No Astonishment at my shop.

Bought No Man's Land 2, and The Long Halloween which got the big thumbs up from Goth Metal Boy behind the counter. (In his opinion it was the best BatFam TPB.) Also got Tales of the Vampires 5, and Teen Titans Go! (the animated companion) for Emmett, who was very pleased to receive it and devoured it avidly.

I read The Long Halloween recently, and I can't say it really did anything for me.

(In his opinion it was the best BatFam TPB.)

Gothboy is so wrong. It's not even the best Loeb. (That would be Dark Victory, but I think Loeb is better at emotional impact than powerful plotting.)

Gothboy is so wrong.

ka-shrug I have no opinion yet, but in continuity order this follows after Batman Year One doesn't it? Also I've always been interested in Harvey Dent's character.

I read The Long Halloween recently, and I can't say it really did anything for me.

Tep, did you re-read after the twist ending to see if that changed how you looked at the story? (I did, and it did, but I'm not sure if it was for the better or not.)

Tep, did you re-read after the twist ending to see if that changed how you looked at the story?

No, because by then I just wasn't invested in the story. My reaction was basically "Buh? Huh. Meh."

ka-shrug I have no opinion yet, but in continuity order this follows after Batman Year One doesn't it? Also I've always been interested in Harvey Dent's character.

Check the Continuity Pages, but pretty much, I think.

My collection is a muddle of in and out of continuity stuff, thanks to Zero Hour and the mild dose of reset it provided. Full Circle, which I recall liking a lot, is out of continuity, for example. I should re-org the shelves to reflect that, come to think of it.

Local comic shop has titles in alphabetical order as well. *shrugs*

Yeah, I can see why you had no problem getting help today, Kiba.

Picked up Astonishing and TotV5 today. Haven't read the latter yet.

AX seems alright for a setup issue. Really not grooving on Cyclops and Beast's new costumes, though. Not caring for Beast's look at all, to be honest. But that's an art issue rather than a writing issue.

Realized in reading it that I have absolutely no idea what's going on in the Marvel-verse these days.

Also, Emma mentions having "the best body money can buy" I'm assuming there was some surgery involved, then? Because my first reaction to her close up was that she looked "too perfect". and I realize a lot of that is simply a comic book thing, but it seemed even moreso there. And how did Jean die? And when?

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I will say one thing about Cyclops: smallest package in superhero costume history.

Beast's costume is dumb.

Jean died as part of something I failed to understand, since it happened in the pages of Grant Morrison and I hated his run. I think she dies to save the world from evil Beast. She rights a timeline, or something, which is how Scott and Emma end up together with her implicit blessing, after they were having a psychic affair.

I hate the leonine Beast. I liked the previous blue furry incarnation better.

eta: PMM, that explains so much.