Chronicles #5 is basically Oracle Year One. I have an e-version of it. Her issues are so tied up in the mess that Joker made of her in Killing Joke, above and beyond the gunshot. Trying to remember which BoP deals with that pretty explicitly.

She so strong and so damaged at the same time, and one feeds the other.

Babs likes carrots.

Oh, I CLEARLY need C#5. I was disappointed that the BoP Secret Origins issue didn't deal with this at all.

E-version, you say...?

Yep. Email me, and I'll check it out when I get home.

Oh, danke. Insent.

OK, I thought all of the posting would be about 1602, and since I didn't pick it up until today, I avoided the thread. My mistake.

Catching up...

Does anyone have some recs of comics that would be good for a 7 year old?

I'll have to chime in with the others and mention Bone. It was a great hit with my 9-year-old nephew this Christmas.

1602 #8 has been acquired.

Ditto. I about died when I saw the cover, being the big map geek that I am.

In other news, my favorite comics shop is moving on May 1. To within walking distance of my house.

My shop just moved this week, and is now only a few blocks from my house. Before, I would visit it during lunchtime, thus limiting my time in the shop. Now, who knows.

This is either very, very good or very, very bad.

Ditto.

I started to collect JSA, but have lapsed.

Is it still any good?

I still collect it. I find it worlds better than JLA. (The Claremont/Byrne issues are unbelievably bad, IMHO).

Aspiring Bat-fans might want to take a look at Batman: The Ultimate Guide to the Dark Knight, which is a coffee-table book giving a fairly up-to-date info on the mythos.

Just to note that this is probably 2 years out of date by now. It came out before the whole Batman: Murdere/Fugitive mega-crossover, so it mentions a few people who were alive then who are now...not.

BOP #8, etc.,

You have a copy of this, Michele T.? I've been trying to get my hands on a copy for 2 years. The current price at Mile High Comics is $150.00 for near-mint, and it's never in stock. I'm going to have to try and get it from ebay, after I recover from my tax bill.

You have a copy of this, Michele T.? I've been trying to get my hands on a copy for 2 years. The current price at Mile High Comics is $150.00 for near-mint, and it's never in stock. I'm going to have to try and get it from ebay, after I recover from my tax bill.

Huh. I have this one somewhere. I should take better care of it.

Christian Bale on the set of the new Batman movie.

Christian Bale on the set of the new Batman movie.

swoons

I can't wait for that movie.

This is an interesting site: Batsquad. If you click on Characters, it pulls down particular issues and TPB in continuity order on the left hand side with little summaries.

If you click on Birds of Prey, you can scroll down and look at the cover of Birds of Prey #8 (for example) and get a paragraph synopsis.

Do all the Dick fans have this one?

Secret Origins #13 starring Nightwing
Date April 1987
Writer(s) Dan Mishkin
Artist(s) Erik Larsen, Mike DeCarlo v

Storyline: Nightwing, on his 20th birthday, told Jericho about his past. He recalled the circus and the first time he performed without a net (at age 5). He became a regular in the act and did two shows per night for the next five years as a member of the Flying Graysons. When he was ten, his mother and father died in a fall. Later that night, he learned it wasn't an accident. Batman came to him and stopped him from going to the police. He told Dick about Boss Zucco and that he would have been killed shortly after going to the police. Dick became the ward of Bruce Wayne, and less than a year later, he became Batman's partner, Robin. Together, the Dynamic Duo took down Zucco. Robin met other young sidekicks Wonder Girl, AquaLad, Speedy, and Kid Flash. They formed a group and called themselves the Teen Titans. Robin loved his role of leader in the group, but they all eventually went their own ways. Batman and Robin were no longer as much a team as they used to be; they both went out more solo than together. Dick went off to college, but soon dropped out. A mysterious girl named Raven came to him needing him to re-form the Titans. Batman got a new Robin and Dick got a new name - Nightwing. Along the way, he fell in love with Starfire, one of his Titans teammates. She'd married another man for political reasons, causing Dick to again wonder about his place in life.