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sailorlibra (sailorlibra) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-18 17:10:00

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char: black canary/dinah lance, char: booster gold/michael jon carter, char: jeannette, char: power girl/kara zor-l/karen starr, char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, genre: solicitations, publisher: dc comics, title: booster gold, title: power girl, title: secret six, title: wonder woman

DC Solicits are up...
At Newsarama. Not going to link because they're pretty easy to find.

And these are the few that interested me.

BOOSTER GOLD #23
Written by Dan Jurgens; co-feature written by Matthew Sturges
Art and cover by Dan Jurgens & Norm Rapmund; co-feature art by Mike Norton
“Day of Death” continues! Booster Gold reveals the Black Beetle’s plan to wipe out the entire JLA by going after their most incompetent former member – Booster Gold! Plus, Blue Beetle comes face to face with the mad scientist who created the robot army that’s destroying Texas!

I totally just want this issue for the cover.

POWER GIRL #4
Written by Jimmy Palmiotti & Justin Gray
Art and cover by Amanda Conner
Variant cover by Guillem March
“Space Girls Gone Wild!” part 1 of 2! A trio of sexy alien marauders hits Earth for the ultimate party. Unfortunately, by their standards, that means destroying it! Of course, it’s up to Power Girl to crash their festivities.

I know the team hasn't been that great so far, but this issue sounds pretty wacky and there's nothing I love better than Amanda Conner art with wacky storylines.

SECRET SIX #12
Written by Gail Simone
Art by Nicola Scott & Doug Hazlewood
Cover by Daniel Lu Visi
A crisis of conscience splits the Secret Six right down the middle and puts them on opposite sides of a horrific war involving Amazons led by a deluded Artemis! But that's just the opening bout for the main event: Jeannette vs. Wonder Woman!

If this was written by anyone other than Gail, I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot long spear. But since it's Gail, I will brave the Amazon waters.

WONDER WOMAN #35
Written by Gail Simone
Art by Aaron Lopresti & Matt Ryan
Cover by Aaron Lopresti
“Birds of Paradise” part 2 of 2! A gaggle of super-powered cage fighters find themselves in the worst possible place to be – on the bad side of Wonder Woman and Black Canary! Also, find out the final resolution between Diana and Nemesis along with much, much more!

Okay, there's almost no way in hell this won't turn out awesome.

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batcookies
2009-05-18 06:43 pm UTC (link)

Sigh.

I really hope Gail gets around to improving some of Diana's lesser-known villains.

So far she's been sticking to the same formula of her predecessors: Introduce new "major" villains (WML's White Magician, Byrne's Dark Angel, Luke's Cronus and Devastation, Jimenez' Sebastian Ballesteros, Rucka's Veronica Cale, Gail's Circle, Genocide, and Olympian), ignore the previous writer's "big villain," use a few of the most well-established WW villains, and fill the rest with guest villains.

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	colonel_green 2009-05-18 07:09 pm UTC (link)
	She said we'd be seeing Devastation again sometime "next year" (which I believe means this year, since it was in 2008 that she said it, though late), I believe. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

batcookies
2009-05-18 09:02 pm UTC (link)

Yes, I'm just worried it will be a very brief appearance. Is she going to use Devastation the same way Rucka use Sebastian?

Gail kicked off with The Circle (her own creations) and Captain Nazi (with more of a focus on Captain Nazi initially). Then we got 2 issues of Wonder Woman dealing with the Khund (not really her villains) and a Green Lantern. Then 4 issues where she wrapped up the story of the old "Stalker" series, fighting D'Grth. Then we got two issues of WW fighting the Queen of Fables (a Simone creation that's fought the JLA and Superman, and is scheduled to fight Batman and Captain Marvel next). Then Rise of the Olympian, using a mix of Gail's own creations, Cheetah, Dr. Psycho, and Ares (villains that definitely need a tune-up, but at least they've been established post-Crisis).

I'm waiting for the arc where the main bad guy is a Wonder Woman villain that's NOT a new character, or Cheetah, Ares, or Circe.

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bluefall
2009-05-19 09:25 am UTC (link)

I'm with you on this one, and really wanted Genocide to turn out to be Deva for precisely that reason. But I do take some comfort in the fact that we're finally starting to see some serious commitment (or at least what looks like it) to the white hat supporting cast - Etta, Steve, Polly, Donna, Cassie, Phillipus, Akila, and Artemis gets a whole arc in SECRET SIX, and the only *lasting* new supporting cast she's added so far is the gorillas. Now, apart from Etta and possibly Polly, the gorillas have been getting as much play as all of the rest of those names put together, but that they're getting play at all is still more than we saw in WML, Byrne, or the Heinboot. So we're still doing above average for continuity.

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	pyrotwilight 2009-05-18 11:22 pm UTC (link)
	There's a good chance Devastation is Genocide now. Might explain the Genocide is "Diana" thing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	long_silence 2009-05-19 12:06 am UTC (link)
	How so? Devastation was made from Diana yes, and was kinda ridiculously over the top about being her dark mirror and all. But I don't think any one would ever really equate Diana to Devastation, not even dead Athena. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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