In which Jonathan returns to comics blogging after an inauspicious beginning

It's a funny thing. After my decision to enter the world of comic book blogging, I somehow failed to post or even visit a comic book shop for around eight months. Last week, I returned to the fray, realizing that I must, by now, be way behind in the goings-on of my favorite mythical worlds. Here are some things I discovered:

• My LCS carries the current Uncle Scrooge series!
• Pretty much nothing has changed since I last left the Justice League of America.
• Apparently, the pro-registration side won.
• The All-New Atom is still the most interesting book I've read from DC in quite a while.

Now, of these things, the only one that really, truly grabs my attention in one way or the other is the availability of Uncle Scrooge at a location closer than seventy miles from my house. I have read Uncle Scrooge longer than any other comic, and if I could only read one title for the rest of my life, that would be it. Uncle Scrooge stories, at least those from the best writers of the Disney Ducks, are at the same time funny, full of adventure, populated with interesting characters, and set in a truly cohesive fictional universe with a well-developed mythos. However, they have avoided the twin perils of decompression and obsessive continuity. They are, in short, everything that comics stories once were and could again become.

Of the non-happenings in the JLA, I have little to say, other than that Brad Meltzer could learn a lot from the work of Carl Barks and Don Rosa.

For the other two items: suffice it to say that I will continue to buy The All-New Atom and anything else Gail Simone writes for DC, but I am unlikely to start reading any new Marvel comics any time soon.

In which Jonathan welcomes all and sundry

Welcome, readers! Thank you for joining me here to discuss a topic that has been near and dear to my heart since the earliest days of my own literacy: COMIC BOOKS! Like many of you, I have been reading comics since I was very young, and I never stopped. Comic books, for all of their faults, have always appealed to me in ways that other media have not. It's difficult to articulate, other than to say that comics are just, well, fun. In this blog, I hope to share at least a part of what I like about comic books with you, my readers.