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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 - Jan 27, 2005 4:26:45 am PST #7300 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!

Batgirl was so much fun!!! I loved it. Although, giving her such permanent digs in Bludhaven makes me wonder where Nightwing is going, you know?

Also, in Batman I loved the story but hated the art. Did you notice how on the lower righthand of page 3, Nightwing has all receding gums so it looks like he has reverse fangs? What is up with that? And then later on, in a typography problem: they're chasing Red Hood and they talk about a rope that is "taught" rather than "taut".

Another thing -- why is it that all the DC books (at least the ones that I get) now have that page with the news about what's coming up, what else is out the same week and the promo for the next issue on the page before the actual end of the story, rather than across from the back cover? I don't like it.

Robin was all out of whack. I thought that the story and the art really didn't mesh. Plus, the Robin was all over the place and really -- must Bruce Wayne attempt to adopt all teenaged orphen boys? Plus, there is the whole mysterious long-lost Uncle Ed. . . do you guys think he's going to turn out to be evil?


§ ita § - Jan 27, 2005 4:31:50 am PST #7301 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I admit, I was being kinda cursory in my Nightwing consumption -- I was going to finish year one, and then maybe not pick it up anymore. But I liked this week's issue, and what you said, sumi, make me think ... maybe I'll keep going.

But I'll evaluate in 2 months/4 issues.

I agree about Robin, needless to say. Will there be a point at which people get really suspicious of Wayne and his wards? Have the ever done a storyline about that, maybe one where Bruce has to defend himself against charges of inappropriate behaviour?


Steph L. - Jan 27, 2005 4:39:38 am PST #7302 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

sumi, I was just about to ask that. I flipped through Robin in the store yesterday, and all I could think was "Deus ex UNCLE?!? WTF?!?" It's so totally needless. I cannot STAND what Willingham has done to this title. Plus, the art is horrible. They all look like Charlie Brown roundheaded characters.

Batgirl was great, and the first page alone told me why ita loved it.

Nightwing made me giggle mostly, though I didn't totally understand how the bomb that didn't explode was meant to work.

Random DC question, because I don't read any Superman titles, and so the only time I see him is in the Batbooks and the JLA trades I've gotten at the library. Okay, and the GA trades I've gotten at the library. Anyway -- is Lois supposed to be a likeable character? Because every single time she's been in a Superman-related situation in a comic I've read, I have wanted her to die painfully. She seems a major bitch. Am I missing something? Why does Supes dig her?


Tom Scola - Jan 27, 2005 4:56:51 am PST #7303 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Lois is all over the map, depending on the writer. She has a long history of being completely reinterpreted. Did you think that she was that bad in Hush?

BTW, I got the Superman: TAS DVDs this week, and Dana Delaney is the definitive Lois Lane.


Steph L. - Jan 27, 2005 4:57:38 am PST #7304 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Did you think that she was that bad in Hush?

Kinda, yeah.


P.M. Marc - Jan 27, 2005 4:57:50 am PST #7305 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

Lois is the motherfucking BOMB.

She rocks hard. Superman: President Lex is a good trade to read for the Lois love.

Have the ever done a storyline about that

Sort of. In Gotham Knights--43 & 44, IIRC--a social worker tries to make a case against Bruce Wayne WRT the late Jason Todd. Kinghts Passed is a pretty good storyline, Scott Beatty-written.


Steph L. - Jan 27, 2005 5:00:10 am PST #7306 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Lois is the motherfucking BOMB.

She rocks hard.

But....she's such a bitch.


Tom Scola - Jan 27, 2005 5:02:42 am PST #7307 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Hmm. Why, exactly? Hush was one of the better recent portrayals of Lois. I think I might be desensitized to her.


P.M. Marc - Jan 27, 2005 5:06:13 am PST #7308 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

But....she's such a bitch.

Lois is tough, funny, good at her job, loves her husband, and even in distress, ain't nobody's damsel.


Steph L. - Jan 27, 2005 5:09:27 am PST #7309 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Hmm. Why, exactly? Hush was one of the better recent portrayals of Lois. I think I might be desensitized to her.

I'm have to answer that tonight, when I can look at my copy of Hush, b/c I don't want to just start spouting off nonsense.

But....she's such a bitch.

Lois is tough, funny, good at her job, loves her husband, and even in distress, ain't nobody's damsel.

Well, she doesn't have to be a damsel or bad at her job for me to like her. I guess I find her totally unsympathetic, kind of like Bruce (which might explain why Clark was drawn to Lois....), though not as extreme. I mean, I really dig Batman, but I don't much like *Bruce.*