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Ha ha ha ha, and here I thought my Clark Kent costume was a really fresh, original idea. At least my costume morphed into "recession Clark Kent" by the end of the night, stooped over a cheap beer at a dive looking all "nobody reads the paper any more, I work so hard, and FOR WHAT?!"    Oh and that Shadowcat costume kicks all kinds of ass.

"They.... they could go all the way with this" "Huh" "This could be a no hitter!" "Wha?" "They could go all eight issues without picking it!" "Don't jinx it!"   Liking Blackest Night and GL (especially since I started reading Johns' Teen Titans run last week) but you cannot argue with this pick. Beautiful, beautiful stuff....

I really liked Cobra, but I was very impressed this week at how Geoff Johns and Doug Manke finally got the tone and direction down for Blackest Night - it's a "lets get the whole group together" story done really well mixed with some romantic notes and great definition of Sinestro's character.  And I kind of like that the hint for next week is winking at "Oh, if you though...

I love you, evil Elongated Man.   BQ: ELECTRIC SIX "DANGER! HIGH VOLTAGE!" is the most hilarious music video of an immature nature.

One of the great parts of the issues have been the essays written by Dysart about the history of the Ugandan conflict - are they reprinted in the trade?

I think hardcovers make great gifts for infrequent/non comics readers. They like to hold it, they like to read from it and they like to show it off on their coffee tables.  Like the Local hardcover. That thing is gorgeous. Go buy one to help out Ryan Kelly with his hospital bills.

Blackest Night blew me away, but this was the kind of book that lingers, that you will get something new out of every time you read it. Unless one of my other books snatches the title away, this is going to be my Pick too.

It's funny that the opposite of what you are describing is starting to happen - TV shows that became financially unreasonable in their medium moved over to comics to complete the artistic vision for the creator while selling more books for publisher. Buffy and Pushing Daisies and god knows how many other shows are becoming comics in a roundabout way to achieve an artistic goal.

I'm in a book club at my workplace and some girl chose Watchme and it was a bit too much for the crowd. I would go with something like Acme Novelty Library #19 - completely self contained, quick enough and engaging enough to read twice, gripping art within an addictive design philosophy and it is only 10 bucks on Amazon.  Plus you can tell all of the dames that Chris Ware does work for ...

Was that some of 'The Fountain' in there too? Damn impressive work. They should make this movie solely based on the fact that it would be 100 times easier to find a good Hal Jordan than it would be to find a good Steve Rogers (unless Zombie Steve McQueen is available).