I'd say "Aw" but I'd be lying.

He's a Claremont villain. Claremont wrote the issue of Marvel Team-Up where he premiered, menacing Spider-Man and Captain Britain, and so he was the only person to care enough to use him elsewhere. So he started showing up in X-books.

No love for Shamrock?

Animal Man and Doom Patrol are pretty much why I'll forgive whatever excesses Grant Morrison has done or will do in the future. They're just so delightful from beginning to end.

The love story was so weak, it's barely worth calling it a love story. But I think Hope slotted into the team really well and played off both Hank and Scott really well, too. Obviously I wouldn't have missed her if Wright made the film, but I like that she's in the version I did see.

Maybe originally. But Marvel keeps trying to position him as some kind of protagonist. He even has a solo book at the moment, and he's clearly the main character of this utterly generic looking show.

It just kind of struck me as… unremarkable. Like, I had the impression (most likely incorrect) that the people raving about it had never read a science fiction novel.

Why does Rami the space scientist's journal, which appears to be typed into some kind of space Ipad thingie, end up having word balloons that look like notebook paper?

I thought he was going to turn out to be Metron.

Wow, that actually makes some sense.

I have literally no memory of that. Quick, Robin, to the longboxes!

Shit. You got me there.

I thought Greg Land just did a Nightwing annual? Scott McDaniel was the regular artist from day one, as I recall.

I just… of course superheroes are nonsense. But why is it only nonsense NOW when there's a huge, horrible thing going on in the country? Like, why isn't it nonsense when Falcon is beating up drug dealers in Harlem or helping Cap fight the Serpent Society? It's just fucking stupid. Either you can do more good as a…

I read the first issue of Saga and it was just sort of there. Neither good nor bad. I honestly have no idea why people rave about it so much.

Brian wears the flag, but I've never considered him a "patriotic" superhero. He works for Merlin, not the Queen or Parliament. He's quintessentially British the way the Third Doctor was, but he's not somebody who goes on and on about the ideals for which Britain stands or anything.

Captain America.

I read the first three issues of Secret Empire the other day, because my brother is a silly Marvel Zombie and he keeps buying their crap.

Rebirth is good! No, seriously. Not perfect, but a damn sight better than the Nu52.

That's frickin' crazy.