And to compound things, my closest Walmart didn't seem to actually get any of the November releases, but I happened to be across town and visited the other one, and that's how I got these:
Batman Giant #2
- New from Michael Grey & Ryan Benjamin, featuring Poison Ivy. Best appreciated for the Ryan Benjamin art.
- New from Andrea Shea & Neil Edwards, featuring the Signal (Duke Thomas). I love that Signal gets a spotlight, which is basically only his second ever (after the three-issue mini-series), following Duke's earlier incarnation as a quasi-Boy Wonder in We Are Robin.
- Batman #2 from the New 52 Snyder era. Coincidentally I recently got a copy of the first collection in that run, Court of Owls, marking the first time I've read the complete opening arc. I wasn't overly impressed.
- Detective Comics #854, featuring the continuation of the first extended Batwoman spotlight.
- Nightwing #2 from Rebirth, featuring the continued Raptor arc (as referenced in the title of the later collected edition, Better Than Batman, naturally).
- New from Margaret Stohl & Laura Braga, featuring the first team-up of the duo. Since I haven't actually read a lot of Batwoman comics, this was my introduction to her twin sister & archnemesis Alice (a sort of Lisbeth Salander vibe going on there, or Data/Lore, if you're a Star Trek fan).
- New from Sanya Anwar & Giant favorite Chad Hardin, featuring Batwoman. It's great to see Hardin in a new context, and he's a complete natural, probably a better overall experience.
- New from Andrea Shea & Mike Norton, featuring Supergirl, trading heavily on the Supergirl TV show continuity. I don't know if the comics have been doing that, too (I guess I don't read a lot of Supergirl comics, either...), but clearly this particular giant is being directed at fans of the TV shows, anyway, so it makes sense.
- Batwoman: Rebirth #1
- Supergirl: Rebirth #1
- Batwoman #0, the series that began just before the New 52, but experienced enough delays that it sort of was drafted into the New 52. It's sort of amazing to think that the character has now had three spotlight runs (thanks to linewide relaunches), all of which are being reflected in these giants. She's clearly the most successful and lasting element of my much-beloved 52, and that's nice to see.
I never remember to look for these when I'm in Walmart. Now that Batwoman has a TV show I wonder if they'll start changing her comic to reflect that a bit more?
ReplyDeleteI assume the actual comics will continue doing their own thing. The thing I never understood was Marvel refusing to reflect the hugely successful movies in their comics. The one concession they ever really made, except maybe when Bendis was writing Iron Man, was the sudden explosion of Guardians of the Galaxy titles. But that was rightly seen as fairly shameless.
DeleteThat never made sense to me either. Especially when they had Sam Wilson Captain America, Jane Foster Thor, and Amadeus Cho Hulk, none of which matched with the movies making billions of dollars. They probably should have kept the Ultimate universe longer.
DeleteWell, they blew up the Ultimates universe, and only Miles Morales survived. Fans blamed the writer, Jeph Loeb (Ultimatum), which was both irrational and outright stupid. Loeb deserves to be cherished by fans, not reviled. And he wouldn't have been the one who made the decision, regardless of how he handled the idea. Marvel clearly decided to end it themselves.
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