Overall these covers have a lot less cleavage than has been the norm in recent years.
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Which appears to be very much like saying that a Burger King Whopper is "less fatty" than a McDonald's Quarter Pounder. There's no respect in which the images out so far represent a "de-sexification" of anyone. 
Actually, thinking about it it looks like they've put a number of artists who aren't too egregious on the T&A front on titles like BoP, Batgirl and Wonderwoman. And of course the Batwoman art is set to be beautiful.
A little cheesecake and beefcake is a fine comics tradition, but there have been times in the past I've been too embarrassed to take comics out of my bag on public transport.(cf Benes on Birds of Prey.)
It's not de-sexification. It's less sexification. These are downright tame compared to what some artists have done in the past, but there's definitely still some buxom cleavage on display here and there.Which appears to be very much like saying that a Burger King Whopper is "less fatty" than a McDonald's Quarter Pounder. There's no respect in which the images out so far represent a "de-sexification" of anyone.
Damn, I just started reading Teen Titans again, but have no interest in this iteration. Most of the supernatural stuff doesn't appeal to me, but I liked Cornell's writing, so I might try Demon Knights and I love DnA's stuff and, while I never read Resurrection Man during it's first run (minus a $0.25 bin find of #1 and I did pick up the 1,000,000 issue), I might give it a try.
Scott Snyder proved himself a master storyteller on Detective, and, while I haven't read any Swamp Thing in the past (besides guest-starring roles, such as in Firestorm and the story that was published in DC's Alan Moore TPB), he does interest me.
Legion of Super-Heroes is probably my least favorite book currently on my pull list. It's not bad, but it's nothing great, either. Just something I read and then put aside. I might take this as a chance to jump ship, but I am interested in Legion Lost. I guess it depends on how much that ties into the Legion title, though the premises seem to diverge greatly.
But, Teen Titans? It seems that my picking up the title again after JT Krul started writing was short lived. I just can't get interested in the premise.
It seems that the official announcements, starting with the first reveal last week, the Green Lantern reveal, and the Batman reveal all showed a good number of titles I put in the "I will definitely get" or, at least the, "I'm very interested in." These recent announcements border from, "I'll give it a try," to, "Not in a million years."
Scott Snyder proved himself a master storyteller on Detective, and, while I haven't read any Swamp Thing in the past (besides guest-starring roles, such as in Firestorm and the story that was published in DC's Alan Moore TPB), he does interest me.
Legion of Super-Heroes is probably my least favorite book currently on my pull list. It's not bad, but it's nothing great, either. Just something I read and then put aside. I might take this as a chance to jump ship, but I am interested in Legion Lost. I guess it depends on how much that ties into the Legion title, though the premises seem to diverge greatly.
But, Teen Titans? It seems that my picking up the title again after JT Krul started writing was short lived. I just can't get interested in the premise.
It seems that the official announcements, starting with the first reveal last week, the Green Lantern reveal, and the Batman reveal all showed a good number of titles I put in the "I will definitely get" or, at least the, "I'm very interested in." These recent announcements border from, "I'll give it a try," to, "Not in a million years."
^I'd generally recommend Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run. It's not quite as good as people make out, but it's still very good, and it's likely that I only think that because I read it twenty years after its first publication, when it rocked the socks of a more innocent medium.
People will tell you that the plant love is the best part, but for me the highlight was Zatara spontaneously combusting moments after telling John Constantine to stop having sex with his daughter (the two events are unrelated).
To compile my list so far: Batwoman (obviously), Firestorm (I don't want to punish Simone for things that aren't her fault), and OMAC (this I've gotta see). Maybe Cornell's Etrigan thing, but probably not, inasmuch as Etrigan is one of those characters who is really best in small doses. I may pick up JLI out of morbid curiosity, perhaps just to confirm all my fears and prejudices and bitch about it. I can turn $3 into hours of entertainment that way.
The Travel Foreman (isn't it?) Animal Man cover looks so awesome that I might buy the book based on the art alone.
I don't fully understand why Voodoo has a book. It didn't even occur to me till I read about it that it was Voodoo from WildC.A.T.s, whose superpower, I believe, has having breasts.
This I, Vampire thing, judging by the cover, looks like it's about five years late, and one penis short.
Edit: Legion Lost has Pete Woods, I realize. That's another maybe.
People will tell you that the plant love is the best part, but for me the highlight was Zatara spontaneously combusting moments after telling John Constantine to stop having sex with his daughter (the two events are unrelated).
To compile my list so far: Batwoman (obviously), Firestorm (I don't want to punish Simone for things that aren't her fault), and OMAC (this I've gotta see). Maybe Cornell's Etrigan thing, but probably not, inasmuch as Etrigan is one of those characters who is really best in small doses. I may pick up JLI out of morbid curiosity, perhaps just to confirm all my fears and prejudices and bitch about it. I can turn $3 into hours of entertainment that way.
The Travel Foreman (isn't it?) Animal Man cover looks so awesome that I might buy the book based on the art alone.
I don't fully understand why Voodoo has a book. It didn't even occur to me till I read about it that it was Voodoo from WildC.A.T.s, whose superpower, I believe, has having breasts.
This I, Vampire thing, judging by the cover, looks like it's about five years late, and one penis short.
Edit: Legion Lost has Pete Woods, I realize. That's another maybe.
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Not too interested in most of what they've announced so far. I'll pick up the Geoff Johns / Ivan Reis Aquaman book and continue to get the Flash and the Legion books, as their creative teams are staying relatively intact. The idea of George Perez on Superman is a tantalizing possibility.
But the rest of it I'm either indifferent to or find actively repulsive. DC wants to employ Rob Liefeld but doesn't want to give the vastly more talented Steve Rude any work? Seriously?!?
But the rest of it I'm either indifferent to or find actively repulsive. DC wants to employ Rob Liefeld but doesn't want to give the vastly more talented Steve Rude any work? Seriously?!?
The only thing that I remember Voodoo ever doing was having transcendent sex with Solar, Man of the Atom, which kicked off the Image/Valiant crossover, Deathmate.
Hell of a thing for a character to be remembered for...
He was a fun character in the Doctor 13 series. Okay, okay, that entire series was just plain fun.
Hell of a thing indeed, since that was actually Void.
Superhero comics need more cosmic sex, fewer corpses in refrigerators (I see you hiding down there, Ron Marz!).
Anyway, this is pretty much what I mean when I say I'm shocked Voodoo has a series, since even for people that remember WildC.A.T.s, Voodoo didn't really register.
I mean, I can safely assume that Voodoo actually had a personality in Wildcats 3.0, because Joe Casey is great (seriously, you all must buy Vengeance, and go ahead and pick up the Godland trades while you're at it), but unfortunately I haven't found the time/funds to catch up on that acclaimed failure. In the original Jim Lee, I seriously could never figure out why she was there at all, except maybe Spartan's robotic fuel cells could only be recharged via intercourse. She had vague animal powers maybe?
Honestly, I have the same questions about a Grifter series, but at least he was in Team Seven. Of course, I can't really easily imagine any of that mythos fitting easily into the DCU. I mean, do Michael Cray and John Lynch easily coexist with Digger Harkness and Arthur Light?
That was Azzarello, yeah? I like Azzarello okay, I liked his Hellblazer run about John's S+M ex-boyfriend. I should check that out. But I might be disappointed if there are no orchestral maneuvers, preferably in the dark.He was a fun character in the Doctor 13 series. Okay, okay, that entire series was just plain fun.
I, Vampire is written, however, by some guy I've never heard of.
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Nope. Voodoo was the newbie of the group in the original Wildcats. She was mostly alien (Human-Kherubim-Daemonite hybrid) and had the ability to detect and expose other Daemonites that were hiding in Human form on Earth--a nice trick to have since fighting Daemonites was the original mission of the Wildcats. She had a number of other powers too because of her unique heritage--including magical abilities, telepathy, the ability to morph into a Daemonite, and even play with Time to some degree. Personality wise, she was a working-class girl who sometimes got her fill of being a superhero and wasn't afraid to speak her mind.
Hell of a thing indeed, since that was actually Void.
Superhero comics need more cosmic sex, fewer corpses in refrigerators (I see you hiding down there, Ron Marz!).
Anyway, this is pretty much what I mean when I say I'm shocked Voodoo has a series, since even for people that remember WildC.A.T.s, Voodoo didn't really register.
I mean, I can safely assume that Voodoo actually had a personality in Wildcats 3.0, because Joe Casey is great (seriously, you all must buy Vengeance), but unfortunately I haven't found the time/funds to catch up on that acclaimed failure. In the original Jim Lee, I seriously could never figure out why she was there at all, except maybe Spartan's robotic fuel cells could only be recharged via intercourse. She had vague animal powers maybe?
A good description of Grifter would be Wolverine with guns instead of claws, IMO...
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Wouldn't that fit Lobo and Punisher as well?
Grifter always struck me as more like Cable: I have awesome telekinesis, but I don't use it, for reasons. But he wasn't from the future, of course, he was from Reagan's America.
(And now I'm pulling some vague nostalgia for The Kindred, which if I remember correctly was Brett Booth putting in some decent work--I don't know why everybody hates Brett Booth--and was a Dr. Moreau sort of story done reasonably well. Backlash was a goofy kind of character, wasn't he? Deathstroke - Amorality + Psylocke powers. But I loved him when I was a kid.)
(And now I remember Zealot. She was like a really, really, really mean Wonder Woman. Hey, that was back when Jae Lee didn't draw quite as well, but did draw things people cared about and in more than his five stock poses. I kid, of course--Jae Lee may have gotten a little lazy with his non-Dark Tower work, but if you were a living god surrounded by inferior, mortal talents, you'd feel the temptation to get a little lazy too.)
(And now I'm pulling some vague nostalgia for The Kindred, which if I remember correctly was Brett Booth putting in some decent work--I don't know why everybody hates Brett Booth--and was a Dr. Moreau sort of story done reasonably well. Backlash was a goofy kind of character, wasn't he? Deathstroke - Amorality + Psylocke powers. But I loved him when I was a kid.)
(And now I remember Zealot. She was like a really, really, really mean Wonder Woman. Hey, that was back when Jae Lee didn't draw quite as well, but did draw things people cared about and in more than his five stock poses. I kid, of course--Jae Lee may have gotten a little lazy with his non-Dark Tower work, but if you were a living god surrounded by inferior, mortal talents, you'd feel the temptation to get a little lazy too.)
I quit comics in '86, so please confirm: Cable is that guy who looks like Deathstroke, right? Only with all that Liefeld...crap all over.
Nah, that's Deadpool. Cable is the guy with the robot arm with the Liefeld crap all over, and was reasonably original.
That being said, Deadpool is far more interesting.
Than Deathstroke, as well.
Deadpool? Interesting? At all?
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