Random Thoughts Regarding Recent Comics (Spoiler-Lite)

- I have no complaints about the new Birds of Prey line up. NONE.
--I liked the line about not worrying about other team/organization memberships. I guess Oracle's decided she likes liaisons.
--- The Dinah monologue went a little too long, I think. I'm glad she's not vanished from the book, but I didn't really need that much retelling of her history. It's not like I learned anything new.
---- The bits with Dinah Sr. were pretty cute though.
- And I loved the montage at the beginning! Roses!

- checkmate felt shockingly incoherent today. I'm not sure I'm fond of the art style and I think it's missing something without Alan. Michael's great but he lacks Alan's particular momentum, I think.
-- I do want to see who he picks as Bishop though.

- GLC was awesome as always. I like when they go with the crazier concepts.
-- And also illustrated why I love Guy so. See. Hal will just defeat you. But Guy will defeat you in a way that's utterly embarrassing in the process. If only because you just got your ass kicked by Guy Gardner.
--- Poor Soranik. It was doomed to happen. But I really wish we could see a faction of scary neo-nazi-esque Sinestro would-be followers. They ought to exist somewhere and it would be interesting to see them interact with Soranik.
---- Iolande got a speaking role! Yay! More Corps women!
----- Isamot and Vath are still boring. Darnit.

- GL was...much as I expected and felt oddly disjointed to me. Maybe that's intentional though. It's only the first issue of the arc so I'll refrain judgement to the end. I'll be glad when the story is over though.

- Supergirl was a disappointment from last month. Not bad but...I think Kelly should stick with the dramatic aspects for now and lay off the action.
-- The Supergirl/Nightwing stuff was actually one of the few things I liked about Loeb's run but it didn't work as well for me here.
--- The stuff with Captain Boomerang was pretty cute though.

- Finally got to read the Snowfall hardcover. Very neat. Very mythic. Of course I loved the Snow and Bigby stories. Surprisingly my favorite was Ambrose's. Poor guy. I also liked seeing the Frau's ties to so many other Fables residents.

- I still like Batwoman. In a lot of ways I find her a lot less cliched than Isis...who I also love, don't get me wrong.
-- And I'm probably very much in the minority on this but the descriptive phrase "lesbian socialite" does not grate nearly as much as "silent, asian ninja girl with sewn up mouth", I didn't actually dislike Cassandra, mind you. But I tend to like my heroes a little less openly over the top. (See also: Impulse)
--- Speaking of. I am kind of amused about the bitching about Batwoman's costume when she first appeared. Sure high-heels are impractical. But considering the Batgirl costumes... Compared to a teenager in a fetish mask, I'll take the high-heels. (that costume, as cool/creepy as it was, was way too fetishy for an underage heroine. If they'd just declared her to be 19, I probably wouldn't complain at all. But she's not. Which makes the costume a little problematic)

- How long exactly did it take to resume the Eye of Ekron plot?
-- I think I've given up on making sense of the timeline of this thing.
--- Still fun though.
---- Never thought, when it started, I'd be the most interested in the Black Adam and Question plots. I've always liked the Question, but Black Adam always seemed overrated. I guess I really like Isis and Osiris.

- I still don't think the choice of a female traitor in Teen Titans is misogynistic. Sorry

- This is old but I still think the Dodge storyline in Robin was actually leading to a Steph resolution. Slowly. I mean, he's freaking out because of a gung-ho teenage hero with more enthusiasm than training, some natural ability but definitely not a planning type who gets horribly injured trying to bite off more than he can chew. Tim's particular reaction seemed to subtextually indicate a relationship to what happened to Steph, so maybe we'll *FINALLY* get to see him address it.

- I'm still very much behind on NaNoWriMo, but not as much as it looks like on Ragnell's site. I'm just refusing to update my counter until I've caught up enough that I won't be depressed by the gap that remains. At least now I can convince myself "Hey, the gap isn't THAT big. It's just that the counter is not caught up.
-- At least I have a few weeks to catch up.
--- And my protagonist stopped acting like Guy Gardner. Thank god.

- JSA next month!!! Yay!