Do you mean Jeff Parker is Jeff Parker or Peter Parker is Peter Parker? Unless…

Surely you aren’t insinuating that Peter Parker is Jeff Parker‽

Glad to hear it. And I completely agree on the startingness of #1′s. I had actually forgotten there was a #0, and I’m sure I’m not the only one.

Thanks for the response!

Well, that and I have very little use for Reed unless he’s in his lab creating a plot device and growing some stubble in the process, so having a whole gaggle of him appeals to me a lot less than Black Susan and Chamberlain Grimm. That said, Hickman’s FF (like pretty much everything he does) is still awesome and worth buying.

So, I guess my question is, was that representative of Larsen’s usual work, or should I give it another chance?

It didn’t ship to my store this week, as apparently there was an error with Diamond. Hopefully we’ll get ‘em next time!

What we were trying to do with the series was give a glimpse of what an un-edited story might look like. It’s not nearly as neat and tidy and, of course, Watson himself doesn’t even have all the facts. The only man who ever knows ALL the details is Holmes himself.

Thanks for coming by, John! To be honest, I hadn’t really thought about your story being a “less tidy” version of events that would be cleaned up for publication by Watson; my reading of the orignals tends to be pretty literal to the text, and you make a good point about whether or not Watson’s a 100% reliable narrator. He did get Holmes’s death wrong in “The Final Problem,” after all. In either case, it’s like I said: “The Trial of Sherlock Holmes” was a very entertaining read, and I appreciate the clarification!

Nothing on your thoughts of the contents of Nick Fury’s to-do list?

Oh man, I thought it was great. It was also interesting to see Ed McGuinness draw a story that–while it still had Nick Fury and robots and super-villains and all that jazz–was less rooted in traditional super-heroics than you usually get from him. The grittier coloring on the story really made it look different from what he usually does, and the effect was very nice.

Hey, Chris — I hope you will read this not as nerd-style picky pedantry, but instead as constructive criticism intended to make the awesome awesomer:

It’s nice to have hopes, isn’t it?

I’ve read a few reviews that said the post-Frank Quitely issues of B&R haven’t been as good, not only because of the new art but because Morrison’s writing hasn’t been as strong.

I think Morrison’s writing has been just fine. It does seem a little less complex for this arc, but that could be a function of G-Mo writing for a different artist than Quitely, whose skills allow him to handle a different style of action, which–and I don’t think I’m shocking anyone here when I say this–is as task that Tan might not be up to.

How was The Incredibles?

Highly enjoyable. Landry Walker, of Supergirl’s Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade fame, is cowriting with Mark Waid, and there’s a lot of fun stuff going on there. I do think, however, that it’s a bad move to have a #1 issue that so directly follows a setup that they established in #0. Even though they’re sequential and meant to be read, anything with “#1″ on the cover should start something rather than continuing it.

Not a fan of Batman and Robin this week huh?

I liked it a lot, actually. The Flamingo looks like he might just be the sensational character find of 2009.

Just because I don’t review something doesn’t mean that I don’t like it. In fact, if there’s a Morrison issue of a Batman title that I don’t like, that’s probably unusual enough that I’ll want to mention it.