Another block of weekly comic reviews, for your listening pleasure. This week, we take on more of Marvel’s “Fear Itself,” “Schism,” but, more importantly, a big week in the DC “New 52” extravaganza.
Covers are shown below (and you can hover over them and see my ratings out-of-five-stars).
For those who are wondering what all the kerfuffle is about on Catwoman and Red Hood and the Outsiders, you can look here for a great article all about it by Laura Hudson. It includes a variety of illustrations from the actual comics in question, which may or may not be safe for work.
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I think that the DCNU changes can be summed up in one of two ways:
A Chorus Lines – “Dance: Ten; Looks: Three”
Or the following comic:
http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/04-remedial-adulthood/math/
As a follow up, Winick says that Catwoman #1 is feature not a bug.
http://www.digitalspy.com/comics/news/a342129/catwoman-writer-judd-winick-defends-sex-scene.html
As Mary said when I was fussing about this Wednesday: The target audience is 15 year old boys, not you.”
If that is the case, best thing to do is not buy any of the DCNU books from here on out, or at the very minumum, stop buying the offending ones. I am sure you can guess which route I am going.
That Shortpacked comic is awesome.
It’s interesting that Winick doesn’t directly address the the two most common critiques directly (the anatomical focus of the first few pages of the book, and the tawdry sex scene at the end), but talk about the general tone. Which is what he’s been saying before.
I will give both Catwoman and RHATO one more issue each. Probably Suicide Squad, too. There are plenty of other decent DCnU comics out there to read, and some that are pretty damned good (Wonder Woman, for one). We’ll see.
Apropos of no relation to your weekly podcast, have you read the “Possessions” books by Ray Fawkes (Oni Press)? These have gotten a lot of good press in the kids comics field, and I just picked them up and have been enjoying the heck of reading them aloud. (My kids are really into comics right now, so I’ve been looking for a lot of kid-friendly TPBs.)
I will give it a spin, thanks!