My copy of Essential Marvel Two In One v3 has just arrived from Amazon UK.

Anyone else got a copy ? Cos mine's got a misprint and I want to know if they're all like that.

9 pages into the story of issue 66 (Serpent Crown pt3, so not like one of the better or important stories in the book) it suddenly jumps to the first story page of issue 69.

Solitary misprit or are the whole lot like it ?

Philip: Yeah, I wasn't sure why they stuck the Captain America issues at the end. I guess they wanted all of Davis's art together.

Onwe small problem - the Captain America issues predate the New Mutants annual by a year and the X-Men annual by two yet are printed afterwards.

Otherwise looks a fine publication

Yes, it looks great, but did we really need to see Superman and Batman trying to out-emo each other?

YES!

Well, no, but I think it helped set-up that Superman was having philosophical issues, and as this is the one that's getting posted on the web and in that paper, a Batman crossover makes some sense.
I dunno, I didn't even think that much about it, I just enjoyed it and moved on.
The same conversation could have happened with any other character, or he could have just flown around thinking this to himself, but we got a cool looking Batman instead!
My only complaint would be that I've got no idea where this story is heading - and not in the cool way like with Deadman or Adam Strange where that's part of the fun, just in the 'I don't even know if I should care' way.
BUT, that's how I felt with Deadman last week.
Who knows?
I'm just loving this series - sitting in bed reading gigantic comics is just great fun (Seth's George Sprott and this in the same week have given me a kinky new reading fetish!)... why you got to be a hater, Greg?

That said, I disagree with some of your Wednesday comic assessments - Batman felt like a complete chapter to me, it added to the mystery and set up for further adventures, Superman actually got more clear about where it's heading (and dammit, it just looks so good!) and I'd say Green Lantern was borderline - much better than last week, though it's still setting things up.
Supergirl was fine, but basically the same as last week, where as Teen Titans, Wonder Woman and Sgt. Rock were just a waste - the stories are either at the exact same place, or in Rocks case, further back than it was (it ended where the first part should have).

I was happy with Deadman as well - it felt really stndard last week, but has started going somewhere.

That said, I totally disagree with Metamoprho - a whole page wasted (it was pretty to look at, I'll admit), of characters walking into a cave, and the promise that there may be dinosaurs... if it wasn't for Allred it wouldn't have worked, and it's only because Gaiman is writing that we expect it to be good.
I'm all for giving good talent some leeway, but still, that was a waste of a page - especially compared to the goodness that their first page was.

Due to the Metamorpho page, I'd say Paul Pope is still the clear 'winner' in all of this, but Kyle Baker is definitely right behind him, and could overtake.

I'm not entirely sure WHAT to make of this issue of Young Liars, but I liked it. Not as much as #16, but still quite a bit.

- I am totally bringing Marvex back into current continuity. You know. When I write the Fantastic Four or something. It'll happen.

- Naked Robot Torso is my new band name.

- I don't think Unthinkable is slowing down. The pace is so scattershot that I have a hard time keeping up with just what the hell's going on. Really not working for me.

- I have never seen the word "grawlix" before. It sounds like a mean woodland creature from a Lewis Carroll nonsense poem.

- The Smiths *are* whiny, but I quite like them. The Queen Is Dead is one of the best albums ever made by anyone. Most of the songs sound like they could be Peter Milligan comics!

In the later portions of his solo career, he seems to have forgotten this entirely, I'll grant you.