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theredbaron
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26-May-2007, 1:01 AM
Originally posted by: JediSage
So who's reading what these days? I'm so far behind it's ridiculous (so no 52 spoilers PLEASE!). I'm still in the early 40's on that one. Everyone looking forward to Countdown? Or is everyone pissed off that there's another 4 books a month they have to buy?


I'm reading Justice League, Justice Society, Brave and the Bold, Countdown, the Spirit, Detective Comics (when Dini's on it), All-Star Superman, Welcome to Tranquility and Action whenever Donner and Johns are at the helm.

The Spirit is very clever. Great one-shot stories there. Brave and the Bold is brimming with old-school magic too in much the same way. Supergirl and Green Lantern were hilarious together. Detective has some pretty good one shots as well.

The Red Tornado storyline in JLA was promising, but now things are feeling a bit sub-par. I don't know if JSA is as good as the critics are saying, but it's still pretty good.

All-Star Superman and the Donner/Johns Action line feature some of the best Superman stories ever - which is not hard given the muck he's been dragged through over the decades, but they're great nonetheless. I'm finding Morrison's run on Batman to be almost as fun as All-Star Superman too. So refreshing to have fun Batman stories after all these years.

Countdown is shaping up to be a good, fast-paced TV series kind of comic. Like Heroes, I guess you could say.

I recommend Welcome to Tranquility for those who appreciate a different take on the superhero genre, of the geriatric kind!

I'm up to the final volume of Sandman (Endless Nights), and I don't know what I'm going to do with myself now that I'm near the end.

And does anybody know what the hell happened to Loeb and Cooke on Batman/Spirit? I've got issue #1, then nada...