What monthly issues are you able to read on a monthly basis?

I think Y reads like this - I haven't picked up an issue in nearly 4 months (sniff), but I never had any trouble going from month-to-month, picking up each issue & getting right into it.

Of course, good ol' Marvel tries to sidestep this issue by including recaps in their books, which I thought was a good idea until I realized way too many Marvel books suffer from decompressed story telling, making the recap as redundant & necessary as a _Garfield: The Movie_ book adaptation. I never read the recaps, anyway (because of my spring-loaded memory) (ha), though I appreciate folks, like Mr. Bendis, who pace stories to allow for actual recap space WITHIN the book, instead of just slapping the recap on Pg. 1.

As far as the "wait for the arc" books, I ended up doing that w/ a handful of Vertigo titles (Lucifer, Hellblazer, The Losers) & Queen & Country - issue by issue, they were enjoyable to a degree, but I had a helluva time keeping track of some characters (esp. w/ Lucifer) (it's a personal problem) - reading the entire arc in one sitting was more my speed in these instances.

Hmmm, I pretty much read everything month to month, and only rarely do I go back to refresh my memory. Recently I can remember doing this in Azzarello's Batman arc because who all the characters were in the convoluted murder case (some of whom never showed up on panel), in The Filth because Grant introduced so many possible plot threads (some of which were resolved and some that really weren't), and in New X-Men after the big Magneto reveal to see if it all made sense.

You guys are elephants!

definately nothing from image, takes 6 months for each issue!!

On of the reasons I love Grant Morrison is that he writes great monthly issues - he breaks a story down beautifully, and gives you great endings for each issue, not just a chapter break for the TPB. His JLA was the first time in many years where I'd had that 'dying for the next issue to get here NOW' feeling, and his X-Men worked the same way.

BTW, What happened to lettercols in monthly comics?

(x-post) Yeah, the last comic I had that feeling on was GM's Doom Patrol, 'specially the last story arc.

Superman/Batman, I wasn't going to buy it. I don't really like Michael Turner's art. But I did buy it, possibly only because it was the last copy at the very mediocre comic store downtown, and I didn't have time this weekend to go to the good comic shop out in the nearly 'burbs. I would have also picked up the now 2-week-old issue of Green Arrow. Phil Hester's art (under Ande Parks's inks) is really great. The writing (currently by Judd Winnick) is always at least interesting on GA, but the art is terrific.