Righto, for this week’s shipment, we have:
- Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love #2
- X-Babies #3
- Batman: The Cat and the Bat
- Empowered: The Wench with a Million Sighs
Onwards we go!
So last we saw Cindy in was that some guy was sneaking up behind her with a dagger. Surprise! It is actually Aladdin. Anyway, in Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love #2, apparently Aladdin also is trying to find out who’s doing the whole illegal magical item business. Thus, they decided to join forces since they were working on the same goal anyway.
In the meantime, while Cindy and Aladdin share intel and prepare to gather info and find the things, Cordwainer shows new designs to the shoe elves to make. The elves think it’s a bad idea and I am inclined to think so too. Whatever it is, magical shoes even for Fabletown folk don’t seem to be a good combination anyway.
Back to Cindy and Aladdin! Off they go to some soirée of sorts where dodgy business types are to be had with the mafia and all the such where supposedly a deal for magical items. Cindy is not impressed with Aladdin by the way, since he clearly is the suave handsome type which she totally doesn’t like.
Anyway once they arrive, the “boss” for the party is a lady in a red burqah and tells the guards to get rid of them! Apparently the guards are big ghols and the two super spies are getting in quite a fix since they can’t fight them while the drop from the roof of the building is really high. It just hit me, what if the boss was one of the sisters who went to the shoe shop in issue 1? It could be possible! Durrr, duurr, duuur. FORESHADOWING?
Okay, X-babies #3 actually gave an exciting turn instead of going down. This is good because things just got fun now! And no, there’s no zombies either but anyway the X-babies finally got themselves out of that world and into the “real” mojoworld! Also, Rogue totally is in it with Wolvie whenever it’s for fights since they’re both hardcore (for babies).
Okay, so Wolvie and Nightcrawler were on the rescue team. Apparently other characters were also stuck in their own VR world like the X-babies. They found the real Wally, Terry, Roy and Top Dog! With Top Dog’s intelligence, they disabled all the VR systems to free everyone else! Meanwhile, the attack team consisting of the other X-Babies were fighting the creepy imitations.
The only thing was that these imitations can’t feel pain and they were creepily bouncy and stuff! Really, really creepy.
And in the nick of time, Wolvie busts in with the other people they rescued! Also, Wally, Terry and Roy look kinda cute when they’re drawn like this and more dignified! Anyway, Wolvie can’t believe the rest of the X-Babies can’t defeat them and even though Rogue warns him about them not feeling pain, he demonstrates that yes, it can be done.
This is one of the scariest fight scenes I had ever seen especially in an X-Baby comic book since you can actually see him dicing them all up!
Creepier though that they thought they had won but NO. The pieces joined together since they were jellyish and reformed back into their imitations once more AND the programmer brought more backup. AUGH. Took this page with my camera but this is SO AWESOME IN A CREEPY WAY. Can you recognize all of them? Hahahahah. I am amused with Deadpool even being in there. DUR, DUR, DUUUUUR.
Batman: The Cat and the Bat, not so much screenshots because all of the pages are awesome! It’s a compilation of Batman Confidential issues where Barbara Gordon is Batgirl and meets Catwoman for the first time. The whole thing is sassy, fun and expressive. Yeah, expressive. The artwork on the characters shows their expressions and you won’t be able to not imagine how their lines are said. Besides, Babs and Selina? You know it’s an exciting cat fight when they both of them are combined. GET IT, GET IIIIT.
Yay! Empowered: Wench with a Million Sighs! Okay, for those who haven’t read the previous volumes of Empowered, don’t read this until you’ve read volume 5 at least. This would be a major spoiler once you know where she’s at.
And thus, in the Empowered style of story, we have the main action happening while having cuts to a conversation of the Caged Demonwolf with Thugboy and Ninjette.
Yeah, I can’t believe he talks to Emp’s mother either. Anyway, as they analyze each different sigh, the story moves on and compared to a regular Empowered volume, this isn’t too rated but it still is compared to other comics anyway. Caged Demonwolf is always amusing in his verbose narrations.
It’s amusing cause I like Adam Warren’s style of writing since you’d get little bits of pieces of Emp’s past and yes, it will show how it affected her when she grew up.
Meanwhile in “reality” or rather the past where it happened before Caged Demonwolf’s narration, Emp is fighting Irresistimmovable. All the other Superhomeys are down and it’s up to Emp to defeat him. Considering she’s at a superhero mausoleum, she gets advice from dead superheroes from their tombstones. It’s a prerecorded message thing, you see.
And of course she runs into someone familiar and asks for advice from her instead. Mindf**k, unlike the other heroes is a sensible one and her powers was of telepathy. Also, she gives really, really good advice. In the meantime, I kept trying to look for a certain hero’s tombstone because he was annoying like heck and I wanted him to be dead instead of being an obnoxious creep that would torment Emp in the next volume whenever it comes out.
Of course even in fighting, Emp has quite a lot of sighing when she does so. Each sigh is just so meaningful of each situation, heh.
Especially when the sighs increase and then she gets really frustrated. Heh, Emp can be so freaking awesome then. Needless to say, the day is saved and well, she still sighs at the end of the story. Hahahaha! Okay yeah, get it only if you read the other volumes. You can read it without reading the rest but, you’ll just get spoilered especially for volume 5 if you do so.
Till next shipment of comics then!
