I'm becoming very much disenfranchised with Midtown Comics. I signed on to their subscription program because there aren't any quality comic book stores in my area of Virginia, but Midtown Comics has been disappointing me with just about every obstacle that pops up.

This time, I ordered the trade paperback for War of Kings: Road to War of Kings, and unlike the last time I ordered separate comics and payed for two shipping ...

Lots of books to go over this week, and quite a few rants too. As a whole, I'd have to say that it was a good week for the comic books that I read, being pretty much anchored by the excellent Batman and Robin #4, featuring the Red Hood. More on that later though.

• Action Comics #881:I long for the days that Geoff Johns was writing solid Superman stories in Action Comics. I ...