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This was a week full of good books and thus good panels. A heartrending panel of a tearful Buffy from Buffy The Vampire Slayer #40 almost made it, but it’s hard to compete with Batman and Catwoman making out as drawn by Dustin Nguyen in Batman: Streets of Gotham #19. WOO.
All right, fine, I posted two panels…but are you really going to complain? No, I thought not!
Tags: comics!, Panel Of The Week
Though I had a few covers I liked a lot this week (Northlanders #36 stands out especially) it’s no surprise that I’m going with Wolverine & Jubilee #1 by Oliver Coipel, which I raved about in more detail just recently here. Also nice is that I really liked this issue too. Yay for comics!
Tags: comic covers, comics!, Cover Of The Week
Head over to CSBG to check out a link to the latest 3 Chicks Review Comics podcast, as well as a write up of what’s inside this episode!
Tags: 3 Chicks Cast, 3 Chicks Review Comics, comics!, podcasting
I’ve never really read Silver Sable before but Brad Walker’s take on her in Heroes For Hire #2 is AWESOME. I’m in.
Tags: comics!, Panel Of The Week
A new She Has No Head! – a look at Linda Medley’s excellent Castle Waiting Volume II is up on CSBG.
Tags: comics!, fantagraphics, she has no head!
…on your favorite couples for the DC Favorite Couples Contest on DC Women Kicking Ass
Voting ends at 6pm (est) today. So get over there and vote if you haven’t already.
My official ballot?
1. Bruce & Selina – It may be obvious, but it’s obvious for a reason. LOVE IT.
2. Big Barda & Scott Free – I love their story, and their constant unwavering devotion. Only in a world of a batman and a catwoman being in love are these two not number 1.
3. Kate Kane & Renee Montoya – Greg Rucka made this pairing more real and fantastic and desirable in a few pages than most characters ever get…they so belong together – especially now that they’re both capes!
4. Diana & Tom Tresser – I know it’s not popular, but I don’t care…I like it. I thought Gail Simone did a fantastic job of making me believe in Diana’s attempt to find love…and what she did with Diana and Tom just really made sense to me. I was pulling for them so much and was devastated when it didn’t work out.
5. Dick & Babs – Every time we get a scene with a writer toying with these two my heart races…will it finally happen (again…sorta…?). I love these two together.
DC Women Kicking ass is naturally focusing on DC…but I was thinking today what my favorite Marvel pairings would be as well, so here they are…
1. Emma & Scott – I never liked the Scott & Jean pairing for a variety of reasons, and Emma & Scott just make some kind of crazy sense to me. Also, though it seems weird to say considering that Emma is not exactly the most trustworthy hero in the world, but Scott just deserves someone that is really truly in love with him and not pining secretly for someone else all the time.
2. Luke Cage & Jessica Jones – Love it. Love it. Love it. Always have, always will.
3. Rogue & Gambit – There are many times in life that I hated this pairing, but it’s also the pairing that brought me the most crazy exciting DRAMA over the years, and though Gambit mostly annoys me these days…the 16 year old inside of me still loves it.
4. Colossus & Kitty Pryde – I never cared much for this until Whedon & Cassaday’s Astonishing X-Men run, but what can I say…they really convinced me.
5. Beast & Abigail Brand. A brilliant Beast and a green-haired half alien? What’s not to love?
Runner up: Scarlet Witch & The Vision – I don’t read The Avengers regularly, but I’ve always like this pairing perhaps because it seemed to help Wanda move away from her sometimes unbalanced relationship with her twin brother, and perhaps just because, like Brand and Beast, it seemed unlikely…and I always want to pull for unlikely pairings. 
Nguyen's Batman & Catwoman
Also, if you’re still in a voting mood and haven’t yet voted on the Cass Cain petition…get there post haste and sign!
Tags: comics!
DC’s “iconic covers” this month are making the pickings a bit slim for cover of the week, but this Fabio Moon Casanova Gula #1 is the easy winner…really cool blue tones with pops of yellow plus the integration of the cut out text and the badass starry eyes weirdness at the bottom…very nice.
Tags: comic covers, comics!, Cover Of The Week
Why yes, I think so!
Walking The Comic Runway (http://comicrunway.wordpress.com)
It may be new, but in a handful of posts, this new blog had me laughing and nodding my head vigorously in agreement…not to mention full of anticipation of what will surely be coming with all the costume craziness I see (and lament).
Get on board now and be one of those “first fans”…it’s almost like discovering a new band…*
And may I offer up this, this, this, and this as potential fodder for posts on those slow days!
*big thanks to Ross for bringing Comic Runway to my attention!
Tags: comics!
So my love of Cassandra Cain is well documented…check here and here if you need reminding or convincing.
And I’d like nothing more than to see her back in comics doing her thing on the regular again. I’d personally like an ongoing, though I’d settle for a really great mini-series that rooted her back into our universe (and the minds of her ENTIRE FAMILY) and then some ongoing supporting roles in other books (Batman, Batman Inc., Red Robin, Birds of Prey, Batgirl…all of these are books with room – or room that could be made – for Cass Cain). Ideally I’d like Cass to be a Bat for the new enterprise that is Batman Inc., or alternatively for her to take up the Nightwing mantle or to come up with her own alternative persona as her brothers Dick, Tim, and Jason have and have her own book…but again, I’d settle for any path that began the effort to bring her back.
Regardless, if you want her back…go here now and sign the petition. Let’s get a crazy insane number of signatures!
Tags: comics!, things made of awesome
