LibraryBoy

To be honest, I'd like to see DC just come right out and say they're out of the numbers game and just give us a bunch of mini-series (for the lower-tier characters). Instead of promising some ongoing series for a character like, say, Amethyst, why not simply say "We're doing an eight-issue story. It's gonna be great. If you like it, buy it, and when we trade it we'll throw some extras in so you won't feel gypped for double-dipping. And, if you buy enough of it, we'll do ANOTHER eight-issue story about her!"

This. I want this. The Hellboy formula, as I call it, has worked out really well for Mike Mignola and Dark Horse. The audience gets the characters & stories they want and they can jump off (or on) at any time, stories (mostly) aren't forced in the name of putting stuff out there (i.e., you only put out a series when there's actually a story to tell), the company gets product that's easily collectible in hardcover and/or tpb... everyone wins.

Also? Not the sort of show on which I ever would've expected to hear a Tasha Tudor reference. I oughtta tell my mom about that, she loves Tasha Tudor's books and gardens.

So sayeth Comic Book Resources.

And as someone pointed out on Twitter, that's pretty much it for New 52 books involving Sci-Fi or Fantasy settings for the time being. And though there's still All Star Western, the new solicitation for that indicates a VERY big change for that status quo. SPOILERS at the link, click at your peril - http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2013/05/13/the-edge-group-solicits-august-2013#2

We may need to start a support group for @Torchsong with this Demon Knights news.

For all his strengths, I don't think Gaiman is a particularly good Doctor Who writer. And after feeling disappointed after pretty much every episode this half-season (some have been better than others, but I don't think there's been a one I thought was really great), I'm find I'm tiring of the whole fairy tales and "oh, it's always been about the companions" direction Moffat has been taking the show in since his tenure as showrunner began. I'm about ready for a regeneration. Maybe in the Doctor, definitely in the showrunner.

Oh, and Batman and Robin. Man, that one was a hard pill to swallow. Batman Forever was cheesy with all the neon and the nipples and the cars climbing walls and the Two-Face coin flip cheating, but it was still kind of enjoyable in ways (probably helps that I'm a huge Riddler fan). B&R, though... man, Mr. Freeze didn't need that ice gun, he could've just held Gotham City hostage with that endless barrage of ice puns. Not that that's the only problem with the movie - others are what they did to Batgirl, what they did to Bane, the increased role of Gossip Gertie (a.k.a. Mrs. Bob Kane)... I could go on - but in the end it was the puns that got to me. It's like the Chinese Water Torture of forced-and-ultimately-failing attempts at cleverness.