The Last Time Hal Jordan, Carol Ferris, and Hector Hammond Were All In A Room Together!
And now: an apology.
I'm sorry for showing you a scene from the last time Hal Jordan, Carol Ferris, and Hector Hammond were all in a room together.
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Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Luckily, they never made it to his bedroom.
In honor of the love-triangle-that-never-was as Geoff Johns recently wrote it in Green Lantern Secret Origins I present:
And now: an apology.
And now: an apology.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Put me in the minority here.
The Top Five Reasons Why I Will Be Reading Trinity and Not Whining About It:
1. Kurt Busiek: There are very few writers I trust more than Busiek to deliver entertaining and dependable comics. He is the squishy Italian bread with the little sesame seeds on top in the bread aisle of comic writers. There's never a time when I'm not in the mood for Busiek. I know when I read a comic written by him that I am going to come away feeling pleased with my purchase and vindicated in my utter adoration for superheroes and superhero comics. I feel better about the world after reading Busiek's take on a fictional realm where people fly around in ridiculous outfits. So knowing that I will be able to walk into my comic shop and purchase a Busiek comic every week for the next year is cause for excitement.
2. Fabian Nicieza: While Nicieza is more hit-and-miss for me in the grand scheme of his writing, whenever he is paired with Kurt Busiek (or whenever he follows Busiek on a title) I always enjoy his work. He has a fabulous talent with humorous dialogue and plot, as well as the necessary gravitas to keep the characters grounded and dimensional. Additionally, his past work has proven how well he can drum up interest in minor characters. As his role in Trinity will be fleshing out Busiek's Big Three story with satellite characters and plots from the rest of the DCU, I've no doubt he'll succeed in making the backups just as exciting as the front story. Already, the first issue is tapping into unfamiliar territory for me in the DCU and I love it.
3. Mark Bagley: I have the entire collection of his run on Ultimate Spider-Man (judge me all you want!) and while I always appreciated and respected his art , I noticed in the last two arcs of the title that his style had begun to soften in a way that marked a great improvement. No longer do his teenage girls all have the figures of bodybuilders! This is already evident in Trinity. Bagley's Wonder Woman is muscular but not ridiculously so. Same for his Batman and Superman. Also, and I don't know how much this is due to inkers, his line work is not so sharp anymore that I feel like I'll poke an eye out if I look too long. But his greatest strength, and the one that Trinity is riding on, is how productive of an artist he is. He produced 110 issues (and covers) of a monthly comic series without fill-ins or delays. That immediately grants someone godlike status in today's artistic climate for Big Two books. And you know what else? He draws a hot Wally West. Who knew blue could be such a good color for Wally!
4. Consistent writing team: Countdown had almost as strong a figure as Kurt Busiek guiding the title: Paul Dini. Unfortunately, all the other less-skilled creators working on the book made it so you couldn't count on Dini to make the thing work. I don't know how they organized the writing shift or, well, anything behind Countdown but it all unraveled into utter crap. Utter crap with about one or two good moments that were undone to make way for further crap before the title ended. Trinity is going to have two writers who have previously worked together (at Marvel and DC) and in this weekly they're going to be on the same page--and both writers are quality guys. And while I've seen the entire internet clamoring to share their universal opinion on Trinity defying the previous point of DC weeklies with its focus on central characters rather than minor characters, I've got to say--that's a good thing. We know who Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman are and we know we're going to get consistent and established takes on them. This is a good thing. It really is. I'd much rather read about characters I'm very familiar with acting the way I expect them to act than read about characters I either know well or don't and watch them characterized haphazardly so...what? People get exposed to them? What Kyle Rayner fan wants anyone new to the character to have them get to know the Countdown version? This Kyle fan sure as hell does NOT.
5. Consistent art team: This was one of the most widespread complaints about Countdown and for good reason. The layouts, the costumes, the settings, the character base models were all inconsistent from week to week. People still don't know what the hell a Monitor's really supposed to look like. (Though J.G. Jones is working on that, apparently. Thanks!) With Trinity's split, we're getting the same artist and inker every week for main story and so far the solicits support the hope that Nicieza's backups will have the same rotating artists working together. Now, the backups could dissolve into a similar mess that plagued Countdown but I'm optimistic they won't. I know and enjoy most of the artists listed and hopefully none of the X-factor artists have the same blob style that one or two of the Countdown artists exhibited. ("Blob style" = why I try not to talk about comic art very often. I just remember a lot of the Countdown art being ill-defined and floaty and blobbish in a way that all jumbled together in my memory to haunt my worst nightmares.)
So until Bagley's replaced by Ed Benes or Eclipso and the Spectre take over the backups, make mine Trinity!
1. Kurt Busiek: There are very few writers I trust more than Busiek to deliver entertaining and dependable comics. He is the squishy Italian bread with the little sesame seeds on top in the bread aisle of comic writers. There's never a time when I'm not in the mood for Busiek. I know when I read a comic written by him that I am going to come away feeling pleased with my purchase and vindicated in my utter adoration for superheroes and superhero comics. I feel better about the world after reading Busiek's take on a fictional realm where people fly around in ridiculous outfits. So knowing that I will be able to walk into my comic shop and purchase a Busiek comic every week for the next year is cause for excitement.
2. Fabian Nicieza: While Nicieza is more hit-and-miss for me in the grand scheme of his writing, whenever he is paired with Kurt Busiek (or whenever he follows Busiek on a title) I always enjoy his work. He has a fabulous talent with humorous dialogue and plot, as well as the necessary gravitas to keep the characters grounded and dimensional. Additionally, his past work has proven how well he can drum up interest in minor characters. As his role in Trinity will be fleshing out Busiek's Big Three story with satellite characters and plots from the rest of the DCU, I've no doubt he'll succeed in making the backups just as exciting as the front story. Already, the first issue is tapping into unfamiliar territory for me in the DCU and I love it.
3. Mark Bagley: I have the entire collection of his run on Ultimate Spider-Man (judge me all you want!) and while I always appreciated and respected his art , I noticed in the last two arcs of the title that his style had begun to soften in a way that marked a great improvement. No longer do his teenage girls all have the figures of bodybuilders! This is already evident in Trinity. Bagley's Wonder Woman is muscular but not ridiculously so. Same for his Batman and Superman. Also, and I don't know how much this is due to inkers, his line work is not so sharp anymore that I feel like I'll poke an eye out if I look too long. But his greatest strength, and the one that Trinity is riding on, is how productive of an artist he is. He produced 110 issues (and covers) of a monthly comic series without fill-ins or delays. That immediately grants someone godlike status in today's artistic climate for Big Two books. And you know what else? He draws a hot Wally West. Who knew blue could be such a good color for Wally!
4. Consistent writing team: Countdown had almost as strong a figure as Kurt Busiek guiding the title: Paul Dini. Unfortunately, all the other less-skilled creators working on the book made it so you couldn't count on Dini to make the thing work. I don't know how they organized the writing shift or, well, anything behind Countdown but it all unraveled into utter crap. Utter crap with about one or two good moments that were undone to make way for further crap before the title ended. Trinity is going to have two writers who have previously worked together (at Marvel and DC) and in this weekly they're going to be on the same page--and both writers are quality guys. And while I've seen the entire internet clamoring to share their universal opinion on Trinity defying the previous point of DC weeklies with its focus on central characters rather than minor characters, I've got to say--that's a good thing. We know who Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman are and we know we're going to get consistent and established takes on them. This is a good thing. It really is. I'd much rather read about characters I'm very familiar with acting the way I expect them to act than read about characters I either know well or don't and watch them characterized haphazardly so...what? People get exposed to them? What Kyle Rayner fan wants anyone new to the character to have them get to know the Countdown version? This Kyle fan sure as hell does NOT.
5. Consistent art team: This was one of the most widespread complaints about Countdown and for good reason. The layouts, the costumes, the settings, the character base models were all inconsistent from week to week. People still don't know what the hell a Monitor's really supposed to look like. (Though J.G. Jones is working on that, apparently. Thanks!) With Trinity's split, we're getting the same artist and inker every week for main story and so far the solicits support the hope that Nicieza's backups will have the same rotating artists working together. Now, the backups could dissolve into a similar mess that plagued Countdown but I'm optimistic they won't. I know and enjoy most of the artists listed and hopefully none of the X-factor artists have the same blob style that one or two of the Countdown artists exhibited. ("Blob style" = why I try not to talk about comic art very often. I just remember a lot of the Countdown art being ill-defined and floaty and blobbish in a way that all jumbled together in my memory to haunt my worst nightmares.)
So until Bagley's replaced by Ed Benes or Eclipso and the Spectre take over the backups, make mine Trinity!
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Still not as bad as the time Bane instructed a limbo course.
Know why you should never ask Orion, the Dog of War, to play "give me five"?
Superman does.
Superman does.
Monday, February 4, 2008
Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue.
I was going to write up a long post, full of angry ranting about the glorification of the male child we see everywhere in society still and especially in comics like, oh say, Batman's entire run and Green Arrow/Black Canary #4 and the recent Green Lantern arc that was like a celebration of the familial XY chromosome, all to lead up to me saying I'm pleased with the much talked about panel in Batman 673. But really it comes down to this:
In his mind, Batman mourns the loss of his daughters as much as the loss of his sons.
Not only does that present a Batman I can hold up as a hero but it also appeases me on behalf of Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain and Barbara Gordon.
In his mind, Batman mourns the loss of his daughters as much as the loss of his sons.
Not only does that present a Batman I can hold up as a hero but it also appeases me on behalf of Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain and Barbara Gordon.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Non-bitter post!
This is exactly why Kyle Rayner belongs with the Green Lantern Corps:
The JLA just doesn't understand the need for super dorky teamwork in times of crisis. Whereas, I'm pretty sure there's a clause in the Green Lantern contract stating that Lanterns must exercise supreme dorkiness whenever possible and preferably when on duty fighting planetary crime. Yes, even Hal Jordan. You don't see him looking askance when Guy and Kyle break out their musketeer talk. (Perhaps this even explains the original falling out between Batman and Guy Gardner. Damn Batman and his tyranny on Dumas-inspired battle cries!)
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Not the weekend I expected.
Friday night I made it about half a mile down the road from my workplace when I got a flat tire and had to get my car into the nearest parking lot. With a cell-phone on its last power notch and the only person answering their phone being my sister stuck at home with sick babies and a bracing Michigan winter wonderland temperature, I called a cab to get me home for the night until I could muster up assistance.
Saturday morning I drove to the parking lot with my mother to meet a tow truck and the driver informed us as soon as we got there, "Yeah, your car was broken into." Staring into my poor, violated vehicle and seeing glass all over the floor and seats, the door handle broken off, and my trusty radio/cd player gone made me realize how events like that seem so common place until they happen to you. When I left my vehicle there I made sure to grab all my personal information out of the glove box as well my cd cases so they only got the radio. Of course, I realized later that the thief(s) also got the complementary Spider-Man 3 soundtrack inside it.
I did have a few boxes of books inside my car but they were mostly penguin classics and literary stuff--not the type of thing to pawn off for big money--so they were still in my car after the theft. However, in driving my car home from the repair shop I took it to, I realized that the box I kept on the backseat floor was gone, gone, gone. Inside had been the entire Brian Michael Bendis run of Daredevil in trade. And you know what? It's not funny that in rummaging through all the stuff in my vehicle they only took my cd player and a box of comics.
IT'S HILARIOUS.
I had such a giggle fit after I realized those books were stolen. It was very cathartic. Because, fortunately, the only reason they were in my car was because I planned to sell them as soon I got off my lazy butt and into a bookstore and/or ebay listing. I hope whoever took them took them to read. And I hope they suffer. Flipping hundreds of pages ahead, wondering when Daredevil is going to show up again in his own comic. Asking themselves, "Demon baby? In my Daredevil comic?" (It's more likely than you think.) Waiting in excitement as a Daredevil-Black Widow team up races to the exciting climax of...standing in a bath towel and speaking French for no reason argggggghhhh.
Congratulations, Bendis! Judging by the recent plots spawning in New Avengers, I can tell you know your readership well.
Saturday morning I drove to the parking lot with my mother to meet a tow truck and the driver informed us as soon as we got there, "Yeah, your car was broken into." Staring into my poor, violated vehicle and seeing glass all over the floor and seats, the door handle broken off, and my trusty radio/cd player gone made me realize how events like that seem so common place until they happen to you. When I left my vehicle there I made sure to grab all my personal information out of the glove box as well my cd cases so they only got the radio. Of course, I realized later that the thief(s) also got the complementary Spider-Man 3 soundtrack inside it.
I did have a few boxes of books inside my car but they were mostly penguin classics and literary stuff--not the type of thing to pawn off for big money--so they were still in my car after the theft. However, in driving my car home from the repair shop I took it to, I realized that the box I kept on the backseat floor was gone, gone, gone. Inside had been the entire Brian Michael Bendis run of Daredevil in trade. And you know what? It's not funny that in rummaging through all the stuff in my vehicle they only took my cd player and a box of comics.
IT'S HILARIOUS.
I had such a giggle fit after I realized those books were stolen. It was very cathartic. Because, fortunately, the only reason they were in my car was because I planned to sell them as soon I got off my lazy butt and into a bookstore and/or ebay listing. I hope whoever took them took them to read. And I hope they suffer. Flipping hundreds of pages ahead, wondering when Daredevil is going to show up again in his own comic. Asking themselves, "Demon baby? In my Daredevil comic?" (It's more likely than you think.) Waiting in excitement as a Daredevil-Black Widow team up races to the exciting climax of...standing in a bath towel and speaking French for no reason argggggghhhh.
Congratulations, Bendis! Judging by the recent plots spawning in New Avengers, I can tell you know your readership well.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Comics for the week of January 16, 2008
Alright, I feel like taking about comics and doing the weekly run-down sounds like a solid concept.
Birds of Prey 114: I only just got caught up on the post-Simone run of BoP this week and I have to say after adventures that involved Huntress driving a school bus off a bridge and using a trio of punks for character references, Lady Blackhawk wrecking a cab, a buggy, a train, and a stealth copter on her way to the bar where Hal Jordan hangs out in order to honor Big Barda (what is it with this title being the only place where minor heroes get a little love after they've died?), and Misfit saving Oracle's butt in the field using the power of....text messaging--after such fun comics that proved how well the team was working together, I'm not loving the step back that's been present in McKeever's story so far. Obviously, I'm talking about the Oracle-Misfit relationship. And for me it wasn't even about Babs breaking Charlie's ankle, though I thought that was very out of character. It was Babs then ignoring her and leaving the room that struck me as an odd storytelling choice. Perhaps McKeever is going to answer for their interaction throughout this arc but something should have been done directly in that moment to redeem Babs and her caretaking of Misfit. Babs' inner monologue at the end of 108 is the characterization I'm judging her by! So, McKeever, make my eyes misty rather than twitchy.
Even with all that, this is still one of my favorite corners of the DC universe and also in this issue Manhunter makes a man make a mess of his pants, Huntress and Zinda bring out the most irreverent in each other, and then Zinda fights an old Blackhawk villain on a roof, in her PJs, with only a gun for backup. Needless to say, I'm sticking around until Babs locks Misfit in the basement and tells her to kill rats for sustenance.
Booster Gold 6: One of the first trades I read to break myself into the DC universe was "Formerly Known as the Justice League" and it left me with an undying love for Booster Gold and Blue Beetle. So I don't care if it's cheating, but I've wanted him to be brought back almost as long as I've known the character. But I never thought it'd actually happen, even with Booster being so determined from issue 1 of this series and Ted appearing on solicited covers.
When I actually stopped freaking out and made it to the end of this issue, Booster and I had the EXACT same look on our faces:
I don't care if it's not perfectly wrapped up or too good to be true because as of January 16 and through the rest of the month and some of February it is the truth. And for as long as it lasts, I'll be emitting yelps only audible to bats and porpoises whenever I think of "Next Month: Blue and Gold Chapter One!"
Flash 236: For my part, I prefer to think of Mark Waid's run as setting the tone for Flash's new course rather than his own preference that the upcoming writers are going to undo/ignore. I am really enjoying Wally and Linda as parents and their children are already believable and vibrant characters. So I'll be standing in front of the family waving a big, flaming stick at the group of people who are silly and think that it would make any sense at all to dump the kids from the book. But, then, Wonder Woman says it better than I can:
--and that's fun!
Before leaving the title forever--again--Waid reminds us that no one writes Wally like he can.
When is Wally going to be in the JLA title? Soon? *sigh*
The final chapter of the back-up story is even better, with Braithwaite providing a painted art style that's beautiful and energetic and Waid and John Rogers packing four pages with great interaction and a sentimentality than any Flash fan has to love. Flashes are awesome! But Flash-wives are even cooler:
Now that's the kind of fridge action I, as a fan of superhero romances, want to see more of in comics!
As a sidenote: I was going to complain about the artist making Iris' head giant for her body but on Friday a young girl around that age came into the library where I work and her head was equally as towering upon her small frame as Wally's illustrated daughter. So there you have it. Sometimes kids do have freakishly disproportionate heads and comics are representing that quota!
Immortal Iron Fist 12: I don't know what's wrong with me but I'm not grooving on this comic as much as everyone else. The last issue that got me really excited was the the story of the pirate queen iron fist. Since then, rather than actually getting pumped over the qualities of this comic, I feel like I'm intellectually recognizing the stuff that other bloggers will mention with praise.
Maybe the problem is that I've been in such a DC comics mood lately that all the Marvel comics I read have to work that much harder in order to be appreciated. By me. Hmmm.
The Incredible Hercules 113: Following the above theory, Greg Pak and Fred Ven Lente must have been super training all day long because I loved this issue. I am so glad that Pak's spectacular take on Hercules--one of my absolute favorite things to come out of World War Hulk--continues here, alongside the genius punk Amadeus Cho and his adorable doggy sidekick, paving their own way through the Marvel universe. The writing is top notch, with great character voices and dialogue that fits so well because it's hilariously contradictory to what you're expecting the characters to say. Like Wonder Man nitpicking his relationship with Ares while Herc pummels him:
And we also get Ares, the bureaucrat:
Here we have an antagonist that I want Hercules to smash and smash but he makes me laugh and enjoy his presence in the story at the same time. That's good comics!
I also bought Showcase Presents: Superman Family this week so soon I'll be well versed in the adventures of silver age Jimmy Olsen and that's something I've dreamed of accomplishing for months now.
Birds of Prey 114: I only just got caught up on the post-Simone run of BoP this week and I have to say after adventures that involved Huntress driving a school bus off a bridge and using a trio of punks for character references, Lady Blackhawk wrecking a cab, a buggy, a train, and a stealth copter on her way to the bar where Hal Jordan hangs out in order to honor Big Barda (what is it with this title being the only place where minor heroes get a little love after they've died?), and Misfit saving Oracle's butt in the field using the power of....text messaging--after such fun comics that proved how well the team was working together, I'm not loving the step back that's been present in McKeever's story so far. Obviously, I'm talking about the Oracle-Misfit relationship. And for me it wasn't even about Babs breaking Charlie's ankle, though I thought that was very out of character. It was Babs then ignoring her and leaving the room that struck me as an odd storytelling choice. Perhaps McKeever is going to answer for their interaction throughout this arc but something should have been done directly in that moment to redeem Babs and her caretaking of Misfit. Babs' inner monologue at the end of 108 is the characterization I'm judging her by! So, McKeever, make my eyes misty rather than twitchy.
Even with all that, this is still one of my favorite corners of the DC universe and also in this issue Manhunter makes a man make a mess of his pants, Huntress and Zinda bring out the most irreverent in each other, and then Zinda fights an old Blackhawk villain on a roof, in her PJs, with only a gun for backup. Needless to say, I'm sticking around until Babs locks Misfit in the basement and tells her to kill rats for sustenance.
Booster Gold 6: One of the first trades I read to break myself into the DC universe was "Formerly Known as the Justice League" and it left me with an undying love for Booster Gold and Blue Beetle. So I don't care if it's cheating, but I've wanted him to be brought back almost as long as I've known the character. But I never thought it'd actually happen, even with Booster being so determined from issue 1 of this series and Ted appearing on solicited covers.
When I actually stopped freaking out and made it to the end of this issue, Booster and I had the EXACT same look on our faces:
I don't care if it's not perfectly wrapped up or too good to be true because as of January 16 and through the rest of the month and some of February it is the truth. And for as long as it lasts, I'll be emitting yelps only audible to bats and porpoises whenever I think of "Next Month: Blue and Gold Chapter One!"
Flash 236: For my part, I prefer to think of Mark Waid's run as setting the tone for Flash's new course rather than his own preference that the upcoming writers are going to undo/ignore. I am really enjoying Wally and Linda as parents and their children are already believable and vibrant characters. So I'll be standing in front of the family waving a big, flaming stick at the group of people who are silly and think that it would make any sense at all to dump the kids from the book. But, then, Wonder Woman says it better than I can:
--and that's fun!
Before leaving the title forever--again--Waid reminds us that no one writes Wally like he can.
When is Wally going to be in the JLA title? Soon? *sigh*
The final chapter of the back-up story is even better, with Braithwaite providing a painted art style that's beautiful and energetic and Waid and John Rogers packing four pages with great interaction and a sentimentality than any Flash fan has to love. Flashes are awesome! But Flash-wives are even cooler:
Now that's the kind of fridge action I, as a fan of superhero romances, want to see more of in comics!
As a sidenote: I was going to complain about the artist making Iris' head giant for her body but on Friday a young girl around that age came into the library where I work and her head was equally as towering upon her small frame as Wally's illustrated daughter. So there you have it. Sometimes kids do have freakishly disproportionate heads and comics are representing that quota!
Immortal Iron Fist 12: I don't know what's wrong with me but I'm not grooving on this comic as much as everyone else. The last issue that got me really excited was the the story of the pirate queen iron fist. Since then, rather than actually getting pumped over the qualities of this comic, I feel like I'm intellectually recognizing the stuff that other bloggers will mention with praise.
Maybe the problem is that I've been in such a DC comics mood lately that all the Marvel comics I read have to work that much harder in order to be appreciated. By me. Hmmm.
The Incredible Hercules 113: Following the above theory, Greg Pak and Fred Ven Lente must have been super training all day long because I loved this issue. I am so glad that Pak's spectacular take on Hercules--one of my absolute favorite things to come out of World War Hulk--continues here, alongside the genius punk Amadeus Cho and his adorable doggy sidekick, paving their own way through the Marvel universe. The writing is top notch, with great character voices and dialogue that fits so well because it's hilariously contradictory to what you're expecting the characters to say. Like Wonder Man nitpicking his relationship with Ares while Herc pummels him:
And we also get Ares, the bureaucrat:
Here we have an antagonist that I want Hercules to smash and smash but he makes me laugh and enjoy his presence in the story at the same time. That's good comics!
I also bought Showcase Presents: Superman Family this week so soon I'll be well versed in the adventures of silver age Jimmy Olsen and that's something I've dreamed of accomplishing for months now.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Nicola Scott's art being the cherry on top, of course.
I was dithering on the subject of Birds of Prey and whether or not it would stay in my pull list when Newsarama.com released previews for this week and, eureka! This issue opens with Manhunter again working with Oracle, specifically: kicking butt on the streets for information. That's all it takes for me to feel excited about a book.
What I've liked so much about BoP since the one-year-later jump is the larger number of characters who are involved in Oracle's operation. Of course, I always enjoyed the Babs and Dinah show as well as the addition of Huntress and later Zinda--and Gail Simone excelled at rounding out the cast with other heroes and villains and in-betweeners. But it was really exciting once Oracle sent out those invitations and the story didn't tell us exactly who we could expect until they showed up to join the party. For example, when Hawkgirl swooped in and smashed off the Secret Six's roof with her mace? I had to rock myself back and forth to eject some of the glee that was threatening to rip my body apart--and with it, the very fabric of reality. Shockingly enough, when I read that issue I didn't know Kendra from Kamandi. Such is the power of this title.
So I am really glad to see that Sean McKeever is picking up on that aspect of the post-Dinah Birds, since it makes the title more exciting and offers more opportunities for diversity in the cast. It's obvious, too, that McKeever's been doing his research on the heroines of the DCU. This month Onyx and Dr. Light, in February....the world! (Meanwhile, wouldn't it be fun if Gypsy joined Manhunter's supporting cast? I really enjoyed their partnership when Kate commandeered Oracle's operation for Mr. Bones. So, just as soon as Manhunter comes back...any day now...when new solicits are released...April? May? 2009? Bueller?)
What I've liked so much about BoP since the one-year-later jump is the larger number of characters who are involved in Oracle's operation. Of course, I always enjoyed the Babs and Dinah show as well as the addition of Huntress and later Zinda--and Gail Simone excelled at rounding out the cast with other heroes and villains and in-betweeners. But it was really exciting once Oracle sent out those invitations and the story didn't tell us exactly who we could expect until they showed up to join the party. For example, when Hawkgirl swooped in and smashed off the Secret Six's roof with her mace? I had to rock myself back and forth to eject some of the glee that was threatening to rip my body apart--and with it, the very fabric of reality. Shockingly enough, when I read that issue I didn't know Kendra from Kamandi. Such is the power of this title.
So I am really glad to see that Sean McKeever is picking up on that aspect of the post-Dinah Birds, since it makes the title more exciting and offers more opportunities for diversity in the cast. It's obvious, too, that McKeever's been doing his research on the heroines of the DCU. This month Onyx and Dr. Light, in February....the world! (Meanwhile, wouldn't it be fun if Gypsy joined Manhunter's supporting cast? I really enjoyed their partnership when Kate commandeered Oracle's operation for Mr. Bones. So, just as soon as Manhunter comes back...any day now...when new solicits are released...April? May? 2009? Bueller?)
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Why I love silver age Green Lantern...
And Carol Ferris as well:
"Hello."
"Why, hello yourself, Miss Ferris."
"Hal, is that you? ...you're coughing, are you alright?"
"Ha, no, I'm fine. But I believe you have mistaken me for someone else."
"That deep timbre, it must be...Green Lantern?"
"At your ser--"
"*Click*"
(Soon to be a back-up story in Green Lantern #30 as Geoff Johns continues retelling Hal's early years.
Pencilled by Colleen Coover.
In my dreams.)
"Hello."
"Why, hello yourself, Miss Ferris."
"Hal, is that you? ...you're coughing, are you alright?"
"Ha, no, I'm fine. But I believe you have mistaken me for someone else."
"That deep timbre, it must be...Green Lantern?"
"At your ser--"
"*Click*"
(Soon to be a back-up story in Green Lantern #30 as Geoff Johns continues retelling Hal's early years.
Pencilled by Colleen Coover.
In my dreams.)
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