Me: Constantly talks about Cass.
One of my best friends, eventually: "I don't really get the appeal. I've always been more interested in Babs and Steph."
Me: Sighs "Have you actually tried her solo book?"
Friend: "No. Why?"
One borrowed trade reading later
Friend, earlier today: "I understand completely."
Works every time.
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I usually give a fair chance to everything and judge fairly afterwards, althougth i have never come to dislike any recomendation, there are characthers that i just can't get into, for a lack of interest, regardless of the quality, like Firestorm.
Last edited by TheCape; 10-15-2017 at 09:13 PM.
Yeah, much as I still hope for the rest to be collected, just having Puckett's run collected so nicely and conveniently is great. (I still really want to know which clever bloke at DC made sure her first fat trade came out on her birthday) I didn't ever pick up Steph's trade, and sorry if you've told me already, but did they give her reprints the same gorgeous treatment they gave Cass?
Yeah, it's unfortunate and I'm definitely with you there.
Last edited by Assam; 10-15-2017 at 09:09 PM.
Firestorm is probably the most vanilla hero in DC for me. Doesn't matter which version, which run (I've tried several), nothing can make me care about them one way or the other. The closest I've come is being super pissed over the respective Firestorm's treatments in Identity Crisis and Blackest Night.
I bought Steph's trade digitally, since I literally JUST bought the old trades this year and last year (in addition to all the crossovers and single issues I could think of, though not all of them, since some of them were pretty silly). Looking at Steph's new trade in the story, it's my impression that it's not quite as high quality as Cass's. It seems thinner, and the cover doesn't feel quite as heavy (high quality and glossy) to me, but that's impressionistic from several weeks ago. I'd have to check them out at the store side by side again to be sure.
That being said, it's definitely better than poor Azrael got. And I appreciate that 1) We're getting it all nicely packaged, and 2) They're promising to include the Road Home issue, which is really crucial to Steph's arc.
"We're the same thing, you and I. We're both lies that eventually became the truth." Lara Notsil, Star Wars: X-Wing: Solo Command, Aaron Allston
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"There's room in our line of work for hope, too." Stephanie Brown
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Poor JPV, he is the one to most likely fall into obscurity with time, pretty unfair after a 100 solo, is Dennis O'Neil still writting, maybe he can save him.That being said, it's definitely better than poor Azrael got.**And I appreciate that 1) We're getting it all nicely packaged, and 2) They're promising to include the Road Home issue, which is really crucial to Steph's arc.
"We're the same thing, you and I. We're both lies that eventually became the truth." Lara Notsil, Star Wars: X-Wing: Solo Command, Aaron Allston
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"There's room in our line of work for hope, too." Stephanie Brown
Stephanie Brown Wiki, My Batman Universe Reviews, Stephanie Brown Discord
Yeah, Jean-Paul definitely got the short end of the stick.
Oh, the Road Home issue. On the one hand great for Steph's character and the slap is truly glorious, on the other hand it contains a dig at Cass fans like Inc. and BoP had. (As Rena put it, that issue made it canon that by that point, Alfred was the only who still canonically gave a crap about Cass.)
(I honestly, HONESTLY wish I could talk more positively about Steph's book more often because there is a lot of it I love, but just so much is problematic there.)
Last edited by Assam; 10-15-2017 at 09:24 PM.
You are rigth, i think that he actually did some one shots about him at some point of the DickBats era.He is writing every now and then, but I doubt he's interested in doing anything more than a one shot or maybe a four issue arc