That's sort of the thing, the big twist at the end of the first arc is so incredible and the violence and misery that it uses serves a thematic point but when Kirkman just kept using it over and over and over, it lost an awful lot of its potency.

My girlfriend is reading that book right now and I had totally forgot that happened until she showed it to me. It drove me into a two-day long Bendis rage.

And I don't even like his, really.

It's really bad. I don't think Bendis really knew what to do with Carol now that she's so wildly different than the character he used to write, so he just assumed her alignment was Lawful Stupid and let it ride. It's a really bad comic.

Rucka wrote on Tumblr that they're planning to do one every year or so.

That's a good deal if you're wanting to try it. It's certainly a high concept book but it's a dynamite first issue.

I would 100% read Civil War II if it was just an episode of COPS, where Carol and Rhodey try to arrest a drunk and disorderly, helicopter piloting Thanos.

Yep, I'm very excited. I heard it sold out nationwide so hopefully it gets a second print. I think it's a book that could really be a big cult comic.

I have a first edition copy of Astro City #1, which Kurt Busiek complimented me for, with the words "You're one of the good ones."

Right, if anything, Thanos, the Mad God of Titan, is well known for his respect for law and appreciation of Miranda Rights.

I'm a big tabletop RPG buff and so I'm really excited to get into the Lazarus Sourcebook. I love the world Rucka and Lark have put together and it's the exact kind of extra that I love to see from a book as focused on worldbuilding as this.

I haven't read everything in my pile so far but…

Take my life…please!

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The fact that Carol tells Thanos "You're under arrest" might be the funniest moment in any comic ever and I don't know if Bendis realizes that.

Breaking: Marvel kills a woman and a black guy again, fans somehow still shocked.

All of Armisen's little personality quirks in that one are pure Mulaney, the way everything about him is so subtly, undeniably annoying is that kind of precision he does so well. Easily my favorite of the first season.

Yeah, I think there will always be discussions about Crumb's views on women and race and I think they will be valid but his more personal works will probably carry the same weight they always have. I don't even think one has to put his work in a larger context to see the raw power and honesty to his own experience…

I liked Stjepan Šejić quite a bit. He and Upchurch have really similar styles and it was a good fit. I wouldn't have minded if he stuck had stuck around on the book longterm.

Knights of Sidious

I am labeling him as a misogynist because he's a misogynist. I believe he hates women. Just because you don't agree doesn't make it less valid.