an icepick through the keyhole

As you guys probably know, I haven't been buying comics regularly for, oh, coming on to three years now. Not that I don't still keep in touch with what's going on - I buy the odd trade paperback, the odd reprint, and every week or couple of weeks I mosey down to the ol' Comics Mart and scan over the shelf, see what's happening these days with the X-Men, or Spider-Man, or pick up stuff like Infinite Crisis and start going, "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?"

( Rest of rambling comic book recommendations that degenerate into a grumpy old man rant follows. )