snaps: Blackest Night: Wonder Woman #2

... where we get more girl-on-girl action than the TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship. or not. what we know is, there should be a March Madness-style, single elimination tournament for DC female characters. minus the Mortal Kombat characters. anyone for Power Girl versus Diana for the championship? c'mon, Midway Games and Warner Bros, make this happen!

apparently, Rudolph lost his title for reddest nose of 2009.


i heard Diana wanted to get pierced but this is ridiculous.


c'mon, that's so cliche! hey, Ocean Master, care to file a complaint??


of course, this really doesn't happen but that shocked you all for 10 seconds. and that's what Greg Rucka WANTS.


no, he's not dead!! he's trapped in time and coming back to you in couple of thousand years (two in DCU time).



ditch the collar and that ridiculous faceplate and we're talking, baby!!

dakota northwest

drive-by readings

Stumptown #1 (Oni Press) "The Case of the Girl Who Took Her Shampoo But Left Her Mini" Greg Rucka Matthew Southworth Lee Loughridge

Stumptown is not just another detective noir story. for starters, its set in Portland, Oregon. i don't think that's regular territory for noir tales. but anyway, here we have Dex (short for Dexedrine. heh.) Parios, P.I. and gambling addict, getting hired to find the missing granddaughter of the casino she's run a huge tab in. Dex, who runs Stumptown Investigations - presumably specializing in missing people - may have bitten more than she can chew as she gets threatened, harassed, threatened again, and shot all in less than 24 hours. Greg Rucka builds the intrigue masterfully, aided in the best way by Matthew Southworth's fittingly-accurate depictions of real-life moody Portland scenery. this definitely goes into my list of favorite non-mainstream books, behind Scalped and Chew.