FluffNFluff

I bought Gus and His Gang because you guys backed it...

I finally picked up Invincible Iron Man which is fun and flirty and beat me with the "badass" stick and The Escapists by Brian K Vaughn, which is a beautiful coda/sidecar to The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.  I also gave some serious eyeball time to my book book that I have been neglecting, Dashiel Hammett's "The Red Harvest"   Happy New Years everybo...

Green Lantern got me back into buying comics on a regular basis - I had no previous experience with the character or DC outside of Vertigo. But I started with Sinestro Corps, moved to Rebirth, started picking up issues as they came out in the wake of Sinestro Corps and it just spreads from there - to Flash, to 52, to Morrison's run on Justice League - I've become really engrossed in DC (if pas...

Ha ha ha ha, and here I thought my Clark Kent costume was a really fresh, original idea. At least my costume morphed into "recession Clark Kent" by the end of the night, stooped over a cheap beer at a dive looking all "nobody reads the paper any more, I work so hard, and FOR WHAT?!"    Oh and that Shadowcat costume kicks all kinds of ass.

"They.... they could go all the way with this" "Huh" "This could be a no hitter!" "Wha?" "They could go all eight issues without picking it!" "Don't jinx it!"   Liking Blackest Night and GL (especially since I started reading Johns' Teen Titans run last week) but you cannot argue with this pick. Beautiful, beautiful stuff....

I really liked Cobra, but I was very impressed this week at how Geoff Johns and Doug Manke finally got the tone and direction down for Blackest Night - it's a "lets get the whole group together" story done really well mixed with some romantic notes and great definition of Sinestro's character.  And I kind of like that the hint for next week is winking at "Oh, if you though...

I love you, evil Elongated Man.   BQ: ELECTRIC SIX "DANGER! HIGH VOLTAGE!" is the most hilarious music video of an immature nature.

One of the great parts of the issues have been the essays written by Dysart about the history of the Ugandan conflict - are they reprinted in the trade?

I think hardcovers make great gifts for infrequent/non comics readers. They like to hold it, they like to read from it and they like to show it off on their coffee tables.  Like the Local hardcover. That thing is gorgeous. Go buy one to help out Ryan Kelly with his hospital bills.

Blackest Night blew me away, but this was the kind of book that lingers, that you will get something new out of every time you read it. Unless one of my other books snatches the title away, this is going to be my Pick too.