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I love it when DC characters mention the abandoned warehouse thing.

I once set out to track the warehouse thing across every show on the CW, and OMG IT WAS SO MUCH WORK. Those DC shows are full. of. warehouses. You'll be unsurprised to hear that ARROW was once King of the Warehouses (my favourite is the one ACROSS FROM CITY HALL) but SUPERGIRL has pulled ahead by a huge margin thanks to the warehouse bar its characters frequent.

Like all the best AUs, THE NAIL is accessible to newer readers but offers lots of fun twists for people who know the source material really well. I've now read enough (and watched enough DC TV) that I got a big kick out of how Davis deploys the characters, and I'm eager to read more about the ones who're relatively new to me.

The second miniseries isn't as enjoyable, alas, but I still recommend this deluxe edition to anyone curious about DC.

Alan Davis on one of his goals with THE NAIL, which imagines a world where Superman wasn't found by the Kents. We don't talk enough about how reading comics is an acquired skill that requires different mental muscles than reading prose. This is why I recommend that people who're new to the medium start with UNDERSTANDING COMICS (tagged below), not with whichever popular title they've heard the most about.

It's too frickin cold to go out, so tonight's just a Monday. I cooked up some steelhead trout and started THE NAIL, which promises to be another great DC AU. #readinthenewyear