I am thankful for the buttload of great comics that came out the day before Thanksgiving. Seriously, there wasn't a weak one in my stack.

For the last couple of weeks, I have been Batman-obsessed. I've started some other books, but then I stop, go look through my piles for the pilgrim issue of The Return of Bruce Wayne or pull out my Batman RIP trade. It's all I want going into my brain right now. Grant Morrison just has this hold over me that makes everything else look like pointless fluff. And the times I actually have strayed from the bat-books, I've only gone to other DC books. What is going on? I thought Marvel owned the bigger chunk of my soul, but lately I don't give a fuck what the Avengers are up to. The X-Men seem like strangers. My sexual spandex fantasies are now saved for the newly jacketless Wonder Woman and that hot, young alien Supergirl.

Besides being a day late last week (thanks America!), new comic book day was also known as X-Men Day. So in honor of this, I will spend most of my space here talking about Batman. Why? Motherfucking vampires, that's why. Way to jump on the bandwagon, Marvel. X-Men vs. Vampires is your follow-up to Second Coming, what I consider to be one of the greatest X-Crossovers in decades? WTX-F?

Remember way the fuck back when we mentioned Axel Braun's Batman spoof? It was like, a year or two ago, I think. I'm not so good with remembering when certain stuff happened (either due to being dropped on my head during infancy or just from being a dumb-ass in general), but it seems like it was fuckin' forever ago. In fact, just last week, I was remarking to BUCKTON and Kellboy while we walked to our favorite latte shop that I wondered what was up with that shit, 'cause I got mad excited when they announced it, and then I never heard nothin' else about it. What gives? See, as I've often said, I'm sick to fuckin' death of all this spoof business in the porno industry. The joke's over. I fucking get it, okay? Time to move on. But this Batman XXX that Axel Braun was apparently planning? This was something I was actually fucking excited about.

But it seemed like it was never gonna fucking happen, you know?