Reaction Shots! Episode 1.4

Alrighty! Spoilers included, also panels don’t look like how they are because I used a camera to take a pic since the scanner is kinda crappy here.

We’ve got:

• Queen Sonja #2
• Emily the Strange – The Thirteenth Hour #2
• Models Inc #4
• Gotham City Sirens #6
• Buffy and Angel figurine collection #2

Here we go! Also, at this rate, you can see how odd the genre mix I read.

Yes, she is Red freaking Sonja! No one else would wear a chainmaille bikini and ride around on a horse in that attire! Queen Sonja #2 continues to her “flashback” thingy where it started in issue 1. Yeah, it’s weird if you just got this issue without reading the first since all “this” has happened. It’s to show why she’s called Queen Sonja now.

Anyway, these bunch of bandits had made off with an old woman’s belongings. Normally, if Sonja learns that they are evil men or they had been banditing (WHAT IS A VERB FOR BANDIT?!) for ENJOYMENT, she’d cut their heads off straight away. Considering the ladies explained themselves what had happened, she is nice and merciful. Only that they had to return the goods pronto and that she will follow them to see what had happened to drive them to banditry (Obvious answer: Evil, evil men!)!

There’s story ‘recaps’ by the bandits and the pages are gorgeous in that classic way of story recaps. Ever seen Conan or well old barbarian movies before? You get pages of landscapes and such with just the right amount of text but the visuals tell the story more.

So soon her “band” was captured and they were taken near a site where they found out where all the people were taken as slaves to. Those that read this issue can pretty much tell who her “band” of ladies are and I do mean ladies in a title sense.

She’s got enough and actually pretty much pretended to be caught and went insane on the captors once they were at a nice strategic spot over seeing the land and yet still in the distance from the guards below. I got to say though, when she does flying kicks and all like that… DOES she wear anything underneath that?

If not, I guess that’s why the guys are dead. If you see her girly bits, it is a sign that you will die. For reals. So anyway, Red Sonja is pretty scary and slightly biased on ladies but she’s helpful. Onwards to issue #3 whenever it comes out then. There’s going to be much bloodshed as usual.

On to Emily the Strange – The Thirteenth Hour #2, I got startled by the sudden Emily BJD ad in the pages. There seems to be more ads for BJDs in comics nowadays. Hmm. You can get her at the official Emily the Strange website. If you haven’t read an Emily comic before, it’s black and white and sometimes on rare occasions, it can be bright red!

It’s pretty wordy for a comic and it will confuse you in her journey to strange places.

It’s her 13th birthday you see and she lost her watch, taken by an evil being!

I just like all the cats in it and it’s pretty deep and punny!

Heh a soft spot for fuzzy things. As I said, it can get literal and punny. I like those. In this end of this issue, she’s getting closer to the point of finding her watch, yay! It is like a journey of self discovery of a gothic Alice in wonderland.

Models Inc #4, the end of the little series. It feels like Marvel is redoing old classic characters and making them into new series for people to buy or something. That’s Sachet Nelson, the artist. Disapproving artist is disapproving.

It was certainly a soap opera kind of ending. Or a mixture of Nancy Drew and uh, models.

Okay, all the cool lines were actually in issue #3. This one is more like finishing things up to a conclusion. Chili is totally cool, she actually did learn stuff from Patsy aka Hellcat and instead of Patsy being watched, they should have been wary on ALL the models there.

What was pissy though that in the first issue there was some weird werewolf vibe going on. APPARENTLY, IT WAS A RED HERRING. Nothing to do with werewolves. Just dead artists and expensive paintings.

Set with models and characters from retro classic Marvel series. I’m liking Chili, she’s very lively compared to the rest besides Patsy and okay, it’s also pretty much because she is the sassy one. Chili, like her name is hot stuff. Sheesh.

Oh and hey there… Using a cast to hit a person and then whapping them in the face? Or to be more exact, whunktting them seems to be painful for all parties involved. Seriously, a fractured arm is in a cast for a reason. BECAUSE IT IS FRACTURED. Whatever, all was a happy day ending as the models strut their stuff.

The ending was kind of nice in a way that it’s predictable. It’s not the predictability that makes it nice, it’s the whole HEY, it’s MARVEL and they actually gave us a happy ending including a cast of females who are although models, aren’t that ditzy, peppering with quite witty lines at times and situations. You don’t get too many happy SPECIFIC endings in Marvel comics nowadays so this was cute too since they didn’t make the ladies too like bitchy skanky hos like Marvel Divas unbelievable.
Yay, yay so good bye limited Models Inc run, you didn’t blow it off too bad and you sure knew when to end before it got draggy.

Gotham City Sirens #6! Last we saw, Ivy and Catwoman were in their own specific traps. Well, they got out of it and were chasing after Gagsworth who pulled Harley along with him.

Ivy when combined with Catwoman can be funny in her serious droll way. Don’t worry about them, they know how to handle themselves out of this mess for Selina has… a handphone!

Meanwhile, Harley gets monologued by Gagsworth and is clearly unimpressed. He is such a delusional little troll.

He keeps on telling her how fun he had with Mister J… Right… Yes… That totally happened, Gagsworth.

Harley of course is still really, really unimpressed.

Anyway, Ivy and Catwoman finally managed to bust through the traps with the help of Jenna, their contractor and get through to Harley. This scene ironic yet poetic since you’ll recognize why if you’re really a Harley fan.

And off home they go in Jenna’s van where Harley asks them if she was too obsessed with Mister J since Gagsworth was too over delusional about Joker. Cute, real cute there. Also, I like this scene with all their expressions there of duhness.

And of course Harley vows not to get with Mister J again… But then he might have changed for the better and starts to ramble and as always… Heh, Ivy, I knooow, you’re just jealous. Yes. The ending’s cute in a not really cute way but it ends of with a good conclusion for this arc of the series. What made me go what the heck though was this:

This ad of Batman & Robin in there. What… What the heck is Robin wearing? I admit, I do not read Batman but I can’t remember when he ever wore something fruity like that?! I see the Batcycle looks different? But uh ROBIN WHAT ARE YOU WEARING? It confuses me because it can’t be a going back in time storyline because they have motorcycles yet Robin is wearing something like he’s going for a Romeo & Juliet audition (with Batsy as Juliet?!?) or something. SOMEONE TELL ME WHY? That IS Robin, right?

Okay the last one is the Buffy and Angel collector’s figurine #2, the comic shop owner guy told me that there were 3 and that the last one might be Willow.

And the cast pic for the back of it. Aww, no Lorne but there’s a Fred! So yay to that, it means it’s not the “earlier” seasons since she only appeared much later and Cordelia is blonde-ish here.

Like the first issue, it had facts from the series, the comics and other developments. Heh, I always found puppet Angel pretty funny. He has a removable nose, did you know? Right and like the first issue, it came with an Angel figurine. My comment on it is that it’s pretty dark. Cause duh, it’s Angel. He keeps wearing black and stuff so yes, the paint job for the figurine is pretty much dark colours.

Yep. Pretty dark. Anyway till next shipment! That’s it for reaction shots!