I was going to avoid the Catwoman. I guess there is no way.
But, I may have to limit my purchases today due to the very tight two days before payday budget.
I happen to be very biteable, pal. I'm moist and delicious.
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sumi - Jul 28, 2004 5:16:16 am PDT #5079 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 28, 2004 5:18:32 am PDT #5080 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I guess it *was* Detective Comics, but they looked really old. Hmmm.
Could be. Detective Comics is what put the "DC" in DC Comics.
Incidentally, if someone ever proposes a Detective Comics #1 relaunch, they should be strapped down and forced to watch Schumaker Batman movies forever.
P.M. Marc - Jul 28, 2004 5:47:00 am PDT #5081 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I was going to avoid the Catwoman. I guess there is no way.
It's a decent title. Little iffy there a few issues back with the ree-cock-u-lous cult thing, but still a decent title.
I re-read the first two trades of this version recently, and they were still pretty enjoyable. (I got them back when I was only picking up trades of things, and wasn't as fully inside the DCU as I am now, so I wasn't sure if I'd still find them swell.)
Jeff Mejia - Jul 28, 2004 6:26:06 am PDT #5082 of 10000
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert
It's a decent title. Little iffy there a few issues back with the ree-cock-u-lous cult thing, but still a decent title.
To tell the truth, it's much more like a crime story with superhero elements, rather than a straight superhero story (aside from that cult side-plot), which makes sense since Ed Brubaker writes it. Not at all related to the abomination that is the movie, and I hope that the movie's failure doesn't sink the book. (I do hear that Brubaker is going to end his run around #50, so who knows what will happen after that?)
Could be. Detective Comics is what put the "DC" in DC Comics.
Yes. The next issue is #797, and it is the second longest running title in comics.
Polter-Cow - Jul 28, 2004 7:05:42 am PDT #5083 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
What's the longest?
Jeff Mejia - Jul 28, 2004 7:08:53 am PDT #5084 of 10000
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert
Action Comics, with its next issue being #818.
P.M. Marc - Jul 28, 2004 7:15:18 am PDT #5085 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
(I do hear that Brubaker is going to end his run around #50, so who knows what will happen after that?)
We can dream of Rucka taking it?
We're at what now? 30? 31? There's a good chunk of time left, I suppose.
We'll see. I like Selina much more in this version of her own title than I ever have in any of the other books.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 28, 2004 7:26:40 am PDT #5086 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Action Comics, with its next issue being #818.
Action Comics has the higher numbering, but it went weekly for a while a decade or so back. I think Detective is actually the longest-running comic book chronologically, although the company that became DC may have been publishing New Fun Comics earlier than its debut.
§ ita § - Jul 28, 2004 7:31:42 am PDT #5087 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've never managed to get into Selina Kyle. Catwoman's seemed kinda forced (how grey can Batman get?) to me except in a couple Elseworlds incarnations -- the one where she was a madam, and a Chaykin one, IIRC. To compensate, all her other Elseworlds appearances were even less tolerable than I normally find her.
As for Bats and the muddy lines, I prefer Talia.
P.M. Marc - Jul 28, 2004 7:37:44 am PDT #5088 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
To compensate, all her other Elseworlds appearances were even less tolerable than I normally find her.
Have you read Nine Lives?
I'm not sure how I feel about Talia. I keep trying and failing to make my mind up about that one.