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Continuing Superman Month, Lord Jimsicle takes a look at the Superman: The Movie, Superman II, Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut, Superman III, Superman IV: The Quest For Peace and finally, Superman Returns!

Stay tuned for our Man of Steel review and we’ll be announcing a competition where you can win a Superman graphic novel and a few runner up prizes!

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Reviewed this week, in ascending order of awesome:

X-Factor #257

Avengers #13

Kick-Ass 3 #1

Thunderbolts #10

All-New X-Men #12

East of West #3

Green Arrow #21

Astro City #1

Archer & Armstrong #10

Thanos Rising #3

Iron Man #11

Daredevil:  End of Days #8

Locke & Key:  Omega #5

-WHY DON’T I ENJOY KICK-ASS ANYMORE?

This is not a rhetorical question;  I would actually like to know.  I ascertain that it may have something to do with the original series being very grounded, playing up the small moments so that when the big moments happened it felt like it had a massive effect on their world, and Kick-Ass 2 and 3 feeling more like a below-average superhero comic populated by dumb, unlikeable kids.  Regardless, while I somewhat look forward to the movie adaptation I think I’m done with this wing of Millarworld for the foreseeable future.

Reviewed this week, in ascending order of awesome:

X-Men #1

Fury MAX #12

The Wake #1

New Avengers #6

Angel & Faith #22

-INTERNET FAMOUS

A funny thing happened over the weekend when I went to a Chikara show (possibly the LAST Chikara show, but that’s its own conversation):  I was recognized by another human being for the things I’ve done on the internet.  He pulled me aside to tell me he loved what I was doing with my comic reviews, that he’d seen them after watching the Chikara is Vaudeville video I did last year, and that he doesn’t read many comics but he’s recently gotten into Saga.  So a special shoutout to this man for helping me feel like I’m not just throwing these videos into the aether.  It weirded me out but in the best way possible.  Thank you.

This is another way of saying that this was a really light week in comics and I don’t have anything more interesting than that to talk about.  Next week I hope to stop congratulating myself on how awesome I am and actually earn my paycheck*.

*Jesse does not get paid to be on the internet.

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Reviewed this week, in ascending order of awesome:

Grand Gestures #1

Uncanny X-Men #6

All Star Western #20

Fantastic Four #8

Uncanny Avengers #8AU

Powers Bureau #4

Avengers #12

Unwritten #49

Young Avengers #5

Green Lantern #20

Daredevil #26

-A PROPER SENDOFF FOR GREEN LANTERN

I don’t know how they could have wrapped up Green Lantern every better.  Every character got their moment in the sun, but it didn’t feel overpacked or cluttered.  It evoked the feelings I got from the very best Geoff Johns GL stories.  And it gave a proper conclusion for any character I might still care about.  Perhaps it wrapped it up TOO well, as I have little to no interest in jumping in to any of the series with their new creative teams.  I might check out New Guardians just because I want to see what Justin Jordan would do, but Kyle Rayner is one of my least favorite Lanterns and the promo art looks like ass.  The appeal of Red Lanterns for me was in Atrocitus’ story, and that seems to be over in lieu of Guy Gardner getting a red ring for nebulous reasons.  And I don’t know or trust Robert Vendetti in the least, so that kills off the two principal series.  At least there’s always Larfleeze?

Reviewed this week, in ascending order of awesome:

Thunderbolts #9

Baggywrinkles #4

Legend of Luther Strode #5

FF #7

Wonder Woman #20

Batwoman #20

X-Factor #256

Ultimate Spider-Man #23

Fables #129

Fatale #14

Iron Man #10

-SUPPORT INDIE COMICS

I came across Lucy Bellwood entirely by accident when she followed a terrible alternate Twitter account I do, looked at her profile and realized that she was actually a super-talented human being!  I don’t much care about ships but I find her love of them infectious, and will give a shot to anything she does in the future.  She is a delight and Baggywrinkles is a delight.

Reviewed this week, in ascending order of awesome:

Batman #20

Constantine #3

Harbinger #12

Deathstroke #20

Walking Dead #110

Archer & Armstrong #0

Thor:  God of Thunder #8

Avengers #11

Uncanny Avengers #8

-OH MAN, WAS BATMAN REALLY THAT BAD?

It was not!  One of the only good parts of cutting down on the amount of comics I buy every month is that on some weeks I’m only reading good comics.  Batman #20 was one of my least favorite Scott Snyder issues yet, but it was still pretty great…the other eight books I read this week were just that much better.