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I went into my little comic book shoppe yesterday to pick up Irredeemable #6 and I walked up to the shelf and saw 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 7.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I did, however, see Incorruptible Vol. 1 on the shelf nearby.

As Irredeemable asked “what if the world’s greatest hero snapped and became the world’s greatest villain”, Incorruptible asks “what if the world’s greatest villain found himself thrust into the position of being the world’s greatest hero?”

For one thing, Incorruptible is a *LOT* funnier. When you’re showing heroes fail to live up to their ideals and their intended natures, you’re seeing people screw up (and, yes, people dying) and the heroes going on to complain about this failure seems… pathetic. When you show a villain fail to be a villain and then go on to complain about it this failure is downright funny (and even gives a chance or two at being uplifting).

And, of course, Survivor Series is tonight.

So… what are you reading and/or watching?

Jaybird

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  1. Still slowly picking at Stephenson’s Reamde. I need to pick up the pace, or I will be still be reading it reading when my kids are in college.

  2. I got Irredeemable TPB #1 and I like it well enough that I’m going to see if I can get a “feed” going where I pick up one a month. Partially because I don’t want the whole story at once and partially because, much like Suicide Squad, I don’t know how long I’ll be with it. Obviously, I haven’t read the other 7 but, when you’re fighting a nigh-unstoppable force, there is only so long that you can stretch the story out before you have to have a final showdown. After a while, there are only so many times that the plan to take down the big bad can fail and the heroes narrowly escape before you get bored of the big bad’s apathy and/or wonder why the heroes don’t come up with better plans. Crisis on Infinite Earths understood this which is why it lasted 12 issues.

    I’ll probably pick up Incorruptable #1 for my December run and see how I feel about that.

  3. Post Survivor Series, I am struck wondering whether we should stop referring to the bearded Spock universe and start talking about the shaved Spock universe.

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