Today’s reaction shots of comics include:
- X-Babies #2 of 4
- Batgirl #4
Also, you can click on the pics to see to read the panels. Like before, not comic reviews, more like reaction shots by me so the characters might zoom over your head if you don’t know who they are.
In X-Babies #2 , the team landed on a planet and meet Terry (and some other wizard and robot thing near the end). The series is cute and all but yeah, it’s good that it’s a run of 4 issues, anything more it would be a bit draggy. The only reason why I even started on this series is because, yeah, X-Babies gimmick.
Also, baby Rogue is cute. Baby Wolverine is sooo cute too while Cyclops is such a whiner.
I’m not actually sure where the story is going because it seems too formulaic. The X-Babies keep landing themselves in places and certainly everything wants to destroy them since they don’t want to get with the programme (ha ha, I punned there). The parodies of children shows are kinda amusing though.
Meanwhile, Mojo is certainly out of commission but hey, something tells me since this is 2 of 4, things better start happening in the whole investigation or getting into the “real” world out of the sets. So if anything, they better get things at a point where they find Mojo in issue 3 and have the ultimate fight or some ironic ending in issue 4 with the new programmers.
70% chance the programmers get stuck into their own tv-show for the entertainment of Mojo/ X-Babies.
40% chance of zombies being involved because Marvel seems to just get into an insane random add zombies into anything for fun.
Ironically, the main story didn’t engage me as much as the preview ad comic of Planet Terry at the back of the comic. He really is from an 80s comic and the preview of the story made the character so whiny that I had to check if he was real.
Planet Terry seemed like a parody of Superman. A whinier, cheesier child friendly (?) version of Superman anyway who is on the search for his parents. But hey, it was the 80s.
That makes much sense of considering what villains and stories they had back then. Fun fact, the other people they met includes Wally the Wizard and Royal Roy who are really retro Marvel characters in the past. Anyway, the preview stopped at the point where a convenient prospector knows who his parents are and the rest of it would be in Stars Comics All-Star Collection Volume 1, on sale on 25th November. So blaaaaar. Seems like they’re using the X-Babies to advertise their other comics??
I rather like Stephanie Brown as Batgirl more than Cassandra Cain. Maybe cause you can see that she’s pretty much a smart ass and less angsty than Cass. In Batgirl #4, you start to see Babs as being the ‘straight guy’ to bounce off with Stephanie’s goofiness. Not like they’re a pair of comedians but you can certainly see the balance between the two of them.
So Steph’s got to try out her new suit in action instead of sticking in the Batcave for testing instead. It’s cute that she got to test out swinging around with the grapple hook and beat up some bad guys too. However, in the middle of the storyline and all, I had to stare at her outfit and break it down from a cosplayer’s point of view.
It’s a pretty good outfit this time, looks very safe and padded too somehow. Oh yeah, if you don’t know what’s SoyJoy, you should watch the ad here. Bwur hur.
First night out and something major is happening. Steph’s busy with the latest crime while Babs is also busy at the Thompkins Clinic seeing Wendy. The writer of the story seems to love doing similarities. Or some term which I can’t remember but is probably in my freaking thick film storytelling textbook that’s currently in storage. Main point, even though Steph and Babs are in different places and doing their own thing, their stories entwine with each other in a way that shows how they are even if those two characters don’t tell each other said things.
Meanwhile, Babs sees herself with Wendy’s struggle with herself after the loss of her legs. Also, Steph’s fight with the “boss” of this issue is funny. I guess I like her because I am reminded of Buffy, the whole witty quip thing before laying the smackdown. Steph seems to like the witty lines!
If you noticed my costume breakdown, I have no idea what her suit is made of in that universe, I know rubber is definitely fused in there somewhere though.
Considering Babs is giving Steph a ride home, I wonder how that would look like, heh. Of course naturally she would give her a ride when she’s out of costume. Still, would be a funny thought to imagine Batgirl sitting in a car.
And that’s it until next shipment of comics!
