I’m a week late on this post thanks to some snag with my hosting service, an awesome weekend with the girlfriend and a relatively awesome couple of days working. But hey, there’s still time for me to rip into the fourth week of the DC Reboot so let’s get it on. As usual, let’s start with the YES group. I will definitely pick up the #2 issues of these books.
I hate to admit it but I was wrong. I was one of those people who didn’t believe Adrianne Palicki would make a great Wonder Woman. I hated the teaser images with Palicki in costume. I didn’t believe Wonder Woman would translate well on TV without being corny and campy (sorry, Lynda Carter fans). I was wrong. Thanks to the magic of the Internet, I saw the unaired Wonder Woman pilot and I realized that I was so wrong.
My biggest gripe about the pilot during production was the costume. When I saw the first images of Palicki donning the Wonder Woman costume, I felt so much hate for it. I hated how it was all shiny and not Wonder Woman-y enough. I still didn’t like it when I saw the pilot but it actually looked good in some of the action scenes. I still have so much hate for the tiara, though.
Pick-up lines, even the funniest and most charming ones, never worked for me. Must be my creepy aura. Anyhoo, I’m wondering what pick-up lines superheroes are using to get some. Here’s what my perfectly normal and totally not perverse mind came up with:
Mr. Fantastic, Stretchy Leader of the Fantastic Four
I’ve been defying my limit of comic book purchases per week for the last 3 weeks, and it feels so good. I do expect to cut down on some of the titles after Secret Invasion and Final Crisis. I’m starting to really despise big “events”. Bah. Now, onto the reviews!
X-Factor Special: Layla Miller – This one-shot made me regret not picking up the Quicksilver special, thinking that it was just as awesome as this one. Peter David gives us a depressing but oftentimes funny peek into one possible future where Layla has been trapped since Messiah Complex, and it’s a very good read.
For this round of Friday Night Fights – Ladies Night, I’ve decided to post something EPIC. And when I say EPIC, I mean “Blind Wonder Woman with Black Pegasus kicking Giant Purple Guy’s giant purple ass and then turning him into stone” EPIC, like so:
