Batman Legends of the Dark Kinght Annual #3 (1993) Bloodlines Deathstorm Part 4

[pyrotwilight]

Another of my favorite issues from the Bloodlines event.

In a bit of a confusing event this issue was less about the heroes fighting off a Parasite (or really at all) and more about what happens when you make two New Bloods at the same time one good and one bad, but with another twist.

18 pages of a 56 page story.

Some odd art in the story and fairly uneven but I can't say I disliked it.



( New Blood versus New Blood versus New Batman )

Find your favourite! The "Where's Waldo" of superpowers

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Found a link to this on another site, and think it's rather fun...

( BIG diagram below the cut! VERY big in fact )

The Purple Eyes of Lois Lane

[starwolf_oakley]

With the death of Elizabeth Taylor, people mention her purple eyes. And that reminds me of someone in the DCU who also has purple eyes, at least since the start of SUPERMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES. Lois Lane.

( Examples )

The weird canonical explanation for Cap Atom and Blue Beetle's reconciliation

[ejne7]

Back when I was spamming the place with Extreme Justice scans, a commenter named as one of several justifiable gripes about EJ the fact that it had Blue Beetle and Captain Atom as coffee-drinking buddies, when prior canon often had them at one another's throats.

In issue #20 (Oct '88) of Captain Atom, which I got for 40p at Kapow last weekend, I think I've found the solution.



( Pal? Amigo? Since when did the Captain and the Beetle get to be so tight? )

Heroes in Hell

[superboyprime]

Spearheaded by Adam Glass, writer/producer on Supernatural, this year's Justice League of America 80 Page Giant is the story of 18 superheroes being transported to Hell as depicted in Dante's Inferno.

( Four pages )

Birds of Prey 11 - Which Reason Know Not Of

[perletwo]

Really? Nobody's posted anything substantial from Birds of Prey 11 yet? Just the bits and pieces of continuity dovetailing with Batgirl?

Well. Let's fix that, shall we? 3 pages of Huntress and Catman doing some dovetailing of their own.

The setup: Huntress is chasing jewel thieves ("Of course there was a jewel heist. It's Gotham. And it's Thursday." ILU, Gail) who've shot a guard and taken a hostage - a severely asthmatic hostage with no inhaler who's a prime candidate for death by misadventure. She's slugging it out with one thug when Catman shows up, looking to revisit that, umm, whatever they had back in Birds of Prey v1 #106-107, I think? Hel maintains she's busy, so Catman agrees to help her hunt.

They find the second thug, and Catman loses points for hitting Rickie's pregnant girlfriend (in fairness, she was leaping at him claws-out at the time), but gains points for getting wounded while taking Rickie down and eliciting the name of a third thug; the fourth crew member, the client, none of them knew.

( Which leads to this exchange )

Thoughts?

In which Betsy leaves her mouth open

[wonderwomanhero]

So while viewing this preview for X-Force #7, it reminded me of a video I recently saw. But I'll get to that at the end, first, the scans.
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Balder and Karnilla: Till Death Do Us Part

[proteus_lives]

Greetings True Believers!

Here is another tale of Balder and Karnilla. This time Karnilla goes too far in her obsessive quest for Balder's affections.

Also, the first appearance of Balder's white hair, Loki and an amusing punishment and one Thor page gloriously out of context.

Decades before the meme, Thor already knew about the connection between his hammer and his manhood. ;)

Enjoy!

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