The Unwritten #8: It's bad that Cosi reminds me of me at nine and ten, right?

See, when I was ten, Harry Potter was my only escape. I had no friends at school. Home life pretty much sucked. I absolutely adored Harry Potter, though. I loved to pretend to myself that it was real- that I was really a misfit who would someday get a letter and go to a magical school where I'd have amazing adventures. I didn't really believe it (like Cosi seems to) but it was nice to wish. It spoke to me- it said that nerds are cool, even nerd girls, that if you persevere and try hard and just truly love others you can conquer evil, that things will get better and you will find your place- It was the only thing I had, so naturally I was pretty obsessed and the other kids picked on me for that. Calem in particular picked on me a lot, and one day he just said a bunch of things to me and ended it with saying something bad about Harry Potter and I just snapped, ran around the table, and stabbed him in the back with the pencil I was holding.

At least I didn't claw at his eyes while yelling spells, and I apologized immediately afterwards (because he started crying, and when I begged him not to tell, he agreed, but of course a former friend of mine who'd took it upon herself to tell, and I got suspended for two days) The point of that antidote is that this comic actually has a pretty freakish basis in reality- kids will cling to fictional worlds and defend them if they really truly need to believe in something more. Clearly, Cosi's pretty crazycakes, but I seriously identify with the basis of her feelings- you just really need fantasy sometimes.

The Unwritten continues to be spot on in the way is examines how stories affect people's lives. 5/5

Booster Gold #27

I'm glad the back up is being reinstated soon, because Jurgens really can't seem to know what to do with Jaime- he's just kind of there. It's really boring. Like this issue was really meh. Seriously,can't Black Lanterns come up with better ways to screw with our heroes than schoolyard taunts?

Ted pulls the whole "Wait...Booooster...I'm being controlleeed..." and makes Booster hesitate- and what does he do with that hesitation? He simply punches him and then gloats about it. Doesn't even knock him down. Shouldn't he have used that opportunity to kill Booster or something?

Anyway, they set up a special funeral shrine for Ted at the end of time and it's all very sweet and kind of boring. Though Michelle's back. in Coast City just before it was destroyed (I had to look up on the internets what's so special about Coast City. Oh comics.) That's interesting!

Parsimonia's review of this issue is the bomb and she links to a post that shows us how Ted/Zombie Booster is JUST LIKE TWILIGHT in a Growing Up Cullen style.

2/5

Secret Six #16

This issue wasn't as good as other issues have been- but it was decent. Now Black Alice's DAD is sick ? Did she poison him? Is her phantom mom still around? Also she thinks Ragdoll is HOT. WHAT. Some snazzy Alice outfits and supehero themed strippers, but other than that, not much going on.

3/5

Power Girl #7

Oh hey, a Wondy villian (who hasn't ever been seen post crises anyway) is treated as a joke (though it is Blue Snowman, how else to treat her) and then killed. That never happens! Vartox is amusing though, as was this comic. It wasn't GREAT or anything and PG still seems kind of incompetent (she let Snowman get devoured, she multiplies the villain...) but it was decent a fun. I'll stick it out till the end of this arc and then decide whether or not to drop the series.

3.5/5

Supergirl #48

Ugh, Fernando Dagnigo. I thought that guy who did the Alura issue was subbing? We discuss Lana's illness- she doesn't know what it is. I suspect is has some pretty sinister origins and it might not be just an illness..Supergirl's cop friend is in trouble and we get a nice little recap of Banshee's origin (which is good, because I didn't know it) and...OMG, that's the cover of Linda Danvers Supergirl #11 on Detective Friend's Banshee wall! That made me smile. In fact, the version of Banshee Supergirl turns into at the end of the issue looked like Matrix!Banshee to me, though I'm not sure it was meant to be. She had a Matrix style belt anyway. And saying "hello, Siobhan, it's been a few years..." I just thought "Linda!" But I highly doubt that. It was fun to have the nostalgia anyway.

I'm really interested in why Kara turned into a Supergirl!Banshee and started acting like she knows Siobhan-I expect that'll be explained next issue. Nice to have a good break from the crossovers to just tell a nice story of Supergirl vs and interesting villain.

4/5

That's all for now- I've got some more posts planned- a couple sporkings (I've been reading Breaking Dawn- don't judge me, I got bored, and I CANNOT find my library books! Agh. Anyway, I'm going to do a scripting and make fun of it- also I want to decimate the first chapter of a highly overrated Harry Potter fanfic) and a comment on Marvel's Girl Comics. Also, working on a fanfic- when Cass met Damian!

I now have a completely anal retentive run down of Stephanie's costumes available on the wiki. It's really thorough and full of totally biased commentary and other such silliness. You should check it out, because I put work into it and stuff

The Sweeping Saga of Stephanie's Superhero Suits!

In other news, I hung out with Joanna and John this weekend. It was fun, we went to the mall and I made fun of Twilight a lot (it was EVERYWHERE) and John tried valiantly to defend it and then we went to "This is It" because Joanna loved Micheal Jackson so much, and it was actually pretty good with amazing dancing and special effects and all that.

I got Secret Six and Incredible Hercules this week.

For Secret Six:

The Deadshot character piece was decent and a good read, so 4/5

and Incredible Herc...well, it wasn't bad, but I don't think it was one of the better issues, and having to listen to Spiderman whine about being set up with homeless people (Though I hold vague, smoldering contempt for the whole deal, I'm not even remotely close to being so raged over One More Day that I go CAPS over Peter's every appearance, but honestly, the dude's complaining about being set up with *ohnoes* homeless people and having no luck with his love life after selling his marriage to the devil. As a reader, I can't drum up any sympathy) and seeing the "girl ineffectually pounds fists on man's chest and cries" trope in play (I hate that trope so much!) really dampened my enjoyment. Maybe I should get some back issues. 3/5


s'all for tonight.

You know what I did this week? That's right, I bought comics! Know what I'm gonna do now? Review them, hell yeah!

So, I have dropped Adventure Comics and WonK. I love the pretty art and Kon in Adventure comics, but it's silly to pay 3.99 for it when I don't even care about the Legion. I'll get it in trades. I guess I've dropped Runaways too, since I realized I didn't pick it up this week, skimmed through it, saw there was a lot of angst, and decided not to bother. I'll prolly pick up the issue where Gert comes back though, to see what it's like.

But, concerning the comics I DID pick up:

Secret Six #13

We get to see Bane, Scandal and Artemis in Victorian Regalia. Diana convinces Catman to switch sides (not that Catman isn't a huge fan of switching sides...) with a few words. Ragdoll tries on Diana'a boots and tiara. Deadshot fantasizes about shooting everyone. Scandal is a badass. Thomas poses with a badass army of Bana. Amazons Attack is mentioned, and as much as I want to forget it, I'm glad that awful event bred one good thing: Gail is at least getting plot bunnies out of it.

All in all, another fine issue of a fine title.

4/5

Booster Gold/ Blue Beetle #24

On Booster's side, standard, mildly enjoyable fare. Booster restores time, Black Beetle has unfathomable motives, blablabla. Also, when Booster impersonates Slade, for some reason he's all "BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! MENTOR DAMIAN!" and Dick is like "????". Seriously Booster, that was unneccesary and it could cause additional time problems! And how does Booster even know about Damian? He JUST found of Dick was Batman, but never met Robin.

Still, the "YOU KILLED MY SON I'LL NEVER FORGIVE YOU btw Dick believe in yourself" was kind of hilarious.

And apparently now Raven knew all along the Titans would defeat Trigon. That makes her constant angst pretty unneccesary. Oh, time travel. You hurt my head.

In the Blue Beetle backup, Jaime's recent issues with the Scarab come to a head. Also, the Black Beetle is not Hector, unless he's lying. He killed Hector! That's not nice. And Milagro is going to be "really important" in the future. Sounds like a vote for "Milagro, the next Green Lantern!"

It's very exciting! Jaime's finally going to have to fight off the corrupted scarab and figure out what the deal is and now he's all possessed oh no!

I hope Milagro's okay.

Booster: 2.7/5
Blue Beetle: 3.7/5

The Unwritten #5

Poor Kipling. And OMG, Oscar  Wilde hitting on people! And then getting arrested. Because of Kipling. But he didn't mean to. It's all an ancient conspiracy!

This was kind of a transition issue. It was like, exposition: with Kipling! Guest starring Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain! Only it wasn't really exposition, because  it's all very mysterious and this actually deepened the mystery.

I don't get the last page. Is that Tommy? How did he get away from the cops? What's so "Oh my God" about the book? I guess we'll see next issue.

This was the weakest issue of the series so far, but it was still really good. Oscar Wilde guest starring is always a plus.

4/5

Wednesday Comics #10

Batman: continues to make no sense but the art is pretty. He beats up a dog! That's not nice, Batman! But he really didn't have a choice.

Kamandi: is soo pretty. And it's ass kicking time!

Superman: Hey, Supergirl!

Deadman: Is here to kick ass and say alive. And he's all out of...life...look, he beats up people, okay?

Green Lantern: faces off a fleet of aliens and it's actually pretty cool.

Metamorpho: Wow, Sapphire is a total twit. She cares more that Rex didn't get her diamond than the fact that he'd DEAD. And that poor Butler guy. And OMG SPACESHIPS ROCKET FUEL OMG!

Teen Titans: So, maybe Trident is not a rapist's son, Gizmo says. Wait, where the hell did Gizmo come from?

Adam Strange: is not afraid to throw people into his zeta beam.

Supergirl: is super cute and there's a really pretty panel when she flies near the sun. "I wonder if Dr. Mid-Nite's ever been this near the son...naaa, he's probably just spontaneously combust" made me laugh. She tries to be friendly to the aliens, but they somehow aren't cowed by her sheer adorableness. And Dr. Mid-Nite is still the worst pet sitter ever.

Metal Men: is very sad, as Dr. Morrow prepares to sacrifice them all to save the city. Platinum understanding her orders immediately and kissing Morrow on the cheek to say goodbye is actually pretty sweet.

Wonder Woman: is here to kick ass and take names. And she beats the Cheetah handily and snarkily. Also, Etta Candy makes everything good.

Sgt. Rock: is still boring.

The Flash: is too dumb to realize his wife is a gorilla. And Grodd is confused and so am I. I may have to reread this arc when it's over to make sure I didn't miss anything.

Demon/Catwoman: How many times is Catwoman going to free herself from control then be controlled again? Geesh, the cycle is endless.

Hawkman: mocks the dinosaur and his short arms. It's pretty amusing, but not very wise, as the Dinosaur smashes Hawkman really hard.

Another great issue, and things are beginning to climax, though, God, I don't see how most of them are going to wrap up all the loose ends in two strips.

5/5

That's all, folks!

Before I make my planned post on Harry Potter fanfic shenanigans, we can talk comics.

But real quick- I feel better now, thanks guys. I guess my crying yesterday was a combo of stress over going to college next friday, exhaustion, confusion and
I was actually laughing through the first act, because our local actors are so good and over the top. But the second act, exhaustion and stress kicked in, and I guess a speech on how much women suck isn't the best thing to hear when you're feeling blue. Man, I'm so glad I wasn't born back then.

Also, my b-day is this Wednesday! 18! Woot!

But onto comics:

Secret Six #12

A joy as always. I love Artemis so much. And it was really nice to see Jeanette's powers demonstrated like that.

Between Wonder Woman thinking Artemis is dead when she's not, the Six fighting, and the threats of castration, I'm thinking this island may have some seriously wonky evil influence mind control type thing going on. Interesting.

Nicola Scott is amazing, and so are Scandal's boxers. That is all.

5/5

World of New Krypton #6:

Man, I'm so sad I may have to drop this, it's been so consistantly good. Pete Woods is fanstastic as always, I especially love how he does Kara and Alura. Alura shows herself to be multifaceted and a good leader, and Kara is proud of her mama. Zod is not quite dead yet, and his assassin remains mysterious and escaped- so it's time for Kal and Kara to follow the little criminal to earth and if Kal is going to earth...

this is a job for SUPERMAN!

That ending made me unreasonably happy. Just a good book.

5/5

Wednesday comics:

Batman: continues to be boring and make no sense. Alfred is snarky as always, tho.

Kamandi: Oh, so pretty. Kamandi ain't the brightest though. I like how his girlfriend appeared to be throwing rocks in the background. Go little human girl!

Superman: Oh my god, Superman, NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR ANGST! Or your retelling your origins for the millionth time!

Deadman: Oh noes! He will die again!

Green Lantern: HAL HATES READING!

Metamorph0: Element Girl is super cool and smart and saves everyone: Unfortunately she is not able to save her speech bubble from being misplaced, which was really jarring, particularly as it was the speech bubble that was supposed to show how super cool and smart she was. Sapphire remains a useless ditz, but I guess Rex likes 'em that way.

Teen Titans: Random strawgirl medic, no one cares about your tragic origin, especially since it makes no sense that you blame superheroes for a) not being there to save your father. Why should they have been? Not everyone's a psychic. You just want someone to blame. Maybe you should blame faulty wiring. b) getting powers they didn't earn or merit. I hate to tell you this, but Robin? He's right beside you. He doesn't have any powers. He's a superhero. LOGIC! Also, did Jaime blow up the boat to save four people, when there are about seven wounded people on that boat? How does that make sense? I'm sad this comic sucks so much. The Titans franchise really needs a decent comic.

Strange Adventures: I'd be okay if this whole comic switched to being about Alanna, honestly.

Supergirl: Kara saves a plane all on her own! Krypto is silly! Streaky is silly! Supergirl decides they must both go to the Super-vet! Adorable and fun as always.

Metal Men: That guy hates Dr. whatsisname for a contrived reason! And has a bomb!

Wonder Woman: Ooh, I really liked this one. Wondy meets up with Priscilla Rich, who has a really nice design and villianous personality. I like how she's superfast and strong without needing to go all catlike, that's an interesting take on it. Lot's of cool action, a bomb and Diana gets the tiara anyway. And she FINALLY realizes this isn't a dream.

Sgt Rock: Boring.

Flash: And Iris is back to being sort of selfish. "Screw all those people you save, you belong to me?" But I'm guessing she'll have a change of heart now that Barry's all "I QUIT! FOR YOU!" Meanwhile, Barry thinks of Iris and this gives him the strength to vibrate...into space? Whatever, the strips a joy most of the time, and I love the art.

Demon/Catwoman: Etrigan is so boring. I want Selina back!

Hawkman: Does stuff. Saves the plane- but Supergirl did it better!

Another nice issue, and most of the plotlines are moving along nicely.

5/5

I'll have another post tonight, as promised, about HP fic shenanigans and whatnot.

So, my job at the comic shop is going well. I work the register, put comics on shelves for new comic day, and sort the back issues (which isn't easy, considering the amount of X men titles there are alone, all files under X men in no particular order). Today, I set up a display of Disney comics that was very spiffy, if I do say so myself. My LCS is extremely laid back and cheery, and it's really fun talking to my boss/comic book guy, Darrin, because we share a lot of opinions. It's fun.

Darrin has a new baby, so he says he might be leaving me to run to shop at times. A whole comic shop to myself! Mwahahahaha!

Anyway, hopefully I'm a diligent worker. Darrin seemed impressed with my display. For a first job, this is really great and ideal! I'm in my element!

I've gotten Runaways #11 and Secret Six #11.

Runaways #11:

So Victor did a thing with hacking into the music and that made some guy think the Runaways were a target and crash an airplane into them... then there was this other guy?

Other than the slightly confusing plot stuff (which hopefully will be cleared up as we go along) and the random death, the snappy dialogue and character interplay, as well as decent art, made this an enjoyable issue. I plan to keep reading.

Also, this comic has a female writer, artist AND colorist. How cool is that? Lately, women seem to be breaking into the business more and more. I am pleased for this will make it easier for me to take over DC Comics and bend it to my whim.


3.5/5

Secret Six #11:

Lovely art as always from Nicola Scott. And Jeanette is wonderful. And Artemis is awesome! She will take your hand and wear it as a belt, thus depriving you us the only thing willing to give you pleasure! And enemies of Amazons rarely die lovely! REMEMBER THAT!

The Six sure are quick to shoot each other and stab each other in the stomach at the slightest sign of conflict between them. Must be a side effect of being villians.

There's no way Artemis is dead (especially as there's no visible cause of death...) but Wonder Woman's all jumping to conclusions and pissed and making Ragdoll "do something nasty in his tights". I love how Gail can always get through how damn scary Diana is when she's angry.

Another stellar issue.

5/5

The new show I'm in love with is Dexter. It is simply awesome, full of dark humor and twisted drama! I have a crush of a serial killer. But he's a GOOD serial killer!

Thanks to the magical working of bluefall , I now have access to the entire Wondy v2! I'm so happy! I am immersed in George Perez goodness!

The Wondy Annual I just read (1989, I think) especially amused me. It's all about Wonder Woman's publicity agency, and there's a story whereMyndi Mayer and Wonder Woman is worried about the comic getting made about her because...and I quote..."Myndi knows comics with a female lead are not usually a high seller...unless they have a lot of T and A.".

I nearly fell off my chair laughing. I bow to Perez. But it gets better! "Wonder Woman was worried her message of peace would get lost in the industries preocupation with violence and sexual exploitation.'"

No! A comic sexually exploiting Wonder Woman? NEVER!

Now, I'm not sure the guy who designed Starfire has a right to talk about comic's focus on T and A, but clearly Perez got that if he wanted to send a strong feminist message and tell a good story, sexualizing Wondy wasn't the way to go, and for that, I love him. And applaud him. And I find it hilarious he was able to rip on DC's sexism like that. No, DC, you don't have a problem. Actually, yes you do, even your creators have noticed.

I also tickled that Wondy got a woman to write and draw the DC Universes WW comic. (It was a cute story, by the way, when they showed an excerpt from the comic) I like the think of that woman as "proto-Gail Simone". Also in the DCU,  the comic sold out. Oh, if only.

There were actually two stories dealing with Wonder Woman and sexual explotation in the annual, in another, Wonder Woman got a dominatrix strip show named after her, and her PR guy went to put a stop to that madness! Only to find out some Wonder Woman cultist had hacked the poor stripper to pieces. Diana was not pleased, and she had to go put that cult that inspired him (he was not an actual cultist, but a rogue)  straight by beating up the statue they made of her. It was glorious.

Also Hermes? He's hilarious. He sacks out in Steve's apartment and bothers him all day, and keeps going on about how he's the god of messengers and so awesome. And he feels sad without his hat. He could just pretend he's a Jay Garrick fan...

But, in the news of current comics, I only got Secret Six #10 this week.

It was good as usual, though this issue felt oddly lacking. It was mostly an introduction to the new arc, and I can't fault it for that. Scandal and Bane are so cute, she's like his cool older sister and he's her boisterous, overprotective little brother. Also, Scandal has nifty boxers!

The villian guy is keeping Artemis as a slave. This is going to cost him dearly, I imagine. Yay Artemis! Nicola Scott draws her very pretty. I can't wait to see her and the Six interact. And for Diana to show up!

4/5

In other news, I have heavily edited and redone my old story about what happened to Ron and Hermione in HBP while Harry ran off to get the locket with Dumbledore. It's here: www.fanfiction.net/s/2948413/1/Gathering_Dark

Now I can start redoing my "Hermione's-relationship-with-her-parents" fic!

Ciao!

Okay, time to review my comics!

Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures of the Eighth Grade #6

Pure win as usual. Here's my non spoiler-y review of it, which got link referenced on Landry Walker's own blog!

www.bigshinyrobot.com/reviews/archives/5588

But since on this blog I feel free to bring the spoilers, I have to say I lovelovelove the Lena and Supergirl moments. I love how when Lena, psycho mad scientist that she is, when she was confronted with the truth (thanks to Mxy of all people) that Lina/Kara did NOT engineer her brother's defeat, that she was NOT laughing at Lena and was in fact an optimistic kid who was struggling (and how much do I love Mxy's complaint that Supergirl wasn't good for the emotion collector because despite all she went through she always looked on the bright side. Hell YES. Like I said earlier, Supergirl is all about hope. And Landry Walker gets that!) and not only that, but her friend was going to risk everything to save the world- she was able to put aside her prejudice and worry about Linda/Kara and tell her to be careful.

And Supergirl's fight with Mxy was truly awesome. I love how she broke the Kryptonite chains and yelled "And I'm Supergirl, defender of earth!" and how she got the space sidekicks from her fantasies to beat him up.

But another great moment was when Lex and Superman were doing their usual "Let's finish this! "I wouldn't have it any other way!" and about to go at each other- that they both stopped DEAD when they saw Supergirl cradling Lena and crying. It was a great moment for both of them- always at odds with each other, but they both would put that aside for their girls.

And it was a really great moment for Lex too- "Lena is my SISTER, alien. I'm going to SAVE her." Despite all his evil, he cares for his little sister. And his casual "So, I tried to reinforce her hatred and rage, but her mind fought me and she would have died, so I was FORCED to let her forgive the Kryptonians." Oh, Lex. You and your hatred and rage. But once again, he wasn't willing to let Lena die, even if it meant she'd be BFF's with Superman's sidekick. And how he blamed Superman for the whole thing! "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!" So wonderfully Lex. I wish we could get this kind of nuanced characterization of him tn the regular universe.

I'm so glad Lena's on Linda's side now, because I really like her as a character. In conclusion, this rocks, Landry's Supergirl rocks, and I WILL CRY if we don't get a sequel.

A BAZILLION OUT OF FIVE!

Power Girl #1

I love Amanda Conner's art! So cartoony and detailed and kinetic and expressive! I love it so. I also love Power Girl's cat.

This was decent writing, nothing special. Good enough to keep me buying the comic, because I like Power Girl and I love the art.

The boob window's been bought up on the WFA circuit lately. I think it's stupid, of course, but I guess I'm used to it so it doesn't really bother me as much anymore. I like Power Girl because she's generally gutsy and fun, and if some guys love her boobies, I suppose that's their right. She's Kryptonian, so it's not like it matters that it's impractical (now I'm imagining someone sticking Kryptonite in her cleavage. Bad brain. Bad brain.) If she's proud of her huge gazonkas, that's fine. We all know the REAL reason the boob window is there is for guys (and girls who like girls) to get their jollies, though, so I wish they wouldn't try to justify it with "Oh, it's the HOLE in my HEART" and the like.

I DON'T think the window is integral to her character, and I hate how much focus it gets, in art and writing. Palmiotti and Gray hopefully won't focus on it much.  There was a couple of lines about a guy staring at her chest, but it was while she was out of costume, and sort of like how she just gently tilted his head up with one finger.

When I saw the Adam Hughes cover in the store, I actively flipped through the stack to find the Amanda Conner cover. I thought about why I did this. I decided it was down to two things. One, in the Hughes cover Power Girl has this huge goofy empty headed expression on her face like "duuuuh, I'm teh power girl", while in the Conner cover she's confidently smiling. Also, the Hughes cover seems to have the focus on the boob window as the center of everything, what with her ripping her shirt open, while Conner's cover doesn't seem to focus on it (as huge as it is)

Um, right so. There was also this guy who was obviously set up to be a villian (He also randomly mentioned he thinks women should stick to making babies...I guess so we hate him more and Karen could reel on him for sexism? It seemed kind of forced. Though it amused me to imagine this was actually Dave Sims Karen was talking to) and wacky Ultra Humanite holding Manhattan hostage so he could put his brain in the body of Power Girl! I guess he really likes that boob window! Will his dastardly plot work? I dunno!

By the way, speaking of Power Girl, check out this Youtube video! The actress really does look like her, and though it's kind of long, it seems to get Power Girl's character and it made me giggle in some parts: www.youtube.com/watch

3.5/5


Superman: New Krypton #3

Man,last week was  very Supergirl-ish! I say this because Supergirl got to ROCK in this issue.

Kal does his diplomacy thing to calm down the labor guild but when they're coming out, a rogue soldier shoots at the head of the labor guild! But BAM, out of nowhere Kara flies in and catches the bullet, because Kal told her to keep her eyes open. She has the absolute best pose and expression afterwards too (I love you, Pete Woods!) and Kal compliments her and she glows and it's all very cute. I love how Kara's not only getting to be awesome in her own book, but in others. She really is such a joy to read now.

Anyway, then Kal shows off his mad ninja skillz and GL's come. This book continues to be great. I've really been enjoying it.

5/5

Battle for the Cowl: The Network.

Oy. Mixed feelings.

Cass, for once, got to be competent. And Fabian writes a good Oracle, she seemed in character for the first time in quite a while. The Misfit and Manhunter parts were decent too.

But. Helena. Poor Helena. Her recent leaps and bounds in character development in Gail's BoP were ignored, and she got to be all stupid and "I am here to be a strawman argument for killing the criminals, only so someone else can lecture me about what a bad person I am!" again. She was a jerk to Cass for no given reason, too. And it isn't like Helena, of all people, wouldn't know how flawed the justice system is and wouldn't realize the death-row guy could be innocent. And she and Babs have been working together for so long, she'd surely take Babs advice on the situation.

Also, Cassandra got to say things like "Your perspective is too small". Which I don't care what Adam Beechen says, Cassandra does NOT use words like "perspective!"  Even if she can read and all now, her deal is that she gets her point across with the the least amount of words possible.

Look, if Cass was in character the conversation would go like this.

Cass: Stupid to think I can't cheat. Almost as stupid as your costume.

Helena: Rargh I'm OOC this town may not be big enough for the two of us Oh god who talks like that!

Cass: .... (or, if she absolutely has to speak "Only you think it's so small")

There was lots of mocking of Helena's Jim Lee costume, which I appreciated. I would have appreciated it more if Nicieza didn't seem to have something against Helena, or Helena had tossed out an off hand explanation for the temporary change like "My other costume's in the wash/ battle damaged." The mocking just makes Helena look stupid, when it's Tony Daniel who's the stupid one.

2.5/5

Annnnd this week:

Secret Six #8

This...this was better than Battle for the Cowl and all it's tie ins COMBINED. Bane, Catman and Ragdoll...were so...awesome. Especially Catman and Bane's argument over which of them wanted to be Batman and Ragdoll being Robin "The Boy/Girl Wonder" and his comment that he would be a good Robin because "he likes the costume and doesn't mind an occasional crowbar to the cranium." Also him making everything sound dirty! I love Ragdoll so much.

Just awesome. And gorgeous art from Nicola Scott as always.

5/5

That's all, chums! Except I flipped to the back of the last Oracle issue in store and ( spoilers )

Well, off to watch Kim Possible.

...and they were all pretty good.

Thanks to not getting any last week, it was six comics I got today, although I forgot to glance at Flash: Rebirth or get Battle of the Cowl (though judging from the scans at scans_daily and the confirmation of no Steph, Cass or Babs appearing, that was a good thing)

But I did get:

Superman World of New Krypton #2

It was very good. Supes is such a sweetheart here, and I like him best that way. Here's my review for BSR: www.bigshinyrobot.com/reviews/archives/4883

5/5

Booster Gold #19

Tho I loved Younger!Boosters silly antics, I have no idea what the hell is up with Michelle. How could she NOT know she was dead and missed a huge chunk of Micheal's life? It should have been really obvious as soon as she popped back. At any rate, she MAJORLY overreacted. I wouldn't like being lied to either, but smacking Skeets around, shutting him down, acting hysterical and psycho and running off in a huff to some random time period was borderline crazy. I can only hope she's being influenced by something, because seriously, it's really, really random. I would be dropping this book if it weren't for the promise of Jaime.

2/5

Secret Six #8

What a date! And Little Secret Six, I remember seeing that on the Internet! Oh, RAGDOLL. I really admire Gail Simone for being so involved with the fans she'd spot gems like this that most writers would never get to behold.

The issue itself was a little like filler, but fun. Scandal has a new beau is pretty much the end result. I was hoping to learn more about Knockout's recent body snatching appearances, but ah well.

4.5/5

Speaking of Gail, I found this interview where she gave these thoughts on the WW movie in an interview (www.afterellen.com/people/2009/4/gailsimone-part1):

All right, here's how I see it. I did the first two drafts of this film's screenplay and the basic plot and characters still reflect that. But as I've said, I don't write Wonder Woman as Man Vs. Woman. I just feel that Wonder Woman would have settled that debate in her mind long ago with the universal truth: that there's good and bad in every group.

Seeing a woman as powerful as Wonder Woman debating things like guys opening doors for women seems a little like it's lowering her, that she's stooping.

In short, the gender issue stuff in my drafts was more subtle and a little more about miscommunication than outright hostility.

So when I finally saw the finished product, which I enjoyed tremendously, the one sour note for me was the insertion of all this gender politics stuff. At this point, I don't feel it's right or fair or even interesting for Diana to mistrust men as a gender, in toto.

The feminist discussions they're having felt very early 70's to me, very first wave. I think for most of America, that discussion is past. So I was a bit taken aback by that.

I'm friends with and a huge fan of animation genius Bruce Timm, and the writer who did the final draft, Michael Jelenic, is just this extremely talented, sincere, humble guy. I hadn't met the director, Lauren Montgomery, but she seems pretty wonderful, too.

They really wanted to do right by Wonder Woman and I think they succeeded beautifully. It's a cracking good action story. But the man vs. woman stuff really baffled me on first showing.

Hell YES! I knew Gail wasn't responsible for that gender war bullshit. Nail, meet head.

She also makes some good points about the GOOD side of the gender war stuff, which is interesting.

Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures of the 8th Grade

Another great issue, but I think I need a reread, some of the stuff was a tad confusing. Which makes me worry it will be confusing especially for the kids. Liked the Legion references thrown in, and Comet! Also Lena. She's awesome. Especially with her pessimism about graduating 8th grade. The stuff's really hit the fan for Linda, should be interesting. Overall, this book has been so charming and funny, I'm sad it's ending soon.

4.5/5

Teen Titans #69

I thought Barrows was bad, but an artist trying to imitate Barrows is even worse.  As for the writing, Static was pretty bitchy to Eddie and Jaime, but I suppose he's traumatized. It was nice to see Aquagirl kick the Face's ass, and I didn't mind at all that he died. I'm liking Aquagirl so far, and I'm really liking having M'gann back. "Which button is for hugging," hee. Solid issue, nothing special, but noting too bad.

3.5/5

Teen Titans Annual 2009

Going to repeat about the bad art. However, characterization remained solid, Static got to me a badass, Bombshell became marginally more likable, and Eddie got to wear his old costume which was hilariously cool. Also, Dead!Marvin pretty much told Kid Eternity joining the Teen Titans is a death sentence, which is true, and funny to see acknowledged in text. Another very solid issue, though I have no idea how Cyborg managed to hack the Scarab.

4/5

Well, thassall! Gotta go take a shower and reread my comics!
 

Woo! I finally got my Wonder Woman movie in the mail! AT LASSSSST! I'll watch it tonight with my parents. Then tomorrow night we're going to see Watchmen at the Cinnebarre. I tried calling John to see if he wanted to go, but his phone's disconnected or something. I'm kind of pissed he hasn't called, I thought he said he still wanted to be friends. But he's probably busy. Whatever.

Anyway, I'm completely stoked for both things. I'd been hearing mixed reviews of Wondy, there was an epic argument on Comic Bloc between this gay guy and one of the authoritarian moderators over whether it was good or not, and of course authrotarian!mod pulled out all the hostilities- it was 'Bloc, so of course they were rude to him for expressing an opinion that may be vaguely negative. He mentioned he dislikes Steve's piggishness and him apparently teaching Wondy a lesson and what not, and the "hot amazons bathing" fanservice. Authoritarian!mod mentioned the panel didn't want Steve to be a "nice guy" or "damsel in distress".

I'm going to give the creators benefit of the doubt and assume...okay, his name is Titansfan... was mistranslating, since I already stated I didn't like the guy in the first place, I can't imagine his comprehension skills are that great (he's not an idiot, just seems rather arrogant at times to me). But it brings an interesting point. Why CAN'T Steve be a damsel in distress? Isn't Wondy about turning gender roles on their head? Lois is often a DiD and still manages to be quite awesome. Steve can do the same. Heck, that's what Marston did with him. Wonder Woman was always having to save him.

As for "nice guy"...unless we're talking "Nice Guy TM", I don't see the problem here. According to TitansFan's tenuous translations, the panel says a air force guys likely to be tough and piggish. Okay, that's a stereotype. I'm sure there's plenty of nice, polite airforce guys. Why not go against the grain?

This is not a critisism of the movie, which I haven't seen yet, and am sure I will very much enjoy (I've heard some things that really excite me, and if bluefall liked it...well, I consider that the highest Wondy fan approval there is!) or the creators, just some general questions and observations.

Another is: I don't think Wonder Woman should be about men and woman "needing" each other. She comes from an island of all women who were just fine for thousands of years. She doesn't need men. That doesn't mean she doesn't want, or like them, just that they are not essential. It isn't prejudice. After all, would men need women if they were immortal? No. Of course, they'd WANT them around (even gay men would probably like having women as friends. Am I right? I mean, we're not just for the sexing).

What Wonder Woman is about to me is: "Look, here's a woman, she's awesome, she's independent, she kicks ass. Women ARE awesome. They are just as good as men. And they aren't an extension of men." That's as deep as it needs to go. It's not "men are superfluous". Maybe some guys felt insecure about that creating the movie, but get over it. Wonder Woman isn't a lesson on gender relations, other than that her lesson is "Woman and men are EQUAL." She's a lesson on being kickass and strong. That's what Marston intended, that's what Perez, Rucka and Simone put forward, the end.

Once again, not a critisism. Women and men need each other is a fine message, and I can deal with that, but I think the concept of WW is a little different.

So, off the Wonder Woman rant (I'm sure you'll get a lovely review when I ACTUALLY see the movie!) and on to comics this week.

Gotham Gazette: Already covered my feelings on the Steph part in the last post, so lets check out the other parts. I should mention the art was really good all around in this one shot, even Gulliem March's stuff, though not entirely pleasing in some parts, was surprisingly non porny considering his Oracle covers.

Vicki Vale: This was the story that most intrigued me (besides Steph's, but that was simply because it's Steph). I don't know much about Vicki besides 1. She was decent in the 1940's, and cared more about news than slobbering after Bruce. 2. "I have a date with Bruce Wayne! Cool!" and 3. She was in the 1980's Batman movie. But she seemed okay here. The cliffhanger intrigued me. HOW is Bruce going to take Vicki to the Robinson Ball? He's in a cave! Will it be Alfred disguised as Bruce????

Leslie Thompkins: Art is stiff, but clear, nice and neat. Not much is revealed about Leslie that we don't already know, 'cept I never thought her the type to walk around in high heeled boots. Clearly she has forgiven Bruce (I guess him "dying" softened her feelings.) Anyway, now she must perform surgery at the edge of the Cavelier's makeshift rapier! I'm disappointed she didn't mention Steph.

Harvey Bullock: Harvey must solve a murder! He has Officer Harper as his partner, and she is very whiny! Once again, nice art, not much happening. Apparently the murderer was already revealed in the Azreal mini (Spoiler: It's Azreal). I wonder who Harvey thinks it is though.

Decent one shot, probably wouldn't be getting the sequel if there weren't Steph though.

3.5/5

Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade #4:

Streaky the Supercat! With superintelligence! I love the twist ending and Streaky thinking of Linda as his "pet". Belinda was surprisingly nice this issue, knocking out Lena for Linda, and hardly making any insulting comments at all (except one to Lena). Maybe Linda's rubbing off on her?

And it's sad to see Lena would turn on Linda if she knew she was Supergirl. She was very Lex like in her ranting about Superpeople defying the natural order. And of course saved the day with her Mad Science! Maybe Linda can convince Lena to stop with the crazy if she shows what a bad person Lex is and snaps Lena to reality. I hope so, I like Lena.

Also, loved the poke of the Silver Age, when Belinda said there was a Kryptonian technique that let you get rid of memories, and Linda was like "Not there isn't" and Belinda said "true enough". Total smack down of the "KryptonianSCIENCE answers everything!"

As usual, 5/5.

Superman New Krypton #1,

Pete Woods seems to be back on his game a bit. This was pretty good, I likes seeing Superman trying to solve stuff on New Krypton and being nice and teaching that kid to fly. Also his protest of the guilds, and conflict with Zod. I'm pretty intrigued with the Super Books right now. I'll prolly get the next of this series.

4/5

Secret Six #7

Now this was fantastic. Deadshot, I knew you wouldn't let me down! The fights! The zany dialogue! Bane badassery! The gory deaths!

My favorite moment would have to be Ragdoll tossing Hatter's hat off the bridge. Oh, Ragdoll. You're AWFUL.

Also the ending! Very intriguing!

And Nicola Scott knocks it out of the park as always.

5/5

A good week, really. I should mention I think I can finally post on  the insane journal. It did the validation thing when I tried my yahoo email, for some reason.

This weeks reviews!

But first, tell me...Grant Morrison sez...

NRAMA: What is Superman's song? What does it sound like?

GM: ‘Born In The USA’? ‘Crazy In Love’? ‘Man, I Feel Like A Woman’? ‘My Way’? ‘A Milli’? ‘Come Into The Garden, Maude’? Whatever your favourite song is, that’s what he’s singing. For me today, it’s ‘Granite’ by Pendulum.

What do YOU think Superman sang!

I posted on Superdickery:

For me it's either

"If I go crazy, will you still call me Superman..." (Kryptonite, 3 Doors down)

Or "I can't stand to fly...I'm not that naive..." (Superman, Five for Fighting)

My dad and I listen to those when I ride with him to school, because he loves them, so I now love them and they are imprinted in my brain forever.

It would be really funny is it was the second one, because it means he smote Darkseid with the sheer power of his emo.

Oh, and if you want my thoughts on Final Crisis, I didn't read it, only the scans on scans_daily. It seems really weird and convoluted and pretentious with some very awesome moments thrown in. However, I really don't know, and I won't until I read the trade at Books A Million whenever it comes out. All I do know, is I have been in comics four years, and I am already sick of how many stories seem to revolve around Superman being the GREATEST EVAH. Okay, we GET it, he was first, he was the seed and he's Jesus, MOVE ON.

But, it looks kinda cool and helluva lot more interesting than Secret Invasion sounded like.

But I may never forgive Morrison for his comment on Wonder Woman. Because I am vindictive and hate when people express their opinions!

Right, right, comics reviews...spoilers as always...

Supergirl Cosmic Adventures #3

Can I just reiterate how AWESOME this series is? BECAUSE. It IS.

I love little Lena Luthor. She is so insane...ly cute! Cute in her insanity. I like how she just casually freaks out at people, and invents these weird contraptions to save the day, and how bitter and melodramatic  she is.  She's like a little redheaded tornado of MAD SCIENCE! I hope she learns to escape her brother's influence and stay friends with Linda even after she inevitable finds out she's Supergirl. Because she is great as Linda's friend.

And Linda got to do some actual really nice superheroing this issue! In her own special way. She risked her life to save the school! Go Linda!

My favorite scene had to be this:

(Linda fakes being taken away in order to save a falling boy)

Linda: AIEE! I'm being carried away to my MYSTERIOUS DOOM!

Lena: I WILL AVENGE YOU! *shakes fist*

I also like the little easter eggs they drop in for geeks without taking away from the story, like Linda coming back from her time traveling with a Legion Flight Ring on, and a picture of her in the headband!

In conclusion, this book remains great. DUNDUNDUN, evil principal. Streaky's apparently next, I can't wait!

5/5

Secret Six #6


DAMN. That was a shock ending there! Floyd, how could you? HOW?

Though he obviously didn't actually kill anybody. It takes more than a head-bullet to put Scandal down, and Ragdoll gets his bones broken all the time, so being run over doesn't bother him. Catman's more iffy, but I imagine he's okay, and there's Jeannette...well, it's interesting he went for a gut shot, which can be survivable, rather than a heart or brain shot.

Seeing as how Floyd is still in the book, I imagine there's something more to this..or there isn't. You never know with Gail!

Anyway, Ragdoll is such a woobie. I want to cuddle him. His sadness over Alex is adorable.

I like Jeannette. Her origin was cool, though I'm not totally clear on her powers. Countess Bathory for the win! And I love the panel where she said "I'm a Banshee". Nicola and the colorist ROCKED that.

And the Mad Hatter is behind it all! Yay Jervis! I even liked the Origins and Omens back up, with art by Pete Woods. It was good but not as orgasmically awesome as his usual fare. What is with Pete lately? Does he have a hand injury or something?

5/5

Legion of 3 Worlds #3

I got this for the Bart. Suprisingly, I was able to understand it somewhat. I love how scared SB Prime is of Bart, and Bart's lines coming back. And XS! Yay! And good George Perez art. Though for some reason Bart's reveal looked really bad.

4/5

A good week, overall!

I found this page on DC's site, and it cracks me up.

( Steph shows Kara how it's done. )

GOTHAM GAZETTE: BATMAN DEAD? #1
Written by Fabian Nicieza
Art by various
Cover by Dustin Nguyen
    A city looking to kill itself. A population without its dark avenger, without answers, without hope. A cop looking to save Gotham from its own madness. A reporter looking to reclaim her career by revealing that it's no coincidence the city's top billionaire and its urban legend are missing at the same time. A doctor seeking to regain her soul by stepping back into Hell. One hero who can't quite get it right no matter how hard she tries. Harvey Bullock. Vicki Vale. Dr. Leslie Thompkins. Stephanie Brown. What do all these people have in common?
    Without Batman, Gotham City continues to fall apart, and these extraordinary "ordinary" people try to mend the city's wounds, looking into a dark night for answers. This one-shot special explores the effect a missing Batman has on the citizens of Gotham City.
On sale March 4 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US

STEPH! *pounces* Oh, I'm so happy I get my Steph fix even with Robin canceled.

AND LESLIE!

Will they interact? Who knows? But, yes, Leslie! Hurray!

Of course, One hero who can't quite get it right no matter how hard she tries...has me a little nervous, especially since this is written by Fabian, who has already stated he thinks Steph is the biggest screw up in the history of screw ups. Okay, so he didn't exactly say that. And, some of you may have guessed from my subtle hints I'm not overly fond with the "throw-as-many-villians-at-Tim-as-possible-Bats-told-me-too-plus-I-WUV=him" thing in Robin right now, especially since it continues the cycle of Steph being wrongwrongwrong and Tim being rightrightright ALL THE TIME.

BUT. Steph is getting a (presumably) Tim free story where she gets to stand on her own. I am very happy.

Also, Cass is in Battle for the Cowl, yay.

It would be awesome if all the characters mentioned interacted. Imagine a Steph-Harvey Bullock team up! I giggle just thinking of the shenanigans that would ensue.

And Leslie didn't do anything TOO bad. Okay, faking someone's death is a pretty horrible thing to do. And incredibly unethical as a doctor. But considering the alternative was probably Steph getting murdered by Black Mask while she convalesced or you know, more Batman craziness, or, you know, complete mental breakdown...give yourself a break Leslie, I think Hell is not in your future.

Secret Six and Wonder Woman looked good too. And Streaky looks to be appearing in the adorable Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures etc mini. Frabulous day! I hate to say it, because when I say stuff like this I am inevitably crushed, but March looks like good month. I mean, all this, and the Wonder Woman movie!

>.>
<.<

*knocks on wood*

Off to interrogate Fabian on DC Boards again!

Letssssss seeee.

A pretty good week over all.

Secret Six #4

Jeez, Catman needs to chill. Stabbing Scandal in the hand is NOT cool. I don't care if she can heal quick! And she was trying to help him and everything!

On the other hand, Bane's fatherliness towards Scandal contiues to be adorable in a completely disturbing sort of way. Like most of this book.

Scandal (a lot of stuff happening with her in this issue, huh?) hallucinates Knockout again, but this time she's not drunk, which makes me wonder if there might me something behind it. Especially since Waitress!Knockout said something Scandal couldn't possibly have known. And she kept talking even when Scandal was distracted and she'd reverted back to waitress.

The scene with Junior and the Priest was great. "Back up plan not workable". Heh.

And Cheshire! Yay!

Once again, another quality issue.

5/5

Booster Gold #15

Booster and Shel's sibling like bickering is hilarious. A very fun issue, even though the stuff with Ralph was sad at times. I noticed Skeets is back to calling Booster "Booster" and not "sir" like he's done lately. I guess Dan Jurgens felt Skeet should talk to Booster like he did when Dan Jurgens first wrote him. Anyway, good issue.

4/5

Action Comics #872

Another decent issue (<3 Pete Woods as always) though Reactron's new Gold Kryptonite Heart felt like an old idea recycled. In fact, it even ADMITTED to being an old idea recycled. Booorrring. Though "Some might say it's useless because it only takes away powers for fifteen seconds. Well, I say that's more than enough time." is kinda badass. But just kinda.

More HUGE clues that Krypton!Nightwing is Kon. Either they aren't trying to keep it a secret, or they are torturing the fans again with red herrings. I'm inclined to believe the latter, unfortunately. Which is sad, because I think Linda as Flamebird would be an AWESOME way to bring her back. I miss Linda.

I'm interested to see how Alura's willingness to kill (probably a result of her being hit by Kryptonite Poisoning in Supergirl, which is too bad, because it would be nice to see Supergirl's Mom have a VIABLE different mindset from Superman) compounded with Zor El's apparent death will affect Kara. I imagine it will be bad.

4/5

In other news, I bought the first trade of Darwyn Cooke's The Spirit and it is AWESOME. And I thought Silk Satin couldn't get anymore cool. She can! And I love Ebony and Denny. Also, the Batman crossover was great. Darwyn Cooke is a great writer AND artist as always.

I am so fucking sick of seeing gendered insults like skank and whore being thrown around and misused in online forums I LIKE. Especially since it just seems a goto whenever someone disagrees with a girl.

I know, newsflash. But it happened in Superdickery, which is new, so.

Also OBAMA WON YAY.

There was much embracing at my high school today.

Secret Six was fabulous. Yay for Cheetah being formidable and awesome again!  Also I love the banter and the art and the end of the issue was great. I loved the concept.

5/5

Terra was okay. I just love Amanda Conner's art so much.

3.5/5

Agh, too weird feeling to typed much.

Also I need news about Robin NOW.

Reviews for this week. Two comics and both are written by Gail Simone! And they're both good! She's amazing, this woman.

Wonder Woman #25

Okay, this was freaking hilarious. I didn't expect to see more of the Wonder Woman Movie from Hell, but all the sexist tropes and Diana's facepalming during it was GREAT. Oh, Hollywood.  And Gail managed to sneak some feminism in there too, as is WW's way. Why is it that people feel a belief in women equal as hatred of men? I can't look. DAMN STRAIGHT, Diana. Testify, sister!

And Diana is the MASTER OF THE AMBIDEXTRIOUS DUAL AX TECHNIQUE! Snow White wasn't, but wouldn't the story have been so much better if she had been? I vote Wonder Woman should replace Snow White. And any other female character in fairytales. Her answer to everything would be DUAL AXES! Big Bad Wolf? DUAL AXES! (After some sympathizing, of course. "I can choose to be like the wolf!) We don't need no damn woodsman! Wicked Stepmother? DUAL AXES! Dad tries to cut your hands off? DUAL AXES! Trapped in a tower? DUAL AXES! (They'd help. Somehow.)

Hee, Wonder Woman was just very witty this whole story in fact. "Straight to video" indeed. And then she put on those sunglasses. Just because she could and she's cool like that. And I love the gorillas so. "This film is nothing but a mishmash of better movies and cynical displays of human female fatty tissue!" Gail got all meta on us with the "Waiting for a while for a good movie is better than having a terrible one today." I guess she's saying Hollywood isn't ready to make a good WW movie? Because they're sexist douchbags? But that doesn't mean I'll stop bitching about it! They should be ready by now! It's the 21st century, dammit! I will not have a Green Arrow movie before my WW one! Travesty!

Whew.

Um, anyway, I also really loved the last scene, with the mother and the little girls. It was very Diana and showed how inspiring she was. But is she thinking of having kids? Because I can't see that working out. She's pretty busy. Unless the kid grew really fast and became her sidekick. If not, she's liable to give it up for adoption or have Nemesis send it to a monastary without telling her. Anyway, it also means it would have to be Nemisis's baby and that is just GROSS.

Anyway, 5/5

Secret Six #2

Oh, Catman and your wittisisms. Oh, Batman and your burrito eating. Oh, Ragdoll and your 73 pounds of awesome. Oh, Deadshot and your constant narrating on how screwed up your team mates are. Oh, Scandal and your burden as being the only vaguely sane one on the team. Oh, Bane and your gentlemanlyness.

Did I cover them all? Oh, there's Mammoth and his screaming "NOT ON MY WATCH THING!" That was great. Also, the new villian extracted himself from the box and showed he could stand with aid, but his legs look limp and noodly. I wonder what his deal is. Maybe he's Ragdoll's dad! No, probably not, but that's what I thought when I saw the legs.

It was very good. Great Nicola Scott art and tons of fun as usual.

5/5

And now I must gush about the Mask of Phantasm and Batman: Subzero.

SPOILERS!

( Gushing )

'k, well enough gushing. Signing off!

The Awakening is pretty awesome.  It stirred a lot of feelings in me, so I think I will end up writing my application essay on that.  Poor Kate Chopin, outcast for being ahead of her time. Of course, she was liek OMG into the Confederacy, so not ahead of her time in all ways.

..Yes, I was surprised someone could have been feminist and supported slavery. It shows my narrow mindedness, since it's not like that's impossible.

Also, I forgot that while I like Art Class, I sort of hate it as well. Because everyone in the freaking class is better at Art than me, and it makes me feel all hopeless.

But screw that, onto comics.

Supergirl #33

I got this because of the Empress. I was sorely dissapointed because the story was bad, the art was meh and Empress was a total tool. Oh, Young Justice curse, you are so cruel.

Since when can Anita do force feilds and crap? Her magical abilities in YJ were teleportation, temporarily paralyzing people and once she did a locating spell, but it required her to do a naked voodoo ritual.

And since when is she dumb as a post? She should have KNOWN magic could cancel out magic. The Anita I know is smart, INCREDIBLY bad ass, resourceful and doesn't take crap. She would not have let meh villian with cliched origin play her like that, and would have thought up a plan.  She wouldn't have let anyone knock her around.

How the hell did meh  villian know Anita's secret ID anyway? Or did I miss that?

And when did she and Supergirl meet anyway?

God, poor Anita. First being turned white on occasion, now this.

The art was decent. I hope the new team saves this book.

1/5

Secret Six #1

THIS is more like it. Oh, I love you, Secret Six. Oh, I love you, Gail Simone. There was so much to love about this: Nicola Scott's fabulous art, a very intriguing set up with Junior, Deadshot's always lovely snark (I love how he called Catman on totally abandoning those two people in peril while saying he wanted to be a good guy and Blake's response "Dammit!" showing it didn't even register. Oh, Thomas. I love you, you crazy SOB) I mean, how Thomas and Floyd carry on a conversation why people are sticking guns in the back of their heads? And Floyd voicing what we all suspect "I think you like her because it's the closest you can get to doing Batman?"

Then Ragdoll adorably trying to cheer up poor Scandal and Bane just standing there and stating the obvious. And Knockout hallucination! Her random outburst "I AM A NEW GOD! DEATH SHALL NOT DEFEAT ME!" was perfect.

I'm intrigued to who the new female character will be, and why Batman is involved in this.

Oh, and Huntress appearance! Seeing Huntress drawn by Scott is always a treat.

5/5. This was good comix.

S'all for now.