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Discussion of comics, graphic novels, and more. Except for capes. No capes!

Please use spoiler font for new releases until after the weekend following release.


Atropa - Sep 21, 2011 12:05:48 pm PDT #3806 of 5059
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Apparently they're strangers, though.

What? No, that I am not okay with. Of course, there seems to be very little of the DCU reboot I'm okay with, which is why I'm not bothering to read any of them.


§ ita § - Sep 21, 2011 12:18:38 pm PDT #3807 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I liked Batman, probably the most art and script combined. There's one scene of Bruce and the "good" Robins (Steph never was Robin in this universe, I think, but she will appear as Spoiler) and it made my heart go ping.

Wonder Woman was enh, whatever. I also have Nightwing and Bird of Prey to read today.


Steph L. - Sep 21, 2011 12:38:58 pm PDT #3808 of 5059
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Steph never was Robin in this universe, I think

Of course. Jesus.


§ ita § - Sep 21, 2011 12:57:35 pm PDT #3809 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

No official word on Cass, though. That really bothers me.

I miss DIck's finger stripes. Call me shallow, but it's true.


P.M. Marc - Sep 22, 2011 7:53:29 am PDT #3810 of 5059
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

One panel was a Captain America retrospective, with a husband/wife team who ink and color some of the current Cap titles, as well as 87-year-old Allen Bellman, who was drawing Cap back in the early 1940s. I have to say, Bellman was so great to listen to. He got all teary when he said that in his wildest dreams, when he was 19 years old and drawing Cap in the bullpen, he would never have thought in 2011 he'd be on the red carpet* at the premiere of the movie.

That makes ME teary!


§ ita § - Sep 22, 2011 1:55:48 pm PDT #3811 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Interesting article about Catwoman and Starfire's sexual escapades. And why it's not slut-shaming. I'm grumpy now. And that final Batman/Catwoman picture weirds me out.


amych - Sep 22, 2011 2:13:00 pm PDT #3812 of 5059
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Thanks - nice article, if depressing as hell.


Dana - Sep 22, 2011 2:19:15 pm PDT #3813 of 5059
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Holy crap, that's depressing.


sumi - Sep 22, 2011 2:25:10 pm PDT #3814 of 5059
Art Crawl!!!

That is depressing.

ETA: And there is something really odd about that Bat & Cat drawing. . .


Steph L. - Sep 22, 2011 2:26:00 pm PDT #3815 of 5059
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Wait. I read that article. I don't think the article is slut-shaming at all. t edit Did I misunderstand what you wrote, ita?