Also your list is interesting. Honestly I know next to nothing about Huntress and really not that much about Birds of Prey either, which I know is criminal. It's kind of my secret dark geek secret that even though I really love both Black Canary AND Oracle I've never really been moved to read through BOP for various dumb reasons. Although! I did very recently (like on Saturday) find THIS POST (http://dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com/post/3525065187/dixonscript) about the image in your icon, and OMFG THAT IS AMAZING. We play a DC-based tabletop RPG game at the weekends right now and obvs, I had to tell everyone about this. Sometimes during the course of the game, we describe how we imagine the comic panel for the moment would look? Predictably there was lots of yelling, "I DON'T EVEN WANT A *HINT* OF THE SEXUAL!" That artist deserves some kind of award for excellence in comics.
Kev is really excited about Catwoman, but like you, I'm uncertain what she's going to be doing except wandering around in a catsuit, flirting with Batman. Kev says if he was in a comic that's how he'd spend his time, but I remain unconvinced. I will be reading it though since we're buying it, so I can let you know what I think? Ditto Savage Hawkman. Except without the catsuits. And possibly without the flirting. In exchange you can let me know if JL: Dark is worth a pick up! Because it looks sort of interesting? But also like it has the potential to just be emo and all, "Look! We're ~dark~!" so I think whether I like it will depend a lot on execution.
BUT WONDER WOMAN. KEEP THE FAITH. IT CANNOT POSSIBLY BE AS BAD AS IT IS NOW. Actually, I'm really uncertain what to think of it - the guy writing it is someone I know nothing about, but seems to have more of a reputation for writing noir style Batman stuff. Which could actually be...a really intriguing take for Wonder Woman, but then again, it's not exactly what I imagine as a fit. I don't know if you know about this - cus I only found out recently! - but there was a leaked document about the incentives DC was offering retailers to get them to order the new titles. Lots of them are returnable at 90% of the price or something if you don't sell them as long as you order X amount or something, which is nice, so the stores can be a little more experimental with their stock. Then the really big name stuff just has the more traditional variant covers available. And then there's like, a list of, ugh, I can't remember what they were called, but what DC were sort of billing as their "breakout" stuff - books they thought were really good but might struggle to reach an audience. And those books were just hugely discounted to stores for the first couple of months. And most of the ones on that list were the lesser known and weirder stuff. AND ALSO WONDER WOMAN. So on the one hand, omfg, it's sad that Wonder Woman has to be on that list. On the other hand, I'm hoping that speaks well for both DC's faith in the title as something that people will want to keep buying if they just try it, and also it's...nice that they really do seem to be pulling out all the stops to get it on shelves? I'm not sure what to make of it, but I figured it's information you might find...informative. o.O
JUST THINK OF ERIS?
Anyway...roll on comics autumn! I'm so glad there's at least one other person on my flist who'll be reading some DC stuff! :D
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Also your list is interesting. Honestly I know next to nothing about Huntress and really not that much about Birds of Prey either, which I know is criminal. It's kind of my secret dark geek secret that even though I really love both Black Canary AND Oracle I've never really been moved to read through BOP for various dumb reasons. Although! I did very recently (like on Saturday) find THIS POST (http://dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com/post/3525065187/dixonscript) about the image in your icon, and OMFG THAT IS AMAZING. We play a DC-based tabletop RPG game at the weekends right now and obvs, I had to tell everyone about this. Sometimes during the course of the game, we describe how we imagine the comic panel for the moment would look? Predictably there was lots of yelling, "I DON'T EVEN WANT A *HINT* OF THE SEXUAL!" That artist deserves some kind of award for excellence in comics.
Kev is really excited about Catwoman, but like you, I'm uncertain what she's going to be doing except wandering around in a catsuit, flirting with Batman. Kev says if he was in a comic that's how he'd spend his time, but I remain unconvinced. I will be reading it though since we're buying it, so I can let you know what I think? Ditto Savage Hawkman. Except without the catsuits. And possibly without the flirting. In exchange you can let me know if JL: Dark is worth a pick up! Because it looks sort of interesting? But also like it has the potential to just be emo and all, "Look! We're ~dark~!" so I think whether I like it will depend a lot on execution.
BUT WONDER WOMAN. KEEP THE FAITH. IT CANNOT POSSIBLY BE AS BAD AS IT IS NOW. Actually, I'm really uncertain what to think of it - the guy writing it is someone I know nothing about, but seems to have more of a reputation for writing noir style Batman stuff. Which could actually be...a really intriguing take for Wonder Woman, but then again, it's not exactly what I imagine as a fit. I don't know if you know about this - cus I only found out recently! - but there was a leaked document about the incentives DC was offering retailers to get them to order the new titles. Lots of them are returnable at 90% of the price or something if you don't sell them as long as you order X amount or something, which is nice, so the stores can be a little more experimental with their stock. Then the really big name stuff just has the more traditional variant covers available. And then there's like, a list of, ugh, I can't remember what they were called, but what DC were sort of billing as their "breakout" stuff - books they thought were really good but might struggle to reach an audience. And those books were just hugely discounted to stores for the first couple of months. And most of the ones on that list were the lesser known and weirder stuff. AND ALSO WONDER WOMAN. So on the one hand, omfg, it's sad that Wonder Woman has to be on that list. On the other hand, I'm hoping that speaks well for both DC's faith in the title as something that people will want to keep buying if they just try it, and also it's...nice that they really do seem to be pulling out all the stops to get it on shelves? I'm not sure what to make of it, but I figured it's information you might find...informative. o.O
JUST THINK OF ERIS?
Anyway...roll on comics autumn! I'm so glad there's at least one other person on my flist who'll be reading some DC stuff! :D