How many more months are we going to have "The New 52!" proudly stamped across the top of each cover? Not really judging, just curious. Now that we have word of some original New 52 titles being cancelled, it sort of busts up the assumed magic of 52 books, right? Now it's just back to business as usual of publishing comics, without the mythical number.

So where am I on my personal New 52 journey? As predicted, the Lantern books are my core. I like how Sinestro has been turned from a cliche Silver Age embarrassment into a complicated and entertaining asshole. Seriously, when I started reading GL books, back in the Hal-has-gray-hair and Kyle Rayner years, Sinestro was almost completely ignored. Written off as one of the franchise's dopier elements, best forgotten. Now he is routinely one of the best characters in the book. I'm intrigued by the Third Army thing, I love the evolved Red Lanterns (an actual team of characters instead of just grunting psychopaths)... although I'm tired of the Guardians Gone Bad thing, yet again. It's easy to see why DC dumped the Guardians for so many years, because their role seems ever doomed to be the cause of everything bad that ever happens.

In the Justice League books, I do like the new League origin. But I wish I wish I wish they had run through this origin in a weekly series concurrent with the New 52 launch, rather than dragging this "five years ago" flashback out over all these months. The nest of the DCU is six months in, and we still have little reference for where the Justice League is in the contemporary setting. Both Justice League Dark and Justice League International have mentioned the core League in passing, but it still seems like a big black hole in the DCU right now. None of the member books bring it up (at least, there's no mention of the League in Aquaman, Flash, Green Lantern, Action, or any of the Batman books.) It's just weird.

Note: the attached JL panel is lousy. For Jim Lee, that's a pretty lame bit of pin up work.

I'm slowly stepping backward away from the Bat books. The end of the first story arc means I can safely stop getting them. So I've already dropped Nightwing, and the other four Batman titles are soon to follow. Nothing personal, really. I just need to keep my list flexible. There's this Earth-2 stuff coming up and I need room to check that out.

I also stopped Teen Titans, which is probably a good thing, since they're about to launch a third Teen Titans family book and I'm just not that into it. The art on Teen Titans was pretty terrible as well. Very '90s.

Speaking of bad art killing books, Mr. Terrific was cancelled (I think it will last through issue 8 or so?) I really hope he lands somewhere cool, and not just slumming in one of the DCnU's many super-secret acronym organizations, like when they dumped him in Checkmate. Does the new Justice League have a rotating roster? Who the hell knows.

I'm getting Swamp Thing, but it's more of a prank I'm pulling on myself, to see how many issues I'll buy until Swamp Thing actually puts in an appearance. So far, I'm up to around $20. No Swamp Thing in sight.

So I'm getting back to my normal equilibrium. Probably not buying more books in the New 52 wake, but not buying fewer books. And definitely enjoying the discovery of what's different, what's new, and what's coming next.

I do wish DC would stop being stupid in those awful DC Nation All Access Pass text pieces. Last week's synergy-centric blurb has Ian Sattler raving about how he was stopping typing right now to go download Arkham City Lockdown for iOS. Jesus. Stop writing like marketdroids and talk to us like actual human beings. I can't stand reading more mindless jabber about how EXCITED the editorial staff is about the BIG CHANGES and INTENSE ACTION, and how INCREDIBLY COOL outside media project X is going to be. I especially hate when they start teasing BOY I'VE SEEN SOME PAGES FROM UPCOMING BOOK X AND WOW ARE YOU GUYS GOING TO LOVE IT BUT I CAN'T SPOIL IT AND WOW AGAIN. Grow up.

There's a Rock Band Facebook app that lets you vote for what artists you'd like to see be added to the game (Vote TMBG! They're consistently in the top 50!), but it also can round up all of your scores and rankings. Here's my top guitar accomplishments...

Guitar is what I play the most, although I never play Expert, so there's no doubt that high rank for "Don't Stand So Close To Me" is from when Mike was over. Although I can't say why in the hell we would have done a Police song, as they are completely horrible. It is interesting to me that absolutely no song on that list is anything close to what I would consider a favorite. Vocals are a little more personal...

All those Billy Joel songs? Now those are me. Comes from listening to BJ's Greatest Hits on repeat for most of my adolescence. Or maybe we have similarly shaped throats; I'm not a doctor.

"Misery," "This Love," "Still Alive," "Take on Me," and "Eye of the Tiger"... that's Rhonda's scores.

My absolute best rank is from drums on "Imagine," where I am currently 184 out of 67,778. Fascinating.

Check out the above video of guests trying out Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom. I've been following this one, because I love the Kim Possible game over at World Showcase in Epcot. These early vids, however, are not very inspiring.

I'm chalking this up as a test run, and maybe the full experience is not yet online. But as the video shows, there's no game here.

What happens is: you get a free set of cards to start, a key card and some spell cards. Beginning with an animated lesson from "Sword in the Stone"'s Merlin (holy crap! they remembered Sword in the Stone!) at the Main Street fire hall, you're sent off to find a specific Sorcerers location in one of the MK lands. To people not playing the game, the locations look like normal Disney theming. But if you wave the key card in front of the not-quite-hidden keyhole activator, you trigger another animated sequence... perhaps featuring a Disney villain working with "Emperor's New Groove"'s Yzma (holy crap! they remembered Emperor's New Groove!) to take over the Magic Kingdom. NOT ON MY WATCH, you say, and you wave a spell card in the air to attack the villain. And then you are told to find another sort-of-hidden keyhole elsewhere in the Park.

Soooo... no matter what spell card you use, you defeat the villain? What's the risk? Can you lose? Do you need certain spell types to defeat certain enemies, requiring you to either trade or borrow cards from other guests (or, duh, buy more cards.)

Kim Possible works because the mission locations are mostly obscured to the general public. The secret effects are triggered by your KP toy cell phone, making it a genuine scavenger hunt. Plus, it covers an area that is, let's face it, otherwise deathly boring for kids. And as nice as the Sorcerers animated segments are (yeah, it is cool to see a wanted poster in Frontierland magically turn into a portal to communicate with Pocahontas!), the physical audioanimatronics of Kim Possible strike me as more impressive.

This look at the cards says the game is set to "easy" and eventually will scale up so the cards' individual powers actually affect the battle. Which raises the question again of just how this game will work. Is it possible to not have enough cards to win the hardest version of the game?

It looks likely to me that the cards have been designed so that there's a game to play with them once your vacation is over. IE, you get five cards for free, but if you buy a pack of additional cards they come with rules for a regular card game to play later. The card stats seem to indicate a basic numerical attacking and blocking game, maybe like a super Disneyfied version of War.

But I know, I'm judging this based on sparse YouTube videos and a not-officially-launched version of the attraction. Maybe there's more to it, or maybe that's all this is... an excuse for kids to collect/buy cards and run around the Magic Kingdom.