burntcopper | Comicses

This week, we have many. Maaaaany. And oh, the *love*.

100 Bullets - Wiley is love. There is no way to explain how much love for the complexity of this, with the Trust and Dizzy and the sheer dirtiness of this lot. Not to mention the art. In places it's a little porny, but we're talking everyone looks in proportion and real, and we got all kinds of bodytypes and emotions wrought so clearly. But the covers? You could make posters of these damn covers.

Green Arrow #40 - Finally, someone mentions Arrowette! Yay. Dammit, Ollie, just admit you know about your daughter. Not so much in love with the art, because it doth weird things to faces. You couldn't recognise any of the Titans, and suddenly Timmmy is *tall*. Wheh? But combat training. Heh. I love Ollie far too much. Especially his whole Soccer Mom aspect. My word, someone noticed Connor is actually *not* white. But not telling the Titans that you're HIV positive so they can get to know you first? Hellooooo, this is stuff they need to know. Medical stuff, life or death situations?

JSA #69 - Hmm. Rather interesting. What with the very pointed reminder that is *is* 1951, and then the screwed-upness that is the original JSA. mmm, Heather is happy.

Ultimates #2 - more political and so on stuff. Brian Braddock! Squee! Ah, incesty louche and cultured Maximoffs. The new Thor? So much better with the environmental and counter-culture. It's... just so much more fun now that they have to live in the real world of budget cuts and PR gaffes.

The Pulse #9 - eh. I can see where they're going, and I can see how serious it is and the journalisitc and.. Meh. Seriously not actually caring about the characters. Pulse just not as good as Alias was.

Gotham Central #27 - Excuse me. More incoherent squeeing. Procedure and police and Catwoman and Slam Bradley and Josie going 'if your source is a bloke, get a cup of coffee'... Mmm. The art. All grimy. As is the story, with added S&M clubs and people fracturing but at the same time being terribly normal, with dominatrixes lounging about and asking about people's days. There needs to be more police procedural in comics, there really does. With little 'oh fuck you' bits and people making bad jokes and normal work-day vibes... GC is really Homicide/Shield in disguise.

Nightwing #101 - hmm. Didn't love it so much, but it's very good Dick and decent story, plus fills in gaps. As

thete1 says, makes more sense of Bruce firing Dick with the tantrum than just getting shot, considering how beaten up he got on a regular basis as Robin. She puts it better than I do. But Eee! Earth-2 suit! Plus I like the proto-Timmy suit, as it proves that Bruce had had it in mind for a Robin outfit anyway. Can't quite get why he made Jason wear Tim's old one, though, if he disapproved of the bare legs at the beginning... Dear God. What am I thinking. This is Jason I'm talking. Bruce would've got Jason in the skimpiest stuff he could if he could get away with it.

LOTDK #187 - Riddler pretty. Flashbacks pretty. The gay thing being a complete non-issue, the affair being the most important thing. 'Nosy reporter' may be a badge of honour in Metropolis, but in Gotham it's a death sentence.' Yay! Riddler's absolute studied yet effortless air, that's he's clearly worked so hard for...:happy sigh:

I have declared this to be a good week in comics. Only one 'eh' issue, and considering how sporadic it is, am going to drop it. Though a small point of interest I've found. Marvel's approach to cops and journailsts is very movie-like - the flash, the cleanliness - contrasted with DC's weariness and workaday aspect. All the cops just want some more coffee and for the really hard stuff to get dropped in someone else's lap, because they've promised their kid they'd try to make the recital.

Lost. Let me squee. And hug Locke and love Jin and Sun and Hurley and Sayid and Shannon and - and - Boone, go be a good little Robin.