New Comic Day!

[newnumber6]

This week I only got two books:

Robin #150 (Pretty much cements my decision to drop the book)
Ultimate X-Men #70 (My pick of the week, fun but not quite as good as previous issues)

Full reviews of both books are at my comic reviews site, as usual for anyone interested.

Had a PB&J sandwich for lunch. Work was okay. Raining like hell now but I avoided it at work.

Comments

[soleta-nf.livejournal.com]

I read Robin up until (#110 or 120. I stopped reading it (and a bunch of other comics) when I couldn't afford it anymore. How has it been since then? I take it it's not very good currently?

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't have much to compare it to, I probably started reading right as you stopped. Just a little before the ill-fated female Robin.

The comic itself isn't too bad if it was just an isolated Robin comic with no connection to the rest of the DC Universe on that level, it's fairly enjoyable and probably better than most of the time I read the book ... the problem is that with this issue, at least apparently so far, they completely screwed over the most recent Batgirl, one of the few characters in the DCU I really liked. Screwed her over to the point of gutting her character in ways so nonsensical that I have to wonder if the writer ever read any of her series. Since the only reason I came back to Robin after their One Year Later jump (all the DC books did that) was because they promised to resolve what happened to Batgirl, I doubt I'll be continuing.

[soleta-nf.livejournal.com]

The screwed over the once-mute Batgirl? I really liked her. I left the book just before they did the weird stuff with Spoiler/the new Robin, and how that's been exlained to me (she was killed off?) sounds really strange.

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Cassandra Cain just showed up in Robin as a villainous type character, leading the league of assassins and wanting Robin to kill her father. All, apparently, because in the missing year, she found out that she wasn't the only one her father trained as an assassin, that there was another girl named Analee. Except her own series finished with her still sane and a heroic character and knowing about _many_ other people being trained and having no problem with it. :P

To be fair, the story's not finished yet so there's possible it's a twist, but right now it just feels horribly thought out.