Also: I don’t have to shut up. Hurrah for Spidey/FF!

There’s some pretty funny lines of dialogue in it, really, although the Palmiotti story was definitely the strongest.

But do I agree overall about how depressing it is to watch the big publishers advance this bizarre agenda of “let’s keep killing characters!”? Yes I do.

But, look, Greg! Here’s hope on the horizon! You love Catwoman (so do I and about 53 other valiant readers) and now, after many months, your consistent championing of the title is paying off! People want to buy it! Hey hey, word of mouth! Woo-hoo! I agree that the One Year Later jump is a great point at which to start. (Although the Boris-and-Natasha revenge story that just wrapped up makes me want to go back and find the pre-OYL issues where she first took them down. I think it also involved Angle Man and a few other villains whom she double-crossed?) Anyway, I’m pretty sure DC put out a trade of the earliest OYL issues, so you could start with that, and move forward from that point. Good stuff with the Film Freak, Holly taking over the Catwoman role, and the paternity of Selina’s kid. Oh, and the recent arc about Calculator getting Catwoman to steal one of Luthor’s possessions was also really great. I love this comic.

But I don’t care, because my primary buying for the book is done and I don’t have to buy everything Marvel and DC are producing!!!!!!!!!!!!! So long, ‘Countdown’! Bye-bye, ‘Endangered Species’! Kiss off, ‘World War Hulk!’ ‘Annihilation: Conquest’…I actually really liked this. I might keep up with it just for fun. (Oh, and my crazy prediction is that we’re meant to think the voice Quasar is hearing is Epoch, the patron of the various Protectors of the Universe, but in a big twist, it’ll be Wendell Vaughn.)

I wasn’t as thrilled with it as I’d thought I would be (damn preconceived expectations), and it sure could have used some text pieces at the back (damn your love of single issue readers Johnston!), but I’ll be back for more.
It’s got enough to make me think it’s going to great, a courtesy I haven’t been able to extend to too many ‘Big Two’ books recently.
(Man am I glad I didn’t keep going with Checkmate. Otherwise I’d have to read about a crossover with a team I hate, hate, hate, despite only having encountered them once before in an other crossover. Just drrop the book Greg – you may think you enjoy it, but it hurts your soul. Just re-read Queen & Country, Paul Crocker is so much more fun and evil than The Wall).

Sean: It gets its own review, because it’s so bad!

…If you’re one of those whiners who claims to love old-time superheroics …

*raises hand*

I certainly am, and I was first in line for Spider-Man/Fantastic Four. It is simply great fun. Which, by the way, is what we whiners liked so much about old-time superheroics.

That and, you know, um… knowing who was in the book. Wikipedia? Jesus H. Christ.

Give the guy a revived Secret Society of Super-Villains comic for the fans, let him go nuts, and keep him away from megaplotlines. And then transport me to that other Earth where he’s not a famous novelist and DC wouldn’t rather have him do shock crap stories and crossovers instead of SSOSV.

And the intelligence points, after reading something so pointless and inane. The BRAINPOWER…

I’ve been enjoying the Warhammer 40k, and thought the new one was decent, but then again, I am a fan of the table-top game, and I gave the same gaurded recommendation that it’s for fans of the game.

I discovered the reason I disliked the JLA/JSA crossover: There was no antagonist. Plus it was basically five issues of prologue for Countdown.

And yes, Wasteland was especially good this week.