Scott and Polite Dissent pokes a delightfully sharp stick into the bloated corpse of the overhyped “Hush” arc from BATMAN here and here.
Newsweek is forcing me to draw the unflattering conclusion that its staff is spending the summer indoors, as it devotes many pages to a shameless tounge-bath of SPIDER-MAN 2. It’s a summer blockbuster sequel, for pity’s sake. Suspect news value aside, it’s delightful to imagine the cost-benefits analysis that must have been conducted when they picked this issue’s cover. “Heads, Clinton. Tails, Spidey.”
It’s new comics day. Have you put together your shopping list yet? Is the second SLEEPER trade on it?
I’m fascinated by the prospect of an Indian Spider-Man, which is covered in this article at Newsarama. (And I love the World Book “all about India” paragraph in the article for reasons I can’t quite explain.) I hope copies of this show up in American shops, so I can sample the adventures of Pavitr Prabhakar. I’m serious! It sounds cool.