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My shop got shorted on the new Casanova - Avaritia sadly. But they said they'd make sure to pull me one when it comes in later in the week so thats ok then. Did get one of the nuDC books, Static Shock. It has Virgil living in New York instead of Dakota. And being remotely mentored by Hardware which is cool. He also has two sisters and both parents which is definitely a change from the animated show. And I think one from the Milestone series. Its being written by Scott McDaniel, who I can't recall from anything else and John Rozum, whose excellent Xombi relaunch ended just last week...

iZombie continues on with Gwen's secret monsterism being exposed to her monster-hunter boyfriend. Plus the whole town under attack from brainless zombies. Another issue with damn near every character getting at least a little face time...

Over to Marvel, the Thunderbolts escapees find themselves somehow having traveled back in time. To WW2. Where they end up teamed with Captain America and Namor fighint Nazis. And I must say there are few things finer then seeing Namor shouting Imperius Rex while smashing Nazis...

Over on Heroes for Hire I still hate Kyle Hotz' art. But I love how Elektra explains her ability to sucker the Purple Man into thinking she was mind-controlled. "I'm a ninja". Like duh man...
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So up to book 5 (The Face of Chaos) of my reread. An important book as it introduces the Beysib (though they don't DO much in this book) and adds Morris' Roxanne fully to the mix. And Morris' stuff gets SLIGHTLY better. Shes mostly stopped trying to imitate, I don't know who, Howard or Moorcock or Leiber or other fantasy writers like them. Someone still needs to take away her thesaurus. And all of her characters are still utterly and totally unlikable...

I mean, even Niko/Stealth, who is ALMOST friendly enough to break through the total arrogance to generate some empathy. But can't have that, so he's made a pedarast. Does taking the virginity of a 13 year old still count as sex with a child? Either way it manages to squash any burgeoning caring the reader might have for a Morris character so I guess thats the point...

And of course she still has really two dimensional characters with obvious characterizations. And just in case their completely unsubtle actions fail to clue in a reader she makes sure to TELL over and over again what each character's traits are...

Blah.

I'm so glad she apparantly isn't involved in the new series...

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