Hex and the city

[superboyprime]

Zatanna #12 is a celebration of the beauty of symmetry, in more ways than one.





The culprit is a new character named Backslash, who wields a magic sword that can press "rewind" on time.



She tries to take him on with her fists (remember: Zee has a red belt in Martian kung fu!), but it's unsuccessful, and she winds up tied up. Finally, she stumbles onto how to cast spells this guy can't affect. "Dage! On Egadnob!" she yells.

Comments

[jarodrussell]

I feel that Zee lacks agency and that Dini really needs to stop humiliating and degrading her every single issue.

Pretty much this. I dropped Z's book back with issue #7 (stopped reading at #5), because it's a very dull book. And you know, I like scenes where Zatanna put into peril, tied to things, etc., but...if I want just that I can wait for someone to post scans online.

Books like Zatanna make me feel that comics exist solely because there's a large enough group of people that aren't comfortable enough with their fetishes to buy super-hero porn. Instead they buy books like this for the potential porn-like scenarios.

And, you know, the first issue of the book was really cool. It felt like Zatanna: CSI or something. Very dense, very smart, not unlike JL:Elite or Dixon's Birds of Prey felt...a super-hero book in procedural drag. Then, I dunno, poof.