and then he might have put Gordon on trial, with Dent defending and TwoFace prosecuting. but that might have been another story. i forget.

So in interviews when Morrison says Batman has a fate worse than death, and that 'Bruce' won't be Batman anymore, I think he's referring to some rejection of the Wayne legacy by Bruce. A Batman that continues being Batman without also being a multi-billionaire. Maybe.The way Dr. Hurt refers to Batman is very proprietary, too, "our boy", etc.

I'm just saying, I think Dr. Hurt could really be Thomas Wayne. Possibly Hugo Strange, but I think Morrison's taking a huge part of Batman's motivating origin away from him to see what's left.

Morrison did indeed employ the trope in The Invisibles, as well as Animal Man (who confronts the ultimate father) and a whole bunch of other stuff.

Also, I vote Old Man Logan as the most obliviously hilarious comic story of the last decade.

Since you like One Man Logan, why not post your own review? Yesterday I once again spent minutes in the LCS debating whether or not to pick up the second part of the story. I passed, but am open to changing my mind.

Not that you asked me, but if the choices are CSI or Lost, can I choose neither? I prefer not to pick one-and-done or endless meandering with maybe a drop of closure, at best.

Jonah Hex is a very entertaining book that does single issues. Runaways is a very entertaining book that does multiple issue stories, but each story does end. Come to think of it, so is Wolverine.

You make a good point with X-Men and Batman. That's why I pick those books up periodically, like for Batman RIP or the Death of the Shiar Empire. Or when Morrison did X-Men. OTOH, Claremont is the king of the endless "story."

Finally, Psynapse, do you really prefer Final Crisis to Secret Invasion? Final Crisis does lame, lame crap like bringing back Barry Allen, which is just weak. I just re-read Infinite Crisis, and though it has been much maligned, it was way better than FC has been so far. At this point, I have to equate FC with House of M. Both rather self-important, pompous but not that interesting.

Try to debate the language we speak. Go ahead, it'll be funny at least

And remember, as I stated previously, if you're enjoying it MORE POWER TO YA (meant in all seriousness with NO rancor)....BUT don't try to tell people it's something 'new' because frankly, it's simply not. Oh and next time try recognize what the words I type are actually expressing rather than deciding they are 'like' what you want to think they are.

Served. (*_^)

Does having been bored to tears and utterly unimpressed with the execution count as being a hater? Because if so, bring it. (But then, we'd be arguing personal taste which is NOT my intent. Again, if you're enjoying it ROCK ON but your enjoyment doesn't automatically mean an entitlement to legitimacy that others must endorse.)

Then again, Mark Millar has ALWAYS been very hit or miss for me. That said, his self-aggrandizing (and IMHO VERY much skewed) take on the leftist/ right wing discord in the social landscape of my country viewed through his version of the Marvel universe also just really fucking annoyed me. In fact, quite often while trying to read a Millar story I have a vision of him sitting at his PC with his shorts around his ankles masturbating with one hand and finger-pecking the keyboard with the other while exclaiming "I am SO fucking awesome! I rock!" quite feverishly.

I compare my stacks every couple weeks, and had been buying a lot of DC, but the pendulum has swung back toward Marvel again.

I waited for the Civil War trade. I feel Millar writes characters very "out of character" but he is always interesting, if not always good. Civil War worked as a story, but it was very depressing, made me hate a lot of Marvel heroes (especially Stark), killed off Steve Rogers and made Authoritarian heroes the norm. I prefer the rebel heroes (except in the case of The Authority).

I agree that Cap is currently a good story, and can't argue that in a "real world" the whole secret identity thing wouldn't really work. But that is just a little too real-world for me, I guess. I don't mind the registered and non-registered, but can't get into the registered actually Fighting the non-registered, except in the case of the Thunderbolts, et al.

Also good point on coming back from the dead...but Barry Friggin' Allen? I am 40+ and that is waaay too old school for me.

PWNED!!

Look, the list goes on and on...those are just the first that came to mind. There's one simple fact, though, that is undeniable proof that Mark Millar was writing everybody out of character: he has himself said that he initially was going to put Cap and Iron Man on the OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE ISSUE, then changed his mind because he thought it worked this way better. If that, right there, doesn't tell you he fails to understand the core basics of these characters...frankly, it's because you don't want it to. That fact, which he has never attempted to hide, tells you all you need to know: he bent the characters to the story he wanted to tell instead of using the characters in a logical, organic manner in keeping with who and what they've always stood for. And that's just part of why CIVIL WAR was horseshit.

AGAIN, I never said the word "all" anywhere in my post. I specifically stated that I read through Marvel or DC minis and maxis. You are obviously incapable of an actual civilized debate without making up information to attack your opponent so it's schoolyard time now. You are obviously a petty whining specimen of humanity and have now rendered ANY opinion of yours utterly irrelevant save for further proof of what a dipshit you are. Your preference for Inference over Actuality now makes me kindly request that You NEVER breed (if you can find a woman drunk or mentally feeble enough in the first place, that is)as any offpsing is likely to be twice the asshit that you are and require euthanizing .

First of all, let me say a few words in favor of theft: it gets you the comics that your cheap @$$ Dad won't give you money to buy. So, it was really him stealing the comics and not me shoving them into my butt crack at the good ol' Stop 'n' Rob.

Other thoughts: I sorta like SECRET INVASION. Comics have become something different than what they were. Not something better, but not something bad...all the time. While I would kinda prefer being an adult reading kid stuff, I can like being an adult reading decent stuff that we fans think is for adults but really isn't like anything else in media for adults. But I don't buy or steal this stuff...I read it quickly in the shop. Hey, if they don't like, they can put it behind glass!

Let's all be wild and crazy here. It's a comic book page. No need to use kid gloves.

For example, whenever I read a post that says: "I support Cap..." I always think, yeah, what fictional characters politcal positions do I support? Certainly, D'artagnian's. Zorro. The Reverend Dr. Christopher Syn alias the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. The Challengers of the Unknown...

And yer welcome. Send me money.

Also, you might have missed that whole Avengers arc where an Iron Man line up battled the Establishment. You old timers remember. Who'd it get down to? That's right: Iron Man vs. the Conformist! Too bad that continuity was lost in the relaunch, I tell you!

As far as Seaguy goes, it's true that I've been asked about a sequel a lot but I've never once blown up over it, I'm always just happy that people care enough to ask. I'm also happy to report that, as offically announced at the San Diego con a couple weeks back, I'm already hard at work on Seaguy 2: Slaves of Mickey Eye, and the first issue should be out in early 2009. If you go digging in the archives of my illustration blog - cameronstewart.blogspot.com - you'll find some preview artwork from Seaguy 2.

Finally, even though Grant and Ed Brubaker are very different styles of writer, I enjoyed working with them equally. They both have their unique challenges but my job as an illustrator is to tackle their scripts with the same commitment.

Sorry The Apocalipstix isn't your thing. Hope maybe you can reconsider some day. Thanks for the feedback!

I will say that one of my longstanding rants here when I reviewed before getting fired for refusing to pay my bar tab at the @$$hole clubhouse, is that we fans/fanboys tend to see in black and white. Liberal or conservative. No shades of gray. Unfortunately, even the best writers in comics also fall into that trap from time to time, especially a politically astute UK writer who nails our country dead on in the strictest political sense but whose only cultural understanding of us is from the political media.

Tony Stark COULD be said to fall into the Armand Hammer billionaire school. He could be a J. Robert Oppenheimer WMD creator from the philosophical school of Danish physicist Niels Bohr rather than an Edward Teller genius. Or, he could be a character who dresses up in read and gold armor and fights Namor whenever Subby gets too close to Long Island.

As for me, I'm a "Rebel spaceships striking from hidden bases have won their first victory over the evil galactic empire..." type guy instead of a "The Trade Federation has established a tariff that is being debated via fillibuster in the Imperial Senate. As the Senators eagerly watch the polls, multiple caucuses have been schedule throughout all seven branches of the Republic government..." kinda fella.