Girls With Comics

I love visiting random comic book stores that I happen to find while traveling. The smell of the ink always hits you when you walk in. Sometimes fanboy funk hits you too, but for the most part it’s just ink. I’ve noticed over the past few years, that most comic book stores do not really carry older back issues, meaning books from the silver age and back. Lots of places carry mostly new comics and graphic novels. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing. The graphic novel is really replacing back issues, and the need to buy single copies of comics all together.

However, I collect GA and some SA books.  I know I can just buy online from various places, and I can always look at various cons, but there’s nothing like finding a SA issue of The Sub-Mariner at a shop when you really weren’t looking for anything special. Comic shops themselves are a dying breed, but thats a topic for another day. I don’t really buy new comics, and the ones I do buy I get from the comic store I’ve gone too since I was 6. Action figures aren’t my thing either. So what’s a girl to do?

While I’m grateful for conventions and dealers such as Metropolis, I still enjoy the thrill of finding old comics at a store. I’ve been luckier at antique stores, which I think many comic fans may over look. Talking to some of my non comic collecting buddies, many of them would never even think to look for comics at an antique store. I’m not sure why, since some comics are antiques. Plus you never know what kind of awesome crap antique stores have. Yet I realize that older comics are harder to move in an average comic store, so I can’t be too bitter.

So, to all of you comic shop owners who still have older comics, I thank you from the bottom of my heart, and wallet.

-Lauren

If you have not been reading Blackest Night (and why haven’t you?!), you may not know this. Wonder Woman, after becoming one of the Black Lanterns, was turned into a Star Sapphire because of how much she loves Earth. I adore this a great deal, because Wonder Woman is a bad ass, as are the Star Sapphires. However, her key point in turning into a SS…was by kissing an imaginary Batman.

Wut.

I know I’ve been out of the loop for a long time, but I don’t ever recall Wonder Woman and Batman ever having feeling’s for each other aside from friendship. I simply don’t like the idea that the writers decided she needed a “kiss” from Prince Charming to become a super-super hero. Was her own will and love not strong enough to prove her having a ring? Is Batman’s kiss really validating her to become a guardian of love? It’s pretty insulting to assume that Wonder Woman really need’s a dead guy to prove her awesome abilities, and she really is a strong enough character on her own where they could have made her a Sapphire without Batman’s (or a man’s) help. So, Greg Rucka, shame on you.

-Lauren

This is honestly the first Smallville episode (or movie, whatever) that I have ever seen. I am NOT a Superman fan, but I respect the fact that Superman was the first superhero and had a huge impact on modern comics. However, he’s too “perfect” and is annoying and I don’t like him.

But I love the Justice Society, so I was intrigued.

It was well, almost a let down? I’m not sure how else to describe it. I couldn’t follow it very well since I’m not familiar with the Smallville canon, but I was still excited to see Dr. Fate, Hawkman, and the Star Spangled Kid on T.V, and I was especially excited to see The Flash and the Green Lantern. Yet the last two got very little air time, since I guess they both knew this shit was whack. Who knows, but whatever, it was better than nothing.

BUT, the worst part? The goddamn Batman voice Hawkman was using. Fuck you Christian Bale, look what you’ve done to our superhero’s. They all sound like they need a fucking throat drop and smoke 7 packs a day. That’s fucking stupid. The director should have really stepped in and said “NO BATMAN VOICE.” Jesus fuck, it was obnoxious.

I then turned the T.V off a half hour before it ended because I started to fall asleep. Better luck next time, I guess.

-Lauren

Jealous yet, bitches?

I happen to have a whole bunch of these wonderful Toon Tumblers, and I hope to get more later this year at various cons. They are excellent glasses, very durable, and my friends get a kick out of them when I bust them out. You can order them from here: http://www.toontumblers.com/ 🙂

-Lauren