This week's books were all sorta lame. The weeks I skipped writing about were a mix of cool and lame.

Pull List:

Basically, none of them did much for me except Secret Six. It was guest written by John Ostrander and focused on Deadshot and his uncontrollable murderousness. Secret Six continues to be one of my favorite books and has yet to disappoint, even with a guest writer.

Not relevant to this week, but Superman Secret Origins also kicks ass.

I also picked up Batman Unseen (Doug Moench and Kelley Jones) and Batman: The Widening Gyre (Kevin Smith, Walter Flanagan and Art Thibert). Batman Unseen was okay. Kelley Jones' artwork bugs the shit out of me. I hate the way he draws the Batcave and its equipment. I fucking hate the random, baffling poses he puts Batman in during dialog scenes. It's as if he's personified Shatner's fucked up vocal acting via Batman. It makes me stabby.

Ok. Batman: The Widening Gyre may be the biggest piece of shit I've ever purchased. Why did I buy another fucking issue? I swore I wouldn't but then I did. Kill me now please. The first four pages were so fucking bad that I stopped reading it and actually worked on my goddamn dissertation instead of finishing it. It took hours before I could force myself through the rest of it.

This is perhaps one of the worst pages of Batman dialog I've ever read. (Warning: Large image file).

"Business, Robin. Mind it."? Suddenly Batman is a 12-year-old girl? Is he going to text his BFF, Jill, next?

The Robin art sucks too.

And you know what really sucks? I'll probably buy the last three because I hate having missing issues. God damn it so much. I hope you're fucking happy, DC.

Also, these rule: