It takes a really long time for The Goon to build into the great comic that it becomes. Admittedly, you kind of have to have a taste for its blend of comedy, horror and pulp action but the series does become something much more than where it starts.

Honestly, I'd skip Batman and Robin Eternal. It's almost beat-for-beat the same as the first Batman Eternal, right down to the twist ending that we all know is bull. The only real positive here is that it brings Cassandra Cain into the new 52 but she's not really the character fans have wanted now for 4 years. It's an…

Exactly. I think that's what makes "Sopranos Home Movies" one of my very favorite episodes. It's all Tony passionately defending two of the people who've hurt him the most for no real reason. Really, the whole back half of Season 6, where Tony really starts developing that angry, nihilistic bitterness that so consumed…

I think, to some degree, Tony knows his father did some horrible things and he knows that did real damage to him. We get the scene where Tony is traumatized by his father cutting the butcher's hand off and leaving Tony behind as he takes the girls to the amusement park. I think he has to know his father did similar…

I went straight to the scene where he just hangs silently on the phone with Tony in the Sopranos finale. It's a great silent moment that speaks volumes as to how much Tony has lost and how close he's become to being his own father, someone he can never realize how much he hates.

I know lots of people have loved it but I've thought Johns' JL is one of the New 52's weakest books. If you want the Justice League to be heroes, to actually fight for good, this isn't the comic you want. If you want the Justice League to mostly fight each other and watch as villains fight each other for poorly…

I agree. The problem really isn't that Whedon's arc is bad. It's just not a Runaways book. The characters we've followed for close to 50 issues at that point barely have much of a bearing on the plot and themselves don't change or evolve much. It is much better than what follows though, although I think the arc that…

You know, I've gone back and forth on this over the last couple years. Gert is probably my favorite character of the initial group and I love how she grows and changes, particularly in her relationships with Karolina, Nico and Chase but she clearly could have kept growing and evolving. I also think her death is…

I think Veitch is interested in some areas Moore wasn't as into and subject matter Moore didn't really approach but his run is great, I would argue as good if not better than Moore's in places.

I have no idea. He clearly read the previous issues, he clearly knew that relationship was important and meant a lot to the characters and fans. Nah, instead we need to spend more time with leaf girl and Victor's boring "true love."

Yeah, it's just very odd. I like Whedon as a comics writer quite a bit but he just seemed to totally miss the mark on Runaways. I'm just not sure why.

Yeah, there's that. I genuinely don't know what Whedon thought he was adding there. It's strange to me because Runaways feels like such a slam dunk for him, a concept he should have been able to really wrap his head around but he just kind of lets out a wet fart that does more damage to the characters and franchise…

I'm of the rare opinion that you should stop reading Runaways before the Whedon run for exactly that reason. He seems totally uninterested in the team itself and more focused on telling a so-so time travel story about a new character entirely. The art is great but it's in service of a story with so little dramatic…

I'm really sick of Justice League stories where the League is so separate from the goings on of the plot that even they acknowledge that they're basic auxiliary characters. I'm so burned out on Geoff Johns writing this team, I could practically scream and seeing another one of his takes on "the League fight each…

I would be 100% more interested in Daimon Hellstrom if this were the case.

Once you get burned by the Son of Satan, I assume you develop maybe a couple lingering relationship issues.

Let me put it this way. You seem desperate to not actually read Morrison's text as presented. In all honesty, I feel like I'm discussing this with someone who is deliberately trolling me.

I think to some degree both do. I think it's a lot like the Nielsen ratings right now. They all know what they have is not the best way to gauge who is reading what but they don't have a good way to better figure things out as is.

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There have been rumors for years of him sexually harrassing women. Much of his criticism involves his support of conservative groups, particularly a think tank that lobbied hard for anti-gay legislation. He's also written a few particularly jingoistic comics. There hasn't been a lot of concrete allegations past that,…