Also, I feel like it has been a long time since Final Crisis 3 and Superman Beyond 3D. Is any of the other Final Crisis stuff worth getting?
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Hello Geoff,
I've just read Grant Morrison's IDW Doctor Who issue. Basically it reprints some of his 1980s work on the UK Doctor Who magazine, a path also trod by contemporaries such as Alan Moore (which will feature in an upcoming Sequart column of mine - plug!)
It's not earth shattering stuff, but certainly interesting in light of the fact it's an early morrison work. It reprints one two-parter and a one-off story. The two-parter, featuring the Colin Baker doctor, deals with an intruder in the Tardis, and its focus on the interior of the Tardis itself is well handled. The one-off, Sylevester McCoy era story, is more characteristic of later Morrison work, in terms of its dealing with an alien intelligence in its narration.
It's worth looking at.
FC: Legion of Three Worlds is pretty fun, if nothing else. But the problem here is that I suspect the other mini-series were probably designed by DC to bridge the gap (and keep interest) between issues 3 and 4. But there was almost a month where no FC comics appeared at all. This is really bad, especially when people were complaining that they didn't get the storyline.
Also, on the Morrison side, I saw that Vertigo is reprinting _Kill Your Boyfriend_.
No Matt Fraction Uncanny X-Men, Geoff? I think he's doing great stuff on it.
I am waiting for the trade on that book for now.
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