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The scenes dealing with Matt's battle with depression are some of the most affecting pages I've ever read in comics. The bit at the end with him coming home alone and just falling into bed never fails to break my heart. I dunno how this is handled in the trade but the single issue did this so well, with it going to the letters page, but then coming back to the story and there's Matt reaching out to Kirsten, who was always around. Guh.

I'm in. The fist bump is something I wish I could've seen in the movie for the first time, but it's selling me on the character dynamics.

Finally finished it today. Charlie Cox has to be mentioned whenever there's talk of the best performances in live-action comic book adaptations. Just faultless.

I've always thought that Affleck's Matt Murdock was pretty underrated. His performance was what made me a fan of the character. Plus they dyed his hair red, my only quibble with Charlie Cox's Matt.

So, let's see what's going on at the set of AKA Jessica Jones.

What a devil.

Nice. I really dig your articles Don, you put a lot of thought into them and it shows.

Cafe Racer by Sean Murphy, Katana Collins and the Apprenticeship - Got this at a signing event with Sean Murphy, finally got around to reading it. Decent read, some fun racing sequences,character work is okay and art holds together for the most part. Interested to see more of it.

I thought there wasn't a new episode this week?

On episode 2 of Community season 6. Hasn't been bad so far. It could prove me wrong later but I think it's about time for Community to come to an end, much as I love the cast.

What's that in the flashback?

Mike and I have had words about this, but I totally agree. He's a talented artist and storyteller, but he just doesn't work for me on Spider-Man. I consider Ramos one of my favorite Spider-Man artists, oddly enough. A lot of his artwork can be strange looking but it's just so fun to look at. The opening splash to ASM 16 made me gasp when I first saw it, to give an example.

This episode is my new favorite thing ever.

Catwoman Volume 2 - By Ed Brubaker and Cameron Stewart. (for most of it) Love this. There's a lot going on with the characters. Might be the best Selina's ever been written. Dig the overall look of the book, once Cameron Stewart got on the art just gets excellent. Love how he draws fight scenes, they're easy to follow and full of energy. His characters may seem similar, particularly the women, but there's a lot of life to them. Him not being in volume 3 almost makes me not want to get it. Coffin Hill Volume 2 - Creepy book. Simple but effective artwork. Has quite a few characters and time periods to juggle, and I'm not sure it does it quite well. It could just be me needing to pay more attention though.

So today I met Sean Gordon Murphy. Cool dude. Got a free Cafe Racer shirt too, for answering a trivia question.

Gotham is strange. It's for all intents and purposes a straight up police procedural show, but each episode has a couple of really strange, comic book-y moments that I don't even know how to describe really. The third episode featured a guy in a pig mask, killing people by attaching them to giant balloons.

Tommy Wiseau did an AMA. Enjoy.

Stuart Immonen's taking over art chores for Star Wars, beginning with #8. I am definitely giving this book more of my money.

Plus the way DC does themed variants, there would've been the same quantity available as the regular one, for the same price. (Which is actually pretty cool, in general)

It was threats sent to the people who objected to the cover, BTW. https://twitter.com/cameronMstewart/status/577656291839119362 I don't think it was the worst thing ever, but I can see the creative team's assertion that this is not the tone they want with the series.

MARK HAMILL MARK HAMILL OH MY GOD IT'S MARK HAMILL

Teen Titans Earth One - Similar in tone to the rest of the Earth One books, but is less grim about it and has brighter artwork. Not sure if I agree with the portrayal of Deathstroke, but the characterization overall is really good. I wanna see more of this Raven, she was a standout for me. Hellboy: Seed of Destruction - Entertaining but I haven't gotten much of a sense of the characters yet. First real exposure to Mike Mignola's sequential art. For being just solid blocks of colors at some points, I thought the storytelling was great. Overall, I'm going to read some more Hellboy, but I'm not rushing. Also I was browsing through the Len Wein book again, and I found what I think is the best Joker that Jim Aparo has ever drawn.

Suffers from the same problem as the Man of Steel costume of having really dull colors, but it looks great, and she seems to wear it well. Waiting to see more.

Same with Alias. I can find the second and third volumes easily, it's the first and fourth ones that are a challenge. Judge Dredd Complete Case Files volume 4. Forbidden Planet has all of them, except for that one. Along the same lines, this Judge Death figure.

Tales of the Batman: Len Wein - Got this with my Christmas money and read it over the course of the past two months. Fan-freaking-tastic. The description that keeps coming to mind is "the best episodes of Batman: The Animated Series never made(including a few that were!)" I've read a few of Wein's Batman stories before but now he's gone up to be one of my favorite writers. And the artwork too. Neal Adams, Marshall Rogers, Walt Simonson, Irv Novick, Jim Aparo, John Byrne, Tom Mandrake, among others. Cannot beat that. The reproduction, coloring and paper quality were just top-notch. Untold Legend of the Batman was one of the highlights of the book. While the mystery really leads nowhere, it was still a nice exploration of the Batman's history up to that point. The switch from Byrne to Aparo was noticeable but it didn't matter. The splash pages looked especially good in the big hardcover. Wein's main run on Batman, with Irv Novick as the main illustrator, was really good. He got to play with all the major villains but also the goofier ones like the Calendar Man, Signalman and Crazy Quilt. (Then again in the 70s they might not have seemed all that silly) The two characters that defined this were Lucius Fox and Selina Kyle. I got really sad seeing how Selina's story unfolded, but I'm a big fan of Catwoman anyway. So yes. Great book, much recommended.