ECCC just killed me last week–I totally blew my posting wad. I also had an ungodly amount of comics waiting for me in my box at Golden Age…

Batman & Robin #10: Does Grant Morrison hate Tim Drake Wayne?  I think he does. I think that Damian Wayne is the Robin he always wanted.  This issue wasn’t bad at all, but it does chafe my nuts that there is basically no acknowledgment that Dick was a dismissive douche. When Dick figures out that Bruce is lost in time, why doesn’t he immediately give Red Robin a call to ask for his help?  I mean, hello, always call in a subject matter expert! 

Prelude to Deadpool Corps #2: I’m glad to have been spared Liefeld art on this issue, but Whilce Portacio is hardly better. It’s amazing how bad art makes it tough to appreciate an otherwise good issue.

The Unwritten #11:  I know I’m getting to be a broken record on this book, but JUST READ IT.  Wonderful, fantastic, gorgeous.

Ex Machina #48: Has there ever been a *bad* issue of Ex Machina?  And there are only 2 left!

Hercules: Fall of An Avenger #1: Solid issue, though it just makes me sad that Incredible Hercules is no more.  I hate it when a great series doesn’t draw enough readers, especially when it’s a good book at Marvel, which doesn’t seem to produce many quality mainstream books anymore.  I am excited for the new Amadeus Cho series, though.  I’ve seen quite a few posts about how having Hercules ex-ladies (and one ex-fella) pay him tribute was gauche or something, which, come on.  Because Hercules was SO classy, right?

Batgirl #8: Well, the cover to this issue was beautiful.  I still hate Stephanie Brown. It bothers me that this character has SO MUCH potential, but that no one has ever succeeded in writing her well.  Such a waste.  And if they’re trying to develop the character, why the hell write a crossover event that focuses on how Steph isn’t over Tim? COME ON.  Give her some depth that doesn’t involve daddy issues or her ex-boyfriend.

Batman #697: Look, just because Dick Grayson is Batman now doesn’t mean he went out and got himself his dad’s haircut.  Also, Catgirl?  So stupid. Really boring anti-climatic storyline. I expect nothing better from the guy who gave us Battle For The Cowl.

Joe The Barbarian #3: I forgive Grant Morrison for hating Tim Wayne, because this series is just brilliant.  Like the way David Tennant says it, “BRRILL-YUNT!”  The plot is simple, yet has incredible depth:  hard-luck kid Joe has mismanaged his diabetes and needs to get to the kitchen to drink his juice, Shelby!  He’s also hallucinating an entire fantasy world journey that mirrors his slow journey down the stairs of his home.  Is it real?  Is it just the crazy firing synapses of a dying child?

Supergirl #51: Seriously, this is a great goddamn cover.  I know I talk about covers a lot, but a good cover brings in new readers.  I am in big love with Joshua Middleton.  He seems to do mainly covers since his style is more…arty, I guess?  But he did the interiors on that great issue of Outsiders that had Batman testing Metamorpho vs new!Aquaman and they were ga-zorgeous.  I love that new!Aquaman has black shark eyes.  That’s totally awesome.  You’ll notice I’m not talking about the Supergirl issue too much.  That’s because it was pretty boring.

Green Lantern Corps #46: I usually like GLC, but there was just way too much going on, both visually and story-wise.  I’m not sure how I felt about the now-iconic girlfriend in a refrigerator coming back to Black Lantern-haunt Kyle Rayner, though.  Especially when the same issue focuses on Tora/Guy Gardner.  I’m so glad some dead girlfriends were included in the story so their boyfriends could learn and grow as characters.

The Authority: The Lost Year #7: Oh, it’s such a wrench that Giffen established this great AU and we only got to explore it for a couple of issues.  I’m also a sucker for the lovers parted in the AU trope, so poor Apollo-less Midnighter broke my heart a little.  Um, excuse me, I think I have something in my eye…

Booster Gold #30: Look, I try not to objectify Booster Gold, but they make it super hard on me.  I mean, he gets almost as many ass and crotch shots as Nightwing.  Back to the comic, I LOVE that every issue of Booster Gold is meta-candy for comics nerds.  Definitely one of the best callback covers in the run thus far.  This issue in particular is a beautiful mess of time travel snafus and shifting timelines.

Tiny Titans #24: One word:  Batcow.

Red Robin #10: Ah, sad.  Another issue of Red Robin goes by without Tim Wayne going crazy and killing somebody.  Annoying!  I have been waiting for him to snap for YEARS and it never happens! I mean, HIS PARENTS ARE DEAAAAAAD, his adoptive father is lost in time, his brothers are constantly either jerking him around or trying to kill him and all of his friends die horrible, violent deaths.  It’s just, a crazy Tim would be way more fun than crazy Jason Todd.  Jason will stab you or shoot you.  Tim?  He’ll let you sweat it out for  a couple of months and then make you eat your parents.

Obviously, there is some plan for the character–they have spent the last year or so transitioning him from an obsessive-compulsive nerd with inexplicably hot girlfriends to a legitimate badass, and you have to admit, it’s pretty hard to be badass in the Red Robin costume.  I kind of hope that he decides to just be Nightwing, but with less girl problems.  Then, when Bruce comes back and is like, “Okay, Dick, um…so, the thing is, I’m Batman again.  And it would be super great if you could move out of the house because you’re getting your Ralph Lauren Polo Sport stink all over my stuff.”   So Dick runs to Tim and is all, “I guess I’m Nightwing again?”  And Tim is like, “Hey remember when you were a bad brother and took away the only thing that ever really mattered to me?  Guess what.”

You don’t think he’s petty enough to do it?  He just traveled to Europe and burned down Damian’s entire inheritance.  Trust me, he is sufficiently petty.

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