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It usually takes me a few issues after I drop something from my pull list to lose the phantom limb feeling whenever I’m picking up my weekly stash, but in the case of 52, I miss it about as much as I miss Mo Vaughn playing for the Mets. I am still enjoying Douglas Wolk’s weekly dissection of the increasingly convoluted storyline, though, and this week’s entry was particularly good, in that same way I enjoy seeing an “0-4; 3 Ks” stat line for Alex Rodriguez.

Wolk breaks down Grant Morrison’s Great Ten, exposing the lazy research that apparently went into conceiving them and spotlighting a great comment from an earlier entry that ripped it apart. The best line:

Is it too much to ask DC to do their homework when writing about other cultures? To talk to the Chinese-American intern in Accounting, who could maybe call her grandpa and ask real quick?

Sha-clack-clack!

At least Devin Grayson’s handling Batwoman, so there’s a slim chance the character won’t end up being as embarassing, assuming of course that Greg Rucka doesn’t screw up her impending 52 debut in a few weeks, which, in context, is arguably a sucker’s bet.

As for the rest of the issue, Wolk’s page-by-page notes made me a little dizzy and confirmed that 52 is really only for the diehard DCU fan. Check out Fossen’s latest 52 on 52 for a screenshot featuring Booster Gold and a couple of chalkboards headlined “Time is Broken” if you don’t believe me.

Something‘s broken all right…