#comic thoughts

[drbatsponge]

What I like about Batgirl 2024: everything to do with Cassandra Cain is fantastic and I love the side cast she's been given, Tenji and Jaya are fun characters and I love them dearly.

What I dislike: The Shiva stuff could be written better and could be less heavy handed, I think we should explore more of what David Cain has been up to, I really miss that bastard.

Overall I've been enjoying the series so far.

My favorite issues have been #5 and #11, while my least favorite issue has to be #14.

I think this is one of DC's better comics out rn and I'm gonna continue to be positive about it and if people have an issue with that, oh well, lol.

I understand the criticisms levied against it but like... it's not as bad as I've seen some people claim it to be, lmfao.

Anyways, I'm liking the start to the current arc and I can't wait to see what's next!

[windybluebelles]

Skimming through “Death in the family” and like- Shiva was so lying one the truther syrum????

Obviously I have the modern foresight of her being Cass’ mother (aswell as some other boy?) but it’s still so obvious that she’s telling a lie- even before Cass was a canon character.

The scene is:

Bruce asks- “Have you ever had a baby?”- and Sandra looks shocked, and kinda sad? It’s not an expression you make when you find a question ridiculous and funny, she looks genuinely surprised as if she was upset and worried. She then laughed and joked- “Oh yes, I’ve had a whole litter of babies”- which to me sounds awfully like she’s tryna cover something up, thats deflection and distraction.

Bruce then gives her some truth serum and repeats the question, her face shows that same shock as she mumbles (ELIPSIS GUYS!) “…no…” She doesn’t spit out the truth immediately, she resists the serum before seemingly saying the truth.

Guys… To me that reads so much like she succeeds in resisting the truth serum and lies about her answer.

Obviously this could all be chalked up to the bad writing that’s evident in the whole comic and mixed communication between artists and writers- but to me it reads so obviously that she’s lying.

Again, we know now that she was lying, but that wasn’t canon at the time cause Cass didn’t exist yet.

Long story short- I’m taking this as proof that Shiva is Jason’s bio mom and that Sheila just lied and said she was so that she could use him for her own gain.

[soleminisanction]

Kingdom Come is very pretty, and very portentous, and takes itself Very Seriously in a way I can appreciate. Like, I can see why it's one of DC's perpetual reprints and why it made the waves it did when it was first published.

But man, I don't know if I have it in me, in Current Year, to suffer a story in which the new blood is messing everything up and we need a bunch of old white men (and Wonder Woman) to come fix it.

[ketallpot]

Starting a new series that I'll finish in 60 years

Kyle Rayner Retrospective: The Intro

ketallpot published a post on Ko-fi

Going to be on ko-fi and my postcard

[maxtalkscomics]

I like wedding issue comic books...Yes I like to read weddings in the form of comic books, why? Because I like seeing all of my favorite characters happy GOOD DAY SIR!

[arnieroth]

about a month ago, i bought physical copies of avengers spotlight (1989) for the us agent arc where he goes up against a serial killer targeting people crossing the us/mexico border. it is a short character study of john walker that turns a lot of what people know about him on its head.

well, marvel unlimited just added it to the app and I highly recommend checking it out if you’re a fan of john walker and want to read some of his older story lines

[ruins-heir]

When I started working on a comic about wolves, I expected that I have to draw a lot trees. I was wrong.

It's rocks.

Planet earth sure is a rocky planet.