Acuna is awesome. I bought that first Freedom Fighters mini he drew solely because he drew it. I'm not normally an art over story go, either.

Is that the Kurt Busiek thing? I thought that was pretty funny.

He am not Bizarro Flash.

Are you losing sleep over IT?

I'm not upset. I'm uninterested, and I find the argument that one can only judge a story by experiencing the whole thing disingenuous.

Just repeat to yourself: It's just a comic book, you should really just relax.

It was heavily implied in the Kirby/Lee years that Vic only had a minor scar, but he was such a vainglorious megalomaniac crybaby that he hid his face from everyone. Byrne later made it explicit that he first put his mask on when it was still red-hot, thus permanently ruining his roguish good looks out of spite.

I gave up. I even turned in the issues I had to the FLCS for store credit. My love for T'Challa wasn't enough to forgive all the talking heads, telling instead of showing, and utter boringness. For such a smart book, it was pretty dumb.

I'm also not going to pretend I'd be shelling out $4 a month for a story about old school Cap punching Nazis, either. I steer clear of Marvel in part because of their creative decisions, which don't excite me, and in part because they charge an arm and a leg for those unexciting creative decisions.

And Jack wouldn't be the type to complain about Cap being turned into a Nazi. He'd just go and create a character who would be better than Cap and do the things Kirby wanted Cap to do instead.

The problem is that both Warner Bros. and Disney are now overtly invested in the idea of shared universes, and in particular in the idea that these stories "count." And that's been a driving force in comics since the first time the JSA got together and had a meeting. I mean, retcons are a very real thing in comic…

"Heroin? Hmm. Wouldn't you rather have an apple or a glass of milk?"

Now we're arguing anecdotal evidence, which is always a good idea, but my memory is that no one around here thought this was a good development.

I wish.

While I will have to decide if my enjoyment of the Challengers of the Unknown will overwhelm my disregard for Scott Snyder.

Superhero hero comics are, by their nature now, a serial medium. We have to be able to judge the story by its parts - we're handing over $3 to $4 a section - so it would actually be unfair to claim that only by getting the whole story you get to evaluate it.

"Young men." No, the audience is graying. Young they are not.

Yeah I don't think it's insulting either. I just think it's a bad idea (that may have good execution). I'm just flat out uninterested in seeing Captain America be a supervillain.

Everyone who read that Rebirth reboot special that first made use of the "Watchmen come to the DCU" idea pretty much called foul. This issue of Batman is the first time that thread has been picked up, and we're all going to call foul again.

I don't give a shit about Guido, but I hold the original 50 or so issues of New Mutants very dear.