This issue, easily the best in their spectacular run, is striking because – and this is a word I don’t often apply to comic books – it is so real. Their run on Batgirl, while praised widely, should be praised universally. They are absolutely the best team working in comics today. The best comic I read last week was Batgirl #45.īrenden Fletcher, Cameron Stewart and Babs Tarr have it ALL going on. I read 8 comics last week: Batgirl #45, Cyborg #4, Superman #45, Robin: Son of Batman #5, We Are Robin #5, Grayson #13, Chewbacca #2 and Batman and Robin Eternal #4.

This is my weekly reaction to the comics I read. He called comic books “sequential art,” perhaps because he became embarrassed by his profession when he had to admit what he did for a living. So influential was he that the industry awards (think the Oscars or the Emmys or the Grammys) are named The Eisner Awards. Comic book legend Will Eisner (creator of The Spirit) is one of the most influential men even to put pencil to drawing board in the pursuit of making comics. Rare is the week that I don’t read them all between Wednesdays and some weeks I have, well… let’s just say more comic books in my digital downloads than a grown man should. I subscribe and now, rather than go to the comic store to be handed the books pulled for my “Hold Slot,” I click a button on my iPad and watch them download.

Though I read my comics in a different medium than I used to, I still treat each Wednesday (comic book delivery day to specialty shops around the country) as different from the other days of the week. I feel a bit robbed of the tactile sensations of the hobby – of the turn of the page, the sneaking look to the panel a page over, the bagging and shorting and stacking and filing. I might say “proud” if I hadn’t, over a year ago, switched to reading digital as opposed to print comics. I am a comic book collector and happy to be one.

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Batgirl #45 by Cameron Stewart