I hold you to blame

::preen::

I finished the Big Guns trade. The 80-page Giant figures into continuity because Hella blows up Ebersol, so Redhorn can return to his post as police chief.

I love all the names Babs has for Dick. Former Boy Wonder. Adult Wonder. Boy Heartthrob. Former Boy Genius.

The trade includes a cute Devin Grayson story where they run down all of Dick's past relationships. So, who's Donna? Starfire? Miggy? Emily is the one he married "for a case." And he also apparently had a fling with Huntress. And a couple dates with Clancy.

Now I'm hungry for more.

Which one is the 80 page Giant, then?

The Huntress story is collected in the Grayson-authored Nightwing/Huntress TPB -- highly recommended, and my own entry into the canon.

Donna and Starfire are both Teen Titans -- Donna was Wonder Girl, and Starfire is Koriand'r (yes, apparently, named for the spice, according to one creator interview I read), an alien princess warrior blahblahblah.

Miggy, for the life of me, I can't recall. Some one-shot thing.

Which one is the 80 page Giant, then?

It's the Hella storyline. She goes around killing cops and stuff. For revenge, of course.

Miggy was in the whole "Ties That Bind" story.

The Huntress story is collected in the Grayson-authored Nightwing/Huntress TPB -- highly recommended, and my own entry into the canon.

Worth getting. There's additional Nightwing/Huntress stuff that goes through the background of (I think) Rough Justice (the TPB--don't remember what all it collects), and through the No Man's Land arc. (Pimps the novelization again.)

Miggy was in the whole "Ties That Bind" story.

Didn't I tell you to avoid Ties That Bind, lest you be blinded by the bad hair? Let this be a lesson to you.

Hey, at least it made me able to identify Miggie.

Yeah, that's all I got.

And, since I don't know much about the Batverse timeline (both crime and relationships), I was surprised at the end of No Man's Land when Nightwing showed up at the makeshift hospital to see Huntress. Given that he had just been with Babs.

Teppy, you can sort it all out here.

I went to the comic book store in order to get the current Nightwing issue and several back issues. I set a limit and I stayed within it.

Until I was directed to the cheap comics. So now I have more Nightwing comics than I planned on.

I totally blame Plei.

Hmmm . . . . Big rumours of Aronofsky directing the Watchmen:

Alan Moore hysteria continues to sweep - aside from the film of "Constantine" (starring Keanu Reeves and soundtracked by Latrobe Valley chick Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance fame) which is well into post production, director Darren Aronofsky (maker of such films as "Pi" and "Requiem For A Dream") has been confirmed to direct the film version of Moore's "Watchmen" series.

And also this, which is mostly interesting for the fantasy casting in the poster. Let me just say that John Cusak as Nite Owl is brilliant.