Feels Like I've Been Here BeforeerofeB ereH neeB ev'I ekiL sleeF*

Oh well, it had to happen eventually. I am now officially pissed off with Comics. Been buying an average of 5 titles every week and every week some of my pre-orders are missing; leading to me having to buy more the following Thursday(not Wednesday, like the yanks). The reasons for my annoyance go well beyond that though, starting with the general lack of cohesion  in DC's latest inter-title epic, "Brightest Day". Important things are happening to some of the characters, that much is certain. What's not so clear is which title they are happening in. The Atom turned into a wee-me pillar of salt months ago and now he's back without any explanation(in any of the books I have bought)and Magog has appeared in two separate titles this week that seem to totally contradict one another, and although this is common in comics, it fucks me off. Also, there was no 'Return of Bruce Wayne #5', the latest instalment in Glasgow comics deity Grant Morrison's  Batman mega-epic; which sees our titular hero adrift in time via the evil machinations of Jack Kirby's Darth Vader Prototype, Darkseid, whose aim is to turn bats' effort to return into the ultimate weapon against humanity somehow, I think. I don't know, there's that many fiendish plots and ultimate weapons and post-modern complicated but compellingly told threats in comics now, and always. To me, its as if the writers are the evil genius villains but instead of striving for world domination or the hot babes or seventeen million, billion, trillion, gazillion dollar extortion rackets, what they set their minds to is fucking up each others stories! Of course, the corporate shake up/massacre/catfight at DC could be the more obvious mitigating factor in my huff with my beloved comics; with Wildstorm this week confirming rumours of its demise to be bang on the money and the rumour mill turning its attention to whether or not DC will indeed go west, leaving its home town to the rivals who claimed it in their pages as the stomping ground of their 4 colour heroes decades ago anyway. For some reason I always preferred Gotham, Metropolis, Coast, Star and whatever cities as the setting for superhero stories. Setting them in New York or LA seems to underline how impossible they truly are, and how quickly they would get a "cap in their ass" off the page. Modern urban fantasy is the key phrase. Anyway, on that note and having cheered myself up a little I'll take my leave.