johns' vision of the character and has incorporated plenty of Johns' material.

Unfortunately, the industry is set up to prioritize single-issue sales. Oftentimes series are already canceled by the time trade numbers get reported back. Those numbers go to the number-crunchers with corporate bosses to answer to, and suddenly decisions have to be made with little-to-no time to be patient for trade…

It's weird, because I think the characters were definitely on the DON'T kill Future Baby Hitler train, and yet the episode pretty clearly wants us to conclude that Future Baby Hitler gots to go.

Anecdotally, because a lot of people who will read those titles read digitally, through Unlimited, or through trade, and the industry is really bad at gauging or rewarding interest through those markets.

Yep, loved it. It might be the second Marvel event to find a spot on my shelf. Esad Ribic's art is pretty eye-popping too.

I really liked House of M, and it's the only Marvel event I own a trade for, though I picked it up when I was much younger.

The code was very clever and quite nicely appears later in the run.

You beautiful unicorn. I hope Bendis has sent you a personal letter of thanks.

I really should have recognized Timms' artwork, but this is the first time I've seen him outside Harley Quinn. Thank you!

As long as there was no "Bam! Pop! Zowie!" references or a statement that "Comics aren't just for kids anymore!" I'ma call this progress.

I did not see that review. How… special. I think the book is actually a surprisingly good first issue from a respected prose author who's never written a comic before. But a lot of it is laying the foundation.

What IS a good first Superman story? A lot of my favorites are either meta takes on the character (All-Star, Secret Identity) or elseworlds (Red Son).

You've got to use that vacation time or you just lose it. Do you know how much you accumulate after being a Secret Cosmic Defender for 70 years?

Looks like there's a nice hardcover due out just in time for Christmas.

I might suggest the Legend of Wonder Woman series before this. Less baggage.

I like Poe, Soule's…. fine, and Phil Noto draws nice things, so I was going to pick up the first arc regardless. But after it's done with this little prequel arc, I'm going to take a good hard look at where this "ongoing" is actually going after this. It does feel hemmed in a bit by the relative ambiguity of the world…

The Spoiler or Black Canary ones are my favorites. However, because they didn't specify which artists drew which pages (and I'm sometimes bad at identifying artists), I wasn't clear who drew them.