New Comic Wednesday: To know me is to love me

Merry Christmas Eve everyone! I know it is hard to go get your comics on Christmas Eve, so hopefully the comic shop you get your comics at let you do a hold. If not, I'm sure you can get away for a few minutes... not that I am telling you to.

Also, I am thinking of trying to make this blog into a site that I can start showing off my work. I just need to try to see if I can get a digital software going so I can color on the computer (I suck at coloring) and  probably a scanner. Any suggestions, please let me know. 

First, I need to look at the Secret Origins more closely because I almost did not pick this up. Besides knowing who Helena is, we kinda needed to know how Grayson got into the Spyral spy gig! And this is what we needed to know! I mean, you just don't go and ask, "Hey, can I be a spyral spy?" 

It was quite interesting, of course I only read the Dick Grayson part. The other two Secret Origin files are Animal Man and Katana. 

To know Grayson is to love him! 

So, for all of you people who like to read Grayson to see his beautiful self! Well, we already know Grayson and love him, now we need to know Helena. But now that I have read it, I wonder if the whole thing was real. It's just like reading the Killing Joke. Stop mind blocking me! I just want to know the truth! Though, at least I know that they didn't shoot Grayson! 

Unless, between the times Rock went off from the group in the bar and came back... there was a switch from the real Rock to Grayson disguised as Rock (not to be confused with Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson).  So, the information we learned from this bald-headed, scar-wielding man could be true. I don't want to spoil it... but it isn't really different from original Helena Bertinelli. Though, I don't really care if they make a different Helena Bertinelli... I like the Helena Wayne Huntress. They just weren't that creative. I'm sure it is better to keep it simple so they don't lose track of the stories. I thought they had someone to make sure everything is straight with the facts. 

Now that the boy wonder is back, Robin Alpha comes out with it's smooth feeling pages. I love it. Why don't they print all their comics in this material. And I am sorry, but the best picture is the fourth page (or fifth if you don't count the title page) with Alfred getting armed. Slick back your hair and get your guns out. No one can be classy as Alfred. Admit it... 

Even though the first few pages of the comic is just an expansion of the couple last pages of Batman and Robin 37. But I love the double page spread of Batman right when he puts the shard in Damien so he can live again. Just the grief with possibly getting back his parents instead of Damien. You chose well, Batman. 

Though, I thought they were gonna elaborate on Batman fainting, but no. He just faints out of exhaustion, but there are no lasting effects. What is that? Whatever, I thought there was gonna be some dramatic thing where Damien realizes how much Bruce went through to bring him back. Though, will Batman be over shadowed by Robin now? He don't need no man to help him fight crime. 

Though, I do love the art better than the last few issues of Batman and Robin. I am a fan of comic art. On the other hand, sometimes annuals aren't done as well as the actual issues... it is annoying. I swear. 

Until next time, we will see what happens to the dynamic duo!

Now next week, I saw what is on the list to pick up... I am debating on just taking a break until NEXT YEAR! That is crazyyyyy. 

Anyway, Merry Christmas everyone and Happy New Year!  

New Comic Wednesday: Holo-Awkward

Happy be-lated Thanksgiving, comic collectors! Did everyone catch the new Star Wars Trailer? Did anyone else think you were getting pranked in the first few seconds. I did. It's not racist... I just saw a meme before I watched the trailer. So I thought it was fake. Thankfully it wasn't. Anyone who hates the lightsaber needs to watch the Colbert Report. Also, the Millennium Falcon is as beautiful as ever. 

Time for another installment of CJ's fave comic hotties! That's a long title... anyway, if you don't know what that means it is the week with both Grayson and Legendary Star-Lord! Grayson has been doing his job as a spyral spy and we know that Grayson's face is basically altered, so no one can tell the former boy wonder and dark heir is alive. Convenient isn't it? I wonder if the bat family could even see him. Maybe I see that in Grayson's future? 

In this issue Grayson goes through the desert holding a baby. For days with limited food and water, Grayson carries a baby with an important body part the organization is after. But Grayson won't let them hurt the baby, will he? He will save the baby from the desert and spyral. The lady was wrong... Grayson is not just a man!

I want an explanation for the organs. Are organs transferable through birth? There are so many things I do not understand. Also, I can't wait till the annual comes out because I am dying to know who Helena is. 

Now, time for Star-Lord's date. Kinda... I think it's kind of awkward how Kitty is on a holo-date... she even wore skates even when she wasn't really skating... and how do you go to second base with a hologram? Weird. Anyway, I love the suit. I mean who doesn't... it's very Dumb and Dumber. But even with the efforts of Star-Lord trying to keep the Holo-date work free, but not awkward free, he still gets captured by the Slaughter Squad. Le sigh. Now, its Kitty to the rescue... my least favorite X-men. 

Now, who didn't see the identity of Mister Knife coming? I saw it. It's depressing really... when things seem obvious. 

Also out this week, Angela: Asgard's Assassin. Now, I will admit that I didn't read the last part of Original Sin: Thor and Loki, so I might be a little lost at first, but I'm sure I will catch up. Stay tuned for more stuff. 

New Comic Wednesday: Team Robin is robin' my heart!

I don't know if I talked about this yet, but there was news running around my Facebook feed that Gotham might show the FLYING GRAYSONS! Though I wonder how old they would be... They would technically have to be a little older than Bruce? But after reading another article that explained there will be no Harley Quinn this season (because she will probably be the same age as Poison Ivy and actothing like the harley fans love) they explained that there will be a pre-natal Dick Grayson! Yay!

 

It seems every batman title is going up against a major villain! Everyone already knows that Darksied had to show eventually. Its his hellish world afterall. No one cares about Kalibak. Anyway, if anyone reads the previews book they pretty much revealed that Robin will live again, but with powers! This will be significant because he will be the first Robin with superpowers in Earth Prime! Crazy, I know. 

Anyway,  I like how they make Barbara look super useless in this comic. Like she isn't really there for a reason. That is just how it looks in this comic so far. No love for barbara I guess. They found Damien, but now they have to fight a big threat. Four people with no superpowers and one with a special suit. Oh, and a dog. Not counting cyborg because he currently became useless. 

My guess is in the next issue Robin somehow comes back to life and kicks some Darksied butt by himself. Just a thought. 

Also, out is Loki Agent of... Axis not Asgard #8! I don't have time to talk about it right now, but I will later~! 

Also, the next part of Multiversity is out! Pax Americana! Should be crazy like the rest I am sure. 

The New 52 and their New Huntress?!

I have already said my review on Grayson #1, and I left out this small disturbing fact on this one character (whom you already know from the title). She appears in the last issue of Nightwing and is in the first issue of Grayson #1. 

She has already been revealed as Grayson's partner, but maybe also a possible love interest too? At least, from what we know with the pre-52 Huntress and Nightwing have had their fling. So will history repeat itself... Or non-history since the DC reboot? I mean the Huntress we know is Helena Wayne in the new 52 Earth 2. Everything is confusing in the comic universe! But it's just confusing because you have to accept the New 52 as it's own storyline, but not it's own... If that makes ANY sense (I know it doesn't).

In the comic it even reveals the girls name as Helena Bertinelli. And her outfit consist of the Huntress trademark of a cross on her chest. This isn't the Helena we know! It's like blowing my mind in a bad way, like an explosion you failed to escape from because the bomb was strapped to your heart (see what I did there?). However, in the latest Batgirl issue (also out this week) the Helena we know as Huntress is with Batgirl and Black Canary with their own little fight. Will their paths meet and just create this gigantic cosmic rift that creates the new Infinite Crisis of DC?! 

No. Probably not, but there will be an Infinite Crisis alone with a video game! Get your game pants ready! 

But as revealed by the writer Tim Seely, it isn't the Helena or Huntress we knew before the new 52 (again accepting the new 52 as a whole seperate comic entity like the Hollywood adaptions of comic movies) that this Helena is not Huntress she just has the same name. Basically, throw all your knowledge about the Huntress out the window. It's hard, I know. 

Anyway, this issue on this character is it's own little post because I believe DC just wants to confuse the heck out of people. Or just piss CJ (me) off... Either one. Anyway this tan Helena probably has more that what we can just assume from the first issue. 

I will probably keep reading Grayson after I give it my five issue test not because I want to know how this organization knows certain heroes identity, but also who is this girl?!