The Authority: Prime #1: Ugly art, dull story. How the Authority (and Stormwatch) have fallen.
Hellblazer #237: The plot nearly squeezes out the title character, who comes across not all that well.
Death of the New Gods #1 of 8: Why is Jim Starlin drawing people with such oddly long necks. And why the hell did they kill my favorite New God?
Justice League of America #14: Image-like art, Image-like big battles. Whatever.
The Sword #1: Okay, I begin to see why the Luna Bros. have such a good rep. New series, good stuff.
The Mighty Avengers #9: Pretty Cho, but Bendis’ story will work better in a trade paperback.
The Brave and the Bold #7: George Perez manages to give us a busty PG who doesn’t look like a freak. And WW and Supes look pretty good, too.
Powers #26: Good as usual, but still too small a chunk of too busy a tale.
Action #857: If there is a God, this will be the last Bizarro story for, oh, a decade or two. ‘Nuff said.
Teen Titans #52: A nice, if busy plot, and attractive art. A bit too much sound and fury.
Black Panther #31: More FF-era action (new and old),with the annoying Golden Frogs. Still, not bad.
Thunderbolts #117: The grim, gritty, nasty, human bits of the Initiative/Civil War. Good Warren Ellis stuff.
She-Hulk #22: Peter David takes over. A decent first ish of an intentionally different era.
Countdown #27: Still interested, but the independent bits aren’t nearly as good or interesting as 52.
X-Men #204: How could Mike Carey be so good on Lucifer and so bad on this? On the other hand, I don’t think anyone can do much with the X-Men any more …
Supeman #669: The “third Kryptonian” arc reveals its titular character. Not bad, aside from further diluting the uniqueness of Superman.
Powers is only up to #26 under the Icon banner? No wonder it’s taking so long for the trades to come out!
I’ve just finished Cosmic, which puts me at #18.
Every time I finish one of the trades, I want to go back and start over from the beginning.
Certainly a worthwhile endeavor. I should probably do the same — though I remain irked that Bendis started with a keen idea (the initial premise — two normal cops on the Powers squad, one of whom is a former Power) and tweaked it completely around for reasons that seem less to do with some sort of point than because he got bored with the status quo. It’s all done well, but inconsistently.