Like, breathtakingly subtle and beautiful.

Well, I’m a traditionalist, and I think Mighty Avengers blows. Although I’ll cop to a lot of that being fanboy resistance against “Ultron: Now With Tits!”

I’m willing to lay down money that Bendis will spend more issues to tell a smaller scoped, less memorable story than Busiek did with Ultron Unlimited – and yet Marvel will still let him carry on his merry way.
(Which is fair enough if he’s bringing in the cash, but it just shits me when they talk about their books being the ‘best they’ve ever been’).

Anyway, I’m totally with you on DMZ; Nathan Fox was really good, and the coloring was awesome. I love the way the characters’ faces got all bright when they were huffing paint.

As for Army@Love, I’m digging it, but I’m a big fan of Rick Veitch, and I can understand if his style of weirdness and satire is not for you. I think he’s working on building a large cast of varied characters, so the book’s kind of still in the introduction stage.

For Ex Machina, yes, the blackout started last issue when the future guy showed up. So if you missed that, I can understand you being lost.

I too am shocked by how on-time this book is, and I’m loving the hell out of it. If All-Star Superman were this consistent (even sticking to its bi-monthly schedule), then I’d love it that much more, although I love it a ton anyways.

Anywho, Spirit rocks.

Repopulate your readership, sure, anytime. Unfortunately, I…uh…fear I am unworthy to be the progenitor of ‘super-nerds’, on account of not being able to tell a Claremont from a Veitch among other things. (Although I have roughly gathered that Claremont must’ve been working on X-Men during some of my favourite storylines…also, that that doesn’t exactly help my nerd cred along.)

And Claremont, even at his best, was merely a good superhero soap opera writer. Veitch, at his best, is clearly a few levels above that.

Rick Veitch is a major creator. He not only worked on Miracleman and Supreme, but the guy gave us “The One,” “Abraxas” and the King Hell Heroica Books. So, if anything, he deserves a look for more than an issue or two.

I really can’t get behind this idea at all. I think it sends the wrong message to support writers because of their past work, regardless of your enjoyment of their current work.

Mainly, that of, “By all means, coast!”

Chris Claremont’s gotten years of work based on what he wrote in the eighties. And I don’t think that’s been a good thing.

Uh-oh. I hope Claremont doesn’t start a thread about me being a carwreck of a person now.

The art’s “semi-sloppiness” is not sloppiness at all. It’s the idiosyncratic style of the great Rick Veitch.

Rick Veitch is a major creator. He not only worked on Miracleman and Supreme, but the guy gave us “The One,” “Abraxas” and the King Hell Heroica Books. So, if anything, he deserves a look for more than an issue or two.

Army@Love continues the satire in issue #2, but it also expands the backstory and starts to develop the characters. I don’t know exactly where Veitch is headed with the overall plot, but I’m willing to patiently find out because it’s been a savagely entertaining ride so far. And as good as DMZ was this week, it has never truly suprised me–each story develops about the way I’d expect, even if it’s well done. Army@Love doesn’t have that feel. It has the potential to head in any direction–the capacity to truly suprise.

So, yeah, I recommend you read it for at least the first six issues. And Joe, if you can’t get through a book, shouldn’t you put it aside and then reread it later. As a teacher, do you tell your students to give up if they can’t get through a reading assignment?