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Gotham City Sirens #19
Good cover. Shame the story is all about the Siren's love lives. Sigh. I do not want my book about a group of women to be about their romantic entanglements. Can we have more of the Birds of Prey style writing here please.
JLA #53
I'm coming in at the tail end of this story arc, and it surprises me how good it is. It's a solid comic, well adapted to it's short 22 page format, but one that will, I suspect, read just as well in a trade. Dark Supergirl isn't really too dark, just a bit snarky. She's not all out for evil and doom, not like she was in her introductory trade. It's refreshing.
Now, as soon as DC clarify where dark Supergirl fits into regular Supergirl continuity I'll be happy.
Superboy #4
I may be feeling a little out of sorts today, but I am not thrilled with this art. There's not enough detail in the faces. This blog post talks about how women's faces are drawn with less pencil lines than men's faces, therefore they are more difficult to draw. It's not a stance I particularly agree with, especially as a lot of the motivation for not putting in detail seems to be that less detail = beauty, and women = beauty.
Anyway, reading this comic makes me think of this post, as there's fuck all pencil detail on Connor's and other character's faces. Any nuance comes from the colourist. It's not an approach I care for.
Other than the art, the issue is good.
Secret Six #30
I have no fucking clue what is going on here. The Doom patrol turns up, a lazy disaffected 23 year old decides to become an old style king of crime, and the Six are on Oolong Island, where everything converges.
Oh and Bane is taken to a strip club and there he meets 3 twitterati. No really! Gail Simone gave a cameo to @pseudicide (Dee) @ceebee_eebee (Elyssa) and @harleyquinnaid (Elise). I chat to pseudicide and ceebee_eebee quite a lot on twitter. They are adorable. So, the panels with them in kind of made this comic for me. :D
Brightest Day #19
Aquawar! AquaWar! AquaWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
Oh hells yeah. Bring on the Aqua goodness. And oh look, Arthur's lost a hand. Again. How careless of him. ;)
Gotham City Sirens #19
Good cover. Shame the story is all about the Siren's love lives. Sigh. I do not want my book about a group of women to be about their romantic entanglements. Can we have more of the Birds of Prey style writing here please.
JLA #53
I'm coming in at the tail end of this story arc, and it surprises me how good it is. It's a solid comic, well adapted to it's short 22 page format, but one that will, I suspect, read just as well in a trade. Dark Supergirl isn't really too dark, just a bit snarky. She's not all out for evil and doom, not like she was in her introductory trade. It's refreshing.
Now, as soon as DC clarify where dark Supergirl fits into regular Supergirl continuity I'll be happy.
Superboy #4
I may be feeling a little out of sorts today, but I am not thrilled with this art. There's not enough detail in the faces. This blog post talks about how women's faces are drawn with less pencil lines than men's faces, therefore they are more difficult to draw. It's not a stance I particularly agree with, especially as a lot of the motivation for not putting in detail seems to be that less detail = beauty, and women = beauty.
Anyway, reading this comic makes me think of this post, as there's fuck all pencil detail on Connor's and other character's faces. Any nuance comes from the colourist. It's not an approach I care for.
Other than the art, the issue is good.
Secret Six #30
I have no fucking clue what is going on here. The Doom patrol turns up, a lazy disaffected 23 year old decides to become an old style king of crime, and the Six are on Oolong Island, where everything converges.
Oh and Bane is taken to a strip club and there he meets 3 twitterati. No really! Gail Simone gave a cameo to @pseudicide (Dee) @ceebee_eebee (Elyssa) and @harleyquinnaid (Elise). I chat to pseudicide and ceebee_eebee quite a lot on twitter. They are adorable. So, the panels with them in kind of made this comic for me. :D
Brightest Day #19
Aquawar! AquaWar! AquaWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
Oh hells yeah. Bring on the Aqua goodness. And oh look, Arthur's lost a hand. Again. How careless of him. ;)
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