I really wish Bendis would come back to doing Runaways. Tear

Wolverine this week was clearly the best comic of the week. Knowning I'm not a huge Wolvie fan, it comes as a shock...but I love this future storyline and I hope it stays this good consistantly with the writing. Cause it seems no matter who writes this title, every issue seems to get worse as they write it.

But yeah let's talk about that comic for 20 seconds and go in depth with the marvelous Secret Invasion Runaways...yeah...that was really a 'super' issue...*rolls eyes* You guys seriously need to look better on what comics to talk about on the top of the show.

I would have to say I hate Bishop the most. No need for him. And heres my reason why. He's from a crappy future, and comes back to make our present crappier. I mean whenever he goes back he has no clue about what is happening or why they happen besides general stuff. At least do some research before you go back and give some valuable information. Plus whenever he goes back, its guns ablazin. Seriously? Everytime? I wish someone would just trap him in a time rift and block out our knowledge of his existance.

PS: Is it me or is it that everytime they involve some sort of time travel arc its never panned out or the storyline is just horrible. One exception would be Age of Apocalypse, but most of them generally blow.

Alex, I really recommend you read all of Joss' six issues in one sitting. I was underwhelmed by the finale when i read it by myself, but then I read all of the six issue issues together and it's a really cool storyline. The book was definitely hurt by the delays.

Terry Moore is a great choice to run the book, but we'll have to see on Humberto Ramos' art.

Every week I am more disappointed over what issues you guys choose to review. It's bad enough Alex does his 'show a day' videos about crap no one cares about, can we keep the show in the mainstream, and away from the kiddie books? Teen Titans, Young Avengers, Runaways, all that teeny crap, who cares? Meanwhile you just gloss over the important releases in the speed round, or ignore them completely.

Characters I hate. At DC it has to be Nightwing. At Marvel it has to be Hank Pym.

I'll wait to read RASL in the collected edition when its done in 20 years...let me know when its done.

cool show

So glad Whedon's run is finished. Hopefully Terry Moore can save this book because right now it doesn't have a pulse. His story just wasn't that interesting, he introduced too many characters considering this was a six issue fill in arc, and of course it was always late. Yeah as you guys have said he always delivers at least one or two cute well written character moments, but that shouldn't give him a free pass.

Scalped was easily the book of the week, but Wolverine was cool also.

Question for The Stack Crew

On the topic of people waiting for the trade do you three think more books should go the Criminal route and offer extras that don't appear in the collected editions?

I character I have hated from the very first time I saw him is without a doubt Gambit. He just annoys me so badly for some reason.

Also, what character's did you used to hate and then have your opinion 180 change because of a story line. I never was into Cyclops before I read Astonish Xmen and now Scott Summers is finaly interesting to me.

Also, I'd much rather hear a review up front that you guys are mixed on (like SI: YA/R) than one that the whole internet loves like wolverine 66 because on titles I'm debating on getting, with the economy as it is, i'd rather hear longer arguments about toss ups than the sure things.

Also....that first letter up there /\, that guy should be a 1

JUSTIN YOU PUSSY...THE PUNISHER IS THE MOST BAD ASS CHARACTER OUT

"Another round of cigarettes, please." WTFLOL! XD Couldn't contain the laughter.

I hate Iron Man, but that's cause of Civil War mostly. I hate Emma Frost, she's like a hooker with powers. I don't know what's the point of her, but I don't want her whole history to care about her.

Comic "hero" I hate the most? Boy, there are so many to choose from (especially over on the DC side of life)... I guess I'd have to say Lobo is probably the worst. I bought the Lobo trade back in the early 90's when he seemed to be the latest rage and everyone was talking about him. What complete and utter crap that was. Never have I been sorrier over a book I spent good hard-earned money on. I couldn't beleive how bad it was. I remember putting the book done and thinking "That's it? People really like this stuff? Is DC really serious or is this just some poor idea of a joke?" I still can't believe he's still around after all this time. I really thought more fans (and writers) would eventually come back to reality and wipe him away from continuity in one of DC's frequent history and continuity re-writing events. That fact that he's still around is a testament to the rising power of apathy and ignorance in this country. Yes, I REALLY hate him that much.

I'd have to say Superman. Even as a kid I'd wonder why Superman never went back in time to solve every problem ever if he was able to time travel. And about a year ago I was reading about him fighting some super strong bad guy, but the guy had ONE weakness which was a certain frequency. So some person from halfway around the world told him this and Superman was able to hear it and was able to hear her while fighting the guy and match the pitch perfectly with just his voice. Lame. With someone as powerful as Superman why would the DC need any other hero?

It's all about storytelling and intellectual property. DC owns a vast stable of superheros. They (and Marvel) rotate them in and out as popularity dictates. It's always a battle between the storytellers and the suits. Suits would say kill off all underperforming characters, but the storytellers say I have great ideas for "character X". It's the same old story, corporate America vs. The Artists.

What's everyone's opinion on corporate involvement in comic books?

alex didn't what he said about cable. cable is the best because fight with his hand and uses power to. unlike superman he can fight hand to hand.

In response to Charlie Schneider's question of corporate involvement in comic books:

In my opinion, the cases can vary. Sometimes the corporation will get involved with certain properties to initiate some kind of attempt at change. Other times, they'll get involved when said properties are going to be featured in big screen flicks, as well as various other reasons too numerous to count here. Sometimes corporated initiated involvement could work with carefull planning, but on the whole can ruin an already in progress creative venture (thinking of when Mark Waid and Ron Garney were doing their great run on Captain America and yanked off for Jeph Loeb and Rob Liefeld's run, after which, Waid and Garney returned).

If the involvement of the corporation can be pulled off, great. But, it seems (to me) more of a hinderance than a blessing more often than not.

The best arguement for the artisits, or as you said underperforming superhero titles, are things like Blade. Here we had a nearly unknown to the general populace character that spawned a trilogy of films, AND a tv series. Hellboy was/is unknown to even most comic fans and getting its second film which will be even bigger than the first. Even Spawn did well as a film and had an HBO series.

I agree with Pete, Cyclops sucks. Hell, Jean Grey wasn't much better, but at least she was hot. Gambit is pretty overrated as well. Actually, as much as I've always enjoyed the X-Men, some of the worst characters are X-Men.

Now as for DC, Wonder Woman is horrible. Her character changes with every new writer, her villains suck, her powers suck, her origin sucks, everything about her just screams suck. I wish they would take her back to her creator's BDSM roots, at least that would make for something.

In before "well that's your opinion" whiny nonsense.

*cough*hulk*cough*

I hate Ben Riley

"Because is punishing people for justice!" Thanks Pete, I don't think I ever laughed that hard with your show guys.