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July 2, 2013 6:49 pm Image Comics is just continuously blowing me away. The creative renaissance going on there is just unreal. So many of my favorite books are coming from them on a monthly basis (Saga, Lazarus, Chew, The Manhattan Projects, Fatale) and they aren't even getting started judging by this. Now all they need is to lure Scott Snyder in to do an ongoing (though he is a busy man these days so that seems unlikely).

June 14, 2013 1:24 am I also saw the early screening tonight and overall I was very pleased with it. I did have a few nitpicks and there is a very controversial moment at one point that will rankle a lot of people (even I was off put by it, but I am starting to come around more and more on it). Superman is my favorite character and this movie placed him in a modern context/ world in a way that very much satisfied me. There are some great, great emotional beats throughout and of course the action is insane as hell. There were actually points where I was getting "Kryptonians beating the shit out of each other" fatigue, which is something i have never been able to even consider in a previous Superman movie. The casting was top notch across the board, Zimmer's score was beautiful and that final scene leaves me wanting the next movie right this second. My nitpicks with the movie are few, and along the lines of my few problems with Batman Begins (which I love). Man of Steel structurally is along the same lines as "Begins" in how it establishes Superman and people's reactions to him and how it changes things greatly. I am still processing my feelings about it (I had this same thing happen last year after first time I watched "Dark Knight Rises") and I really want to watch it again right this second.

April 23, 2013 12:55 am Outside of Red Son (and Civil War was pretty good too), I would not consider myself a fan of Mark Millar's work at all. But having Frank Quitely doing interiors (the first since B&R?) is worth a read for me no matter who the writer is. The premise is intriguing. Maybe Millar will dial down some of the over the top style he is known for and just tell a good story.

January 12, 2013 11:10 am Oh that's right! Forgot about that. :)

January 12, 2013 10:49 am I don't think Kano did any fill ins. I know Becky Cloonan did the art on the annual and I remember Francesco Francavilla doing art on an issue (which looked amazing).

January 12, 2013 1:53 am I am not familiar with any of Soule's work, but I read an interview with him about his picking up the reins on Swamp Thing and I like what he had to say. I was also a big fan of Kano's work on Gotham Central, so despite my serious disappointment in Snyder/ Paquette/ Rudy leaving the title, I am optimistic that it will continue to be a quality book.

November 13, 2012 11:42 pm You are in for a treat. It is a brilliant cap off to the series. Aaron and Guera definitely stick the landing on this one.

November 1, 2012 8:47 pm This is a tough call, but I too am going to have to go with Saga. Each month, that has been the title that I consistently have looked the most forward to. I almost picked Batman, but gotta go with BKV/ Staples. They are tearing it up.

October 13, 2012 7:10 pm The very act of picking what you perceive as the best/ your favorite comic of the week is subjective. Period. There is absolutely nothing objective about an opinion. Objective opinion is an oxymoron.

October 13, 2012 12:14 pm @iceicebaby I don't think you can "objectively" make a POTW. That is a contradictory idea. Your opinion is and always will be subjective, so the idea that Ron should have picked Batman over UA because Bats had "objectively better qualities" doesn't hold up. The site's POTW seems to more often than not disagree with the "majority percent" POTW numbers on the site, but it's that single person's pick. They shouldn't pick it just because most everyone else did.