By: Jason Vaughn

Hello once again to all of you comic book connoisseurs out there in cyberspace. It’s about that time for another random genre selection as we reach our hand into the musty cob-web covered Meltdown Genius Pull box. Here’s an excerpt from the previous mix for anyone who might have missed it (and exactly why did you miss the last one, hmm?) and may not be sure how this works.

“Every iTunes library now contains a playlist called “Genius Mixes.”  It’s a rather intuitive program that cycles through your library and pulls together multiple mixes from the different genre types in your music collection.  So this got me to thinking?  What if you could do the same thing to your comic collection and pull list?  Just *click* and you have a selection of crime dramas, *click* a mix of superhero stories, *click* and there’s a handful of your favorite horror books to lull you into a blubbering nightmare-filled sleep before bed.  So until the major publishers catch on and start doing something similar on their own websites, every so often I’ll be highlighting a random genre pull of current upcoming books and compare them to some back issue favorites.  (By the way, I take full credit for the idea, guys!  You can send the royalty checks to Jason Vaughn courtesy of… oh, who am I kidding.)  This way, you don’t have to go digging around in that closet where you hide all of your comics from your girlfriend.  And guys, don’t act like you don’t know what I’m talking about.” Continue reading »