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Funny Books are Starting to be Fun Again

I've been having a great time the last few months reading World's Finest and The Brave and the Bold.  World's Finest is exactly what you might expect it to be if you read comics back in the '80s. It's got Batman and Superman together in stories that include a somewhtat random selection of other DC characcers each month. (As of this writing, the cast includes both the JLA and the JSA!) The stories are between 1 and 3 issuees long and are light-hearted (enough) and fun! What do I mean by fun? Next month, there will be a story featuring Superdong, Supercat, and Ace the Bathound! Oh! And also Jimmy Olsen and maybe Batgirl. Meanwhile, The Brave and the Bold has turned into a monthly anthology. It has about four stories a month. Some of them are sequential, some are one-shots, and there's even the occasional flash fiction like the adorable ManBat story by G. Willow Wilson. Again, the sotries are fun, not "important." Think Shazam, (Billy actulaly), meets Gre...