"This Right here is the 'Ask-And-Tell' Helicopter."
In case you're wondering about that subject line, yes I do watch The L Word and yes, that show is fucking awesome - in every possible sense of those two words, both individually and together in any order. So there.
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And now, comics:
Birds of Prey #103: jarodrussell is right - Oracle is a fucking luser. She's slightly less of one when Warren Ellis is writing her (which, incidentally, he doesn't do enough) but still. How dare she yield to the likes of this Armstrong person? With the resources she has? Fuck you, Oracle. Fuck you.
Art is frickin' sweet though.
Nightly News #4: If you're not buying The Nightly News, you are a weak pathetic fool. If you are not reading The Nightly News, you suck. That is all.
Checkmate #9, #10 & #11: Rucka is one of those goddamn geniuses we can never - and don't - hear enough about. This is how you make international espionage and superterrorism and magic and Detective Chimp fit in the same universse - you do it by never *ever* batting an eye. Of course Holt would intimidate The Thinker into becoming his Bishop ("Yes, I am smarter than you, yes, I can kill delete you any time I damn well please. Work for me and I won't. Maybe." or something to that effect) Of course Midnight and Sasha would recruit the most under-gee magic crew in the DCU to give their undercover ops that final touch of verisimilitude. Of course Fire has finally had enough. Of course everything.
In short, this right here is the best comic book on the stands that I'm not buying.
Cable/Deadpool #37: Two words - Rhino's Revenge.
Seeing as Cable's riding high with X-Men: Rogue Squadron right now, Deadpool pretty much has the book to himself. And Weasel. The hilarity just never ends.
Batman #663: I *was* wondering what Morrison has been up to all this time. You know, when he should have been putting out Wildcats. And The Authority. And when in King Mob's name are we going to see The IF?
Whoever chose the artist for this should be taken out behind the woodshed and noisily put to sleep. I mean come on? 1998-era CG? Whose genius idea was that? Pfft. They'd have been better off just doing it in prose altogether.
Speaking of which, Morrison's prose is like a field of black dahlias drenched in the blood of a hundred innocents, strewn with the corpses of petroleum gods from the razor-dimension of -- well. I loved it for some reason. I love Morrison on Batman even when it's this florid, be it Scifi!Closet or this intensely well-travelled nigh-Invisible Batman (he fights crime with Nirvikalpa Samahdi, yo) - and his Joker! His Harley! Oh my god, I nearly shat myself in the store. The only thing that saved me from such a fate was, like, totally buying this book.
Green Arrow #71: Kickass fight scenes, everyone comes off looking good. "You're the $%@$! Batman. Of course I was going to lose." I liked it. I'm shallow. What else is new?
.. What the hell is Natas up to? Why is he still in this book? What are Drakon and Slade up to? I'd forgotten *they* were in this book.
Immortal Iron Fist #3: weak, but only in comparison to the righteousness of the previous two issues. Another good series that I'm not buying.
Stormwatch PHD#4: Book of the week. Bought sight unseen.
Christos Gage and Pimp!Mahnke are constantly delivering character-rich, action-heavy, piping-hot Wildstorm-style on-time (yes, this means you, Morrison!) excellence month after month after month.
After Black Betty settles The Ferryman's hash once and for now, the Head N***as In Charge order the ladies to take a girls night out. They acquiese for their own reasons and Black Betty shows Gorgeous her thousand-yard stare (hey, "token goth chick" routinely defies gods and demons and beings that can rip out your soul as easy as look at it; hypervigilant profilers just don't rate), Fahrenheit continues to ... adjust to not being superpowered anymore (she still has somewhat posthuman healing and durability though so ... could be worse) and there's a shocking last page reveal that shows just how far bluffing can get you if you start out from a position of strength.
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And now, comics:
Birds of Prey #103: jarodrussell is right - Oracle is a fucking luser. She's slightly less of one when Warren Ellis is writing her (which, incidentally, he doesn't do enough) but still. How dare she yield to the likes of this Armstrong person? With the resources she has? Fuck you, Oracle. Fuck you.
Art is frickin' sweet though.
Nightly News #4: If you're not buying The Nightly News, you are a weak pathetic fool. If you are not reading The Nightly News, you suck. That is all.
Checkmate #9, #10 & #11: Rucka is one of those goddamn geniuses we can never - and don't - hear enough about. This is how you make international espionage and superterrorism and magic and Detective Chimp fit in the same universse - you do it by never *ever* batting an eye. Of course Holt would intimidate The Thinker into becoming his Bishop ("Yes, I am smarter than you, yes, I can kill delete you any time I damn well please. Work for me and I won't. Maybe." or something to that effect) Of course Midnight and Sasha would recruit the most under-gee magic crew in the DCU to give their undercover ops that final touch of verisimilitude. Of course Fire has finally had enough. Of course everything.
In short, this right here is the best comic book on the stands that I'm not buying.
Cable/Deadpool #37: Two words - Rhino's Revenge.
Seeing as Cable's riding high with X-Men: Rogue Squadron right now, Deadpool pretty much has the book to himself. And Weasel. The hilarity just never ends.
Batman #663: I *was* wondering what Morrison has been up to all this time. You know, when he should have been putting out Wildcats. And The Authority. And when in King Mob's name are we going to see The IF?
Whoever chose the artist for this should be taken out behind the woodshed and noisily put to sleep. I mean come on? 1998-era CG? Whose genius idea was that? Pfft. They'd have been better off just doing it in prose altogether.
Speaking of which, Morrison's prose is like a field of black dahlias drenched in the blood of a hundred innocents, strewn with the corpses of petroleum gods from the razor-dimension of -- well. I loved it for some reason. I love Morrison on Batman even when it's this florid, be it Scifi!Closet or this intensely well-travelled nigh-Invisible Batman (he fights crime with Nirvikalpa Samahdi, yo) - and his Joker! His Harley! Oh my god, I nearly shat myself in the store. The only thing that saved me from such a fate was, like, totally buying this book.
Green Arrow #71: Kickass fight scenes, everyone comes off looking good. "You're the $%@$! Batman. Of course I was going to lose." I liked it. I'm shallow. What else is new?
.. What the hell is Natas up to? Why is he still in this book? What are Drakon and Slade up to? I'd forgotten *they* were in this book.
Immortal Iron Fist #3: weak, but only in comparison to the righteousness of the previous two issues. Another good series that I'm not buying.
Stormwatch PHD#4: Book of the week. Bought sight unseen.
Christos Gage and Pimp!Mahnke are constantly delivering character-rich, action-heavy, piping-hot Wildstorm-style on-time (yes, this means you, Morrison!) excellence month after month after month.
After Black Betty settles The Ferryman's hash once and for now, the Head N***as In Charge order the ladies to take a girls night out. They acquiese for their own reasons and Black Betty shows Gorgeous her thousand-yard stare (hey, "token goth chick" routinely defies gods and demons and beings that can rip out your soul as easy as look at it; hypervigilant profilers just don't rate), Fahrenheit continues to ... adjust to not being superpowered anymore (she still has somewhat posthuman healing and durability though so ... could be worse) and there's a shocking last page reveal that shows just how far bluffing can get you if you start out from a position of strength.