Hmm I guess it has always been a little like that but I only noticed it this issue as it was turned up a notch. I can't really recommend the previous ones.

Nice save. I probably would have walked out with a pile of the series so far and resented you forever.

There are some awesome far out ideas in the book but they feel safer and less impressive than they should be. Mark Waid is like Grant Morrison without taking the extra step.

I bought this comic on your recommendation last night and I read it while we cooked dinner. You were right: it was a lot of fun. I couldn't give less of a shit about the Challengers of the Unknown/Countdown frame story, but they did a good job of explaining powers, setting up a situation, building some drama and then resolving it all. I had fun reading it, too -- not Kirby or Morrison fun, but I'd probably buy a lot more comics than I do now if most of them read like this.

I am going to be a little bummed when leinil yu doesn't draw the new avengers anymore.
Also, I am fairly sure I am not a skrull.

I was just thinking I might start picking up New Avengers books.

I am mid-way through book one of the new X-Factor, and I like some of it ok, but it isn't blowing my socks off or anything. Still, there's plenty of time for it to pick up.

-Countdown - Arena #1
Awwwful! There is three version of each hero and they have to fight to see who is strongest. So there is three Batmans fighting each other and one is a vampire from the vampire Earth ETC. If there was a video game and this was the tie-in then at least there would be an excuse for this.
-Countdown #21
I'm enjoying the New God parts but that's it. There's an awful lot of showing things just to show they now exist such as the Batman Beyond Batman. The cliffhanger endings are great. Maybe the book should be just that?
-Justice League of America #15
This was just one big fight. I don't dig the art in this book at all. All cross-hatchy and trying to hard to be sexy.
-Justice Society of America #11
I like this book. Very pretty and there's a nice mix of things happening and build up to big shit is gonna happen.
-Robin #169
I just want this story to be over. Robin goes way out of character just to set up a fight in a book next week. I like the nice clean art though.
-Supergirl #24
This was only okay. I don't know enough to see the point of it. If they were adding things to the origin it wasn't very interesting things.

I actually got to the comic store. I got the latest Grant Morrison Batman comic.. and I felt like I had missed the previous issue, and then at the end I saw it said CONTINUED in ROBIN and that was the final nail in the coffin of this comic that had been not really thrilling me that much in the first place. Also the art sucked.

I did however get Scott Pilgrim 3 which saved my Sunday, and Gipi's Notes for a War Story, which was awesome.

Yes!

Agreed!

Probably one of the better books I've read in the last year or so.

It's because of his book Garage Band that I'm now enrolled in watercolour painting classes.