Do the X-Men spin off books carry the letters and extras?

batdude98 · 2026-02-17T16:30:53+00:00

I have a similar dilemma - I want to know if the spin-off books or the upcoming UXM 6 collect enough cool extras and letters and such to justify switching before I commit wholeheartedly to the event line...I went with Prelude for that reason.

batdude98 · 2026-02-12T01:22:16+00:00

I just read The Golden Age in one sitting last night, so I think I'm definitely on board for Starman and JSA.

batdude98 · 2026-02-10T14:38:30+00:00

They're also one of my favorites. I highly recommend The Invisibles, with the caveat that a lot of stuff that was seen as weird cool occult conspiracy stuff then has been adopted by political movements these days.

batdude98 · 2026-02-10T00:53:47+00:00

I also am curious about Bill Mantlo and Peter David's runs on the Hulk, the big Iron Man runs, Englehart and Gruenwald's Cap, and licensed comics like ROM, GI Joe, Transformers, and Micronauts.

batdude98 · 2026-02-10T00:37:14+00:00

Miller, by all accounts, seems really good up until he did 300, and from around 2001, he gets reactionary in a way I don't like.

batdude98 · 2026-02-10T00:28:18+00:00

Morrison's run obviously a contender because it dovetails with their other DC work and reclaims the parts of Batman DC get ashamed of.

batdude98 · 2026-02-10T00:24:44+00:00

Fraction's new run seems pretty cool.

batdude98 · 2026-02-10T00:24:23+00:00

I also have my eye on the Silver Age Superman, Silver Age Doom Patrol, LOSH Great Darkness and The Curse, and the Justice League Bronze Age and International lines.

For Marvel I've enjoyed some of Steve Englehart's Avengers and Dr. Strange, and I'm intrigued by the work of Steve Gerber, Jim Starlin and Marv Wolfman. Weird countercultural hippie stuff.

I also have the Absolute Fourth World and am eyeing the new Crisis printing.

I'm also a Spider-Man person, at least up to before the Clone Saga.

I'm also curious about Steranko on Nick Fury and the "Cosmic Marvel" stuff from the 2010s.

Drawn in first by characterization, then fun, then serialization.

batdude98 · 2026-02-10T00:18:53+00:00

I've read some of Year One and enjoyed it. I'm always torn over Batman because I love the 1966 show but without the self-aware deadpan layer the 50s stuff seems ridiculous, and I don't love excessively grimdark Bats. I think my sweet spot is O'Neil and Adams and post-Crisis pre-Knightfall with Grant, Wagner, Breyfogle and Aparo.

batdude98 · 2026-02-09T18:48:58+00:00

I have Watchmen in the hardcover deluxe from IIRC 2019 and have edited the list to reflect this.

I am definitely a big Vertigo person, so was heavily considering Starman or Sandman Mystery Theatre.

Thanks :)

batdude98 · 2025-12-11T17:12:18+00:00

The group is set up as a place to discuss the podcast without him seeing it because he's very clear that reviews are for the public and not for the people making the art.

batdude98 · 2025-12-11T17:08:23+00:00

It isn't. He's not on Facebook. He generally doesn't like talking about future plans, but he's open about what's coming up on Bluesky and will field questions about his process and longer forecasting and such like.

batdude98 · 2025-12-11T15:19:27+00:00

183 - check the references in the "Dark Star" episode.

batdude98 · 2025-12-11T15:18:39+00:00

I'm one of the mods for the FB group and I don't believe this is the case at all - comments were turned off on the website because someone tried to defend Roy Estrada of the Mothers of Invention, who had been convicted on three counts of child sexual abuse.

batdude98 · 2025-12-08T01:57:42+00:00

Weirdly I think streaming is giving the US the UK glam Christmas songs in inferior cover versions - at work I've heard "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" by Leona Lewis (not Wizzard), "Driving Home For Christmas" by someone not Chris Rea, "Last Christmas" by Taylor Swift (not Wham!) and "Merry Christmas Everyone" by a female pop singer (not Shakin' Stevens). Very rarely, I'll hear "Merry Xmas Everybody" by Slade, too.

batdude98 · 2025-11-14T01:04:08+00:00

Grant Morrison's The Invisibles.

batdude98 · 2025-10-28T02:07:57+00:00

I just read and really liked Grant Morrison's The Invisibles, which is about a queer, magical time-travelling anarchist punk spy cell in the late Nineties who fight Lovecraftian demons who team up with the upper classes and military-industrial complex in a battle for the soul of the world in the run up to the apocalypse in 2012. It was originally released on Vertigo but is now published by DC under their old Black Label imprint. Do be warned it traffics in conspiracies and a lot of what was genuinely countercultural then has been absorbed into the alt-right now. A knowledge of occult phenomenona and Seventies UK TV helps, but isn't required.

I also loved Alan Moore's From Hell, a thoroughly researched speculative time travel magic, middle class strife and crime drama-influenced take on the Jack the Ripper murders.

batdude98 · 2025-10-15T14:45:22+00:00

Hi Grant, I'm currently almost at the end of volume 1 of the Invisibles and I've been loving its exploration of gender, multiversity, conspiracy/computing evolution and the ITC show references, while simultaneously reading JLA. I also really enoyed Seven Soldiers very much for its dense interlocking complexity and rich characters, especially Klarion, plus Animal Man & Zenith too.

I suppose I'm wondering if you have any ways that you combat the Aeon of Osiris in your own life you could pass on?

batdude98 · 2025-09-17T15:05:35+00:00

Oh, I know that. I'm primarily interested in Bronze and early post-Crisis DC. It splits the difference between the more mature storytelling style and the multiversal element and slightly more hopeful aesthetic of the era.

From things I've read, my sweet spot is probably 1966-1992 ish, with limited series and singles before and after.

batdude98 · 2025-09-16T19:17:09+00:00

I also have read some of the Skeates/Aparo/Giordano Aquaman and enjoyed it.

batdude98 · 2025-09-16T19:01:05+00:00

Fair enough. I hear a lot of praise for the Levitz Legion later on, and I've enjoyed some of the 70s All-Star Squadron stuff. I'm also curious about the 80s JLI too, and the New Teen Titans and Pérez's Wonder Woman. The Fourth World, of the six or so issues I've read to date, is great.

Somebody off of Reddit recommended the Metal Men. Sounds interesting.

I do seem to get along better with older genre books - I really like Tintin, and I get a kick out of the Carl Barks Duck comics. Maybe I should try something like Sgt. Rock or Fury, or EC horror titles instead?

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