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Why have the only good McDuffie issues been the ones where the team hangs out in The Lounge? Some very…

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Here’s my big problem right now with the Superman books: I don’t think James Robinson has Clark’s voice down. It…

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I was terrified going into this book. Having no idea who the writer was, I ran it near the top…

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areyouthatguy's Recent Comments
July 11, 2012 2:24 pm Speculation: either he's expanding his New 52 workload or we're about to see even bigger shake-ups. DC's commitment to keeping the delivery cadence high is having some seriously negative side effects.
May 17, 2012 6:19 pm When I read Saga, all I could think was - Diamond sucks because they shorted my store and I haven't read Saga yet.
January 18, 2012 7:10 pm Agree wholeheartedly with this choice. However, Connor, I have to point out that the LOTDK series you refer to "Venom", which was written by Dennis O'Neil and is one of the great Batman stories IMHO, did not, in fact involve Bane. It introduced the idea of Santa Prisca (actually pulled in from The Question) and Venom, but the men who got Bruce addicted to Venom were government agents, who were testing out the drug. Bane came later, which was one of the cool things about him... he was born from an already established part of the mythology. Venom almost broke Bruce, so when a man fueled by Venom came to town it was a natural fit that he could do the same.
November 15, 2011 3:49 pm Conor: I had the EXACT same reaction to reading that Breyfogle news as you did. While I LIKED Batman before reading the Grant/Breyfogle run I LOVED Batman afterwards. Hell, the main reason I read Nightwing is because Eddie Burrows is so clearly channeling Norm half the time.
November 14, 2011 1:38 pm I already miss the J.G. Jones Final Crisis designs. I was really into those looks for the New Gods, and if anything disappointed me about FC it was not getting enough time with the Morrison/Jones visions of the characters. Here's the thing that gets to me about all the nuDCU looks: we're supposed to buy into the idea that Batman and the rest of the crew have stayed in the same outfits for pretty much five years? Superheroes are clotheshorses. Bruce worst of all. There is no way he's kept that armor from day one.
September 30, 2011 3:30 pm Was there as much diversity in tone and content as theoretically possible? No. Was there as much as even comics fans would like? Nu-uh. (Just look at Batman and Dark Knight, each of which feature Arkham break-outs.) But was there more on the table in terms of variety than there was just three months ago? It sure feels like it. I think DC was trying to split the difference-- hoping for the best but playing it close to the vest in terms of what they thought they could get away with. I don't think they expected the level of response. That must have been their wildest expectations and then some. And they may live to regret how monotone the new lineup wound up being, especially when it comes to the level of violence depicted in "T" rated books and the overall super-sexualization of female characters. None of which offended me personally, but out of the 25 books I picked up this month they all had a lot more in common than they had in contrast. The next step for them, hopefully, is to KEEP pushing the envelope in terms of how broad this initiative can go. Broaden the writing bench. Shore up the female characters and creators. Tone down a couple of teen targeted titles and then start bringing in the other genres into the DCU proper. Monitor willing, this is just the start.
July 18, 2011 4:25 pm This is for everyone who bought the giant History of DC Taschen book that needed handles to carry, and those who buy Absolute editions.

This isn't about the stories, it's about the collectors market. 
May 20, 2011 12:34 pm Why the he'll is Coast City inland?
May 19, 2011 3:49 pm Conor has never been more right about anything than the Grant/Breyfogle Batman being the most excting release of 2011.

If it wasn't for their run on 'Tec and Shadow of the Bat I wouldn't still be reading comics all these years later. 
March 26, 2009 12:57 pm Which is somewhat of a shame, IF we had gotten the JLU McDuffie instead of whatever the hell these past two(?) years was.