Showing posts with label Supergirl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Supergirl. Show all posts

Monday, 2 April 2018

Superman/Batman #19 - The New Adventures of Supergirl, the Girl of Steel


Here is a comic, well, a trade paperback that I purchased back in the day, purely for the Harley Quinn cameo. This is what people like me had to do back in the day just to catch a glimpse of my domino-ed sweetheart. Sigh. This morning I rolled out of my Harley Quinn themed bed sheets while wearing my Harley Quinn pyjamas and underpants, took a dump on my red and blue toilet paper, ate my Harley-O's while reading the newspaper about Maggot Robbie's flat butt doing something inane and pointless (like her tiny tits HA).

Then I put my hair up in alternately coloured pigtails and checked my emails, which was full of comic and collectables stores asking me to buy more Harley Quinn statues so they don't starve this month. Afterwards, I tried to go shopping but there were too many ironic tweenagers wearing Suicide Squad gear for me to get past the pop culture stores and their Harley Quinn themed face punches.

Yep, it's definitely a different time today alright.
And now that I've finished ranting like an old fogey, I'm going to go sit out on my porch and yell at people to cut their damn hair.





Oh, you're still here. Well fine, you damn dirty hippie, let's get this show on the road.

One thing - I did not mind this book at all. It was actually pretty interesting, funny, had some genuine threats and it was a good opener to a new Supergirl. There was a few blah moments like the angsty teenage girl stuff and the evil twin cliche.. but I didn't hate on that. Supergirl felt like a real person and that sort of characterisation sells the book for me.

What I didn't like... was the art. It's actually visually great but MY GOSH the elongated torso on Supergirl.. the endless abdominal 'V', her terrifyingly tapered feet... that kind of ruined the book for me. That and every other issue in the trade involved some dramatic punch that somehow looked great but ruined the dramatic punch thing because it was usually an entire splash page and you knew to expect it. Also the artist loves capes. They make them look great but sometimes I feel like I'm looking at cape-porn

That sounded weird. But if you've read the book, you'll know what I mean.

Saturday, 23 September 2017

Gotham City Garage #2



2017
The Real World
Writers: Colin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing
Artist: Brian Ching
Colourist: Kelly Fitzpatrick
Cover: Rafael Albuquerque

I have just now noticed that Harley's pants/boots are the wrong colour on the cover. Hmm. 
Also, no Bud and Lou on the cover. If this was Cinema Sins I would have to note that as a sin. 




 So where we last left off, Kara was surrounded by gardeners, and let's just say it was a sheer cliff hanger. She was not having a vine old time. She was giving it a green thumb down. Kara really wanted to leaf the scene, but luckily a motorcycle gang arrives to help Kara reap her just rewards and I temporarily ran out of garden related puns.

Kara whacks the heck out of one of the Gardner's with a detached arm, and defiantly states that she didn't need any help from these ladies of the dust.




Harley Quinn doubts it, and offers her a lift. Can we just talk about how cute Bud and Lou are?
I feel like this just always needs to happen. She should just literally travel everywhere with her hyenas in a colourful sidecar. Escalators, bathrooms, office meeting rooms.. just.. everywhere.



Friday, 1 September 2017

Gotham City Garage #1

Hot on the heels of the Bombshells figurine line and their successful spin off comics comes the Gotham City Garage comic.

2017
The Real World
Writers: Colin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing
Artist: Brian Ching
Colourist: Kelly Fitzpatrick
Cover: Rafael Albuquerque

Even if you're not familiar with these, the name kind of gives it away. It's basically DC's lead heroines re-imagined as tough as nails biker gals.

For reference, here's the Harley Quinn special edition that I shelled out for because I just HAD to have my side car with Bud and Lou going for a spin.