Left hands are all well and good, but they’re better when replaced with a shotgun or chainsaw.

How this ties into your metaphor, I have no idea.

Shotgun?
Chainsaws?
Bah! Might as well have a effete cyborg hand. You can keep your fancy-pants replacements, if you want to improve on yer left hand it’s HOOKS, hooks are what real men wear They were good enough for pirates and that fellow that escaped from the asylum in those urban legends and that’s good enough for me.
Shotgun and Chainsaws, bah, and you call yourselves rogues.

I have to confess I haven’t been overly sold on Brubaker’s Daredevil, though I know I’m in a tiny minority on that point. I just can’t work out why I should fork out for a Bru-penned noir DD when I pick up the superior Bru-penned noir Criminal.

First off, you never need a reason to bring up shotguns or chainsaws. It’s in the constitution or something. As far as picking up DD I highly recommend it. As I said before I was pretty skeptical about it too, but ended up loving it. As far as it being inferior to Criminal, it may be, but it is stil better than 90 percent of the stuff out there.

How this ties into your metaphor, I have no idea.

I was going to wait for a PB on Agents of Atlas, but I’m a sucker for extras so after reading this review I’ll probably pick it up in HC.

I have to confess I haven’t been overly sold on Brubaker’s Daredevil, though I know I’m in a tiny minority on that point. I just can’t work out why I should fork out for a Bru-penned noir DD when I pick up the superior Bru-penned noir Criminal.

As for Agents of Atlas, that HC is only twenty-five bucks. That’s a steal for all that.

And as far as Bru noir goes, did I miss a rule somewhere that says you can only get one of his two noir books, or that you have to pick between them, or something? I like both, I read both. They’re both good, in different ways. Saying you don’t want Daredevil because you already get Criminal is like saying you don’t need that left hand because you have a right one, thanks.

I have to confess I haven’t been overly sold on Brubaker’s Daredevil, though I know I’m in a tiny minority on that point. I just can’t work out why I should fork out for a Bru-penned noir DD when I pick up the superior Bru-penned noir Criminal.

ASS, on the other hand, is simply the best superhero book on the stands right now and a lot better than most others, to boot.

All New Atom vol1 comes out this week. Any opinions on the first issues of Simone’s book? Is it fun scifi? Is it tied to the rest of DCU or pretty well isolated?

You know, Tim, I really liked the first six (what’s in the trade) issues of the All-New Atom. Part of that is because I’ve always liked the Atom as a character, even as a kid because who doesn’t find be able to shrink cool, and partly because I get a kick out of Gail Simone’s writing.

The book itself is bizarre and fun and has Ryan Choi (the new guy) battling things like giant ants and talking heads and…Dogs. All very cool if you ask me and as for your last question, it doesn’t seem too isolated. There isn’t much of the character interacting with any of the JLA or anyone like that but that’s only because there’s so many other people and places that reside in Ivy Town to introduce. I think the character is going to start moving around in the DCU soon, probably in Countdown when the Search for Ray Palmer starts up.

I’d like, if possible, for someone to sell me on Batman, i never was too much of a fan of the character so i don’t know if I’d enjoy Batman and the Mad Monk or not, even if it is Matt Wagner.

My big question is will ASS convert me to a Superman fan the way Brubaker/Lark made me a Daredevil fan? Is it that good, or only for the already Kent inclined?

Well, I’m not a big Superman fan. Or, rather, I have some nostalgia for the character and some great stories, but overall, I tend to find Superman stuff not to my taste. All-Star Superman consistently and easily makes my top five, so take that for what it’s worth.

Matt Wagner’s Batman and the Mad Monk was excellent. I have a hard time picking what I him best for..his writing or his artwork? Well, why ask that question when you can have both.