For me:
Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight
Nightwing
Gotham Central
And I'll be holding Powers 5 (because I'm still behind a couple of issues.)
I'm a vision of hotliness, and how weird is that? Mystical comas. You know, if you can stand the horror of a higher power hijacking your mind and body so that it can give birth to itself, I really recommend 'em.
Cordelia ,'You're Welcome'
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Discussion of Buffy and Angel comics, books, and more. Please don't get into spoilery details in the first week of release.
sumi - Oct 12, 2004 4:29:01 am PDT #6158 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Steph L. - Oct 12, 2004 5:00:49 am PDT #6159 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Are they really shipping tomorrow, even though yesterday was a holiday?
§ ita § - Oct 12, 2004 5:05:37 am PDT #6160 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
ComicList says yes.
sumi - Oct 12, 2004 6:06:08 am PDT #6161 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
So does Graham Crackers website. I don't think that most business are closed for Columbus Day. (My local library was open for example.)
CaBil - Oct 12, 2004 6:25:09 am PDT #6162 of 10000
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Columbus Day is not a shipping holiday. UPS worked.
Steph L. - Oct 12, 2004 6:26:09 am PDT #6163 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Excellent.
§ ita § - Oct 12, 2004 7:37:14 am PDT #6164 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
FTR, ComicList has an RSS feed so you can friend it in LJ and have the list pop up automatically.
amych - Oct 12, 2004 7:47:30 am PDT #6165 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I did not know that. Thank you, ita.
sumi - Oct 12, 2004 7:59:01 am PDT #6166 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Thank you ita! I didn't know that either.
Steph L. - Oct 13, 2004 11:01:59 am PDT #6167 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
So. On the War Games titles --
Legends of the Dark Knight: I have a question about the art. On page 7 (the page where Batgirl tells Nightwing "Race you there,) in the lower farthest-right panel, I really thought that was Catwoman, the way her head/face was drawn. But I looked carefully through all the fight scenes at the arena, and Catwoman isn't in any of them. My conclusion is that it was either a mistake, or shading that confused the hell out of me.
Nightwing: man, show, don't tell. I loved in previous issues, we could see Dick cracking up, without him ever actually addressing it. This one, though, was way too full of exposition-as-narration for me.
And, because I am very slow to get the message in a narrative sometimes (and I mean the whole of War Games, not either of these issues specifically), it struck me how much has gotten fucked-up because of a lack of communication. Dick hasn't told Bruce about Blockbuster, and he's going crazy because of it. Steph didn't tell anyone (until it was too late) that she was responsible for kicking off the gang war. Batman didn't tell Oracle that he was going to hijack her communications system.
Batman may be the *worst* at good communication skillz, but he's far from the only one who suffers in this area.
Or perhaps I'm stating the obvious.