It would be, if I didn't have to be at work in like, an hour. Whoops.
But don't you want to remember the Defining Moment of his life?! That wonderful moment where he decided he was going to become Batman! But yeah, editorial is really iffy these days and I shudder to think what goes on behind closed doors at DC now that we've gotten a peek at it from Perez and Rozum. They should just hire a bunch of fans to be the editors. Or, at least as fact-checkers. Let them do the dirty work and tell the writers and editorial that this isn't IC, the eye color isn't right, etc. etc. I'll do that for minimum wage, even!
I usually will say read everything because she is unfortunately that sort of character! She's always been known as DC's greatest minor character and most of her solos have been really iffy (in that they were used to facilitate self-insert boyfriends/love interests from the writers). I am not a huge fan of Dini's writing of her and find he focuses too much on quipping and banter and being a creepy sleazeball, but I did like his Detective Comics runs with her in addition to his 2001 Vertigo special (which I'd pirate because $25 for a prestige is steep unless you have an addiction like I do). Dini's solo title exists solely to make me angry and for icons :')
But yeah, most of her stuff is a lot of background or a few pages here and there up until maybe the past six years? She doesn't have a lot of lengthy appearances, but they all fit together nicely. What you get is like in Superman/Batman, but then she shuffles off again to do off-screen junk. I think a lot of the Identity Crisis tie-ins were worthwhile despite the subject it ties into. I'm a particular fan of Rucka's, since he basically entirely avoids the quipping. Morrison's Seven Soldiers is also an excellent starter and Sook's art is sort of in that in between phase here, where he's shifting from a more Mignola style to coming into his own (also the colorist was awful), but it's definitely worth a read. My favorite recent issue is Brave and the Bold v2 #33, featuring her and Diana and Babs. I ignore the last few pages and Oracle talk for obvious reasons. (I actually recommend almost the entirety of this series; somewhere around I think issue #12? That's when Perez goes off and is replaced with better artists. I think it has some really great mash-ups, my favorites being GL + Dr. Fate & Phantom Stranger + GL!)
Uhhh. Sorry for the TL;DRing. What I have on my computer is mostly for quick reference, since I own almost her entire canon and quick-pulls do tend to be like "these six pages in Justice League from 1998 were great!!" or whatever. I do recommend JLA overall, especially Bronze/Copper age. I don't talk about JLDetroit.
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But don't you want to remember the Defining Moment of his life?! That wonderful moment where he decided he was going to become Batman! But yeah, editorial is really iffy these days and I shudder to think what goes on behind closed doors at DC now that we've gotten a peek at it from Perez and Rozum. They should just hire a bunch of fans to be the editors. Or, at least as fact-checkers. Let them do the dirty work and tell the writers and editorial that this isn't IC, the eye color isn't right, etc. etc. I'll do that for minimum wage, even!
I usually will say read everything because she is unfortunately that sort of character! She's always been known as DC's greatest minor character and most of her solos have been really iffy (in that they were used to facilitate self-insert boyfriends/love interests from the writers). I am not a huge fan of Dini's writing of her and find he focuses too much on quipping and banter and being a creepy sleazeball, but I did like his Detective Comics runs with her in addition to his 2001 Vertigo special (which I'd pirate because $25 for a prestige is steep unless you have an addiction like I do). Dini's solo title exists solely to make me angry and for icons :')
But yeah, most of her stuff is a lot of background or a few pages here and there up until maybe the past six years? She doesn't have a lot of lengthy appearances, but they all fit together nicely. What you get is like in Superman/Batman, but then she shuffles off again to do off-screen junk. I think a lot of the Identity Crisis tie-ins were worthwhile despite the subject it ties into. I'm a particular fan of Rucka's, since he basically entirely avoids the quipping. Morrison's Seven Soldiers is also an excellent starter and Sook's art is sort of in that in between phase here, where he's shifting from a more Mignola style to coming into his own (also the colorist was awful), but it's definitely worth a read. My favorite recent issue is Brave and the Bold v2 #33, featuring her and Diana and Babs. I ignore the last few pages and Oracle talk for obvious reasons. (I actually recommend almost the entirety of this series; somewhere around I think issue #12? That's when Perez goes off and is replaced with better artists. I think it has some really great mash-ups, my favorites being GL + Dr. Fate & Phantom Stranger + GL!)
Uhhh. Sorry for the TL;DRing. What I have on my computer is mostly for quick reference, since I own almost her entire canon and quick-pulls do tend to be like "these six pages in Justice League from 1998 were great!!" or whatever. I do recommend JLA overall, especially Bronze/Copper age. I don't talk about JLDetroit.
Oh. How... would I do... that...