Feb. 29th, 2024

queenslayerbee: Isabelle Adjany as Lucy Harker in 1979's "Nosferatu the Vampire". She's surrounded by darkness, looking over her shoulder while she wears a white nightgown and a cross as a necklace. A hand with long nails like a claw is reaching for her neck from the darkness behind her. (batcat (batman returns))
The FemFebruary meta posts I wanted to write this month fell to the side due to other obligations ^^U. However, I plan to make up for it now that March Meta Madness approaches!

In the meantime, here's another meme, just like I did for last month's reading.

Three book covers:  -Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett (Mightily Oats reading a book and Verenice with a sword next to some Nac Mac Feegles fighting alongside him, at the front; and Agnes, Granny and Nanny in a fighting stand up front, against some floating vampires). -Dare Me by Megan Abbott (close-up to a girl biting her lip, painted red). -Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (drawing of two young women in period clothes standing in front of a tree, with patterns of flowers drawn on the spine).
Three comic covers. -Arsenal. Roy at the front with his bow shooting and arrow forward, Dinah next to him, and greyscale flashbacks of Oliver as Green Arrow looking disappointed over his shoulder, a kneedle, and a brunette Dinah consoling a crying Roy. It includes subtitles like "Sidekick, Loser... HERO?" or "When you hit rock bottom, you have to aim HIGH!" -Robin volume 1. In the cover, a smiling Shiva is kicking Tim in the face. -The Cull. Young woman drawn with vines and shining flowers growing on her head.
Three comic covers. -Batman: City of Madness. Batman with his arms extended forward, some tentacles seemingly coming out of him, and the court of owls beneath him. -Dark Spaces: The Hollywood Special. Blonde starlet smiles and waves at the camera, holding what looks like a bouquet, but it's made out of human limps, bones, and rotting flowers. She's standing in water, with a stage behind her with the letters "The End". -Batman/Hunterss: Cry for Blood. With the subtitle "...when the pursuer becomes the pursued..." Helena appears at the front, dressed as huntress with a golden cross on her neck, showing her falms stained of blood. Batman looms behind her.
Three comic covers. -Robin II: The Joker's Wild!. Batman looms in the Batcave, snarling with his fists raised. At the front there's a framed picture of Robin. -Text-less cover of Supergirl volume 6 issue 35. Kara is at the front in a fighting stand, with her eyes shining red, and Red Hood fights alongside her with two swords. -Robin III: Cry of the Huntress. Robin stands on a Gargoyle with a high on his hip, frowning, and Huntress is a little ahead of him, with a crossbow pointing up.
Three comics cover. -World Without Robin, part 3 of 5 "Altered States", from the world without Young Justice arc. Stephanie as Robin flies in front of a window; the glass shows Tim reflected on it. -Batman Plus Arsenal. Roy and Batman jump from an exploding plane. Roy has an open-mouthed, shocked face, with his arms thrown up, and Batman is snarling with his arms pointed forward, with direction. -Harley and Ivy: Love on the Lam. Harley is at the front, in Harlequin suit with a toy gun. Behind her there are portraits of Batman with an obscured face, Joker with a huge grin, Harley dressed as Batgirl, and Poison Ivy.
Three comic covers. -An issue of Batman from the Knightfall arc. Batman is tied up to a tree by some vines, and Poison Ivy looms threateningly in front of him while he struggles against them. -An issue of Batgirl from the Bruce Wayne: Murderer?/Fugitive arc. Batgirl is crouching on top a gravestone, leaning her arm on the handle of a shovel and pointing at the gravestone with a lantern. It reads: Rest in Peace. VESPER CATHERINE FAIRCHILD. Octover 14, 1973-January 4, 2002. -Robin volume 2 #102, part of Jon Lewis's run. Robin and Spoiler are at the front, with Steph holding onto his arm and Robin in a fighting stand. Behind them, Natalia Knight dressed all priest-like, with her palms up, extended to the side, and smoke surrounding her, as well as people with zombiefied expressions. The front reads "Things are getting weirder!"
 
(tried to put this behind a read more but dreamwidth is failing me again so. sorry ^^U. how do you guys do the thing where you hide part of the post under a  ▶ ....). ETA: I think I managed!

attempt at commentary

NOVELS

  • Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett. As with every other Discword novel, I practically devoured this one. Very enjoyable, especially Granny's plot, which did hit close to home for me lol.
  • Dare Me by Megan Abbott. This is proof that, despite having aged out of the YA bracket, some of it, the really good one, still holds up. Still, I know that if I had read this as a teenager, I would've made it my whole personality for at least a while xDD. Nonetheless, it was a great read. It's a pity that the show was cancelled before it covered the entire story, because I would've loved to watched an adaptation :/
  • Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. Of the Austen novels I've read so far, I would probably put it in the last place, but I did end up enjoying it. I had a good laugh with the Ferrars family drama, and I enjoy how... anti-karma Austen can be. Sometimes shitty, selfish people behalf shittily and selfishly, and that works out perfectly for them, lbr.

COMICS COMICS COMICS

  • Arsenal. And absolutely great mini (four issues long) in Devin Grayson's melodrama era. Vandal Savage collecting body parts of his descendants to replace his rotten ones is A Concept. And I loved the cameos by Dinah, Oracle, Connor... perfect.
  • Robin (vol. 1). Tim goes to Paris to train a bit more after Bruce decides he's ready to be Robin. There he ends up in between mob complots and gets trained by Shiva for a little while. My main takeaway is that Tim should have a musical staff in more stories.
  • The Cull. I kept waiting for this miniseries to go somewhere and... eh. The ending is a bit open so it might continue, but unless I hear something really solid I wouldn't pick it back up.
  • Batman: City of Madness. The concept of this story ended up being far grander than its execution, and I think I would've liked a longer, more involved, riskier storyline... The art is still amazing, though. It's given me some proto-ideas, though.
  • Dark Spaces: The Hollywood Special. I could literally copy-paste the last paragraph here lol.
  • Batman/Huntress: Cry for Blood. Amazing. Perfect. 10/10. One comic I'm going to recommend.
  • Robin II: The Joker's Wild!. This should've gone harder with the Jason-haunting-the-narrative concept, IMO, but I am NOT an unbiased party lol.
  • All of Jason Todd's New 52 (2011-2016) appearances. There is... so much I could say about this. Not much would be good, because yes, I still rage against the reboot xD. RHATO vol. 1 ends up looking even good after Red Hood/Arsenal (which improved a bit at the very end, admittedly); Lobdell is the worst, either way. Batman Incorporated/Wingman... too little effort put on it. Appalling, poorly thought-through characterisation all around, really, alongside a lot of choices I'm still baffled by (chessmaster Joker by beloathed). Batman & Robin Eternal got on my nerves, and not just for Jason. Robin War, Grayson... all of it needed a lot more development for me to be sold on it. The cameos in Deathstroke were... fine, but forgettable, when they shouldn't have been.

I did use the cover for Supergirl vol. 6 #35 because that's the ONE Jason appearance I can say I fully enjoyed! Jason is competent (aided by some "venom" which was an arc that amounted to nothing, but whatever), he is a MENACE, he seeks a team up with Supergirl but is a fucking asshole about it despite clearly wanting to be friends xDD... it felt as if I was almost reading new earth!Jason circa Green Arrow/Outsiders, which I really enjoyed! The stupid uncanny valley helmet makes an appearance but I just ignore that xDD

  • Robin III: Cry of the Huntress. Tim and Helena meet for the first time and team up! It was all right.
  • World Without Young Justice. I read the Tim-centric issue as it was one of the firsts in Lewis's run, so I decided to read the other four issues in the arc. Tim's is my favourite, though: it has Steph as the original Robin, in a story that really caught my eye and I might use at some point... honestly, I think superhero!Steph/civilian!Tim is a DELICIOUS set-up for the ship that I know I'll revisit in some fics where I don't have Tim donning a mantle (or at least, not in a traditional way).
  • Batman Plus Arsenal. Great one-shot (Devin Grayson does it again etc.). The moment where Roy gets on Batman's case for how sparse he is with praise was gr10.
  • Harley and Ivy: Love on the Lam. Another one-shot, by Winnick this time (I have my selected favourites). The dynamics are very clearly inspired by the DCAU despite being a new earth comic, but as those are my favourite versions of the characters involved, that works for me. It's about cycles and how hard it is to break them, of course
  • Knightfall. I started reading the arc in January. Although I'd read part of it before, this is the first time I really set out to read the complete thing. My veredict is that it focuses way to much on JPV, who I simply don't connect with LOL. The parts with Bruce, with Tim, and especially with Dick, and even with Gordon and Essen, are far more appealling to me, and I would've preferred them to be expanded upon to JPV's detriment tbh.
  • Bruce Wayne: Murderer?/Fugitive. Amazing story arc, and as far as I'm concerned, a must-read among Batman/Batfam fans. Bruce's reasons for finally getting his head out of his ass were also very poignant and rang very true to him, as did his shitty non-apology about his actions lol. And in the end, Sasha and Bruce-Sasha ended up being a really fascinating part of it all. I might go back and read her older appearances.
  • Jon Lewis's Robin Run (vol. 2 #100-120). Really fun! A very enjoyable take on Tim Drake, very cute Steph/Tim stories, really good overall! And the plot with Tim's birthday... jail, jail to Bruce for one thousand years xDD


queenslayerbee: Isabelle Adjany as Lucy Harker in 1979's "Nosferatu the Vampire". She's surrounded by darkness, looking over her shoulder while she wears a white nightgown and a cross as a necklace. A hand with long nails like a claw is reaching for her neck from the darkness behind her. (batcat (batman returns))
I haven't posted an entry in half a month but I guess we're picking up the pace.

I finished a one-shot for one of the prompts over at [community profile] getyourwordsout, so here it is!
written for the prompt "drunken confessions, but with only one bed" for a get your words out challenge.

dcu comics. bruce (& jason). grief, introspection. 1.6k.


The clock marks the start of April 27th, military time; Bruce enters the new day with the stench of alcohol firmly sunken on his breath.

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