DC Solicits are up...

[sailorlibra.insanejournal.com]

At Newsarama. Not going to link because they're pretty easy to find.

And these are the few that interested me.

BOOSTER GOLD #23
Written by Dan Jurgens; co-feature written by Matthew Sturges
Art and cover by Dan Jurgens & Norm Rapmund; co-feature art by Mike Norton
    “Day of Death” continues! Booster Gold reveals the Black Beetle’s plan to wipe out the entire JLA by going after their most incompetent former member – Booster Gold! Plus, Blue Beetle comes face to face with the mad scientist who created the robot army that’s destroying Texas!

I totally just want this issue for the cover.


POWER GIRL #4
Written by Jimmy Palmiotti & Justin Gray
Art and cover by Amanda Conner
Variant cover by Guillem March
    “Space Girls Gone Wild!” part 1 of 2! A trio of sexy alien marauders hits Earth for the ultimate party. Unfortunately, by their standards, that means destroying it! Of course, it’s up to Power Girl to crash their festivities.

I know the team hasn't been that great so far, but this issue sounds pretty wacky and there's nothing I love better than Amanda Conner art with wacky storylines.


SECRET SIX #12
Written by Gail Simone
Art by Nicola Scott & Doug Hazlewood
Cover by Daniel Lu Visi
    A crisis of conscience splits the Secret Six right down the middle and puts them on opposite sides of a horrific war involving Amazons led by a deluded Artemis! But that's just the opening bout for the main event: Jeannette vs. Wonder Woman!

If this was written by anyone other than Gail, I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot long spear. But since it's Gail, I will brave the Amazon waters.


WONDER WOMAN #35
Written by Gail Simone
Art by Aaron Lopresti & Matt Ryan
Cover by Aaron Lopresti
    “Birds of Paradise” part 2 of 2! A gaggle of super-powered cage fighters find themselves in the worst possible place to be – on the bad side of Wonder Woman and Black Canary! Also, find out the final resolution between Diana and Nemesis along with much, much more!

Okay, there's almost no way in hell this won't turn out awesome.

Comments

[perletwo.insanejournal.com]

I know that one JLU episode was teh awesome, and I will buy WW 35 because it's Wondy and Canary and it's Gail. But after all that Dark Side Club krep, can we just be done with the super powered cage fighters thing now? It's starting to not be funny anymore.

Also: Beetle Texas Robots SQUEE!

Thoughts

[bluejaybirdie.insanejournal.com]

I like how Diana's costume actually looks like it's made of armored materials on the Secret Six cover.

I'm sorry, but all the Powergirl solicits are saying to me is: fanservice, fanservice, fanservice. I mean, "a trio of sexy alien marauders"? Really?

*ahem* FUCK YEAH! DINAH & DIANA GAIL-WRITTEN TEAMUP!

robot army that’s destroying Texas
Oh shit. Guess I better start building up my defences!

LOL I AM BRILLIANT

[scottyquick.insanejournal.com]

Look through feces for some dung beetles! That'll protect you!

[neuhallidae.insanejournal.com]

The one thing I love about the Peej cover: Her "I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS ANNOYING SHIT!" expression.

And eeeee, my love for Secret Six continues.

[perletwo.insanejournal.com]

Conner's Peej totally gives the best bitchface.

[cmdr_zoom.insanejournal.com]

Motto.

"Hands OFF, buddy!"

[thanekos.insanejournal.com]

... ultimate party?

" My dad.... owns a dealership. "

[gypsydavy.insanejournal.com]

"And...uh, what sorority are you in?"

[scottyquick.insanejournal.com]

OH MY GOD Y'ALL I'M FIGHTIN' A BEAR NICOLA SCOTT IS DRAWING WONDER WOMAN!

[thebigapricot.insanejournal.com]

More Dinah and Diana, yeah! And while that Secret Six cover is an awesome shot of Jeanette, could we see Diana's face? I mean what is up with these "you shall know them by their boobs" shots? They did the same thing with Supergirl in that promo for JLA - cry for justice.

[mari_redstar.insanejournal.com]

Uh, not that I was scrutinizing- oh, who am I trying to fool. While I was scrutinizing Power Girl's breasts, I couldn't help but wonder if her nipples are just entirely gone, or if those darker bits are actually her uncovered areolae. Or maybe Earth-2 Kryptonian nipples are just located in some amusingly unexpected place? (Also, I see she's still got the heels. Still like the heels in and of themselves, still loathe them like burning on Power Girl.)

The WW#25 cover looks so fantastic I almost feel bad that my second reaction, after "ooh", was "hold on a second have Dinah and Diana always been the same height?" Nothing saying they can't be, I guess, but it seems... off.

[scottyquick.insanejournal.com]

Amanda Conner, surprisingly, doesn't know how nipples (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1a/Power_Girl_Amanda_Conner.png) work.

I think it's because of Dinah's boots. They look really chunky.

[mari_redstar.insanejournal.com]

But they surely can't be as thick as her heels are high. If she went and changed into her other costume she'd be taller than Wonder Woman, and that's weird just to type- I usually picture Dinah as the teeny ninja type, not so much an Amazonian bruiser.

Does anyone ever draw her as taller with heels on than Green Arrow? She's worn heels that have to be 4.5 inches, and if she's Diana's height in flats, she pretty much can't be shorter than Ollie in heels, even if we assume that Diana is shorter than Ollie normally, which is another of those ahahaha-yeah-right things.

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

Nothing saying they can't be, I guess, but it seems... off.

Diana's been listed everywhere from 5'8" to 6'4", depending what SF&O page you happen to consider canon at any given time. Dinah I've seen I think 5'2' to 5'6". At any rate, she's generally drawn pretty tiny.

[ian_karkull.insanejournal.com]

Yeaahh.. that Wonder Woman cover is seriously threatening my homosexuality.

Btw, what's up with the cut? It just redirects me to my friends page.

[ian_karkull.insanejournal.com]

Nevermind, it's just my browser being a spazz.

[mullon.insanejournal.com]

Tits. Tits tits tits tits TITS TITS TITS!

[04nbod.insanejournal.com]

and it continues with 2 starfire covers in august and she's never not naked

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, "led by a deluded Artemis" is not the most promising thing I've ever heard even before you get to the rest of the sentence, but Gail gets automatic benefit of the doubt.

Also, "final resolution"? I'm trying not to believe that's as promising as it sounds.

[seawolf10.insanejournal.com]

If nothing else, it'll be an...interesting issue. Jeanette is at least close to Wondy's strength class, so we ought to get a good fight scene. (And if Ragdoll and Artemis have any dialogue/interaction at all, that ought to be worth the $3 right then and there.)

"Also, "final resolution"? I'm trying not to believe that's as promising as it sounds."

Don't get your hopes up, comrade. It's too vague a phrase to really tell us anything. "Final resolution" could mean anything from "wedding bells" to "Tresser gets driven permanently insane by the events of that crappy miniseries he's in, ending the relationship by default." I'd be very disappointed in Gail if the former was the case, though.

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

Well, he is walking away from her in the Origins & Omens thing.

... dammit, I thought I'd dealt with this stupid optimism problem I keep having.

[seawolf10.insanejournal.com]

"... dammit, I thought I'd dealt with this stupid optimism problem I keep having."

Oops. Sorry. I keep forgetting that most people don't want to hear all the ways it could be worse. ;-)

[jarodrussell.insanejournal.com]

I'm going to start calling the first Green Lantern of Earth Heath Jordan, because apparently names mean nothing to the people at DC.

HIS NAME IS KON-EL!

...not Conner.

[dorksidefiker.insanejournal.com]

His name was Robert Paulson Kon-El! His name was Robert Paulson Kon-El! His name was Robert Paulson Kon-El! His name was Robert Paulson Kon-El!



I need to stop re-watching Fight Club.

[magus_69.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, that really annoys me as well. Kon getting his name was a big fucking deal; I would say that it was one of the best moments of his life (and the Superboy title). I can theoretically buy him embracing the Connor Kent name more than Kon-El, but only after a lot of character development. We never got that development.

[auggie18.insanejournal.com]

...thank you. This has been bothering me for forever and a half.

[04nbod.insanejournal.com]

does wonder woman battle rickets in secret six?

[batcookies.insanejournal.com]

Sigh.

I really hope Gail gets around to improving some of Diana's lesser-known villains.

So far she's been sticking to the same formula of her predecessors: Introduce new "major" villains (WML's White Magician, Byrne's Dark Angel, Luke's Cronus and Devastation, Jimenez' Sebastian Ballesteros, Rucka's Veronica Cale, Gail's Circle, Genocide, and Olympian), ignore the previous writer's "big villain," use a few of the most well-established WW villains, and fill the rest with guest villains.

[colonel_green.insanejournal.com]

She said we'd be seeing Devastation again sometime "next year" (which I believe means this year, since it was in 2008 that she said it, though late), I believe.

[batcookies.insanejournal.com]

Yes, I'm just worried it will be a very brief appearance. Is she going to use Devastation the same way Rucka use Sebastian?

Gail kicked off with The Circle (her own creations) and Captain Nazi (with more of a focus on Captain Nazi initially). Then we got 2 issues of Wonder Woman dealing with the Khund (not really her villains) and a Green Lantern. Then 4 issues where she wrapped up the story of the old "Stalker" series, fighting D'Grth. Then we got two issues of WW fighting the Queen of Fables (a Simone creation that's fought the JLA and Superman, and is scheduled to fight Batman and Captain Marvel next). Then Rise of the Olympian, using a mix of Gail's own creations, Cheetah, Dr. Psycho, and Ares (villains that definitely need a tune-up, but at least they've been established post-Crisis).

I'm waiting for the arc where the main bad guy is a Wonder Woman villain that's NOT a new character, or Cheetah, Ares, or Circe.

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

I'm with you on this one, and really wanted Genocide to turn out to be Deva for precisely that reason. But I do take some comfort in the fact that we're finally starting to see some serious commitment (or at least what looks like it) to the white hat supporting cast - Etta, Steve, Polly, Donna, Cassie, Phillipus, Akila, and Artemis gets a whole arc in SECRET SIX, and the only *lasting* new supporting cast she's added so far is the gorillas. Now, apart from Etta and possibly Polly, the gorillas have been getting as much play as all of the rest of those names put together, but that they're getting play at all is still more than we saw in WML, Byrne, or the Heinboot. So we're still doing above average for continuity.

[pyrotwilight.insanejournal.com]

There's a good chance Devastation is Genocide now. Might explain the Genocide is "Diana" thing.

[long_silence.insanejournal.com]

How so? Devastation was made from Diana yes, and was kinda ridiculously over the top about being her dark mirror and all. But I don't think any one would ever really equate Diana to Devastation, not even dead Athena.

[thokstar.insanejournal.com]

So, when are we getting the Booster Gold fan club T-shirt?

[ashez2ashes.insanejournal.com]

I'd love to see a page parodying those 'fan club forms'. Send in 10 cents and get the official Booster Gold decoder ring! Just like Booster Gold stol--commandered
from the superhero museum!

[kd_the_movie.insanejournal.com]

Goddamnit. DC is making me buy action comics and supergirl for the Codename: patriot arc.......*wallet cries in anguish*

[04nbod.insanejournal.com]

Screw Action Comics but you should be reading Supergirl anyway. Its one of the best comics out right now and THE best if you like female characters.

[kingrockwell]

Oh no! Poor Jeannette :(

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

Since when has Black Canary worn a trenchcoat? I thought she was all about the jackets.

[thebigapricot.insanejournal.com]

Early in Simone's run on BoP she told Benes to have Dinah in a long coat with with a high collar. Gail has mentioned that she liked the outfit and encouraged folks who borrowed the character for their books to have Canary wear it as well. But DC being DC, of course, they would rather have her in her short jacket. I've always assumed the coat was a struggle for Benes and had him muttering "you can't see her ass, you can't see her ass."

I like the coat, it is one of the few good adjustments to her costume that wasn't awful

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

I don't have any particular problem with the coat, but I like the jacket - it gives her that distinctive biker chick sort of look.

[greenmask.insanejournal.com]

Ooo, that last cover is nifty. The Power Girl one too, except for when did the boob-window get so large?

[killermoth1.insanejournal.com]

Fairly good solicits all round. Despite all the crap going on right now, the Batman related ones looks really neat. Booster Gold looks great, and under Gail Secret Six and WonderWoman will probably be awesome.

[jupiterrhode.insanejournal.com]

If I never see the words "horrific war" and "Amazon" in the same sentence EVER again it will be too goddamned soon. Can't we just have nice things? Can't the Amazons just be back, be themselves, and be happy? And they, and WE, suffered enough?