Isn't this how the prologue part of The Road Warrior started?

Hey now, don't be down. The planet is going to be just fine. It's been through worse shake-ups than a global rise in temperature. Had a chilly couple million years not too long ago when it was practically covered in ice, by gum.

Keeping us all waiting on tenterhooks was the first clue, I think. If it was just staying the course, he would have just said so.

I haven't had hope since November.

Did anyone actually think he would anything but the most stupid thing?

"Street level" at Marvel has always been a little wonky to me. I mean, according to them, Spider-Man is street level, a guy who he can punch out Heralds of Galactus.

That's good. Earth has plenty of heroes. Bringing them to Earth was just the kind of "imagination" I expect from Fan Favorite Brian Michael Bendis, but not the kind I like in my superhero comics.

What about the raising of the wrist?

The stupid! It burns!

Are the Guardians of the Galaxy still stuck slumming on Earth, because Marvel though the best way to make use of the star-spanning space swashbucklers who fight cosmic menaces was to have them tussle with Paste Pot Pete in Queens?

I thought she was hanging out with Iron Man now? Or is that old news?

Superman is pretty much exactly that. I think in Birthright he even goes to Africa with the Peace Corps or something, right?

His name is Clark Kent. He's been around nearly 80 years now.

Three covers, a recap page, and three splash pages. Another "meh" preview from Marvel.

Yeah, that's about the only thing selling me on the book. I know it will at least be a good read.

I do enjoy history because, even when you know how it "ends up," it still tends to veer in directions you don't expect, because it's not beholden to the three-act structure nor the hero's journey nor any of that other nonsense. It's just the story of what happened (as interpreted by the author, of course).

I don't care for Gaiman, never have, but I'm alright with him being well regarded by most. I was just being snarky. Coelho, though…

Oh yeah. I think I'm going to end up buying that goddam Inhumans book Priest is supposedly writing.

Good to know. I can't say I'm all that enticed, but I'm glad Spenser and the gang are in good hands. I fucking loved those books.

I gave Superwoman two months after Jimenez left (including this past one, which I haven't read yet) but I think it's getting the chop.