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beccaelizabethToday I am Waiting for deliveries etc
so I started reading the JLI omnibus volume 3.
I have read 120 pages and I think they were all new to me, despite my best efforts to buy them all at the time.
I just finished a section where Captain Cold and Heatwave get stopped by Fire and Ice.
It starts out with them drunk in a bar talking about how their jobs (bookstore and parks) just aren't as exciting as the old days, and grumbling about how superheroes just aren't doing it right since Barry died.
So they go to rob a jewelery store. Politely. While asking the employees to make sure they give them good reviews for the politeness.
But then Fire and Ice are out shopping and stop them.
While they say how much this is and isnt like Barry.
It really seems like Cold and Heatwave don't know how to hang out without crime (and Barry) so they do Fun Crime while complaining about how even the heroes beat you up these days and the villains are all worse. Which is kind of my feeling about a lot of comics too.
It was funny and weirdly sweet.
... and it ends when Cold remembers the 'good old days' usually ended with prison.
Also there's a bit where Fire is hoping to get a reward because she's maxed out all her credit cards and Ice just wants a nice food and a book to read. Modern superhero problems! Well, it's the 90s, perennial superhero problems really.
The other bits, with Mister Nebula the cosmic exterior designer, were probably funnier if you read comics that aren't JLI, but did have a good ending where J'onn figured out what would make him happy aesthetically (Las Vegas).
Clever uses of superpowers that are silly and gross, much better than just hitting things until they fall down.
I was seeing on tumblr lots of Wonder Woman pictures, and there were hardly any I wanted to reblog, because she keeps having a sword. When I was reading the lack of sword was a lot of the point. Lasso of truth, not sword.
... I am grumpy about comics whenever I look in on what comics are doing. So I will continue to hang out in Omnibus territory.
then i only get grumpy because my memories usually edited out the sexism and racism etc...
so I started reading the JLI omnibus volume 3.
I have read 120 pages and I think they were all new to me, despite my best efforts to buy them all at the time.
I just finished a section where Captain Cold and Heatwave get stopped by Fire and Ice.
It starts out with them drunk in a bar talking about how their jobs (bookstore and parks) just aren't as exciting as the old days, and grumbling about how superheroes just aren't doing it right since Barry died.
So they go to rob a jewelery store. Politely. While asking the employees to make sure they give them good reviews for the politeness.
But then Fire and Ice are out shopping and stop them.
While they say how much this is and isnt like Barry.
It really seems like Cold and Heatwave don't know how to hang out without crime (and Barry) so they do Fun Crime while complaining about how even the heroes beat you up these days and the villains are all worse. Which is kind of my feeling about a lot of comics too.
It was funny and weirdly sweet.
... and it ends when Cold remembers the 'good old days' usually ended with prison.
Also there's a bit where Fire is hoping to get a reward because she's maxed out all her credit cards and Ice just wants a nice food and a book to read. Modern superhero problems! Well, it's the 90s, perennial superhero problems really.
The other bits, with Mister Nebula the cosmic exterior designer, were probably funnier if you read comics that aren't JLI, but did have a good ending where J'onn figured out what would make him happy aesthetically (Las Vegas).
Clever uses of superpowers that are silly and gross, much better than just hitting things until they fall down.
I was seeing on tumblr lots of Wonder Woman pictures, and there were hardly any I wanted to reblog, because she keeps having a sword. When I was reading the lack of sword was a lot of the point. Lasso of truth, not sword.
... I am grumpy about comics whenever I look in on what comics are doing. So I will continue to hang out in Omnibus territory.
then i only get grumpy because my memories usually edited out the sexism and racism etc...