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May 16, 2013 12:55 am The MAX trade collecting the Poe/Lovecraft series is a great read, equally balanced monster horror and psychological thrillers among the stories he chose to adapt and it's pretty cool to see the full array of Corben's artistic approaches, but for this volume, in all black and white (with greytones and washes). I'd point you toward "Ragemoor" and "Starr The Slayer" for other great recent stuff by the man (outside his Hellboy stuff, which is superb)...

May 15, 2013 7:00 pm Great pick, Josh! I was gonna wait to read this until the second one hit, but the surprise of it being color and its pick-status here just moved it to the top of tonight's reading...

May 14, 2013 4:22 pm Oh yeah, gotta get that Corben...

May 13, 2013 2:51 pm Wow! A story cover, don't see those a lot these days. Can't wait for this one!

May 2, 2013 2:37 pm I read this last week and loved it. Kindt employs the same world-building footnotes he did in "Revolver" with the blue-line borders/notes here and while I found it a bit offputting at first, it added an interesting layer of narrative intrigue as the story unfolds and was like a little bonus way to interpret each page by the end. I can't wait to see how the rest of this unfolds and with it set to run 36 issues I feel we've barely scratched the surface of Meru, Lyme, or the amnesiac flight. Thanks for the show, Paul & Co...

May 2, 2013 2:21 pm I went to this and was pleasantly surprised by access to creators and all the lesser known voices hustlin' their wares. The best part was meeting and seeing the huge appreciative crowd around Brandon Graham and Farel Dalrymple who had "Prophet" #35 for sale 2 weeks before it hits comic shops and chatting with Tradd Moore & Justin Jordan about "Luther Strode" while peepin' Tradd's original art for this week's "Legends Of The Dark Knight" story...

April 24, 2013 6:44 pm Whew, got lucky and noticed there were 3 (not 4) names on the cover. I looked inside and wow, a very nice surprise!!

April 23, 2013 8:07 pm I haven't been huge on the Millarword stuff so far, but after he surprised me on "Superior" with his "1985"-esque nostalgic sweetness I wasn't as worried that Frank Quitely would be going to waste here. Sounds like this may be more of what I like out of Millar and after seeing the preview pages, this has to be the smoothest Quitely's looked since "New X-Men"...

April 22, 2013 2:25 pm Ah man, those DC focus books never had a chance... Although, I heard they were all pretty good even outside of "Hard Time"...

April 22, 2013 2:20 pm Oh boy, I must have read this and Detective #600 hundreds of times that summer. I also remember being really hung up on DC not making Bats's costume all black like in the movie for a couple years afterward, no appreciation for the classic Grey/Blue until adulthood...