Yeah, that explains why she was ignoring Spiderman’s questions.
No, they didn’t. Which is a little strange.
All-Star Superman #1: Nifty. Does Lois seem a bit Hispanic to anyone else? Not a bad thing, just different.
Wonder Woman #223: I thought the Amazons were sword and shield people also, but it makes sense that the group of immortal warriors would upgrade their skills.
They’re doing another new Wondy series? Why are they canceling this one?
JLA #122: Meh.
Legion of Super-heroes #122: Ouch! Great as always.
In the Golden Age, the Amazons had highly advanced techology (such as the purple ray and invisible airplanes). I have no idea if their post-Crisis portrayal has been similar.
Two things I bought last week but didn’t read until recently:
Ex Machina #15 – Started out slow. The flashback scene was pretty lame, but I liked Mitch’s confrontation with the thugs, and the aftermath. (“Saw that coming.”) On thing about the flashback was really well handled – the way Mitch’s mother twisted her ring when the father accused her of sleeping around. For a second, I wondered if she hadn’t been wearing it, and then I saw that her left hand was always out of frame on the page, so you couldn’t easily go back and figure it out. (She’s wearing it on pg. 1.) During those three of four seconds, Vaughan and Harris made me share the father’s suspicion. I also like that his mother is coming to the city – I hope we see more of her.
Girls v.1: Conception – The first TPB of the Luna Bros. ongoing series. It really took a while to get going – the main character, Ethan, is a mysogynist asshole when he’s drunk, and it looked like the Lunas still expect you to empathize with him (I don’t). But once the actions starts, it’s deeply engaging. I really want to know what’s motivating the antagonists, and the Lunas don’t shy away from real consequences. So far this is a more flawed work than the excellent Ultra miniseries, but it’s still quite good, and unlike Ultra, as the first volume of a longer form work, it doesn’t have the luxury of a conclusion to tie everything together. One in the plus column – the Lunas have gotten over their obsession with using stats on every single frikkin’ page; they were much less common here, and never used inapprorpiately.
–Cliffy
Rumor/speculation, but a very major spoiler if true:
Something bad’s going to happen to Diana in the Crisis, and Donna Troy will take over as Wonder Woman. DC seems to be setting this up very plainly, but then it could all be a fake-out.
A bunch of staple titles are getting that treatment. Flash is also being cancelled and restarted, as is Nightwing, I think (WW, Flash, Nightwing, and Batman are all rumored to be Crisis casualties, so it’ll be a surprise to see who’s wearing what costume). A few orther titles, like Aquaman and L*SH are getting new titles. Practically everyone’s getting a new creative team. For good or for ill, One Year Later is really going to shake up the status quo.
As a footnote, I read in an interview that some of the Crisis cancellations/restarts are in the spirit of parallelism. After all, the first Crisis got us restarted with one Superman title, Flash, Wonder Woman, and a little later, Justice League.
JSA Classified #5: Very cool. This one’s gonna be real good. Hope I didn’t just jynx it.
[spoiler]Ooookaaay. Not sure how I feel about are that. One on hand I can understand the want for new characters (Clark and Bruce have been around since the 30s, not to mention half of the JSA, Capt. Marvel, etc.), but I also like reading characters with deep roots. I’m just seeing a bunch of “Rebirth” series coming out of all this, but I’ll try to keep an open mind.
I also like Legion for its relative independence from the current era. Again, I’ll try to keep an open mind, but having Supergirl as a legionaire doesn’t feel right for anyone, her or the Legion.[/spoiler]
Perhaps, but I’ve always felt that comic titles, like buildings, politicians, and whores, gain repsectability with age. Looking at Wonder Woman, I can think “this book has had solid enough work to keep it afloat for almost nineteen years, and multiple creative teams. Either the character lends itself to good stories naturally, or DC makes sure to put solid teams on it”. Not always the soundest logic, I admit, but you’ve got to do something to stay worth publishing in the state the industry’s in. Restarting a line always seemed like a cheap stunt to me. Needless to say, I’m not happy with this move.
Wolfian, I gurantee you that not *all *of those guys will be killed off. In fact, they may all survive and InfCri may not have any huge fatalities. Those are just those often brought up in rumors and teasing from DC (they’re being absolutely cruel with the Flash. Which means Wally will probably make it. Or does it?!?) We will be seeing a bunch of new characters, both 100% original and revamps of older character concepts (like the new Blue Beetle).
Speaking of…
I read in a fairly recent issue about Booster Gold going back in time to reform his Legion and find Blue Beetle’s scarab… what did that lead to? Could someone spoil me?
In Infinite Crisis #2 Booster reappears at the site of the destroyed Watchtower. He had previously left in OMAC #4 or 5 saying that he was “going home.” He expresses some regret about not being able to arrive a few days earlier (presumeably so he could have saved the Tower and/or J’onn), then mentions that he needs Blue Beetle’s scarab to do whatever it is he is planning on doing. I assume that this will be picked up in Inf-Cri #3, which hasn’t came out yet.
[spoiler]Hasn’t yet unfolded. Here’s the story so far:
In Countdown to Infinite Crisis, Ted briefly visits the Rock of Eternity (home of the wizard Shazam), and leaves the Scarab there.
In Day of Vengeance, the Spectre kills Shazam and explodes the Rock of Eternity, releasing the evil trapped within and spreading the magical artifacts inside across the US. The Scarab lands in El Paso.
Meanwhile, in The OMAC Project, Booster leaves for his home time in defeat, after his attempts to avenge Ted’s death fail utterly.
However, Booster returns to the present in Infinite Crisis #2, armed with highly illegal knowledge of the future (and a new Skeets!), but too late to prevent the start of the crisis. He starts to reform his League, but after he fails to find J’onn (J’onn disappeared when the Watchtower got blowed up by persons unknown, but he has been in occasional psychic contact with JLA member Manitou Dawn), he sets off the locate the Scarab instead.
To be continued… [/spoiler]