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I had cancelled Gotham City Sirens, but with a job comes a steady wage, so I've put it straight back on the pull list. I couldn't get # 9 tho so will have to find that elsewhere. Anyway, onwards with the babbling.
I really really enjoy this book. The cover for #10 is especially lovely:
I don't care that it's making the sale on sex. The characters are so distinct and solid, the way they're drawn doesn't detract from this. Poison Ivy in particular has always been about sex, the other two less so, but this book is so much more than wank fodder. Having said that, it's a pity that the art inside seems to have changed. There's not so much going on in the characters faces in these 2 issues.
In #10, the Riddler has been taken capture by a mad old coot named Dr Aesop (I believe). The Dr has 3 women he terms muses, a menagerie of animals, and a proclivity towards his criminal activites around Aesop's fables.
I love comics.
Anyway, our 3 Sirens burst in, start a fight, get knocked out a lot and then Harley's Hyenas take Dr Aesop out. There's also some nice slice of life stuff which takes us neatly into issue 11.
Where Ivy starts hew new job. She's a mean boss. She fires 2 senior people in her first 5 minutes of working there (hint - this doesn't turn out so great in the long run).
Meanwhile, Harley and Selina are out searching for missing dogs. It turns out that Harley's Hyenas have been escaping at night and eating all the neighbourhood dogs. Ha.
Finally, Ivy is trapped in a dehydrating chamber by a digruntled former employee (told you this was a bad idea). Hasn't the dehydration thing been done before? Either ina Christmas special or in the Batman 80 page giant out last year? Anyway, it's a nice cliffhanger.
Red Robin #12
Timmmmmmy! successully takes down Ra's. Unlike Batman he risks death by pucnhing to do this, and he enlists help from his friends. This is one reason why Tim is a likeable character and Batman isn't. Anyway, Cass is instructured to rescue babs, only to arrive and find that Babs has done all the rescuing herself. Because she's badass. Bart is uncharacteristically skeeving on Selina (something I'd expect from Conner), which makes me think how his experiences as an adult has affected him.
He got laid as an adult, he has his first girlfriend. Before his accelerated maturity and his time as the Flash he had no knowledge of girls. Now he does and he's got all the impulsiveness and hormones surging inside him that his normal teenage self has, and maybe this is why he's skeeving? Ir maybe it's just bad writing.
Huntress is wearing the awful cropped version of her costume and Damian is delightfully rude, as usual.
It irks me that Tim is still obsessed with making Bruce proud - I have never liked this aspect of his character because I cannot see why he is so hopelessly devoted to Bruce. Also his new costume has managed to lose the few good aspects of his last costume whilst also keeping all the crap bits. Rubbish.
Still the book itself was good, of course.
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