Just about every professional proofreader I’ve worked with would disagree with you on “90’s”. It’s grammatically incorrect. The correct forms are ’90s or 90s.

hmm…. maybe I’m getting it mixed up with the “DVDs” vs “DVD’s”. I’m sure there’s some situation where an apostrophe is considered to be correct for doing plurals.

I believe that both 90’s and 90s are considered correct – though personally I prefer the latter. As Richard says, the easy solution is to use a small ’s’ – or alternatively, write out “NINETIES”.

Just about every professional proofreader I’ve worked with would disagree with you on “90′s”. It’s grammatically incorrect. The correct forms are ’90s or 90s.

Also, for that matter, can anyone explain to me why The Question went by his middle name “Charlie” instead of “Vic Sage”? That drove me nuts, but I’m not sure I want to plow through 52 just for that one answer.

Oh, yeah – this was a very funny comic. Well done. “No, he just had the same name as The Spectre. The old Spectre” is precisely why explaining DC books to friends is such a chore.

Well, all he has to do is make the “S” a small “s”.

I’m talking to you Morrison, you may not like Rand but please write the character as he was ment to be presented and not a bad Rorshach imitation.

For leasons on how to write smart characters well, whose ideologies you disagree with turn to Robert A Wilson, he was alwasy the best.

The Spectre couldn’t be more fucked up if they tried.

But if it’s not the same Corrigan, there’;s not even fake dramatic irony…

Which matched my fake excitement over the superficial appearance of irony.

But then it wouldn’t be as dramatic when Allen’s son kills Corrigan for killing his dad, then the Spectre, Crispus Allen has to punish Allen’s son for killing Corrigan!

That happened, right?

But if it’s not the same Corrigan, there’;s not even fake dramatic irony…

Oh wait, I have!.

Be sure to look out for something special on the 18th.

Wow. That was a pretty big omission. I’m going to step away from the computer now…

Now that I think of it, the whole story was pretty well a bust until the Crispus Allen Spectre brought it up during the Final Crisis: Revelations series, all cheesed off about having to kill his son. I think he got to bring him back to life in the end though, but the whole Final Crisis is still a blur at this point for me.

Have a good day.
John Cage

Based on the people who generally read Comic Critics, I’d say there’s a better chance they’ll get the references or at least can relate to how convoluted superhero books are. I don’t think the joke would be as funny to as many people if it joked about how incomprehensible indies are.

“Indie book” is such a broad label and two people who declare themselves as indie comic fans could still be reading very different books. I mean, Scott Pilgrim has very little in common but both tend to fall into the “indie” category.

I just read the x-over and forget the rest.

It’s sooooo much easier that way.

When they were talking about Jim Corrigan, I thought they were referring to the Smartest Kid on Earth. Incidentally, I’ve been trying to figure out: in Ware’s book, everyone knows the date of the old timey stuff (1893), but when does modern-day Jimmy stuff happen. I had presumed mid-to-late ’90s (circa publication), but then timewise it falls apart if the kid from 1893 is Jimmy’s grandfather. I could see it working if thekid is the great-grandfather but all the reviews say grandfather. Does the book take place in the ’70s or something?