Last night I was at the bookstore and I looked through No Man's Land vol 2.

I was so stunned by the horridness of the artwork I couldn't focus on the words.

There was one panel where it looked like some zombie freak from hell was kissing this woman. I recoiled in horror at the image and started to feel bad for that poor woman being kissed by the zombie freak when I realized it was Commisioner Gordon!!!

I did flip towards to the end and see the cult/gang of guys who shave their heads and mutilate themselves and they looked better than Gordon.

I won't be buying it. I'll find some other way to read it but I can't see myself reading it for pleasure. I'll just read it so I can understand the next volume and hope to god vol 3 's art is somewhat better.

askye, the novelization of NML will give you the plot without the bad art.

askye, the only NML I own is #2 (because it was the only one at Half-Price Books, and I am cheap), and I totally agree with you on the horrible art, and that panel in particular.

askye, it seems to be universally agreed that the art in NML #2 sucks royally. It's a shame, cause I kind of like that first story.

Ex Machina is heating up.

Re: War Games titles:

Part 5: Like Teppy, I really like Spoiler. "Oh look, she palmed a detonator." And then a nice ass-whupping. Before getting her own handed to her on a plate, yes, but it was still cool. Wasn't Black Mask in NML? Or pre-NML? His minions were featured in #1, I think, right?

Part 6: Who got decapitated in Batgirl? Does it matter? She showed up for an issue and now she's headless. Is she Lynx?

Part 7: Good issue. Loved the fight, with her adversaries admiring her moves. And Batman's psychological reasoning for pissing Catwoman off. And dude, taking over the fucking GPCD airwaves? Poor Oracle! He's stepping on toes, crossing lines. I hope for some good fallout.

And Astonishing was awesome. Parsley. Intractable. Longitude.

War Games -- I rushed through over my lunch. Yes -- Black mask was in NML. I thought Spoiler was done for -- but she is in very bad shape, isn't she? Did Black Mask just let her get away while he was talking to Tommy? I really disliked the art in Batgirl this time. Lynx? Why don't I remember her. And poor Barbara -- Bats is at his worse right now. Where the heck was Nightwing? Not to mention Tarantula?

Teppy, you really have to get No Man's Land vol 1. The art is much better. I've managed to get a few tpbs for basically the cost of shipping on ebay you might want to check it out.

I'm torn between reading the white font for War Games or just waiting until I finally get to read the tpb. I can't wait for 5 to get here so I can go leave and get my comics! (Teen Titans and Astonishing this week, and maybe see if I can find this month's Ballad of Sleeping Beauty ... I couldn't find it last week).

I suddenly feel like vomiting for 24 (?) hours.

Now that I'm done with the injoke...

Finally read last week's IC. Looks like it is a wife deal, at least in the eyes of the heroes. I was totally enchanted with "received" Batman -- it's how I like him the most. Could Boomer's son get a bigger bullseye painted on his back?

This week's War Games:

I don't know if I'm ever going to like Spoiler. Is she being written well in this crossover? As for the not shooting of Catwoman -- I hate that -- are those villains established enough to explain why they're so ineffectual? I'm surprised that Babs doesn't understand motivation through negativity. It's not that sophisticated a concept. It's weird seeing Drake Sr. in the war zone -- I'm worried he won't survive until he dies in IC like I want.

In Astounishing, Joss proves he knows what I used to like about the X-Men, and how to use it for pain. I loved the look on Wolverine's face when he saw Colossus.

That was a great face, ita.

As for the Ravens, I recall coming across them when looking for Plei's birthday comics. They were in that series of girlsomething comics with BoP. The fact that they were introduced in a girlsomething comic doesn't speak well of their effectiveness.

Our local UPS comics delivery dude got in an accident today. Lawrence is new-comics-dry until tomorrow. Then I'll have to go back and read all the chatter on AXM #5. Which is driving me nuts.

So. Teen Titans confused the hell out of me. I was pretty wrong in my War Games theory. But Astounishing was damn good. So.