- Robin 156's anti-suicide message. If you want to read snide snarking about how this sort of issue is a stupid PSA you shouldn't waste your money on and why doesn't every book have large boobed asskicking Asian women fighting one another, look for a different blog than this one. I'll remember Robin 156 and Robin's conversation with the Freshmen on the roof long after I've forgotten most other comics I read this month. Once again, Robin has shown that he is the coolest person in the DCU.
The sheer girliness of Oracle sending roses to invite people into Birds of Prey is side-splitting. It's just so Yvonne Craigish: "No girl -- not even a girl crimefighter -- can resist a dozen roses, Charlie! I think I'll pop over to look for replies in my P.O. Box via my Oracle-cycle!"- Pfeiffer's Freak Film once again proves that nobody makes theme villains like Gotham does.
- Powerboy. Sigh.
- Supergirl's moment of lesbian frissonne!
- OH! I finally figured out what the art in Sword of Atlantis keeps reminding me of: those old Dell novel covers with the '60s advertising-style art:
- I think at least one comic every month should have a renegade robot shouting "52! 52!"
My special shout out goes to Jesse Leon McCann, about whom I know nothing at all. BUT, Jesse wrote one of the stories in this week's Krypto #3, in which in the Penguin's pet penguin falls out of plane, blunders into the Fortress of Solitude, accidently traps Superman, receives super mental powers, dons a toga, attacks Superdog and Bathound with a giant green "mind gorilla", suspends them over a vat of boiling liquid kryptonite, attacks a town with a giant green "mind dinosaur", and then is defeated ... all in ten pages.
Now THAT is the kind of pacing I want in a comic book. If you want bang for your buck, Jesse Leon McCann is your writer!!!
7 comments:
WOW. Sounds like McCann found a stash of Silver Age crack....
Adam Beechen is my personal hero. He is finally making Robin live up to the potential Tim Drake has always shown. This is a Robin who is the leader of the Teen Titans, even though Cyborg is older. This is a Robin who has no problem telling Batman off. This is a Robin who finally, FINALLY, has a decent comic series to follow!
Huzzah!
Pffft. If I want social justice, I'll read Judd Winick. Or WIll Pfeiffer. The latter did a much better one in HERO.
Hey, thanks!
No, thank YOU, Jesse!
I think I should send a copy of your story to every one of these novelists writing comics nowadays who couldn't tell a whole story in 10 pages if you put a gun to their heads.
Better to send your comments about me to editors at the different comic publishers -- anything to help when I'm out pitching projects!
God bless,
Jesse
Yeah, Robin 156 was cool.
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