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Chicks Don’t Dig It…

How does it make sense for the team’s strongest member to be sidelined to holding up the lantern?

Can we get a little more face time? No, seriously, it’s around page 4 before we get a good look at our heroine’s face, though we see plenty of the rest of her, predominantly boobs and butt as she throws together a few valued possessions before fleeing her home pursued by criminals whom she’s managed to piss off.

Red Hood and the Outlaws 1

I was blindsided by this. Wonder Woman was the comic I fully expected to hate this week. But Red Hood I didn’t expect much of, and demanded less; I could handle Roy Harper being without a daughter as long as he had both arms and didn’t have the stupid and implausible relationship with the murderess, and this promised that, so I went in with low expectations.

Sweet Transvestite

Supes faces a ‘wardrobe malfunction’ as he auditions for an all-girl super-team!

DC Super Friends: Potty Time Power

Sam, our young protagonist, is deemed old enough now to step out of diapers and into the world of big-boy pants, but first he must master the skills of potty-training, and who better to teach him than the Super Friends?

Action Comics 1

… Best of all, it avoids Morrison’s two greatest faults – weak piddle-away endings that don’t match the strength of his opening concepts, and a propensity for being up himself to an extent, well, usually seen only on very specialist websites…

Archie’s World Tour

Put it this way; how would our American chums feel if a British writer depicted a tour group in 2008’s New York, using subway tokens (obsolete since 2003) to go to visit the twin towers of the World Trade Centre (famously destroyed in 2001)? I daresay they’d be miffed.

Justice League 1

I thought All-Star Batman was vile. It was vulgar, self-consciously ‘controversial’, and only borderline competent, despite some admittedly pretty illustration. It was the comic-book equivalent of monkeys in the zoo flinging poo at the patrons because they’re bored. But at least it aspired to some content… as opposed to the hollowed-out All-Star Batman that is Justice League 1.

Hangin’ On The Telephone

There’s some modern relationships they don’t make greetings cards for – yet…

She-Hulks: Hunt For The Intelligencia

This paperback collects a mini-series that ties into the current continuity of the Hulk comic. Actually Hulk comics, since there are currently two monthlies, Incredible Hulks and Hulk, dealing with the wacky antics of a whole bunch of gamma-irradiated folks as they search for love n’ life n’ learning in the big wide world.

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