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January 9, 2012 11:56 am Well, since I find that each new issue of Batman is over far too soon I am more than happy to drop the extra dollar on this sweet addition...especially with art like that.

January 3, 2012 3:02 pm Was expecting a bit of a post Christmas lull, but that's a good solid week. Animal Man, Swamp Thing, Action, Fatale, a plethora of the new X-books, Rachel Rising...sweet. Still wondering WTF with regards to the whole Avengers Annual thing, I mean when did part 1 come out? Now if only Dynamite could get around to putting out that (now kinda late) Howard Chaykin art book, 2012 would be off to a fantastic start. BQ: I guess to diet, get fitter and drink less....all of which I am probably failing at already...but there's still so much food and drink to get through!

January 2, 2012 3:22 pm Oh man, there's a tough decision... Vying for attention would definitely be Daredevil # 1 (the perfect restart), American Vampire Survival of the Fittest # 1 (the perfect intro to a perfect series) and Wolverine Debt of Death (a perfect one-shot). In the end I'd have to flip between two. Detective Comics # 880 (My Dark Architect) because it's a perfectly constructed thriller with some lovely misdirection and cemented James Jr as that rarest of things: a new Batman villain for the ages. Superb cliffhanger too. My more leftfield choice would be Punisher # 5, a beautiful Thanksgiving-set story which is all about character. I'm in two minds still about the art still, although I certainly don't hate it, but it serves as a reminder of both Rucka's skills and of those golden Gotham Central days.

January 2, 2012 6:36 am Nice review, and very reflective of my own feelings about the resolution. It must have been so tempting to have Matty paroled in this five years later epilogue yet Wood, as always, sticks to his guns. I like to think that the concept of this civil war is just the right side of "could never happen" (and I really don't think things could ever go that far), but everything that happens as a result of that fiction always felt real...including the evolution of Matty himself. I saw some negative reflection elsewhere on another site about this ending and I have to say that saddened me as I'd have to admit it was so apt that it gave me goosebumps!

December 27, 2011 2:25 pm Plenty to be excited for as the year goes out. Cap by Davis (and finally the conclusion to that initial story which seems to have swung from a great start to kind of boring me.) Then the final DMZ, Flash, the new 50s American Vampire arc and more Hickman goodness. Nice stuff. BQ: I shall be at work, on duty policing the streets from 2200. Which means I will be speeding from drunken street brawl to drunken domestic argument, passing through out of control drunken house parties in between. Yay!

December 22, 2011 10:25 am Myown experience of Tintin goes back to around the age of 6 or 7 as it was the only real graphic type book you could get from the library (along with Asterix), so I entered the movie with some trepidation particularly as I'd have to agree this style of moviemaking has never worked. Always gives the actors a kind of deadness in the eyes. I thought it struck just the perfect balance between love of the source and delivering a movie with enough relentless momentum that it could carry modern audiences with it. And my 9 yr old has never been convinced to crack open a Tintin book but loved every second (unlike Hugo which the little philistine says he really didn't like at all!)

December 19, 2011 3:57 pm A great week of comics catching up after several quiet ones.....a great year to have Christmas week off work. Batman and Batman Inc lead the pack without doubt...and a festive looking Daredevil. BQ: I haven't gone as long as some of the folks above, but most weeks I end up forgoing the equivalent of at least a night's sleep...that just comes with the irregularity of shift work...

December 13, 2011 4:51 am Back on form, a nice healthy stack this week. Some Bat-goodness from DC, that Nightly News super-awesome HC, Severed and all sorts of others... BQ: Maybe the Bunk, greatest natural po-lice to grace the small screen. Mind you, I always liked Scheider in The French Connection, so maybe I'd go 70s.

November 28, 2011 3:11 pm Wow, really slow week, and yet I feel there is loads of stuff that is late to be released. Still, there's always Daredevil, new Thunder Agents, Wolverine, Uncanny and FF to keep me warm. And a new Rasl trade. BQ: No, unfortunately not...and I still can't believe we have to wait for the Muppets til February here in the UK. At least a Christmas release would have made a degree of sense...grrr...

November 21, 2011 4:04 pm Good week, double dipping on Black Mirror and that gorgeous Parker Martini Edition. Fantastic Four 600, Wolvie and the X-Men, DMZ, Shade, Scalped, Flash and Captain America/Bucky. Plenty to be plenty excited for...but never would have thought I'd see I, Vampire top the chart like that...one for the trade, me thinks. BQ: Not here in the UK I'm afraid...but just to answer I will be working, working and working.