New X-Men - weak work from Medina? I don't think so. Emma's cleavage is quite frankly awesome!

Top Five

5 Giant Sized Wolverine - impressionistic, moody and simple

4 Runaways - funny and Jo Chen just kicks ass

3 Agents of Atlas - I'm with you, Brian, this is a great piece of work, beautiful portrait complemented by old artwork

2 Claws - Don't they look great, especially Felicia, natch

1 Spider-man loves Mary Jane - brilliant portrait of MJ - so darn cute

Fuck you, whoever said Michael Turner’s cover was aweful. It definitely wasn’t his best but it is not aweful. His style is comic yet realistic without having to over due cross-hatching. He’s the industry’s best artist - bar-none. Now that Marcos Martin cover, that is a true piece of shit! It’s like the 60s crapped out its worst artist. The best inker and colorer in the world couldn’t make that turd sandwich any better.

This whole post: Pretty damn funny.

But, somehow, this last line

I too am an artist so I know what I’m talking about.

Just somehow propels it into the comedy stratosphere.

The Marvel Adventures: Fantastic Four is one of the best of the lot. Thrilling and gorgeous angle. Love it.

The Blade cover is also exceptional, as is the creepy Agents of Atlas cover.

Michael Turner and Greg Land's art looks very pretty at first glance, then you look closer and see all the WRONG everywhere. Like Sue's ribcage, or should I say lack of one.

I think the parents taking their kids into my local comic book shop would argue the point with you that parents don't buy comics for their kids any more, as would the many kids who opt to take comics over candy when I give them the choice at Halloween. Whether Marvel and DC have largely abandoned that market is another matter.

In any event, simply because the comic isn't targeted at kids and isn't suitable for kids and isn't marketed to kids and isn't meant in any way for kids and will have a label on them saying, "For Mature Audiences That Are Not Kids" and will be sold by adults to other adults does not change the fact that "Comics Are For Kids." Just ask Jesus Castillo, or more accurately the DA who got him convicted.

So while I may agree with your assessments on a logical level, I still think a comic titled "Son of Satan" is just asking for trouble. It'll be on stands a month before Election Day, just in time to be a target for every loser politician behind in the polls looking to score some easy points with the electorate.

But it's all an apparent fakeout. Weepy letter column saying goodbye, THEN a weepy retrospective of the covers to accentuate that this is goodbye, then BAM! the fakeout! It's supposed to be a happy surprise. If they tell you that the book is saved in the letter column, that ruins the surprise effect they were going for with the Amazing Spider-Girl #1 page.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

http://milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=fullsize&issue=21267019774%20169

I'd buy it for the cover.

THAT seems planned (having the cover gallery then #1), but the letter column seemed weird, to have all these weepy letters without addressing the fact that the book was saved.

I specifically didn't say "I think this Nextwave cover is bad," but, instead, "I didn't like the Nextwave cover."

You can disagree with the former, but how can you disagree with the latter (except if you're like my pal Jake who told me that I am just lying to myself...hehe)?

I don’t know what happened to your copy, but my copy of Spider-girl #100 had a thing on the new #1 at the end.

Yeah, but not in the letters column. They had all these teary letters about the book ending, yet they didn't say anything like, "GOOD NEWS! We're coming back with an all-new title!"

It seemed weird. Maybe they didn't know until the last moment?

THAT NAMOR CIVIL WAR COVER LOOKS INCREDIBLE!!!

We gotta be lookiniga t different things here...