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August 29, 2013 2:53 pm @ithosapien: Probably one year but I would add the caveat that The New 52 and Marvel Now are inherently different being that DC did a line wide reboot where the timeline was essentially compressed to five years where as Marvel more or less used Marvel Now as a way to switch creators on books and didn't do it with every book on there line. DC pretty much shifted there status quo of there superhero line where as Marvel really just used it as a way to change creators and sell more books. I mean the New 52 did that for DC as well but compressing the timeline and giving almost all the books a uniform style was the biggest change from my perspective. That kind of makes it much easier to do line wide initiatives like villains month since there all so similar. I think Marvel's solution seems to more going the way of "EVENTS" ala Age of Ultron, Infinity, Battle of the Atom, Inhumanity, Catalcysm which doesn't necessarily effect the entire line. Was nice to have that with AOU and get a skip month out of Avengers Assemble, Uncanny Avengers and Wolverine and the X-Men. So off topic but I was playing with this idea in my head what if DC divided up there Superhero lines into four categories and had one of there top writers handle the overall direction of how those comics would go. Geoff Johns would have the straight up Superhero side with Superman, Justice League, Flash ect, Grant Morrsion would do space cosmic shit ala Green Lantern. Storm Watch Scott Snyder would be doing dark crime/horror ala Batman and the many Gotham City affiliates (maybe just Batman affiliates. Could that make up a fourth of the superhero line?) and Lemire doing the weird offbeat stuff ala Animal Man, Swamp Thing, Constantine, Frankenstein ect. The writers wouldn't necessarily be writing all of the titles but they would pick a group of writers to work on the books with them. This way DC still gets consistency on there books without them feeling homogeneous, writers and creators can get back to driving the plot lines from there shitty editors, all the books would have creators on them that fit the properties (for my taste at least) and it replaces the bureaucratic corporate structure (a style that is slowly being fazed out of almost all of corporate america) into an environment where creators are working with other creators ala Microsoft pre Dot.Com bubble crash, Google or something else like that. Oh and get rid of Bob Harras. Maybe send him to the Phantom Zone. Thoughts?

August 29, 2013 2:22 pm Runners up were Ming MGMT Young Avengers Thor The Victories Bedlam X-Men

August 29, 2013 2:20 pm BEDLAM!!!!! Underrated Image series.

August 29, 2013 2:20 pm Yeah right now as far as quality there's Image and then everybody else.

August 29, 2013 2:19 pm It was between MInd MGMT and Prophet on my list for what it's worth. I actually just started reading it and was floored.

August 29, 2013 2:17 pm I'm usually not that into Simone but her story might have been the best of the bunch.

August 29, 2013 11:15 am For me right now assuming Locke and Key is out because it's on hiatus: Saga Hawkeye The Manhattan Projects Daredevil Prophet

August 29, 2013 9:17 am I'd agree on the six month + delay ala Secret but if say these comics came out once every two months not only would I have no problem with that I think that would be the ideal solution for a lot of these titles both on a business and creative level for all parties involved.

August 29, 2013 9:14 am @ithosapien If and when Marvel does do this I look forward to skipping that as well and saving my $$.

August 28, 2013 4:03 pm @ithosapien your local comic shop may have a bigger problem with Villans month as could be articulated by the two links below from the excellent Brian Hibbs. I knew I'm skipping pretty much all non Vertigo titles that month even before I read this http://www.savagecritic.com/retailing/the-staggeringly-epic-incompetence-of-dc-entertainment/ http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=46209