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Jim Gordon would never gloat over winning a fight with a crooked cop or cheat on his wife are things we - and his friends - would probably all like to say, but he's human. Human beings aren't...

You can't do her motivations without ruining the surprise, but you can give clues and commentary, and Inc vol 1 does all over the place.

Talia points out, at the end, that Leviathan, except for a...

A death that doesn't make you sit up and think "oh damn, so much potential, so much life just %&*ing wasted!" is a pointless fictional death. A death that doesn't feel like deprivation is a useless...

For reading.

And now that that's out of the way: for the shootout atop a moving train, for the broad scope and deep madness of the thing, for Batman's learning curve and constant adjustment, for...

There is no "real Batman."

WestBats is just as legit as any other, and perhaps more legit than many.

Superfluous or amazing?

I think Inc vol 1 has some of the most touching and exciting stories Morrison has done with Batman.

Moving a plot forward isn't the only thing a story can do to have...

Moore can be really funny. He also stepped on his own climactic joke in his Wodehouse/Lovecraft chapter of Black Dossier, because he was, apparently, afraid we wouldn't get a very simple gag. Moore...

Fans will always whine about a new version of a character. Hell, somebody wrote to Forever People to have a go at Jack Kirby for destroying "the legacy of Dead Man" and Boston Brand had only been...

Dracula and his brides don't come off all that repulsive to their victim when someone's being preyed on. (Except in retrospect, or in that pretty dodgy rape-is-sexy way.)

Carmilla really cements...

The funny thing with Wolverine, to me, was the Native American thing. One of the Marvel novelists said the bible he was given said Sabertooth was, I think, Cree, and when Larry Hama was writing...

The costume makes sense to me in a "if you ignore canon" way, as a take on her work and lifestyle. The showiness of her traditional costumes seemed out of place, to me, but you know, you accept it...

Worse: "It's okeh that this cop is a racist, thuggish bastard who sexually harasses random people, because he's just scared and human and... you're probably racist too. Shut up."

How can you say that and have that Harley Licks avatar?

Not a criticism. Honestly asking.

Jim Lee didn't design chinspike Midnighter.

And there are tons of worse designers in comics.

And, for that matter, Jim Lee has designed (or lifted designs of) some very nice non-costume...

I really like Cheshire and Phantom Lady.

Beginning to think the only Starfire design I'm ever going to like is the cartoon one.

"Don't cover her up! You're stifling her!" is awesomely...

Which reminds me of one of the shittiest fan-entitlement things I've ever come across. When someone was severely late with a supposedly regular book, because their father died, there was more than...

If they start out bad at all: "They used to be terrorists, but they're young and grew out of it. They'd like to make recompense."

I could same the same for Crash.

Gary Spencer Millidge's Strangehaven can come out whenever and I'm happy, but I'd like very much for it to keep coming out. One of the finest comics out there and only a few issues away from at least...

The comics did it first, making Mandarin a facade and really an evil white dude. They were just being loyal to the comics.

I liked how ashamed future Supes is when he's confronted with his present-day self in The Kingdom. And how bright and positive (and back in costume) the Big Three of the future are, too.

Superman...

Kingdom Come may have been someone's masterpiece. I think it's the weakest thing I've ever read from Mark Waid. It's just washed out and anemically elegiac.

He's written hella superior comics.
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Because he's being beat up by another white rich guy in a movie full of white dudes? Because it's not a racist stereotype without counterbalance the way classic Mandarin?

Most of the concepts work without the rest of the DCU, which is why you can make a Batman movie or a Flash TV show, Teen Titans cartoons or whatever, without addressing other parts of the DCU right...

Why would you set a book in the DCU and not use any parts of the DCU?

Which is probably reason number one that comics that DC publishes that aren't using any other part of the DCU, aren't set in...