This latest New Gods sort of felt like an ongoing that the creators learned was downgraded to a 12-issue series around issue #10.

I felt the same about Ram V’s Detective Comics run. Is that all there is to a fire?

I hope Lightray is as temporarily dead as most comic book characters.

Anyone writing Darkseid now should think hard about why Jack Kirby, the all-time master of comic book fight scenes, refrained from having his great villain engage in them until the very end?

Oh, that one! I liked it for what it was, and I appreciated that it kept the quasi-off-the table Darkseid mostly off-stage like the movie Sauron.

I had a couple of issues of the brief later 70s revival

I mean, does this look like someone who would let himself into your apartment and be sitting in your favorite chair when you got home, just to say some elliptical fascist shit to creep you out? If not, you have fucked up.

One of my favorite people, was a couple of years ahead of me at Middlebury College in VT in the early 90s.

My college friend Greg was a Gen Corp guard in Time Chasers.

The only time we should see Darkseid physically fighting is when he faces Orion as part of the prophecy. His menace is magnified by being implied. Punching Impulse just diminishes him.

Yeah, decrying an engine of dehumanization built to serve capital seems like it should be in a pope’s wheelhouse

Fellas, 73 out of 74 women go crazy for guys who don’t know the word piqued

Adam Warlock. The story in those two 70s annuals should have been the end of it for him, Gamora, and Pip.

Your boyfriend is clearly Nick Miller from New Girl