Secret Six Preview

[sherkahn.insanejournal.com]

The Newsarama has the preview for Secret Six #13. JOY!!!!

Exquisite panel preview of humor and horror behind the cut.

Ok, talk about going back and taking a classic monster and bringing him into the fold. Wow.
And since Diana's recent adventures included Beowulf, then having Grendel appear is not that inconceivable. The way Grendel talks, like you kind of understand what he is saying/implying and yet your mind can't graps in what horrible ways the beast is communicating his message... yeah, you got this beast right, Gail. It' like looking in at Hannibal Lecter, with his horrible persona made flesh.

Grendel is CREEPY.

I am in love with Jeanette, and Ragdoll as always steals the show.

Comments

[parsimonia.insanejournal.com]

I love Jeanette's hallucination at the start there. Also, this:

[(Anonymous)]

Lol. I know exactly how she feels.

[jaybee3.insanejournal.com]

Floyd is one thing, except for his kid he could care less about who he kills, (and Ragdoll is nuts) but Thomas really has hit the top of his self-loathing hasn't he? I don't think he was like this even in his Fat Elvis Green Arrow appearance. If Catman plays a part in the death of Wonder Woman (we know she'll be OK but still...), that's it and he MUST know it. If he's willing to kill Scandal and the others, that's it and he MUST know it. No chance with Huntress, no chance for respect by others (villains or heroes), no chance for another chance. I know Gail has done her research since Catman has returned mostly to his 1960s or 1970s self but this is a bit beyond that (unless he's got something planned in which case I reserve the right to say nevermind).

Oh and I really like how GS has used DCU non-Amazonian mythos and gods here and in WW. I wonder when she's going to get to Asgard.

[btravage.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

Wow, I thought that thew furry guy was just Tasmanian Devil. Wasn't Grendel female though?

[kingrockwell]

No, but his mother was.

[blakeyrat.insanejournal.com]

A female mother?

Shocker!!!

[kingrockwell]

Yeah, how funny that came out dawned on me soon as I hit Post.

[sherkahn.insanejournal.com]

Grendel's mother is female. And more powerful than her son.

[thokstar.insanejournal.com]

Bane and Artemis should wear Victorian garb more often.

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

Artemis, certainly, could do much worse. (And has. And currently is.)

[espanolbot.insanejournal.com]

Hee, Tudor Bane. ^^

Luckily, Ray Winstone comes to the rescue on page eight to save them from pedophile Grendel... or something.

[proteus_lives.insanejournal.com]

Tudor Bane pleases me as well. I think he would fit in as a middle ages gentleman. "I will now break you. While wearing my ruffles."

[kingrockwell]

When they had the Six stand-off against Diana last issue, it was Ragdoll's little pajama booties paired against Diana's boots, so there's something marvelous about him admiring them now!

[menagerie.insanejournal.com]

Awww. Too bad Hunter Rose isn't part of the regular DCU. ;)

[zippthorn.insanejournal.com]

Hmm. Reference to the viking hospitality rituals. But will the fratricidal origins of Grendel be acknowledged?

[thebigapricot.insanejournal.com]

So it seems that Scandal has been around for awhile if she was in the Gulags with Jeanette.

And the way Scandal looks in Jeanette's dream is making me thinking of Virginia Woolf's Orlando.

[fleur_de_liz.insanejournal.com]

Well, considering her father, I'm not surprised.

[red_cyclone.insanejournal.com]

Oh my god, yes. Which of course makes me think of Alan Moore's imagining of Orlando - good at two things: killing and sex, this is all sounding rather similar. No wonder I love Scandal so much. The Tudor costume also helps, a lot.

[ccsharumun.insanejournal.com]

Ragdoll + Wonder Woman's clothes = priceless :D I wish he might have kept them so we could see the look on her face when she wakes.

[sherkahn.insanejournal.com]

Especially the breast plate.

[nagaoka.insanejournal.com]

I like how in the one shot, people are arranged in just such a way that we can't see Wonder Woman's bare feet (or...socks?), as if they were being censored.

[ccsharumun.insanejournal.com]

You know, I had the exact same thought. Didn't say anything because it just seemed like an awkward possibility.

[tanetris.insanejournal.com]

Exact same thought.

[silverzeo.insanejournal.com]

For a second, I mental imagine Ragdoll putting both his hands and feet in one place in a woman at once... I am sick...

[ashtoreth.insanejournal.com]

That's nothing! When Ragdoll was moaning about the nurse who came on to him, he said he planned to surprise her with the places he'd fit in...Ragdoll has no manparts, so he meant his body.

Rebirthing is my squick.

[lonewolf23k.insanejournal.com]

As creepy as Grendel is, Ragdoll still manages to be creepier.

[gailsimone.insanejournal.com]

I don't get why people think Ragdoll is creepy. He's a very sober and decent fellow.

[autolychus2.insanejournal.com]

I agree. He just says what the rest of us are thinking.

[tanetris.insanejournal.com]

Perhaps unsavory (http://i44.tinypic.com/nbrtwm.jpg) would be a better term.

(Scan shamelessly stolen from gargoylekitty (http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/331761.html))

[petalsinthewind.insanejournal.com]

Wow, do I love Jeannette.

[nezchan.insanejournal.com]

So Grendel with both arms, then?

[fleur_de_liz.insanejournal.com]

Having translated Beowulf in college, this displeases me greatly.

[ashtoreth.insanejournal.com]

One presumes that being alive again involved arm-putting-onness.

[gailsimone.insanejournal.com]

I did do a ton of Beowulf research, but in this case, DCU history trumps real history, in my mind, the same way DCU pantheons are the ones I go by, even if they are informed by real mythology.

I just think it's more fun that way.

[zippthorn.insanejournal.com]

Well, Grendel isn't "real history" in any case. It's a myth and legend. It could have gone down like in the epic. It could've gone down like in Eaters Of The Dead/13th Warrior. Or it could have gone down differently, in a way that kept Grendel intact and alive.

Or, it could have gone down COMPLETELY DIFFERENTLY, and no one will ever get the real story.

[zippthorn.insanejournal.com]

Presumably, the poem isn't the whole story. Somehow Beowulf is still a hero, and Grendel is still alive.

[seawolf10.insanejournal.com]

Hm. I'm not yet sure whether I like it or not. It's definitely a different take on Grendel...

...it's just that the dialogue here seems more like something you'd hear from a medieval concept of a devil than an Anglo-Saxon concept of a semi-humanoid lake monster.

The head's also very...generic. Looks like a cheap Halloween mask. Grendel should look more...unique. Is this another case like Beowulf's appearance in Wonder Woman, where DC comics has a mandated design for the character?

[gailsimone.insanejournal.com]

I'm kind of a wonk. We matched the Grendel design to the original one that appeared in DC's BEOWULF series. It's slightly updated, but, well, as anyone who has heard me defend Catman's retro costume at length, I think it's more fun to make something a little dated work, rather than just do the modern version of, you know, lots of pouches and squint lines and all that stuff that comes and goes.

But I'm perverse. :)

[zippthorn.insanejournal.com]

I think it's more fun to make something a little dated work, rather than just do the modern version of, you know, lots of pouches and squint lines and all that stuff that comes and goes.

Acceptable.

But I'm perverse.

Here?

[werehawk.insanejournal.com]

I like that it's like the original one (teeth and all) but where did the hair come from or is that part of the story - just saw it was you Gail (Hello!). I really enjoyed the Claw/Beowulf/Stalker arc in Wonder Woman.

[cmdr_zoom.insanejournal.com]

Love that cover.

[scottyquick.insanejournal.com]

Newsarama just stole it from the Source, though.