Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Things That Made Me Happy...

in my comics this week.

  • Why the Vega system is off-limits. Now I get it.
  • And let's hope that's the last we see of the Nightwing costume.
  • The Riddler noting things for ... future reference.
  • Clark Kent the farmboy knows how to deal with animals.
  • Flux capacitor humor.
  • So, I figure, since it's stated 100 times that that simply has to be Jason Todd... that it isn't.
  • The Controllers seem to have bitten off more than they can chew.
  • The Orange Lantern, however, does not.
  • Two-Face, as an actual crime lord, just like the old days.
  • I think I love Liana, too.
  • I wasn't ready for a Tiny Titans/Secret Six mash-up.
  • Wow; they really want us to buy the new Power Girl series, don't they?
  • Kind of surprising who wears Booster Gold's personal scent!
  • That's funnier than crowbars usually are.
  • I don't think I've ever liked Hal more than I did as he was sassing Ganthet this week.
  • What the Thought-Beasts can do.
  • The Riddler knows the Hymn to Aten. In hieroglyphs. I love him.
  • Good to know the Guardians notice little things like the formation of new planets populated by superpowered supremacists in already occupied solar systems.
  • Alfred states the obvious. But makes it look cool.
  • Well... I guess not everyone loves Skeets after all.
  • I am so glad that guy was dressed as Blackhawk.
  • If only there were a toll-free number to vote on Damian.
  • Even though it's a brief cameo in the 'wrong' book, Central City still looks like Central City.
  • Can the Artist Guild throw a party, or what?
  • Hey, now; that is the Penguin! Find the person who did me this favor... then kill them!
  • Ankh. Excellent.
  • "Insignificus" is the best name since the Sivana's last visited the Maternity Ward.
  • Labor Day on New Krypton!
  • I dunno; how bad can someone who tries to kill Damian be, really?
  • Heh. You just never know how they're going to sneak Streaky in.
  • Booster Gold's strategically ripped costume. And body.
  • Hey, Allura! Ya forgot to take out the anti-grav rollers!
  • Ouch. And right after Tim's face had just healed so nicely...

23 comments:

  1. But it wasn't a toll-free number!! It was a 900 number--we had to pay to kill Jason Todd!! I want my money back!!

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  2. Secret Six was freaking brilliant this week.

    I agree with you about the giant "NOTICE HOW HE'S NEVER AGREED THAT HE WAS JASON TODD?" letters plastered all over BFTC. And he's not particularly acting like any of the characterizations of Jason we've had since his return. But the only other obvious candidate I can think of is Azrael. But I can't say he seems much like Azrael, either. Someone Bruce took under his wing to prevent him from becoming an enemy... I feel like there's another obvious answer, but I'm not seeing it.

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  3. I haven't read the issue yet, but my guess is that gun-Bats is Deadshot working off some kind of guilt complex. Or a deep scam.

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  4. From what I've been seeing about it here and elsewhere, I'd really love to read the Riddler/King Tut story! I sure hope my local library gets the inevitable HC collection.

    Just wait until Judd Winick brings the Bookworm into comics continuity...

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  5. steve mitchell4/09/2009 8:50 AM

    Double-dating, Secret Six style. I just love it. With the demise of Birds of Prey and Manhunter, this is unquestionably DC's best current title.

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  6. So...so much to love this week. The Tiny Titans/Ragdoll episode ALONE was simply fabulous...not to mention the rest of the Secret Six's date night.

    Hal WAS in a sassy mood, wasn't he? I love Hal when he's being sarcastic. The Guardians are getting dumber by the minute.

    The Riddler should team up with Batman much more often.

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  7. The Riddler should team up with Batman much more often.

    I agree. I always thought those old hero-teams-up-with-villain stories were contrived and clumsy, but Brave and the Bold #183 was one of the best.

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  8. Could it be Tommy Elliot? Or Dent? They both featured in the teaser pic, and I can't remember what happened to Hush at the end of the RIP arc.

    Secret Six was amazing. Deadshot planning ahead, mid-dump no less.

    Well of course he had a screwdriver in his pocket. I take one on all MY dates

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  9. steve mitchell4/09/2009 10:00 AM

    Thank you for the clarification, Jean-Paul. I'm sure we all appreciate your candor.

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  10. What do you mean HIS candor? I thought Brainiac shrank that city! Or was he in collusion with Azrael? (Get it? COLUsion?)

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  11. "Or was he in collusion with Azrael? (Get it? COLUsion?)"

    Mwhaahahaha!

    Inspired comedy.

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  12. "Insignificus" is the best name since the Sivana's last visited the Maternity Ward.

    The charactonym, once a staple of DC Comics (Sinestro, Bizarro, Despero, etc), seems to be making a resurgence. Insignificus, Arkillo, Atrocitus, and Schwartz help us all, a baby-stealer named Kryb. I'm just waiting for a child molestor named Rahblo.

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  13. Neither Dent nor Hush fits unless someone cheats. Hush doesn't fit the first-person narration; and Dent shouldn't know everybody's IDs.

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  14. Despite how obvious it was and how often characters have said it, it probably is Jason Todd. I mean, why else would he think that Tim hitting him with a crowbar is so funny?

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  15. I believe what he's laughing at is Tim being unaware of the batarang lodged in his chest.

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  16. Ah. Well *I* thought the crowbar was funny...

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  17. Who wears Booster Gold's personal scent? If it's Superman that is hilarious.

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  18. Deadshot. Which in my opinion is even funnier.

    Oh Floyd. You're such a manly man.

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  19. Well, my catch-all guess for any mystery character who knowns bat-secrets has always been Hugo Strange. Hey, one of these days it's going to be right....

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  20. Omar Karindu4/10/2009 8:55 PM

    As long as isn't Henri Ducard or some crap like that....

    Maybe we'll get absurdly lucky and both the fake Black Mask running around and the gun-Batman will turn out to be an extra-vicious iteration of the one true Killer Moth. He's working both sides, see, eliminating the Bat-family and unifying the underworld, so that he and his "anti-Batman" shtick of protecting criminals from the police can work without any obstacles.....

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  21. how much does dc want for damian to kick the bucket?

    maybe we can do a telethon

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  22. Tony Daniel has confirmed that it is indeed Jason Todd behind the mask in an interview posted on IGN yesterday.

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