The Nightwing cover cracked me up. The story -- well, I felt like it was just filling time until the crossover starts.

Teen Titans #13 just fucking ruled. Shrift totally could have written the part where Kon goes to Gotham looking for Tim and is all pissed when he encounters Steph-as-Robin. It made me squee a little. I totally loved Raven getting a tattoo. I have no idea why that particular part of the issue grabbed me. But it did.

IC #2 -- verrrry intriguing. I read it, then re-read #1, and then read #2 again. And I still have no idea what's coming.

Do you think that will have meaning later, Victor?

Possibly. It looks like tensions are set to boil between the heroes in villains--probably mostly in reaction to Sue's death and maybe the fact that multiple villains were lobotomized being discovered. I'd bet Merlyn's going to play a major role in there, somewhere.

Do all the Ultimate titles do like X-Men and not show scenes, just character poses on the covers?

"Iconic" cover art is all the rage right now.

I love the iconic look, except I have to pay extra attention to which titles I've already bought -- I have three duplicated Ultimate X-Men issues -- all Wolverine covers, because that's the sort of twitch I have.

In IC#2, I loved the Dr. Light is only NOW a moron explanation -- because I sure wasn't buying their fear of him. I thought the story was pretty horribly (as in well) done, and so was the tension it brought into present day. I can't wait to see who else has been neutered.

Unrelatedly -- in Nightwing, Dick gets a call, and in the last Batgirl (don't know when that came out), Batman ducks away for a second -- are those two related? I'm assuming with the multitude of Bat-titles each may have been explained elsewhere. What's the dealio?

Oh, and Batman has a pretty clear Rogue's Gallery profile -- his is the most distinctively patterned of the major heroes, isn't it? Apart from, I guess, the tendency for groups to face off with groups and solo or solo/henchman villains to go mano a mano with solo heroes.

Ita said this spoilery thing: I can't wait to see who else has been neutered.

Me either, but I'd place good money on the Flash's Rogues Gallery.

Which kinda ties to my last wonderation -- does Flash's gallery share a similar profile? Like, are they dumber than most's?

Oh, and Batman has a pretty clear Rogue's Gallery profile -- his is the most distinctively patterned of the major heroes, isn't it?

The Flash also has a fairly clear Rogue's gallery.

What kind of clear?

Ita, Maybe some of them, like the Top and Capt. Boomerang, but really, I'd say any of the "whacky fun" villains of old are fair game, here--and nothing says "whacky fun" like Flash villains!

Victor, I was thinking Captain Boomerang too, because he was so prominently featued in the Evil Roll Call pages. Plus, well, he's Captain Boomerang. If there's a more inherently ridiculous supervillain in the DC Universe, I've yet to see him .

So this week my pulls were: UXM, Identity Crisis, Teen Titans, Nightwing, Gotham Central.

I sat in the parking lot and read IC #2. I need to read it again and I have questions!

Also I love the last panel of UXM. I'm still not used to the differences though.

I didn't finish up with Gotham Central, as much as I like the comic I find the artwork very confusing and muddy and while I get it's supposed to be like that and add a feel to it, characters end up looking a like to me.