# Weekly Comic Book Discussion 3/6/2008 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 6, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-comic-book-discussion-3-6-2008/440266 "2008-03-06T01:00:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-comic-book-discussion-3-6-2008/440266/1 "2008-03-06T01:00:11Z")
Got last week’s Action and Countdown, in addition to this weeks allotment. Buffy : Whoa. … just Whoa. And the return of the butt-monkey! ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-comic-book-discussion-3-6-2008/440266/2 "2008-03-06T02:37:35Z")
**Countdown** #08 - did not advance the plot at all. again. wondering if they’ll _ever_ move this along. **Supergirl** #27 - the writers of this book need to be force-fed Ritalin, so they can stay on one storyline and stop going off on tangents. each issue is “and now for something… completely different.” **(the Blood of) the All New Atom** #21 - nice. also: Ryan’s suit looks like an old Micronauts toy I used to have. **Green Lantern** #28 - they’re moving faster than I’d expected, although some of the developments here were predictable particularly Laira becoming a Lantern of one of the other Corps. and I hope the brief opener on Ysmault means we’ll return there for more later. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-comic-book-discussion-3-6-2008/440266/3 "2008-03-06T05:47:55Z")
[QUOTE=CandidGamera] Buffy : Whoa. … just Whoa. And the return of the butt-monkey! [/QUOTE] Okay, I have to say this: I saw the news on multiple websites, and I can’t find a decent readable scan of the scene with the two of them in bed together! Can anyone help me? _tearing at hair_ ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-comic-book-discussion-3-6-2008/440266/4 "2008-03-06T13:47:22Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] Okay, I have to say this: I saw the news on multiple websites, and I can’t find a decent readable scan of the scene with the two of them in bed together! Can anyone help me? _tearing at hair_ [/QUOTE] There’s a Livejournal community where the image will most assuredly be posted. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-comic-book-discussion-3-6-2008/440266/5 "2008-03-06T16:37:05Z")
**Countdown to Adventure #7:** Last issue I accused Forefunner of being a Mary Sue. I still think that’s true, but the fact that the entire premise of her story just got yanked out from under her does put a kink in that argument. **Green Lantern #28:** I’m honestly conflicted about Law #2. It’s actually a pretty logical extension, and real cops enjoy that power, but real cops don’t have the versatility the GLs do. Since I’m feeling the ambivalence, I think that’s a win for this book. Also, the Red Lanterns look cool and the Orange Lanterns are promising. \*\*Detective Comics #842:\*\*Dude, I barely remembered the armor, let alone thought it deserved an origin story. I really find it hard to believe that he’d care about it. He’s Batman, the criminals are superstitious, not him! **Countdown to Final Crisis #8:** Oops! We’ve had actual plot movement in the last few consecutive issues. We can’t have that continue! I love Bizarro, but I don’t like it when they get too cute with the whole backwards/opposite thing, like they did with his origin spread. **The All-New Atom #12:** Well, I’ll give it a shot, but without the humor it’s really painfully generic. Head sticks out like a shore thumb, and his dialog is just off. This could transition from weird/zany/action to weird/pulpy/action, but now it’s just blah. \*\*Jonah Hex #29:\*\*Those Indians suffer from the Law of Inverse Ninjas something awful, and that thing with the scorpion made very little sense. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-comic-book-discussion-3-6-2008/440266/6 "2008-03-06T19:30:18Z")
[QUOTE=CandidGamera] There’s a Livejournal community where the image will most assuredly be posted. 🙂 [/QUOTE] In fact, I went there as soon as I found out the news. 😃 (It got posted just a little while ago. Given that Whedon’s used the magically [del]delicious[/del] gay plotline before, with Willow, I’m not sure what to think of this.) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-comic-book-discussion-3-6-2008/440266/7 "2008-03-08T21:19:02Z")
**Atom** - I am Not Happy. Ryan’s acting like a dick - I can forgive that with the ‘week without sleep’ stuff, but I’m not really happy with it in combination with the other criticisms. An almost Ennis-like contempt for the super-hero genre is present. And the ‘breathing chicken nuggets’ thing was stupid. Gee, Ry, you’ve been doing just fine without separately shrinking air up 'till now - so did Ray, the impostor Atom, Panda and Dwarfstar - what makes you think it won’t work now? **Cable** - No comment on the story or the writing, yet, but the art is fabulous. **Lord Havok and the Extremists** - I really like Diehard. Too bad we know he’s going to die. **New Frontier Special** - Wonderful, as expected. The Robin/Kid Flash story had some iffy lines in the captions, but, in all it was good. Wally’s alias being Wally Wood was fun. **New Dynamix** - I’m relatively new to the WSU, save for the Authority and Gen13 (which I read during Adam Warren’s run), so I have no idea who Omni/Black Halo, Gramalkin or the Sword are. Really enjoyed it anyway. **Green Lantern** - Anyone surprised by the last page? Or anything else in the issue? Thought not. Very enjoyable execution, though. **Countdown to Adventure** - Well, that’s a relief. After Starfire’s panel in Titans East, I though she and Buddy were going to get together. Nice to know otherwise.