Finally got my hands on (the last, as the comic book guy kept reminding me) Batgirl. I figured the Lazarus Pit and her mother would be a combination that'd bring her back, but I figured "her" would be Batgirl. Instead we have a chick called Cain. Hmm. Hmm.

The back pages of all my DC comics says IC5 was out this week. It wasn't, was it? I didn't get it in my pull, and I didn't notice it on the shelves.

Have also read BoP--how does that timeline fit with the most recent issue of Nightwing? Firestorm was...well, very talky.

Model Sheet from the upcoming Superboy and the Legion of Super Heroes cartoon.

Which is so strange given that it was Supergirl that joined the Legion in JLU. Also, however badly drawn, at least it looks like the classic Legion.

ita, isn't Cain already part of her name? Even before this last issue?

I guess I didn't understand how she came back if she didn't go into the Lazarus pit. Did her mother did so that she could live ?

Sumi, I thought that Cass *was* in the Lazarus Pit. That was what the end of the scene with Steph (and boy, that actually made me a little sniffly, b/c they are SO the OTP) was about -- I assumed that Cass was dead, which is why we saw the Steph scene, but then Shiva tossed Cass in the Pit, which brought her back to life.

Oh, okay --that makes sense. (What about the other times that she was resurrected? Did we know about that?)

Sumi, I was reacting to the way she called herself merely Cain at the end of the issue--I'm assuming that's what she's going by instead of Batgirl. As for the other resurrections, I'd assumed (loving that ass) Mummy Dearest was referring to the three times of giving her life as a) birth b) giving her back her ability to fight and c) the actual Lazarus pit resurrection.

You mean when Shiva said "I gave you life 3 times"? The first was, obviously, giving birth; the second was in the storyline where this empathic metahuman somehow rearranged things in Cass' brain so that verbal communication was less difficult for her (this is in the second TPB, IIRC), but the problem was that that messed up her ability to fight in that I-can-read-your-every-move way, so Shiva came to her and basically said, I can teach you to fight the way you used to, but if I do, you must agree to meet me in 1 year (I think it was a year -- or was it less?) and we fight to the death. Shiva actually did kill Cass, but used some weird mojo (or phlebotnum) to bring her back to life. And then the third time was this time, thanks to the Pit.

t edit Or, what ita said. With fewer words.

Astounshing #13 out this week according to the Diamond Comics list.

Excellent.

Is Joss still writing that?