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Just finished the book. It's so apparent it was written in another period. The machinesmith makes a big deal out of stealing codes for and then crashing the helicarrier. Now that happens in every other issue of the Avengers--no special code required. Comics were so innocent back then. :-)

"And oh!, his clothes! My God, that coif! That nest of jheri-curly fuzz!... He looked a bit like Hasselhoff before I knew just who that was."   There was almost a spit-take on those lines. What a great piece of work. 

Thanks for highlighting this book. I just put it on hold at the library. ;-)

I read Powers in trade so I can't speak to it. Aside from that, what a great week of books. I haven't gotten through them all yet, but Action Comics and Nova were excellent. Guardians of the Galaxy continues to be good. Booster Gold deserves mention unto itself. What a great ending to a fabulous run. So far it's my pick of the week. Rip's legacy caught me off guard. Johns does it again. 

FWiW, sooner or later creators understand how much sites like iFanboy have the potential to influence sales. And this goes for both main stream and independent comics. These are just a few of the books that iFanboy has turned me onto: - Fables (I went back and bought all of the trades) - Crecy - Fell - Nova - Guardians of the Galaxy - Action Comics (dislike superman, but Conor is right, ...

I didn't see Y The Last Man on the pull list. Have I been given false hope?

I've come to recognize that Buffy will likely represent a whole bunch of great entertainment that I will never have the time to enjoy. :-( Only read Secret Invasion and Detective Comics so far. Loved the pacing in Detective so much that I wrote my first ever iFanboy review.  

So I'm not sure I get it. Are you saying it's good, but not spectacular?    :-) 

What in the world happened with you and Hillary Clinton? Did you vote for her? Are you still involved in political fundraising or did that experience sour it for you?

Yikes, for some reason DC Universe 0 has people up in arms. I hope my twenty years of comic book reading aren't invalidated by my confusion reading the book. FWIW, I couldn't understand at all what was going on in DC Universe 0. I even read it carefully because I had seen that it was spoiled in mainstream press, but I avoided any news so I was looking for the surprise. I had to read online th...