There is some more detail about on Peter David's blog, with a potential casting spoiler for it for the faint of heart...

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John Byrne varient cover of Angel -- it's there scroll down a bit.

I have three weeks of comics to pick up, and really it feels slow ...

• Ex Machina #9
• Teen Titans #22
• Ultimate X-Men #57
• Ultimates 2 #4
• Uncanny X-Men #457
• Fables #35
• Nightwing #105
• District X #11
• Firestorm #11

And, conditionally:

• X-Men Age Of Apocalypse #1
• X-Men Age Of Apocalypse #2
• X-Men Age Of Apocalypse #3

I've been cruising through DC's solicits for May and June over at Comics Continuum, and (1) it's so MASSIVELY spoily on one title that all I could do was laugh, and (2) Teen Titans covers for May and June made me go EEEEEEEP and wibble.

I have a bunch of titles to pick up tomorrow too. Mostly Bat-titles of course and I think a Supes.

If anybody likes a good old-fashioned science fiction story, Majestic has been delivering in spades. Sales have been slow, so it may be difficult to find it in the shops. For some reason, the title seems to be getting a collective "meh" in reviews, but I'm finding it refreshing and the art top-notch. The story brings memories of Rendezvous with Rama or a Jerry Pournelle/Larry Niven epic.

Over the past few weeks, the comic buy list has been a little slow, but I'll say this - anytime you get four Grant Morrison titles in the space of just over a month is a good month to be reading comics.

Joining Steph in laughing at the spoilyness, though it's not as if I hadn't been expecting it for over a year.

Also? The new Bill Willingham Spectre-themed miniseries looks like crap. Quelle surprise...

Looking at my pull list for this week, the top entries appear to be:

Teen Titans #22 - More Dr. Light/Identity Crisis goodness.

Ex Machina #9

Ultimates #4 - I actually have no idea where the story is headed after the Hulk storyline, so I'm interested.

Birds of Prey #80 - Maybe Benes will cut down on the cheesecake this issue, but the characters are fascinating.

My pulls for today:

last week's Nightwing
TT #22
Manhunter

....and I think that's it, sadly.

Joining Steph in laughing at the spoilyness, though it's not as if I hadn't been expecting it for over a year.

I know -- DC hasn't exactly been subtle with the hints. It's basically along the lines of bringing Hal Jordan back.

I was reading the forums at DC.com last night, and the theories about the upcoming Crisis fall into 2 categories: (1) totally crack-addled and (2) verrrrry interesting. Sometimes the 2 overlap.

What I'm mostly intrigued by is: (1) the identity of Red Hood -- theories include: Jason Todd, Jack Drake, Nightwing, Jean-Paul Valley, and Ra's; and (2) who Batman is holding on the cover of the one-shot DC Countdown.

I really hope that Red Hood isn't Jason Todd, and have convinced myself that Bats isn't holding anyone in his family on that cover.