PLEASE, call him Mr. Marshall.

Yeah, that's sort of the point of it though, right? Like the first half is this girl who's more performing a personality than inhabiting one and as responsibility and relationships and emotional honesty prove to be more necessary, she has to change, has to realize that vulnerability and authenticity matter.

Yeah, I really hated Juno when it was in theaters but have liked it more every time I've seen it since.

Like I said, it has its strengths but the ending and some of the subtext is pretty bizarre for Ennis and adds some shading to the character that I always thought was really strange in a lot of ways.

I mean, I don't think Ennis has any interest in Wolverine. His appearance in Punisher is just designed to mock Logan as a quippy, kitschy, defanged character, all bluster and no bite. It's the same thing Ennis does to Flash and Green Lantern in Hitman.

I have crazy mixed feelings on Punisher: Born, in that it's maybe the greatest comic ruined by its last 8 pages.

Yeah, it's peak Kirkman in every way. It's his same sort of meandering pacing issues, gross-out scares and body horror and delicate interpersonal relationships. It doesn't have same gutpunch that the first, say 10 issues of Walking Dead have but it scratches the same itch.

I'm sorry about what I did to your wife.

Darth Vader's the standout of the Star Wars line though. It's Gillen's best non-Image book in years and I'd argue one of Marvel's best comics, period.

Yeah and it makes it seem weird when they sort of dip their toes in. Marvel spends so much time ignoring magic stuff that when Otherworld or Weirdworld show up, I think people just write them off as weird or unnecessary. Same with DC with the Rock of Eternity or the Amethyst Kingdoms.

Yeah, it was J. Hayden Blackman writing with del Mundo on art and it was as trippy and over the top as that would suggest. At one point Elektra has to eat a dragon's heart to go on a spirit quest while the Hand tries to resurrect Bullseye. It's a blast.

His Elektra run was so much fun.

I remember liking his Avengers AI but that's really about it.

I'm messing things up. I thought it appeared in some early Silver age Kazar stuff.

I doubt it. It showed up first in Marvel Fanfare, I believe but it's mostly synonymous with X-Men stories.

It's been showing up in a lot of books. It was in Amazing X-Men as well and I think solicits had the Avengers going there at some point. It's fine with me. If Marvel's going to have a superweird fantasy universe, I'm glad that they're going to use it.

According to a CBR press release, I mean definitely well researched story, oh yeah, for sure, he's planned for a 12 issue arc and they're playing it by ear after that.

I'll be interested to see how the Wonder Woman one does. On the one hand, it's in time for a blockbuster premier and has top tier talent attached but who are DC aiming at with that book? It's a Morrison comic with Yanick Paquette, renowned for his unconventional panel work and flow. It's going to be a hard sell for…

Yeah, they're definitely marketed better than Season One was but I think the success of the Batman one has less to do with the story and more to do with it just being Batman.

Yeah you do. It's great.