I do too. Many of the women I know who passionately follow comics buy entirely from Comixology and only purchase print books from Amazon. I worry that their purchases aren't being noted as acutely by publishers just because of the way they read and buy.

I'm going to say something and I really don't want you to take it the wrong way but I don't think you quite understand what Morrison is doing in RIP. You're trying to apply real world rules to a comic that doesn't need to obey them and is actively working to say that comics operate best when not shackled to realism.…

The biggest problem as I understand it is that the traditional means publishers have used to count comics are usually dictated by what stores report, primarily how many issues they're pulling for female readers. What it's not taking into account are women buying single issues and trades off the shelf, women generally…

I've always claimed that Returns is smarter and doing more subtle stuff behind the scenes and mechanically than most people remember. It's still the vastly inferior comic to Year One.

I mean, if you don't like a story where Batman is dosed with "military grade methamphetamine" the starts beating people with a hunk of wood and talking to a figment of his last remaining shred of sanity that was created from an experiment that references a 40 year old-mostly forgotten classic and still manages to put…

I really need to find it again and make sure it is kept in storify or something.

That's definitely true. The tonal shift in Batman was well on its way but Miller was certainly when it turned a corner.

Changing characters to match their recent televised and movie media is what really bothers me. The Quake who was built up in Secret Warriors, Secret Avengers and for the past decade was a character I cared about, someone who earned her place at the top of SHIELD and deserved to stand aside Nick Fury, throw down with…

I've pretty stoically been a "Miller is the defining voice of comics" guy. I don't think the medium would be the same as it is today without him. I'm certainly not saying that is 100% a good thing but I do think Miller shifted the medium in a way almost no one else could and he personally changed the way editors,…

What makes the Inhumans special is totally ignored by letting them be anyone. They always worked best the way Kirby and Lee originally envisioned them, these strange, vaguely otherworldly but recognizably human beings, who look down on humans with scorn. I think saying "Inhumans could be anyone and you might be a…

People trying to claim Miller was never good because of Holy Terror and All Star Batman and Robin is really frustrating. Inarguably, he created two of the most important Batman stories of all time. It's incredibly difficult to take those things away from him. Those stories are turning points for Batman as a character.…

I can think of two times Batman has cried in the last four years.

It would be a gimmick account with a very limited audience of mostly me.

It's what makes Jim Steranko's story of slapping him in the face the single greatest moment of comics history.

There's a lot of things you can say about Frank Miller's contribution to Batman and "ruined" isn't one of them.

Brevoort and Alonso both have a very sketchy track record of interacting with readers and critics, which is troubling since both of them so often do interact with readers and critics.

At no point did I say they're only interested in movie pitches. I think, clearly, Marvel sees X-Men as a franchise they benefit little from expanding. Adding new characters, big new ideas and showing how mutants intermingle in the universe doesn't benefit them in any way right now. I think that's inarguable. I think…

I don't know if you're new around here to be surprised that people have gotten a little off topic.

I read all of the Green Lantern stuff pre-New 52 and was just rereading it now. The biggest problem with it has always been fundamental to who Hal is as a character, namely that the ability to overcome great fear isn't unique. Literally every superhero has the ability to overcome great fear. That's what they do every…

Miller is one of the best comics creators ever. It's just too bad he quit comics after 1993. Yep, never wrote another comic after 1993. Never once. Not another peep out of that guy. Just like how there was never another Godfather movie after Part II. Yep, what a shame.