Wow.

Wonder Woman was freakin' amazing.

I mean, I've been thinking about how I would produce a Wonder Woman movie. I mean, Batman in detective noir. Superman is sci-fi. Wonder Woman is total, epic, mythology. Wonder Woman fights GODS. Wonder Woman's mission is to end WAR. For like, ever. And the best writer will make us believe, that yes, she will do that someday.

What they need to make a good movie is a writer who will screw the cheesecake and really focus on that. Don't waste too much time on her origin. Write from character, but on an epic scale.

Gail Simone should write a Wonder Woman movie. Because she totally gets that aspect of the character.

Because apparently Wonder Woman's new mission is to kill the devil. And Gail makes me believe that this means...the devil is screwed.

There were many amazing things in this issue. My favorite had to be the scene with the wolves. It was so sad, and it showcase Wondy's compassion. I nearly teared up when she put her hand on it's forehead and it calmed down and we heard it's inner thoughts of PAINPAINPAIN.

We also get an awesome costume, a promise of a forthcoming explanation of why the Avatar of Truth is working a job based on deception, a Beowulf team up, Etta Candy being badass and funny, and a reference to when Diana worked at Taco Whiz. What more could youwant?

The art was great, but Etta Candy was too freakin' THIN. Give the woman some meat, dammit. And one shot had Diana Wundie's not completely covering her ass. But it was totally non-sexualized and beautiful otherwise.

5/5

Huntress Year One

This was amazing and the are was gorgeous and dark, which totally fit Helena. The writing was dark and really fit, too. I'm very glad we have another female writer breaking into the biz, and one that so far, seems to be excellent and *gasp* a feminist! In her interview she said she expressly told the artist  "no sexay poses for no reason pleez" and this book had a very feminist undertone. I especially liked the scene where they were discussing the difference between actress and actor, and she says to her surrogate brother "A heroine is someone who gets saved by the hero....I don't want to be heroine. I want to be a hero, like you." And then when she saves Salvatore from the boor (with her crossbow and knife!) he says "Helena, you're the best hunter I've ever seen." And she says sarcastically "That's Huntress, Sal." and he says "Huntress, you're my hero."

Awww. Best origin for superhero name ever!

5/5

Booster Gold #10

JLI reunion! Admittedly, this seems to be going more and more towards "Ted must die for the timeline" which is SO boring, and it wasn't as good as it could've been, but for the moment, it's really fun. Dr. Light totally killed Max and nobody got on HER about morals this time, though. Why? Because MAX MURDERED LOIS FOR REALS! But it was still badass.

4/5

Gotham Underground #8

You know, if I had stopped expecting ANYthing from this series, I would be upset that despite the fact the SOLICIT said "Featuring the Spoiler!", the preview blurb in last ish said "Spoiler spoils Penguins plans!" and the COVER had her on it, she wasn't in it. At ALL.

But I don't care, so I'm just waiting for Robin (less than one week away!)

This was boring otherwise. Basically Penguin got owned and Batman beat up Vigilante. That's all that happened, I'm not kidding.

1/5

So, pretty awesome comics.

...Did I mention less than one week until Robin #174?

Comix this week:

Titans #1:

This issue is made of so much fail. From the art to the writing. I entered it with an open mind, but. So much fail

Nightwing fights random people. *Yawn*

Obligatory "Kory gets naked" scans. *Yawn* Plus that creepy little kid who rearranged her while sleeping gets to see her. As if he already hasn't. Then a monster attacks.

Raven acts like a jerk to her fellow classmates. I feel the pain of being in high school but. This is not comics Raven. This is not even Animated Raven, who is awesome. This is a really, really boring version of animated Raven who is not creative in her insults at all. Comics Raven, even Geoff John's version, of course does not even insult people. She is quiet and thoughtful and compassionate. And geez, even I'm not a big enough bitch to give people a hard time for asking to borrow my notes and having the misfortune to be preppy high school girls. No, Raven is now a wanna-be goth teeny bopper, wanna be animated Raven without the charm. Then a monster attacks.

Red Arrow has a conversation with Lian about not blaming her problems on her stuffed animals, which is actually kind of sweet. Then a monster attacks. DID NOT SEE THAT COMING.

Gar complains and does not even have the decency to be funny about it. He randomly has sideburns that look horrible. Then a monster attacks. The suprises never stop.

Donna concentrates on trying to keep her boobs from falling out of her costume and has some inane conversation with Kyle at the same time. I have no idea at what point of Countdown this is supposed to be, and do not care. Of course, a monster attacks.

Flash is in the shower and we do not even get to see his butt, because Churchill only exploits FEMALE characters. Not that I wanted to see his butt, since it would inevitably be drawn badly, just saying. Gunk attacks him.

Teen Titans get attacked by a monster. Ravager is in character, I will say that.

Nightwing randomly kills someone when Batman shows up to save him. Granted, they had eyeballs full of maggots, but they COULD be alive. CHECK first.

Power Boy is dead, yay. Everyone else is not, yay. Vic is damaged of course. He has no legs, which partially explains the horrible cover where he's replaced them with...something...except, WHY COULD HE NOT GET NEW LEGS???

We did not even get to see the Titans fight their generic monsters! Raven says it's Trigon! I mean, who else could it be! Oh, a rehash of an old villian! Another ressurection! How riveting!

1/5. I will not be picking up the next one. I tried. It sucked. Too bad, because I love the characters.

Wonder Woman

I must recover from the badness. Oh, perfect. Because this is flippin' awesome as usual. Diana is so DIANA. She's owns the Green Lantern, but then extends her hand to him. Greif stricken, he punches her a lot, but she doesn't even move. She keeps her hand extended. Apparently Green Lantern is a victim of Worlds-in-Refrigerators, hence his hatred of Khund. But Diana is badass, so she convinces him to help her. Meanwhile, Nemesis thinks about how he doesn't deserve Diana. Yay! At least he knows that. His inner monlogue shows him to be very smart, so I'm wondering what the explanation for him acting like an idiot will be. His thoughts intrigue me, and I'm interested to see where this goes.

Etta saves the Khunds from the Ichor by talking to them, because she's Etta flippin' Candy.  Khund Girl, Kho, is awesome. Not only does she have a "Swamp Thing Say Relax" T-shirt, but in the most amusing last page ever she becomes the Khund's Green Lantern, doing her own version of the "Green Lantern's Light" chant, not knowing what "darkness" and "evil" are, per se. "Hey, it rhymes right?" Complete win.

5/5

Booster Gold

Hmm, pretty average issue. Pantha's origin is revealed, which is cool. There is banter. Ted gets shot in the shoulder. And the last page promises JLI of course, which will be cool.

4/5

Raven #2 (came out last week, but just got it today): I'm surprised by how much I'm enjoying this. I don't actually mind the art, it fits the books "surreal mindtrip" feel. And I enjoy Marv's Raven, and the high school antics.

4/5

Supergirl #28 (came out last week, but just got it today)

Once again, surprised how much I enjoyed this. The dialogue was good. Some spots were patchy. Wonder Woman wouldn't punch Kara, as much as we all might like to. WHY can't the purple ray cure cancer? And if we went by the "death is natural" philosophy, what's the point of any new medicine? But I'm intrigued with where this is going. Playing Kara as naive is surprisingly working. And the girl still needs a supporting cast, but...

3.5/5

My list of things to do during Spring break once I got back for vacation:

Scan and try my hand at coloring new Casstoon in reaction to recent news about Spoiler

Do blog post

Write next chapter of Shades of Gray. Possibly do two if I have time

Call my friend John to see if we can hang out. I must force myself to socialize. Another motive for this is I want the Avatar DVD's and YJ comics I let him borrow back.

Ink, scan and do speech bubbles to OTHER Casstoon I did in reaction to recent news about Spoiler. I was going to computer color it, but doing the one I just did took HOURS, and I can't have more time eaten up.

Maybe try to fix speech bubbles on OTHER Casstoon I did before I left on vay-kay.

Do Algebra homework (I've decided to procrastinate till Sunday on this. It's due Tuesday anyway)

Look up stuff on UNCA on the 'Net, find out more about it since I'm considering going there for college.

...

Well, felt better to list that. I like lists.

That news on Spoiler I was talking about? Behold, an interview with Chuck Dixon reveals she's going to have a mini! Yaaaayy! And appear regularly in Robin! This is so fantastic, seriously, since we're 99% sure it's Steph now. I am going to buy the friggin' mini OUT. Chuck Dixon can have my babies. Except not really. Man, it feels creepy when you say that about a real person doesn't it? Well, I need to express my love and adoration for him at this news.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=13470

Now, onto reviews for this week and last week!

Robin #172

This issue revealed the Spoiler running around to be Steph, almost definitely. When Tim wasn't looking (so no hallucination) she was standing on a rooftop above him, and unmasked and made puppy dog eyes at our retreating Robin and said "good night, Tim." Yes! STEPH! I missed you so much!

This issue gets a five for that.

...okay, I'll TRY being fair. Other than the Steph reveal it was pretty average. Obviously a bit of a "breather" issue, or something. I did enjoy Tim talking to Zoanne's parents on the phone and totally not paying attention to his mission. ("ZOMG! Gunshots! I mean, popcorn, Mr. Zoanne's dad, popcorn! REALLY LOUD popcorn! Yeah! I, uh, have to go!" Oh, Tim. You're a dweeb, and I love it.) And he was so TIM. Being able to charm Zo's parents because he's such a little dorky goody two shoes, trying to talk to Violet even though that didn't work before, assessing situations and trying to get gunfire away from civilians, and making dry little quips in his head. And he thought about Steph again, awwww...we need as much reminding that Tim remembers Steph as possible to make up for lost time. I can't wait for Tim and Steph's joyful reunion, it's going to be so awesome. I hope crying and hugging is involved.

I'm giving it a 5/5.

Batman and the Outsiders #5

YAY, Cass ownage! "You smell like strawberries". Heh, that's my girl! Then she goes all batarang on...whoever that guy they were fighting is! Aw, Cass. I missed your badassery.

And the Dibny's are back! And totally in character! And not fazed at all about the fact they are dead!

And Metamorpho's in space!

Dixon, keep delivering. We're glad to have ya back.

4.5/5

Blue Beetle #25

Ohfreakingwow. This was so much awesome. From the scarab's little monologue (I continue to be amused by how it is Booster's fault the scarab didn't work for Ted) at the beginning, to Guy showing up. ("That's right, baby girl. I'm the crazy one.")

Then Ice! ("I thought she was dead." "She got better. I thought you were dead?" "I got better.") Brenda and Paco badassery (I heart those two so much. Clearly, they are both so awesome they realized the only people good enough for them to make out with were...each other. Good decision there.)

 Fire then of course is obligated to show up (I love Ice's reaction. "NEAT! Bea!") Then the scarab and Jaime try to go for the heroic sarcifice (The scarab is officially awesome. "Reyes=Friend. Sacrifice=good. Scarab=hero." Yes you are! Good wittle scarab! This may be the most quotable issue of any comic ever) but in the nick of time...BOOSTER GOLD!

Every superhero battle should end with Booster popping out of nowhere and rescuing everyone just because he CAN. And he should always yell "Time is something I have plenty of!" YES. Jaime is such a good person he tries to save the negotiator (Booster doesn't seem to care. Heh) and it's then, with this gesture, Negotiator realizes "...We never had a chance." Because in trying to save the enemy, Jaime showed exactly why his own sense of right and wrong was able to override the scarab. Because it was so strong. So no, no chance. This shocks the Negotiator to tears, and he gets blowed up.

Booster drags Jaime to his family, and for irony, Ice is all "OMG BOOSTER YOU IS ALIVE?" and proceeds to hug him. Guy is all "WTF?"

Then we have a barbeque. No seriously, this comic is so awesome it ends with a BARBEQUE. Booster decides he must wear his goggles even when out of costume, the silly. It is apparently a complete coincidence the JLI showed up together, Booster was just "checking up on the kid", Bea was nearest, ect. Jaime doesn't buy this and neither does Guy, who blames Batman for everything. Oh, GUY. Your vendetta against Bats knows no bounds. By the way, Jaime totally got Batman to help him by sending him a LETTER, so the Reach didn't sense it. Ha, ha. And Oracle helped too! Yay!

The comic ends with Jaime reflecting on how the Blue Beetle is really a legacy now. "And I think that's kind of cool." So do we, Jaime. So do we.

A bazillion out of five. BAM.

Okay, past my bedtime. I must away. See yas around.