1. Does it do something new? Something I‘ve never seen before? Is it clear the author put thought into the ideas at play? Natural dialogue and a pretty cover help too.
2. Movies! Justice League comics. I have to control myself because I have a Mr. Toad level collecting mania.
3. Nope.
4. Sarah Messer, e e cummings, Langston Hughes, local luminary Joseph Mill, and my college professor and former NC Poet Laureate Joe Bathanti