Posts Tagged ‘ Supergirl ’

Newsarama has announced DC’s new Supergirl creative team of Kelley Puckett and Drew Johnson, as of #23.

I’m sorry, but I thought Tony Bedard and Renato Guedes were the new regular team? Did I miss the part where they were announced as fill-ins?

While I’m not against the newly announced team – Puckett’s Batgirl remains a favorite, and Johnson’s shown he can do well with Wonder Woman - I do wonder if this is the title’s last chance? It hasn’t felt stable – or ‘right’ – since its launch and I can’t see even die-hard fans sticking around too much longer.

And does Supergirl even have supporters in her current incarnation at this point?

And while this sounds good:

“Well, I read those old school Supergirl stories when I was growing up, so I’m very much influenced by them. What I took away from them was that Supergirl was a character about Hope and Possibility, and that’s something I intend to bring to my run on the book.”

…this sounds less good:

“I haven’t spoken with Sean about what he’s doing with her in Teen Titans. I’m a huge fan of his work and I think we have similar sensibilities, but a team book has a different dynamic than a solo series. You can’t write Batman in Batman the way you can write him in JLA. Sean has to do what’s best for his book and things can get needlessly complicated if you try to “synch up” too much.”

It sounds like pretty much the same problem I have with Robin’s depiction in his own book and Teen Titans - uniform aside, it simply doesn’t feel like the same character a lot of the time.

Finally, Kelley also says that the first arc will feature Superman, Batman and Vandal Savage.

Because, y’know, Supergirl can’t possibly have a story arc without guest stars. She’s DC’s Black Panther….

…Laura Vandervoort.

Cute, wholesome, blonde, cute.

Not sure if she can act but she sure looks the part.

So: open ‘oh’ mouth, tentacles (well, snakes), showing herself up infront of all the manly superheroes, pointy nipples, a blatant cleavage shot and a bad hair day?

Take that, perfectly coiffed Heroes for Hire! Seventies Supergirl has you beat in the ‘stupid covers’ stakes!

I seriously doubt that Veronica Mars’ Kristen Bell would be interested in the Supergirl role in the next season of Smallville at this point in her career, but JoshMC must have spent so much time on this that it would be rude not to post it – you can see his original post here. It’s pretty good but there’s something about it that strikes me as…creepy somehow:

Just for the real geeks out there, though, E! Online has this photo of the young Ms Bell promoting the upcoming Fanboys – which also features Sam Huntington (Jimmy Olsen in Superman Returns), Chris Marquette, Dan Fogler, Knocked Up pair Jay Baruchel and Seth Rogen, Jaime King, the ubiquitous Danny Trejo, not to mention cameos from Kevin Smith, William Shatner, Ray Park (Darth Maul) and original Star Wars actors Carrie Fisher and Billy Dee Williams. Phew! Anyway, the pic in question:

James, don’t say I never do anything for you…

Where do I start with what’s wrong with this cover?

The lustful look on young Supergirl’s face as she hugs her ‘Dad’ and wants to go and perform ‘Super-feats’?

His hand position, as though it’s just about to slide down a little?

The paper, poised to be raised to block any offensive, er, bulges?

The long-suffering Lois’ look of betrayal as she contemplates this Super-union of ickyness?

The fact that Lois can tell they’re ‘excited’ but she’s happy because she loves them both?

No – it’s the fact that she’s KNITTING!! Because, clearly, that’s ALL she’s good for!

People – this is why we need a good Lois Lane book - to banish the memory of this one for all eternity!

Now can we have a Showcase collection, please?

If you thought women in comics had it bad now…

…too busy for a real post this morning.

I actually managed to take a trip to the store on time for once last night, and picked up my stash – so what’s the verdict?

Action Comics #850 – Okay, so it didn’t solve the Supergirl situation but it was a nice little capper of Superman’s history and pretty good for what is a fill-in anniversary issue. Think about that – the regular story is so behind that an anniversary issue is a fill-in. Of course, when you have Kurt Busiek, Fabian Nicieza and Geoff Johns at the helm its a pretty good bet it’ll be readable. There were a few nice surprises in there too – a look at a couple of alternate timeline’s Supermen and a glance forward at what’s to come – a whole plethora of Brainiacs? A city of Supermen? I’d guess those bits were Geoff Johns’ contribution. Oh, and Renato Guedes art? Fantastic – looks like Supergirl might be back on the list….

Amazons Attack #2 – Pete Woods is still doing good work here, and I have to say that the issue as a whole is better than last issue. There’s a few things still to nit-pick at – for example, I’m fairly sure that the cross-over scenes with Wonder Woman scenes didn’t make sense (Nemesis proves that one Sarge Steel is a fake then reveals he’s a fake in front of everyone? Huh?). Still, the faults were offset by the fact that the Amazons – including Artemis, who I always liked – have their suspicions about Hippolyta. It’s an improvement but its not firing on all cylinders yet.

Countdown #48 – I thin k that I’m getting the hang of this now. It’s going to be pulling stuff from all other DC books, so if a big event happens there that impacts the main storylines of Countdown, we’re going to see it here. Okay. It’s off to a shaky start, and I think that it’s missing Keith Giffen’s unifying presence right now, but it’s picking up steam. I’m still not sure what the point of the Black Adam mini is now that we know he finds his magic word again, no matter what Dan Didio says.

Green Lantern #20 – A few nice moments – Hal’s reaction to Carol’s divorce, Starbuck’s Cowgirl’s T-shirt and missing hat – don’t make up for the damp squib of an ending. And oooh…yet another Corps appears – there’s such a thing of too much of a good thing, you know Geoff. And the idea that there are another four Corps out there…that’s a whole other post!

Justice Society of America #6 – Not bad – and Dale Eaglesham shines – but still not great. The cast is too big and the plot remarkably slow-moving at this point. Nice to see the Sensor Girl design back though.

Teen Titans #47 – Pretty good, and Tim’s little, er, takedown of Jason made me smile. But why did they just let Jason go? Wasn’t he still involved in murders in the Bruce Jones Nightwing run – or did Mr Mind eat that away? Adam Beeched would have done okay with this book.

New Avengers: Illuminati #3 – Okay, that made no sense at all. We know that the Beyonder was created by Molecule Man’s power sifting into an empty universe – only now he wasn’t because he was an Inhuman. And we know Secret Wars II didn’t take place on an a New York on an asteroid (despite the ‘Power Man/Iron Fist/Spidey/building of gold’ scene) because it affected lots of characters in the continuity of their own books – like the New Mutants, who spent about a year getting over the fact that the Beyonder killed them all. So what happened in this issue aside from the fact that Bendis and Reed showed how clever they were was actually worthless. Because after this issue, the Beyonder still went to Earth and none of the Illuminati bothered reminding him they’d told him to bugger off. So this was completely pointless. Jim Cheung’s art was nice though. And was that Clea and Wanda in bed with Doc Strange in his perfect world?

New X-Men: Childhoods End vol 4 TP – Didn’t pick this up but I will. I did pick up the seconf Fables trade though.

Silent War #5 – Actually a pretty good issue because a) Frazier Irving is great, b) Black Bolt levelled everyone with a whisper, c) Iron Man got his ass handed to him, d) Ares had a nice moment and e) it just proved what a worthless piece-of-crap the character of the Sentry is. Because all he does is mope and watch. We have the Watcher for that, asshole.

Wolverine #54 – Remarkably, not a bad issue. We saw the demise of a piece of crap character and some form of answers appeared. I’m assuming at this point that Romulus or whoever is actually Logan’s brother, but I guess we’ll find out next issue. Bianchi’s art is pure gold here though. I hope they release the trade in the black and white format.

I also picked up Star Wars: KOTOR #17. As usual, it was pretty solid and its nice to see both Camper’s sanity issues resolved and Zane getting better at using the Force. I’m not too sure about Dark Horse’s new tendency to do speech balloons on their covers for this line of books though…

…why can’t you catch a break?

Newsarama just posted an interview with oncoming Teen Titans writer Sean McKeever with the cover to #50 – and what looks to be the new team.

There are so many things right with this:

• Supergirl is on the team – frankly, I’ve missed an ‘S’ on the book since Superboy died – and if anyone can redeem her character, its Sean McKeever!
• Blue Beetle is on the team! I like the idea of the character even if I don’t pick up the book, so its good to see him getting a little more exposure – of course, it remains to be seen if that picks up sales on his own book past #18…
• Kid Devil and Ravager are still on the team – all good news as I’ve been really enjoying their characterisation these past few months (even if Titans East was a let down). And this means that Ravager isn’t dying!
• Miss Martian and Supergirl are on the same team together!
• Jericho, Raven and Cyborg aren’t on the team! Frankly, Jericho bores the crap out of me, Raven is too involved with all that Brother Blood and Trigon stuff that I can’t stand, and Cyborg is just too old for the team.
• Robin and Wonder Girl are front and center – these two are the heart of the team in its current incarnation, so that’s great news!

Looking forward to this!

My pick of the news coming out of Wizard World -

• Avengers Classic - a new series reprinting Avengers from #1, with additional back-ups (initially by Dwayne McDuffie and Mike Oeming) – kind of like the old X-Men Classic book. Not a bad idea but as much as I love them, a lot of today’s readers will probably find the original Avengers books kind of tough going. Still, at least they’r enot inserting additional scenes into the books the way the X-Men reprints used to!
• Daredevil: Battlin’ Jack Murdock - a series virtually nobody asked for, yet it could be good. Artist and co-writer Carmine Di Giandomenico is a talented guy, and Zeb Wells has a light touch for origin books, as shown by his Doc Ock Year One a while ago. Could be good. Now can we get Jack Murdock to fight Wildcat please?
• Spider-Man/Red Sonja – okay…I guess Kulan Gath has made trouble in the MU before, and Sonja has shown up there too but this seems odd. Although seeing Peter drool over another red-head could be fun…
• X-Men First Class is becoming an ongoing; so kind of like Professer Xavier and the X-Men, then? Or maybe X-Men: Hidden Years? As much fun as it may be, this seems a little redundant to me.
• Looks like David Finch isn’t the only one doing a cover for X-Men #200 – Humberto Ramos and Chris Bachalo (below) will also be providing wraparounds!
• Legion of Super-Heroes - I thought it was pretty much already stated that Mark Waid would be leaving LSH with #30, but apparently this is news – although Tony Bedard is a good fit for the book.
• Booster Gold - A new ongoing for the man out of time! And with Geoff Johns, Jeff Katz, Dan Jurgens and Norm Rapmund on the book, it sounds like I’ll at least be getting the first trade, if not the singles…
• Infinity Inc – Peter Milligan and Max Fiurma take on the classic team with Steel taking the lead role. I’m unsure on this – Milligan’s non-superhero stuff has always been great while his superhero work has left me cold. We’ll see.
• Black Adam may be getting an ongoing – now that’s a book I’d pick up!
• The Darkness is back as an ongoing later in the year with Phil Hester on writing duty

All in all it seemed a pretty slow news-weekend, convention-wise. Let’s hope more gets announced as convention season rolls on…

It occurs to me that sometimes it can get a little trying blogging about comics 5 days a week as sometimes I don’t have that much to say. On days like that, I tend to post scattershot posts like this that touch on a few things but probes into none, and don’t always reference comics. False advertising? Maybe. Easier blogging? Definitely.

Because apparently having female role models involves being stick thin and showing a lot of skin and boobs.

Good job DC aren’t trying to capture the female market.

Oh, wait…

One last thing

That profile pic up in the top right?

I don’t really look like that.

Honest.

I picked up the regular armload of books last night on the way back from work but as we were going out for dinner, I ‘ve only read two so I’m keeping my head down today.

The two that I read – Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man and Ms Marvel were both great. In the former, its great to see the old black costume back and a down-on-his-luck Peter actually made me reminiscent. Oh, and though it didn’t spoil the next issue of Amazing, I did draw some conclusions that eased my worries a little bit. This might work out after all.

While the Spider-suit has always been an escape for Peter, it looks like this might be more true now than ever – and maybe that’s how it should be. Also lots of nice subplots going on – and could we be seeing the return of the nice-guy Sandman? I’m not holding my breath, but I will cross my fingers.

And speaking of subplots, Ms Marvel has them in spades – Carol’s love life, her failures, her mysterious benefactors, her agent, and then there’s Anya (Arana), Carol’s erstwhile sidekick…can someone classify as a Woman in (a) Refrigerator if what happens to her happens to advance another woman’s character? I’ll let Marionette and Ragnell debate that one…

Also, was it just me or was the comic store busier than usual yesterday? I put it down to The Dark Tower, so more power to it. I’ll be picking up the trade.

I also ditched a couple of books off my pull list, putting them back on the shelf with a not a little self-satisfaction. One was Supergirl, one that you’ll probably know that I’ve been bitching about for ages (just click the Supergirl label below to see what I mean, or click here), one was Nightwing and the other was Detective. I hadn’t been all that enthused with Marv Wolfman’s return to the character on the former, and I realised that I’d missed a couple of issues of the latter and it hadn’t bothered me…I’ll probably pick Dini’s stuff up in trades from now on and see who takes over next before deciding whether to go back to it or not.

Three down – about a hundred to go!

I picked up the latest issue of Teen Titans yesterday and it was pretty good. Almost a shame to see Match devolve into a poor man’s Bizarro, but I can live with it. Also sorry to see just how low Risk has sunk – I may have been the only person who enjoyed the Jurgens-era Teen Titans book (speaking of, whatever happened to Argent? Having seen her for ages…)

But the main talking point about the issue is, of course, the revelation regarding Batgirl and why she moved to the dark side during the one year break – and if you’ve avoided the issue or internet title, stop reading now.

So Deathstroke’s been injecting her with the loopy juice to get back at the bat-family for taking his children away from him, eh?

Well…okay, I guess. I mean it explains the homicidal behavior, but as has been pointed out elsewhere, it really doesn’t explain the whole plot a while ago in Robin about her going crazy because she found out that David Cain had been training others (which actually didn’t make any sense at the time either) but okay, I can live with it – and I suspect we’ll see Deathstroke grabbing Cassie at some point in either the closing weeks of 52 or World War III.

But does this mean there’s hope for Batgirl after this? Maybe yes – what she could turn into is an even more angsty version of her former self. You think she had trouble dealing with the guy she killed when she was little? Wait till you see her now!

Maybe not.

But hey, the possibility is there.

The other big Titans news yesterday was, of course, that Geoff Johns and Tony Daniels are leaving the book, handing over the reins to Adam Beechen and an as-yet unnamed artist. While I’ll miss the team, I think that Adam’s a fine choice; his Robin work has been great – the editorially-mandated Batgirl stuff notwithstanding – and I look forward to seeing where he goes with the book.

One last thing; Newsarama has a great interview with Geoff Johns up right now looking back at the past four years, and at one point he says:

Originally we wanted Supergirl on the team, but she was in Legion and they
didn’t want to confuse people. And she was also going through some kind of
“rebellion” phase or something, so we thought — oh, we’ll just make up our own
alien character. And if we would have made Supergirl up, maybe we would have
made her more like this. And we just came up with the idea — a hero with a
mysterious background as a White Martian, but making her a very delicate
character who got her feelings hurt really bad.

Ah ha! I knew it!! I knew I wasn’t going crazy when I said that Miss Martian was the new Supergirl!!

Sometimes it’s good to be right….

In 1978, DC cancelled 31 -yes, 31 – titles. Following as it did the much-advertised ‘DC Explosion’ starting in 1975, this ended up being referred to as the DC Implosion. There’s a detailed title-by-title analysis here and a wiki entry here and it’s worth a quick look if you have a moment.

But that – and my much-dwindling DC pull list – got me thinking about the state of DC at the moment. For me, OYL and the months that followed ended up being a bit of a watershed for me, resulting in me dropping titles that I’d collected loyally for years.

Catwoman‘s insistence on building Film Freak – a third rate villain if ever there was one – pushed me away from the title.

Green Arrow‘s change of direction provided me with an excuse to drop a book which had been floundering for a while.

Hawkgirl was an early casualty too, despite my fondness of the character and the fact that Simonson and Chaykin are both top notch creators. Something just didn’t gel on the book.

Outsiders‘ opening OYL storyline left me with a bad taste in my mouth and was the straw that broke the camel’s back with that book.

Superman/Batman finally got kicked to the kerb after I realised that I hadn’t really enjoyed it in a year and that it had very little impact on any other books.

I dropped the JLA and JSA Classified titles for pretty much the same reason.

Nightwing‘s scrambling to make sense of something that didn’t make any sense drove me away. I returned for the initial Wolfman arc and despite enjoying the first issue I found the remaining three to be dull and frankly a bit of a mess.

Batman and Detective started off strong with Robinson’s Face the Face but even this ended with a whimper instead of a bang and for the first time in ten years, I find myself skipping issues which are done by fill in teams – even ones I like, such as Ostrander and Mandrake.

Similarly, I haven’t picked up many of DC’s recent launches. I’ve heard good things about Green Lantern Corps and may get the trade but something about the title doesn’t appeal to me. It may be the alien designs. Irrational but true. Shadowpact held little interest after the lacklustre Day of Vengeance. Despite my liking for Kyle Rayner, the first issue of Ion fell short of being engaging enough for me to pick up #2. I tried Blue Beetle but the first issue didn’t impress. I picked up the first Checkmate arc off ebay and found myself not caring much that I couldn’t work out who everyone was.

The Superman and Batman Confidential books don’t really interest me either. I may pick up the occasional trade based on the creative team but that’s it.

Not one of the Brave New World titles floated my boat – including the Atom, much to my surprise given the opening creative team. Similarly, I’ve avoided Omega Men, Mystery in Space, Tales of the Unexpected, Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters and Trials of Shazam!. I didn’t even pick up Connor Hawke, and like the character a lot.

Of recent launches that I have picked up, Flash has been a well-documented disappointment that I kept buying out of blind loyalty to the concept under Mark Waid and Geoff Johns, and Justice League of America is proving to be duller than I ever thought possible. Wonder Woman has been fun but so infrequent that it’s in danger of needing another relaunch. Only Justice Society of America has so far lived up to expectations, and that’s only two issues old.

So where does that leave me? The only books that I have picked up constistently through OYL to now are Action, Superman, Robin, Legion of Super-Heroes, Teen Titans, Green Lantern and – much to my chagrin – Supergirl. I dropped over half my DC pulls – and I’ve been a rock solid buyer of some of those titles for over 10 years.

And while I may go back on ebay or pick up some trades to cover some of those books, I won’t do it for all. I’ve suffered my own personal DC Implosion. I never thought it possible, but crossover-itis appears to have infected me to the extent that I just got burnt out on a lot of these characters. If it happened to me, I suspect that it happened to a lot of people.

Crossovers may prove good for short term sales bumps but in the long term, readers stay for characters. I can’t but help feel that DC may have let that slip – and I think I may suffer a Marvel Implosion following the conclusion of Civil War.

I guess we’ll see.

It’s been all over the net in the past day or two, and now Newsarama has a Hi Res image (click here).

For those not in the know, DC released this image:

with the following quote:

“Let the battle cry be heard in the land, a shout of great destruction…”

A quick Google tells me that this is actually a passage from Jeremiah 50 concerning the fall of Babylon (I’m sure Palladin can tell us more!).

So judging from the picture here’s some observations:

1. New York appears to be standing in for Babylon
2. Batman‘s outfit reminds me of a couple of Elseworlds, but also of his fight with Ra’s Al Ghul during Hush. Must be the sword.
3. Red Robin appears to be from Kingdom Come (he’s the future Nightwing, Dick Grayson).
4. The Atom‘s arm (or an Atom’s arm) is sticking out of the ground by Black Canary‘s foot.
5. Kyle Rayner looks like he’s in a variation of his Ion suit.
6. Donna Troy has gone back to her original outfit.
7. Green Arrow and Black Canary may be on the outs.
8. There’s a Legion flight ring on the floor.
9. Three out of four of the characters who – according to the Monitors – weren’t supposed to survive the Crisis are in the pic in some form (Red Robin, Ion, Donna Troy) – and then there’s that Legion ring that might represent the fourth…
10. Blue Beetle, Max Lord, Jade and the Question were all fatalities in Infinite Crisis and 52.
11. Mary Marvel is the sole Marvel family member present.
12. That looks like the Scott Free Mr Miracle with Big Barda, not the Shiloh Norman one (thanks heavens!)
13. I suspect that is the Barry Allen Flash (the belt and the lack of eyepieces) – but I guess it could be Bart.
14. There’s something on the floor between Max Lord and Jade that I can’t identify.
15. Superman‘s upset. Obviously. And Lois is nowhere to be seen. And there’s something under a shroud. But then, he’s sitting on it. So it’s probably not Lois.
16. Wonder Woman has her shield with her – rarely seen outside of her appearances in battle armor (or when Hipployta had it – hmmm….)

Then there are the theories

1. It represents World War III – but this seems unlikely due to the costumes the cast are wearing.
2. It links into the upcoming JSA/Kingdom Come storyline – although I doubt this if only because that appears to be our Superman.
3. It’s the return of the multiverse – possible, but as that’s apparently happening at the end of 52, again it feels unlikely.
4. It’s the final part of the three act structure begun by Identity Crisis and continued by the Countdown-Infinite Crisis-52 trifecta.

Personally, I think option 4 seems most likely.

Looks like next summer might be another trying time for the DC Heroes…

A few thoughts for the end of the week…

• I really like Ed Benes’ artwork but his site sketches seem to be veering more and more towards cheesecake these days. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
• I bought my final issue of Ghost Rider last night – I like the character and the art but for my money Daniel Way’s scripts leave a bit to be desired. Like the plot and direction, but as others have said, when you have a better idea of what’s been going on from reading the recap page than reading the issue it’s time to move on.
• Loren has a poll up on his blog about Supergirl. Go vote, I’ll still be here when you get back.
• Supernova’s identity – while not a huge surprise – made me smile as the reveal should make a few DC decriers eat their words. That said, how this particular character pulled it off did involve a sleight of hand trick that may come back into play later in the series…
• Well it certainly didn’t take them long to crack the code in the back of the DC books this week, did it? And it looks like we’ve seen at least 2 of the missing 52 seconds too…
• Kalinara has a pretty interesting post up about why she doesn’t like Cassandra Cain’s Batgirl – and I find myself agreeing with pretty much everything she says. As usual.
• Looks like the variant covers and I were right – the New Avengers roster is now confirmed
• Mike Wieringo has a new DEVIANTART Gallery that’s definitely worth a browse.
• CB Cebulski is in a kimono. That is all.

And that’s it for the week – have a good weekend all!

This is it, I swear – I know that I have harped on and on about my dissatisfaction with the current Supergirl (both the book and character) but this is it. My last post on the subject.

I’ve come to the conclusion that the reason I’m not enjoying the character isn’t because she’s a badly defined character, or a victim of poor writing (at least not since Joe Kelly came aboard; I’m not convinced the early issues were Jeph Loeb’s best work), but because she’s just not what I expect from Supergirl. It’s the same reason I was a little iffy over Peter David’s launch a few years ago – it was a little too dark for Supergirl.

The difference here – and the reason why I have a full set of PAD’s run and won’t have a full set of this one – is that in PAD’s run, the Linda/Matrix merging worked because while Linda may have been a lost soul involved in some Very Bad Things, Matrix just wanted to help people. Together they made a great Supergirl in a classic run.

Here though, Kara is coming across as a self-involved brat. I know that there’s a dark past, and I know that she’s full of self-loathing – but I just can’t bring myself to care.

Why?

Because there’s another character who is everything I want from Supergirl – and she’s in the DCU. Teenaged, alien, likable, naive and flawed. Her name, in case you hadn’t realised, is Miss Martian. Hey she might have a dark, White Martian past, but she’s still cheerful and optimistic.

So it’s time to bid a fond farewell to Supergirl – and greet Miss Martian with open arms!

The blog surpassed 3000 hits this weekend (at least since I installed Sitemeter in early August), and I’m sure only half of those were me.

It may not be a lot compared to the big blogs, but a milestone is a milestone…

Anyway, as it’s a New Year (or was about a week ago) I thought I’d lay out some goals for the next year:

• Update once a day in the week at a minimum, unless I’m on vacation
• Try and find a reviewing and critiquing ‘voice’ that works – I’ve tried Characters I Don’t Get, An Open Letter To… and a few others but as yet none that feels really ‘right’
• Stop moaning about Supergirl and just drop it already (although I do have one more post on the matter brewing)
• Don’t drop the Spider-Man books, even if they kill MJ, have her divorce Peter, leave Peter, divorced by Peter, left by Peter for her own good, turn out to be a clone, turn out to be a SHIELD agent, turn out to be a Skrull agent or, basically, do anything to her. May on the other hand, they can do what they like to. Interfering old know-it-all.
• Not add to the titles I buy without dropping one.
• Dropping titles I don’t enjoy (more difficult than you’d think due to this damn collector’s mentality) no matter how long I’ve been buying them – unless it’s a Spider-book.
• Continue the back-issue hunt but not for things I already have in trade paperbacks or Essentials unless they’re really good deals.
• Get more comments – somehow. Not really sure how to do this but I guess if people are reading, they will come. Thank you, Field of Dreams.

I guess that’s it for now – back to work!

You may (or may not!) have noticed the lack of posting today. It’s for a couple of reasons – for one, work is a total bitch today and I just haven’t had time.

For another, I didn’t get to the comicbook store last night and I don’t want to comment on things I’ve read on the net till I’ve read them myself.

For yet another, I finally got round to reading Supergirl #13 last night and I can’t believe that after 3 months of moaning (a) it’s not getting any better; (b) virtually nothing has happened to move the story along (c) I’m still buying it. That was the last time. I swear.

And finally, I’d like to point out that as I anticipated earlier this week, The Futon Critic has named Veronica Mars‘ second season finale ‘Not Pictured’ in its top 10 scripted episodes of 2006 -coming in at #7.

Veronica rules.