Lethal Ladies: August 2006 Archives

Birds of Prey has a history of taking on artists who prove themselves on the title and then go on to bigger and better things. Gary Frank, Greg Land, Ed Benes, and now this new fellow, Paulo Sequeira. I really like both this artwork and his panel layout. As Cousin Dick said last time, his artwork in various panels has touches of Chaykin--is it the drawing or the way the blacks are inked in? I'd love to know Sequeira's influences. I think I see some Golden in there as well.

The story by Gail Simone is fun--Black Alice is on a rampage, fighting the Birds with her magic-stealing powers. I think she may be one of the most powerful people in the DCU. Talia, Cheetah, and Felix Faust are there to cloud up Alice's teenage mind. Canary makes a great comment about Talia:

Batman doesn't talk about Talia. Word around the JLA was that she was his one blind spot. The one evil he couldn't bear to fight. And now his fabled judgment may have doomed us all. But to me, unimpressed by her lineage and hetero to the bone--she's just another witch in a push-up bra.

Can't wait to see what happens in BOP 100 and the identity of the mysterious Batgirl--is it Barbara Gordon? Nuff said.

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I think it was Keith Giffen who recounted the story about Wally Wood and Power Girl. Wood drew several issues of All-Star Comics during the 1970s, when PG made her first appearances. With every issue, Wood made Power Girl's chest bigger and bigger, thinking some editor was going to tell him to stop. No one ever did. I think this tradition continues until today! PG looks ginormous in this double-page spread from Supergirl #9.

Despite the massive cleavage, the story in this issue of Supergirl is the best one since the book started. Joe Kelly really gets into Supergirl's character and how she feels about being a misplaced teen on DC's earth. Supergirl has a fun, flirtatious date with a mysterious red-headed stranger--you'll see his identity at the end, I won't spoil it for you here. In various flashbacks we see the repercussions to Kara's moral compromise in the bottled city of Kandor as well as her various relationships in the DCU (Wonder Girl, Batman, etc). Kelly's off to a good start, if he keeps this up then Supergirl will become a solid monthly comic. Nuff said.

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