I liked Winick's run. Brick, the development of Mia, increase of Ollie's arsenal, City Walls, and the fight with Deathstroke I'd say are the highlights.
Yup, definitely miss Montoya. I miss Tim's previous Red Robin book, Stephanie's was also pretty good (though that arc with the college kids with powered suits was kind of dumb). It would be nice to have a Static series that wasn't terrible, at least give him a team-up arc in a Cyborg book (if that ever happens).
I've always held out hope they might throw us a bone and have Old Static in Justice League Beyond but he has only gotten a cameo in one panel (Digital Chapter 7). The possible legal issues probably aren't helping. I would like to see a book where Static and Blue Beetle team up though Threshold continuity might make that tricky. I could see Blue having Gear-like interactions with Virgil and if they increased the yellow in Static's costume they could be the new Blue and Gold.
If you can, use Comixology or Marvel apps instead of the websites. The Comixology app is downloading a bunch of Marvel NOW! for me while the website won't even let me log in.
I get why they want to add an auditory component to reading comics but that demo just sounded like low-effort techno. I usually just listen to my library on shuffle which I can still keep doing. It's not for me but does anyone find Gamma interesting?
It's been good so far, better than I expected. I actually do like the name change to Laurel it makes more sense for someone her age. I know I can't think of anyone my age (high-school) named Dinah. Besides, they could have a joke about how Laurel is her middle name at some point and lay all the complaints to rest by addressing it.
I've always been a fan of the Green Arrow character, probably because of JLU and Smallville, and I'm glad he's getting mainstream attention. That attention is probably why Lemire is defribillating the ongoing in February, can't wait to have a quality Green Arrow book to look forward to each month again.
I read digitally mostly but I still get two comics in print so that I'm not abandoning my local comic shop. When I leave for college in a 1.5 years I'll probably go all digital though. I buy them through my LCS' Comixology shop as well so that they get a cut of what I'm buying too. The PC reader for Comixology has to buffer them every time and since I have really slow internet I prinstcreen them to my hard drive so I can read them in Comic Rack without having to wait. Plus I like it better for reading.
I wrote a blog when I transitioned to Digital back in January: http://www.comicvine.com/myvine/webling/ive-made-the-transition-to-digital-comics-by-comixology/87-77905/
On the subject of an LCS getting the cut of a digital comic book sale, you have to do it on a Flash-enabled device because it is a web-app. Still it doesn't take much effort and some stores could really use that referral money so I encourage everyone to find a store to support and buy through. If there isn't one near you, Corey(from the podcast)'s is going to get a digital store soon.
I liked the adaptation of Helena and the way they are using her to explore the vigilante-viglante relationship dynamic for Ollie since Merlyn is hooking up with Laurel. Also I was glad to see that Merlyn is finally getting some tragedy so that he can begin his transformation into a villain by season two or three. I like that they made John Barrowman's character into Merlyn's father, I hope that he'll be pretty much like Lionel Luthor from Smallville as that was always a favorite character of mine from that show. And that Thea and her mother aren't completely clueless to Oliver's escapades.
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I actually had the opposite experience with the kiss because they started the make-out rock music a second too early.
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