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Heh. I'm starting to feel like we should take this geekery to email like we used to back in the good ol' days. But nobody seems to care that we've hijacked the thread, so...

Speaking of Kurt Busiek, did you check out his run on the new Conan book by Dark Horse? Fantastic stuff...hell, it's still been really good since he left. I hear that it's staying very close to the source material, but having never read any Howard, I can't say for sure.

A big event by Busiek could be cool, but I for one am getting tired of these big events again. Things are starting to feel kind of like they did in the early 90s, right before everybody got sick of the same old empty gimmicks and dropped out of the game. The industry is walking a bit of a tightrope right now, I think, and too many more HUGE events that demand that the reader read shitloads of tie-ins to understand what's going on and there's going to be some serious fallout.

I've really been enjoying Dini's run on Detective and I'm glad to see that it seems he's finally breaking out of the "one-shot" story mold...because let's face it, how much tension can a story have when you KNOW it's going to be resolved in 22 pages, no matter how dire things may seem on page 18?

I heard about that Batman Confidential story, but according to the review I read on IGN, this newbie comic writer kind of completely sweeps away what Alan Moore did in the Killing Joke. Is that true? It seems kind of like an overly ballsy/shitty thing for a new writer to do--stepping on Alan Moore's toes. I mean, you could argue whether or not the shit in the Killing Joke is canon truth or just another of the Joker's delusions/lies, but still, hearing what Confidential did kind of turned me off from checking it out. If you recommend it though, I may take a look.