The problem is I have collected every damn issue of Uncanny and I just can't let go.

I live every other facet of my life with scrutinizing pessimism, but for some reason I keep living under the delusion that the next issue of Uncanny will be the one to make the angels sing and rain Twisted Tea from the heavens.

The thing is, they haven’t been awful, they’re just not great.

I guess not everything can be.

Mr Sinister semed alive, well and content with his shiny new vagina and itty bitty titties.

Or did I miss something?

So, anyway, X-Men 500....whatever. As an off-and-on reader of X-Men. I picked up 500 to see if it was worth following, and I won't be picking up 501. 500 was just not especially interesting. It was ok, but I am not looking for more "ok" comics to spend my $$$.

Ambush Bug was good. Not great, but good. Some of it fell flat, even for long-time readers, and some of it was stale. But some of it was very amusing. I appreciate pointing out the misogynistic streak of killing the DC women. Marvel, meanwhile, is making nearly all the prominent Skrulls female as well. Maybe this is a back-to-basics move on the part of both companies to make comics more male again.

Speaking of dropping books that are "ok," New Warriors is about to meet that fate. I actually enjoy the storyline, but 14 issues in and only like two of them have personalities. I've read 14 issues of a book and still can't keep the team members straight? That is a problem.

No medium is perfect, nor will everyone love every aspect of it.

I thought we all converge here in an attempt to voice our concerns about facets of comics; if we truly hated them, we would not be here.

I did give SI a chance, but it was not to my liking. If my LCS orders are any indicator I'm in the minority.

I just don't care any more. They shouldn't be fixing continuity after the fact, it should always be front of mind. Marvel is not alone DC makes similar gaffs.

I wonder what editorial does all day??????

Or, y'know, alternately, we read whatever we want (cuz we bought it with our own money) and then tell people what we think, giving both the old and the new and the mainstream and the indie a try.

Naaah, that can't be it. We're just crotchety old haters. Yeah. Suuure.

But I'm sure I'd still read another Evanier biography.

But you’re right, I do hate that damn Secret Invasion. Skrulls really mess up my routine. Luckily, I hear Skrull Queen candidate Barack Skrullama has plans for a 16-month withdrawal of all pointy-eared forces.

This same phenomenon applies to TV as well. I was reading a Smallview TB here (never seen the show) and a lot of people have clearly kept watching a show they apparently haven't liked for three seasons. TPTB certainly prefer people to watch/read their product, then bitch, rather than just not reading it.

And I'm with the Rev on Lee/Kirby. It was a partnership in every sense of the word. Sure, you can debate who was the most important, and that may well be Kirby, since he was plotting and drawing most of his books. But he didn't come up with characters like the Fantastic Four, the Incredile Hulk and the X-Men on his own, and Lee's dialogue as well as Kirby and Ditko's rule-breaking art is a lot of what shines about early Marvel. Like Buzz said a while back, SAVAGE SHE-HULK is nor INCREDIBLE HULK, but the New Gods aren't the FF either.

Separately, neither achieved the greatness of their Marvel collaboration. That in indisputable. Together, they were they greatest comics team that ever lived.

To get back to the interesting part of the discussion, no, I'm not saying Kirby's solo work was better or worse. I agree, in many ways it is more impressive. But it's pretty close to fact that nothing he created on his own after Marvel was as iconic or immediate as his work with Stan. Draw your own conclusions from that.

PS: I like Secret Invasion, although I am starting to like it not as much as I did the first 3 issues. And Millar is good sometimes (like on Authority) and bad sometimes (like Logan).

pps: I am not a vagina. A dick, sure.

I don't know why you'd say it's suspect that I like Secret Invasion. (not love, but like) Why would I say I like it if I didn't? To establish cred? Whatever....old guys like me don't really need to prove ourselves online. The new Mighty Avengers was pretty good. So what if I have a caveat? I will even add another....the only big reveals have been Spider-Woman and Hank Pym, so I am doubting there will be any skrulls posing as real major characters. It's still good though.

I hate talking down to people but you just aren’t getting it. See, when I say “it looks like Coipel’s current take on the character”, that is me IMPLYING (writing on more than one level) that Kirby was way ahead of his time. The reader is left to infer that conclusion, since I specifically state in the frickin’ review Kirby was drawing in 1968. Or, you know, not. You seem to realize what I’m saying, even if you’re taking it overwhelmingly at face value, so why get so hung up on the exact wording of a clause in a review that is incredibly positive and pro-Kirby? I couldn’t say, but I could probably hazard a guess.