And yet, that run sells and sells and sells in collected editions. I think, if I can speculate here, it's a really friendly run for people who don't read a lot of comics. They do dynamite in Barnes & Noble, where it seems like they're always restocking.

If I had 1000 or 5000 more words I would have indeed discussed it. But there is a word limit to these things, and (at least to my mind, and I'm the guy they get to write these things) the character origins are the most important part.

The guy who started SLEEPWALKER, Bret Blevins, was a great artist, and was actually the regular artist on NEW MUTANTS prior to Liefeld taking the book over. After Blevins left, however, SLEEPWALKER got artists commensurate with its status as one of the company's lowest selling titles.

The Superia Strategem! One year before Gruenwald turned him into a werewolf, and just a couple years after he spent a few issues as a teenager. Sometimes his Silver Age roots showed pretty strong.

You know, I never thought the talking-to-himself gimmick represented that much of a change-up. Looking back at the first series, from Kelly on through Priest, Tieri, and Simone, the tone is pretty consistent with Way's run. As an old-school 'head I thought the second voice was stupid, but it didn't effect my enjoyment…

This is actually a good point that I touched on in an earlier draft of the article (which was initially about 1000 words long before I cut a lot). You're right, it is very weird - he's only really been able to cuss in a handful of MAX comics, and although Marvel has been pretty liberal with gore since they abandoned…

I bow to no one in my affection for She-Hulk, in all her incarnations. But you'd have a hard time arguing that she wasn't a marginal character, especially as a solo hero. In the context of teams like the Avengers and Fantastic Four, she works well as a utility player. But despite the fact that she's had a load of…

If the article said that Deadpool's meta-humor was new, that's on me, as it was not my intent. What I tried to say is that DP was not the first but he was the first to take a number of traits which had been, at best, commercially questionable, and really turn them into a popular character. NOT BRAND ECCH was not one…

What exactly is there to mention other than what you just said.

What tipped the book over the edge in terms of being something worth praising was precisely the second page included above. I spent 20 minutes online looking for a good quality version of the image because as soon as I saw I knew it was one of the most striking pages of comic art I'd see all year, and I knew there was…

C'mon you guys I usually stick up for AV Club comments as being really thoughtful and interesting but this is just babytown frolics shit.

OH SHIT - that's what I get for writing from memory. I'll try to get that fixed immediately.

No disrespect to Nicieza intended. He did co-create the guy, after all.

I'd really like a collection of MARVEL AGE because my original run is falling apart. Depending on how it was presented, I could see a case for a MARVEL AGE collection being a very significant release. That series is very interesting. And ATARI FORCE has its fans, as well as work from the likes of Gil Kane, Eduardo…

It predates SANDMAN by two years.

It's specifically not a list of best comics produced in 2015. This list includes reprint and archive editions. And I think those Hembeck strips represent a pretty interesting corner of mainstream history that is very rarely given the spotlight.

I fought hard for that inclusion.

Yes, but I didn't know this one was as well. He made such a big deal out of releasing those last issues of OPTIC NERVE that, silly me, I didn't realize he'd turn right around and reprint them with a hard spine. I have no intention of double-dipping on a collected edition of comics I already own - as I said before,…

Not at all. Graphic novel is a regrettable and awkward phrase, but it's useful here inasmuch as it helps differentiate comics with a square spine from comics with a stapled spine - which were by and large the subject of yesterday's list.

I haven't seen the Tomine yet, but just recently found out it reprints the material from the last few issues of OPTIC NERVE. There was some good stuff in those issues - a couple of those stories as good as anything he'd done in a while, since I haven't been so fond of much of his output this century. But I don't know…