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No way is Ben Grim a Yankees fan!  Ben Grimm would be a Mets Fan.  He would have been a Brooklyn Dodgers fan, who hated the Yankees.  When the Dodgers moved to LA he would have been brokenhearted and lost his faith in baseball until a new national league team (i.e. the Amazins a.k.a. Mets) came to Flushing.  And then lost his faith again because of the poor play of said team...

@ TNC - I thinkhe's sitting on a bench as well.  Which makes me woncer why the Avengers basically would be sitting at a chromed out picnic table.

One of my favorite recent Clint Barton centered books was the Death of Captain America: Fallen Son issue 3.  I believe it is titled "Bargaining".  In the issue Barton is asked by Stark to take on the mantle of Captain America and faces Kate Bishop for the first time.  Definitely worth the read.

The Jenkins/Jae Lee Inhumans series is what got me back into comics after a 10 year hiatus.  I remember stopping in a comic book store one afternoon after work and picking up the trade just to see what I'd been missing and being totally blown away.   That series is like a gateway drug! @ Goaduk the Namor The Depths series is excellent.  It's got a creepy clausterphobi...

Most excited to get my hands on Proof#13,  Rage of the Red Lanterns#1, Nova#18, and Avengers Initiative#18.  Unfortunately this may be the week that Teen Titans and JLA go into the drop book bin unless this weeks issues can make my black heart care again BQ: CYCLOPS!               Couple of years ago my wife got m...

How about the concept of white-collar vs. blue collar villans.  Flashes Rouges Gallary and most of Spider-mans are downtrodden SOBs trying to make it day by day in a world full of capes.  They are your working class villans who are not really manipulating the world around them but reacting to circumstances for the most part.  These are the "mom-and-pop store" va...

You guys left out the trade of the Contagion storyline which came right before the Cataclysm storyline, which gave Gotham a one two punch leading into No Man's Land.  That whole era made Gotham bleak and the story so amazing.