Thanks, sumi. I'm going to swing by a bigger comics shop about 20 minutes up the road after work tomorrow and see if they have any, but my local shop did say they were re-ordering.
ETA: There are also apparently several Browncoats in my rinky-dink town who I was unaware of, considering.
Okay, so I was trying to find pictures to show someone Wonder Woman's various incarnations and I found this picture, which is just wrong on so many levels. [link]
There's a long history of Wonder Woman getting tied up and then menaced by phallic-shaped objects: [link]
And also: [link]
My favorite part of this one is the (evil) cat unlacing WW's shoe: [link]
Actually, I'm hearing that Serenity is selling out all over the place. My Comic Book Guy didn't even have enough for everyone's hold list - I'm lucky my name is near the front of the alphabet.
Interrupting you people and your Serenity-havingness for a moment with a thought problem...I received an email today which asked "What would've happened if Superman really existed?" IF:
1) Superman were a real person
2) The comic book lore about him is ture
3) it's the early 1960's
My scenario is this, if American history were to as it is through 1962, and then Superman were to make his presence known in that same year, how would that, in your opinion, affect the cold war? Also, how would that affect the relationship between America and Asia, in regard to the resently ended Korean War? Do you think Kennedy would still be assassinated?
My initial answer was that at least we'd never have had the travesty of SuperDog and SuperCat, but on a more serious note, would superhero comics have evolved? Would Supes have become a tool of the USG, or assassinated by them?
"What would've happened if Superman really existed?"
It's one of the principal themes of the Watchmen.
would superhero comics have evolved?
Pirate comics!
The third WW comic was by underground comic artist Trina Robbins. (DC let her write a few issues of WW while they were working on her post-Crisis reboot). She specifically set out to write a golden-age WW story, and deliberately played up the bondage aspects of the character.
Trina has written extensively women in comics, BTW.
I think I'm going to request Zoe for #2 and Wash for #3. That is, if my comic book guy will let me.