Not only does Robin suck like a Hoover on 'roids, his other Batfamily writing has been just as bad.

I had to drop all of the Bat titles he's writing months ago. I try not to take life too seriously, and Willingham had me seriously thinking about taking life.

Uh....I confess, I flipped through the current issue of Robin in the store, and I bought it. There was even a part where the writing made me laugh, not AT Willingham, but b/c it was actually funny.

I don't think he has any clue who the character of Robin really IS, but some of the surrounding story just got intriguing. Johnny Warlock is back, and there was a gleefully gruesome scene where mob boss Acquista brought a coffin with the rotted corpse of his daughter to Johnny Warlock in Istanbul, and begged him to raise her from the dead.

So, Johnny, or, rather whatever the hell that mystical thing in Johnny is, did it. And, as with all raising of people from the dead, she came back wrong. Fabulously, hideously, evil-overlordishly wrong.

I liked it.

I fear for my mental well-being.

Slumbernut!!!!

Teppy! I liked that too -- even though I had NO IDEA who the heck the Warlock guy was. Also, there has been (so far as I can tell) no explanation about the mysterious Uncle thing.

I had to drop all of the Bat titles he's writing months ago.

Well, with WG over, it's just Robin he's on now.

Which I dropped, natch.

Winick's been having too much fun on the Batman solo title*, so it's been worth picking up, 'tec and LotDK have been uneven, and I hear there's going to be another freaking thing where Willingham writes half/Gabrych writes the other half where I'll be forced to buy it on account of the Gabrych factor. I swear, it's the most irksome pairing since they started teaming Gail Simone with the DC stable's most annoying artists.

* As much as I'm unsure how I feel about the latest developments, they're being written in a VERY entertaining fashion, and the last issue had some of the best Batman dialogue I've heard in ages. Damn you, Judd, anyhow!

Uh....I confess, I flipped through the current issue of Robin in the store, and I bought it.

Heh. I'm not going to crucify you or anything. I just got to the point where I couldn't read a single page of Robin without shrieking and flinging the issue across the room, so I'm forcing myself not to touch the new issues in the stores for fear I will start screaming obscenities, for my emotional attachment to the Tim is strong like whoa.

Well, with WG over, it's just Robin he's on now.

Yeah? I saw his name on one of the Countdown to Infinite Crisis or Whatever titles, and I kind of stared at it dully for a moment before saying, "Oh HELL no."

And Plei, I agree that 'tec and LotDK have been uneven. At least Batgirl's been giving me the Cass/Steph nub.

Heh. I'm not going to crucify you or anything. I just got to the point where I couldn't read a single page of Robin without shrieking and flinging the issue across the room, so I'm forcing myself not to touch the new issues in the stores for fear I will start screaming obscenities, for my emotional attachment to the Tim is strong like whoa.

You don't have to tell *me* about the Tim-love! That's why I stopped reading Robin, too -- Willingham clearly has NO idea who in the hell the character really is. It was with great surprise that I found myself liking the current issue.

Yeah? I saw his name on one of the Countdown to Infinite Crisis or Whatever titles, and I kind of stared at it dully for a moment before saying, "Oh HELL no."

Should have specified "of the Bat books."

He's doing one of the Countdown books. I've heard okay things about it, but not enough to get me past my dislike of the fellow. (It's the Countdown book I'm NOT pulling. Well, that and the RannThang.)

I picked up the first Day of Vengeance book and it was... all right, I guess. Nothing besides the bit with the Phantom Stranger really bothered me, but I didn't think it was particularly good either.

Not exactly comic books, but the new BOONDOCKS anthology is out. May have been for a while, but I just saw it.