Oh, good point - I forgot about her on there (mainly because with such a great cast she kind-of disappeared into the woodwork compared to, say, Floyd or Boomerbutt or Waller).

That's harsh dude. I'm not into the blood and gore stuff at all...in fact I despise it. I hate going to horror movies for that reason and the same reason I'm not going to see 300. What I meant was that after what Grundy did to Reddy, it was great to see Reddy show his true power that he was capable doing and showing Grundy who the real powerhouse is. Just like JSA 3 when That chick ripped those two people in half that was very disgusting, but was glad to see Hawkman take that b**** down. This is probably why one of my favorite series right now is The Spirit because it doesn't have that unnecssary gore.

Till there is a cross-over with Midnighter and he tears someone a new one.

I was more shocked at the fact something actually happened.

52 was def over the line. However, I was MORE shocked that you can get away with that kind of gore in a DC book. Geoff Johns' writing and his other book JSA continues to be good, but it doesn't need long scenes of such explicit violence.

I mean the Sobek part was 2 pages long. Did we need multiple shots of him chomping down??? What made it more disturbing is that it was a Croc Man. It wasn't a ray gun fight or something fantastical, it was a human being eaten by a croc, which does happen in real life.

And let's not get into the cannibalism part. yeah real creative, his name is Hannibal ... ha ha ha

Can't there be some form of entertainment anymore that doesn't rely on extreme violence to tell a story?

I think that might be a bit of a stretch. Last time I checked there weren't too many talking crocs that tricked their friend into changing from his super-powered form into human form so that he can eat him. That doesn't happen in real life too often. But if you want to take it to the basic level of "animal eating man" then yeah I guess that does happen. But so does a lot of other violent things that happen in comics. Fighting, shooting, assassinations (Cap. America), explosions that cause massive casualties, etc. And I would imagine those things happen a lot more in real life than people being eaten by crocodiles. Honestly it didn't bother me one bit. Neither did JLA. Just didn't seem like a big deal to me personally.

The Spirit is teh roxxors.