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?

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?

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.

Did you think that she was that bad in Hush?

Kinda, yeah.

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.

Lois is the motherfucking BOMB.

She rocks hard.

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

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

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.

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.*

Have the ever done a storyline about that, maybe one where Bruce has to defend himself against charges of inappropriate behaviour?

You'd think that if we can come up with all sorts of inappropriate thoughts about his habit of taking orphaned boy acrobats into his home and them getting beat up frequently, some social worker would look askance as well. Though of course they'd be unaware of the dressing them up in short shorts or leather wrinkle.

Then again, this is a setting in which a pair of glasses fooled a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter into thinking that Clark Kent and Superman were two separate people for years despite interacting with both on a regular basis.