I fought it as hard as I could, but I simply cannot give the Pick of the Week for 4/1/09 to anything but Flash: Rebirth #1. Johns' modern take on Barry Allen combined with Van Sciver's excellent art and amazing covers was simply too much for any of this week's other books.

That said, if Flash hadn't been Reborn this week, Destroyer #1 or ( Read more... )

Pick of the Week for 3/25/09 is Battlefields: Dear Billy #3. I don't know why. It's pretty sad? That's good enough for me.

Honorable mention to New Avengers #51. Because it was very important that you retcon the fact that the Avengers knew Spider-man's identity so that he could reveal it to them again. THANKS, MARVEL.

Okay, I read a lot of comics each week. And a lot of them are great. Some of them are not. One of the not great ones has been, for a while at least, Justice League of America. I keep reading it because there is some good meat in there, but honestly, the constant changes to the DC status quo are ruining this book ( Read more... )

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Pick of the Week for 3/11/09 is Captain Britain and MI13 #11, for its copious quantities of Dracoola. Honorable mention to Ghost Rider #33.

Pick of the Week for 3/18/09 was a lot harder, lot of excellent books, but I finally settled on Amazing Spider-Man #588. Honorable mentions go to Dark Avengers #3, Spider-Man Noir #4, Ultimate X-Men #100, ( Read more... )

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Resident Evil fans: "WAAAAAAAH, unlocking the second best weapon in Resident Evil 4 requires a modicum of skill. Why would you do this?"

Capcom: "Oh, God, you're right! How could we have been so foolish? Lesson learned. Never again shall you unlock anything cool from Mercenaries Mode."

Atma: "RAAAAAAAAAAGE!"

Yeah, forgot for a few weeks. Whoops.

Pick of the week for 3/4/09 is Daredevil #116, for making Kingpin awesome again. Honorable mention to Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk #3.

Pick of the week for 2/25/09 is Green Lantern #38, for being Green Lantern.

Pick of the week for 2/18/09 is nothing because it was a very light, very mediocre week.

I think that's ( Read more... )

Left 4 Dead undefeated streak: Mid-December 2008 - Mid-February 2009

Rest in Peace

If I'm being honest, sometimes I will wake up suddenly from a particularly deep sleep in a disoriented state. On more than one of these occasions, I have looked up at the oversized, rasterized replica of "Misty Day, Remains of the JUDGMENT" hanging on my wall and wondered where I was, and what I did to deserve His attention ( Read more... )