Night of the Owls: a reaction, and other USian comics stuff

[miss_s_b]

So, my comics dealer sent me the Night of the Owls Batverse crossover stuff this week. Mostly I decided to get them because I have really been enjoying the storyline in Nightwing, and this would give me an opportunity to dip my toe into the titles I had decided against getting. Mostly, reading them has confirmed that I was right in which books I had selected. Batwing remains full of well-intentioned benevolent racism, Catwoman's art is just embarrassingly awful - by turns sexist and jaw-droppingly anatomically inaccurate, Red Hood and the Outlaws is cringemaking in it's constant references to Roy and Starfire's sexual exploits, and All-Star Western is just baffling.

I really, REALLY didnb't like the Batman Annual. It took a lot of the ambiugity away from Mr Freeze and made him more of a straight mad deluded villain; I kind of liked him being noble-but-misguided, even if Nora WAS the original Woman Inna Fridge.

The comics I am really enjoying at the moment mostly weren't involved in Night of the Owls. Batwoman continues to be intricate with character and story and beautiful in art; Justice League Dark is by turns creepy and hilarious, stuffed with dark humour and beautiful interplay between Constantine and Zatanna; and Birds of Prey is stackloads of fun, and I am really loving what they are doing with Poison Ivy (or as Starling refers to her, Crazy Plant Lady).

Outside of the main DCnU I am loving New Deadwardians and IDW's Doctor Who comic, which has just finished Casablanca With Silurians (art by a very good Mike Mignola impressionist). And the first issue of WhoTrek has really whetted my appetite for more.

Any of you lot been reading any good American stuff?

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[innerbrat]

Demon Knights, Demon Knights, Demon Knights, Demon Knights.

And Punisher. And I've been devouring old Daredevil.

[miss_s_b]

I've been getting the IDW Classic Doctor Who ones too, because they are Six and Frobisher with occasional Peri, and newly coloured and tarted up (this may be very specialised special interest on my part).

I like the new Two-Face B-feature in Batman (or possibly Detective comics - one of the expensive Batcomics, anyway)

[innerbrat]

It must be TEC, on account of being the one I don't read.