A lot of great books this week – Millar FF was great, Bru/Hitch Cap was good too, but I agree with this pick. I’m a fan of over the top grant morrison. I loved final crisis and I think Animal Man and Flex Mentallo sit next to Moore’s run on Supreme as the most important comics of the last two decades. I was not thrilled with the Batman and Son-RIP run, except for the JHW3 arc, less because Tony Daniel is a mediocre artist than because it wasn’t adventurous and revelatory and genre-breaking in the way that Doom Patrol or even New X-Men were.

But I’m liking this run a lot so far, both because it’s Quitely, I suppose, and there’s no better interpreter of Morrison’s scripts (with much respect to Williams, Stewart, Weston, Jones, Doug Manhke…) but also because this is an interesting innovation in post-postmodern superhero stories, retro not as Alex Ross-like reactionary nostalgia, but instead as radical psychedelic remapping of the comics page and narrative structure. This is the kind of monkeywrenching Morrison does better than anyone else – pushing at the boundaries of what comics can be.

I am, I should confess, somewhat nervous about Phillip Tan in two months. And while Frazier Irving draws real pretty it’s difficult to imagine anyone else drawing this book. I’d be willing to buy it on a All Star Superman-like schedule if it meant that Quitely could draw the whole thing. The only other batbook that even comes close to this is only tangientially in continuity, anyway…