So, no comments about Omac #4? Or about Wonder Woman #219? (I am glad that they were able to get WW out this week, as it looked like it was going to get set back to next week. The art did suffer a bit, because of all the different hands needed to get it done on time.)

If fact, I am a bit worried about DC being able to keep its schedule - this is the second month in a row that OMAC required more than one set of artists.

Batman: Dark Detective was a huge waste of time. The art wasn't bad, though (I liked the retro feel). Some things should be left in the past, though (thought balloons?).

Astro City: The Dark Age is just hitting on all cylinders. I think this is the best superhero comic written today.

The DC continuity may be tightening up, but there are still some huge problems - for instance, how do the "Crisis Countdown" miniseries relate to each other and the main titles? At the moment, I can find Hawkman in four separate places at once returning from "death" in his own title, fighting the Secret Society of Supervillains in JLA, fighting in the Rann/Thanagar war, and off-screen in OMAC).

I haven't shopped yet, so am commentless, but how do you feel about this from Greg Rucka?

“I want to say, before anything else that we tried very hard to build OMAC so that you weren’t obligated to buy anything else, and we failed,” Rucka said. “We really did. I’ll cop to it – I won’t lie about it. And we did it by playing dirty pool too – if you were buying The OMAC Project, you really need the Superman and Wonder Woman books to know what’s happening in issue #4 of the miniseries. If you don’t read them, it’s possible to understand them, but you don’t get the emotional resonance. That was a little bit of dirty pool, but we didn’t plan it out that way – we weren’t looking to spring this on people, but that’s the way it happened, and again, we’re sorry. So instead of a six issue miniseries, you get a ten issue miniseries, and I won’t fault any reader for not picking it up. I’d still suggest them though, because they’re a good story and worth reading, but I’d suggest, if nothing else, you pick up Wonder Woman #219 at the very least – call it issue OMAC #3.5 if you must, because it sets up the events of OMAC #4.”

I'm going to pick up my comics after work.

I was on my way to get comics last night, but someone was supposed to look at the car at 6:30 and traffic was horrible, so we turned around and went home. 6:30 fucko never showed.

Has anyone here read Superman: Secret Identity?

Has anyone here read Superman: Secret Identity?

I highly recommend it. Written by Kurt Busiek, gorgeous art by Stuart Immonen. Not your ordinariy Superman comic by any stretch. Not much more I can say without spoiling it.

I second Jeff.

Wonder Woman is going to be sold out, isn't it?

Oh no, I just finished it last night. Well, I picked it up right before going to bed, figuring I'd read a few pages as a teaser and finish it up over the week. Yeah. Wow.

When I started reading it I was thinking "Max picked the wrong super-heroine to get all chauvinistic and gloaty with. Unlike the rest of the big JLA heroes Diana doesn't have much of a rogues gallery—because her enemies tend to leave their fights in body bags!" It felt kinda good to be proven right a few pages later.