I’m sure he would find a faithful fanbase elsewhere on a book like Red Sonja, She-Hulk or Devil Dinosaur for that matter. I just feel he’s not top shelf and that’s what UXM needs and deserves.

It's weird you keep ragging on She-Hulk, when it's obvious you 't actually read any of the series.

Go pick up the very first few issues by Slott, and one you get passed the admittedly garish Greg Horn cover, I think the art, and tone/style of the book will catch you off guard.

In the past, there was more dialogue and fewer one-panel pages. We're paying more for the coloration (which is quite beautiful in most comics now) and better paper, and I don't think that is worth the extra dollar.

Avoid $3.99 titles! Let Marvel and DC know that $2.99 is plenty for a single issue of a comic book.

Ummm, well, I don't know, that's just, well, hmmm, how should I put it? Okay, here goes: let us say that some random Doctor Who fan had come up with the above story and written it up as a piece of fan fiction that they published in a fanzine or, since it's now 2008, on their web page. I think pretty much everyone who read it would say something along the lines of "Having the villains from The Keys of Marinus turn out to be the ancestors of the Cybermen who the Doctor and Jamie encountered on the famous untelevised adventure on Planet Fourteen? What a load of rubbish fan-wank! Come on, buddy, time to move out of your parent's basement and get a life!" But when Grant Freaking Morrison writes it, then suddenly it's brilliant art.

I know, I know, it's all in the presentation, and a dodgy concept like the above one could turn out brilliantly if it was approached right. But, man, just from reading the description alone, it sounds like the kinda thing where the person who came up with it was much less concerned with actually writing a good story, and was motivated by thinking "Ooooh, ooooh, wouldn't it be sooooooo cool if such-and-such obscure early 1960s Doctor Who villains ended up being related to the Cybermen, *and* they were also involved in that untelevised adventure referred to in The Invasion that we've all wondered about all these years?!?"

Well, anyway, I've never had a chance to actually read Morrisons CyberVoord tale, but I've heard it mentioned on more than a few occasions, and each time left me going "Um, wha?!?" At least now I'll finally see what all the hoopla is about in the second issue of this miniseries.

I don't think BBC America even runs classic episodes, just the more recent stuff.

"I am constantly amazed by how many comic book fans don’t know anything about Doctor Who. The Doctor is one of the greatest scifi characters ever."

That's because we didn't grow up with him. I saw the show listed in TV Guide one week, so I tuned in to a small television station from Ontario, Canada, to try to watch it. The reception (not available on cable) was so bad some weeks, you couldn't make out what was happening. In was available on some PBS channels, but watching PBS was something grandmothers did.

The longer story is cheaper. Unless one would rather just get a Cliff's Notes version of 4 pages plus cover for 49 cents.

And by the way, Gemstone's books are $7.99 per issue, with the stories usually taking up 60 of the 64 pages, making the Gemstone books 13.32 cents per page, cheaper than the mainstream books.

I didn't consider the parody element as much as you have, mostly because it isn't strong enough (which you point out, too). I'm also wondering about the metafictional stuff, which turned up in a single panel in both issues two and three, but didn't make an appearance here or in the first issue.

I plan on sticking with the title because Casey's writing is a big interest of mine, but you got it exactly right by calling it an interesting failure of a book (Casey's speciality).

This isn't a personal attack on Land. I'm sure he would find a faithful fanbase elsewhere on a book like Red Sonja, She-Hulk or Devil Dinosaur for that matter. I just feel he's not top shelf and that's what UXM needs and deserves.

Ehh, Moon Knight sadly sells more than Criminal so feel free to call it a wash.

And yeah Ron above pretty much said what I was going to about Marvel being crafty bastards by putting in extras (read: rubbish) and charging us extra. They have made me turn to a trade-only policy now with minis even though there are ones I really want to pick up. Charging an extra buck is ridiculous for the book only having a 'shiny cover' (a la Secret Invasion & probably Ultimatum) is ridiculous.

Major props for 'Crazy Train' too.