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usuallyhats) wrote2013-03-22 02:45 pm
usuallyhats) wrote2013-03-22 02:45 pm
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one day I will talk about things that aren't comics again
What is going on at DC at the moment? It looks like nothing but chaos and bad decisions over there. (I have successfully distanced myself from the reboot to the extent that whenever I see something referencing the events of Batman Incorporated #8 I feel this weird dislocation: "oh, yeah, that actually happened, didn't it"? Sigh.) Also, look at this awesome Young Justice-type team up we could have had! Seven awesome characters, four of whom are women and four of whom aren't white! And it sounds like it would have been pretty great. (Arrowette! :DDD) Stupid DC.
Onto comics I AM reading...
Fearless Defenders #2: Still fun, hurray! Some of the art is still a little cheesecakey, but other than that I like it a whole lot, and the colouring is really nice (though... should Dani's skin be darker? I haven't encountered the character before, but she looked a bit on the white side to my non-expert eyes, especially compared to the cover). I adore the introduction boxes, they are a lot of fun, as was Misty and Annabelle snarking at each other. ♥
Saga #11: OK, Barr's death was a little inevitable, but still sad. Hazel's "these days, I use it [a scrap of the babygro Barr made her] as a bookmark" was very effective: there was a real sense of wistfulness and distance that worked brilliantly.
Marvel #1s are still trickling into my Comixology account! I am not going to review them all, because there are a lot and mostly it would just be me going "this was fine but I'm probably not going to read any more" over and over again, but here are some I had more to say on:
Avengers Academy #1: I was fairly meh on this: I didn't really connect with most of the characters, and it had a bit too much "the world is TERRIBLE, people will betray you" for me. But I liked Finesse an awful lot, so I've ordered the first trade from the library. We shall see.
Ant-Man and the Wasp #1: I got this thinking Janet Van Dyne would be in it. SHE WAS NOT. Hank was calling himself Wasp in her memory, and there was a new Ant-Man, and he was the WORST. Sleazy and skeevy and self-satisfied and ugh. Also there was Tigra who wears only a bikini because EMPOWERMENT, I assume.
Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes #1: REALLY needs more women, but otherwise, very cute, especially Wasp! I will get round to watching the TV version eventually... ooo, look, Lovefilm has some of it! That'll make me get round to it faster.
Onto comics I AM reading...
Fearless Defenders #2: Still fun, hurray! Some of the art is still a little cheesecakey, but other than that I like it a whole lot, and the colouring is really nice (though... should Dani's skin be darker? I haven't encountered the character before, but she looked a bit on the white side to my non-expert eyes, especially compared to the cover). I adore the introduction boxes, they are a lot of fun, as was Misty and Annabelle snarking at each other. ♥
Saga #11: OK, Barr's death was a little inevitable, but still sad. Hazel's "these days, I use it [a scrap of the babygro Barr made her] as a bookmark" was very effective: there was a real sense of wistfulness and distance that worked brilliantly.
Marvel #1s are still trickling into my Comixology account! I am not going to review them all, because there are a lot and mostly it would just be me going "this was fine but I'm probably not going to read any more" over and over again, but here are some I had more to say on:
Avengers Academy #1: I was fairly meh on this: I didn't really connect with most of the characters, and it had a bit too much "the world is TERRIBLE, people will betray you" for me. But I liked Finesse an awful lot, so I've ordered the first trade from the library. We shall see.
Ant-Man and the Wasp #1: I got this thinking Janet Van Dyne would be in it. SHE WAS NOT. Hank was calling himself Wasp in her memory, and there was a new Ant-Man, and he was the WORST. Sleazy and skeevy and self-satisfied and ugh. Also there was Tigra who wears only a bikini because EMPOWERMENT, I assume.
Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes #1: REALLY needs more women, but otherwise, very cute, especially Wasp! I will get round to watching the TV version eventually... ooo, look, Lovefilm has some of it! That'll make me get round to it faster.
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Also, hi. I...don't think I ever introduced myself when I subscribed to your journal. *waves nervously*
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Hi! :D
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I'm enjoying Fearless Defenders, but the cheesecakey art distracts me a lot.
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I'm usually really bothered by that sort of thing, but not this time, for some reason. Possibly it's because the last thing I read that had Misty in it had really horrendously exploitative art, so maybe subconsciously I'm just relieved that it's better than that... :D
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I haven't read anything with Misty in it before, but she seems awesome. Can you recommend anything with her in it that doesn't have horrendous art? :D
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Yeah, and having no idea what's changed and what hasn't is such a pain. :(
I guess it's just good that Jason gets a chance to finally be happy before DC destroys itself from the inside out!
*g* yep!
I think the only Misty-centric thing I've read was Heroes for Hire: Civil War, which unfortunately was the one with the dodgy art. :( But I did like the writing for her in it, so it might be worth checking out if you brace yourself for depressingly oversexualised art?
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For some reason I am much more forgiving of anything non-current with bad art. Came out last year? Well, at least it's not coming out now! I'll give it a shot, thanks. :D
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So I am! I suppose it feels like more of a fait accompli if it's not current, so getting annoyed couldn't do anything about it? Hope you enjoy it!
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but i really like how fun and warm the show is, and also - massive plot arc that resolves in a two episode epic finale of coolness (this is series 1. the series 2 plot arc is a bit more all over the place, but there are lots of really good bits).
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Kara leading Young Justice would only be the actual best thing, gah. That Supergirl team-up arc has been on my to-read list since forever but last time I bought comics I ended up reading a Robin/Batgirl crossover instead. Oops.
Do you find that Marvel is...weirder than DC? It may just be the specific comics I've been reading versus the ones I'm used to, since I mostly read Batman which tries to be all srs bsns. Because I haven't had this problem with, say, Hawkeye, so far. But I've read a couple X-Men spin-off things and they just get really crazy really fast. Magical dragon transformations! Cowboy dominatrix clone villain babysitter ladies! Mystical Katamari Damacy realms belonging to the Russian Vampire Mafia! And I'm just like, what, what, I'm still trying to get past "no metas in Gotham." :P
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I am rather worried about Morrison's Wonder Woman too. The stuff he's been saying about it hasn't been very reassuring. :(
I didn't realise how much I wanted to see Kara leading her own team til just now! I also think Jaime and Damian interacting would potentially have been awesome. Is that the World's Finest one? I've been meaning to get around to that too!
I've not noticed that particularly, but that may be because I've not read that many X-books? (Apart from a few volumes of Astonishing X-Men. And the Dark Phoenix Saga. And some X-factor. And a bit of X-23. ...I'll come in again.) There do seem to be a lot of vampires though. Actually, the ones you're describing sound awesome. Would you recommend them?
ETA forgot to say, I love your icon! You have the best Cass icons.
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Is that the World's Finest one?
It also has M'gann! And I think some other people? I suppose it is technically a World's Finest, as it does involve Super/Bat crossing-over, but I believe the name of the arc is something like "Good-Looking Corpse."
Actually, the ones you're describing sound awesome. Would you recommend them?
Haha, I have only read, like, two X-Men things so far and they were Wolverine & Jubilee and then X-23: The Killing Dream, which is the first volume of Laura's ongoing. I did really like Wolverine & Jubilee, although it was a lot more bizarre than I expected it to be, even knowing about the whole vampire bit going in. I like Jubilee a bunch, and she gets to be angry and deal with her issues...by fighting dragons with her vampire powers in the Katamari realm. At that point I was just like...I don't get it...but if I stopped thinking about it, it was fun. Which is a legitimate approach to writing comics, I expect. And the art was really pretty, and everyone looked...actually like reasonably proportioned humans, which was nice.
What X-23 have you read? I like Laura, and I really liked the beginning, but I was mostly just really confused by everything that happened in The Killing Dream. I didn't understand what was happening with Wolverine, or later when they ran into Claudine Renko.
I love your icon! You have the best Cass icons.
Thank you! I made this one because Cass is super adorable in Robin/Batgirl: Fresh Blood. :) She has awkward tea parties with Tim and it is great. Anyway, you can borrow it if you like! Or a bunch of the other Cass icons I had before came from
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I believe the name of the arc is something like "Good-Looking Corpse."
Ooh, I will have to investigate that! I was thinking of this one, which has various Superpeople and Batpeople teaming up...
*g* That does sound fun, I'll have to poke the library for a copy. I've only seen a bit of Jubilee in various X-23 things but she seems cool.
I was confused by The Killing Dream, too, but since it was marked Volume One I assumed I was meant to be and that it would make sense eventually. But then it turned out that it was about the third X-23 volume one... /o\ I got her origin story from the X-23 half of NYX/X-23, and what happened next from X-23: Weapon X - I'm not sure I'd entirely recommend either of them, but I wouldn't entirely anti-recommend them, either. I think you might like X-23: Chaos Theory, though: Jubilee is adorable in it, and there's a lot of Laura learning how to be a person and not a weapon. ♥
Thank you! *goes off to investigate that post* She is, isn't she? I really need to reread that arc.
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I was thinking of this one
Ooh, that looks neat! Yeah, the one I was thinking of starts in Supergirl #60 and runs for, like, five issues or so. I don't think it ever got collected into anything? Because it was pretty close to the end of the old Supergirl run.
I knew Laura had been in other stuff and had had miniseries before she got her ongoing, but the weird thing about it was that they did a pretty good job explaining her backstory...and not a very good job explaining anything else. Like, okay, she was engineered to kill, she did X-Force, she likes Julian, but is Wolverine possessed? Why does she get the little star on her hand? Did she actually sell her soul to the demon? What does it mean that Claudine Renko is a clone of Mister Sinister? Why does Claudine babysit all those kids in a glorified sewer while dressed like a cowboy stripper? Why does Mister Sinister go away when she tries to take Laura's body? SO MANY QUESTIONS. (You don't have to try to answer them. :P )
Jubilee is adorable in it, and there's a lot of Laura learning how to be a person and not a weapon
That does sound cute. Is that the one where she babysits the Fantastic Four's children, or is that the third one?
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*g* it's all flooding back now! (I read it the Christmas before last, so am a little hazy on the details...) The star thing does get explained in Chaos Theory (or "explained" at least), but no idea on everything else! I've generally resigned myself to never knowing what's going on with Wolverine, because he's in ALL the books and I can't bothered to track it all down...
Is that the one where she babysits the Fantastic Four's children, or is that the third one?
There's a bit of that, yeah!
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Haha, that's always how it is with comics, isn't it? And yeah, Wolverine does seem to be rather like Batman in that he has ridiculously many comic books/team-ups/etc. Also in that he is exceedingly grumpy and pretends like he has no friends but actually has like 100, including the sidekicks he drags around. Also in that he wears a pointy hat when fighting crime.
Your Fearless Defenders icon is v. pretty. :)
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Thank you! That panel made me fall in love with the comic, so I just had to icon it. ♥