Batgirl Adventures, Batman Adventures, Mad Love

I finished my final Vertigo box yesterday!

Stats:

Box Summary:

Time spent reading: 18 hours, 54 minutes

Issues read: 144

Issues cut: 19

Highlights (Good or better): WE3 1-3

Project Summary:

Time spent reading: 11 days, 12 minutes

Issues read: 2134

Issues cut: 279

Moving on to my Batman Adventures box.  Apparently I have enough of them to fill a box.  

Batgirl Adventures 1

I have two copies of this.  I guessing it’s because I inherited my sister’s copy at some point along the line.  I remember it being hard to find a copy for myself the first time around, so I kept both.  Turns out it’s a 50 dollar comic now. Woots.

Anyway, not selling it because this comic makes me so darn happy.  I never thought to rank them before, but if this issue is anything to judge by, Rick Burchett is my favorite Batman Adventures-style artist.  He may have started out as the inker to the previous pencillers in the series, but clearly learned a thing or two and grew to surpass his predecessors. His facial expressions are phenomenally expressive.  I was grinning through every page of this lighthearted one-shot. Kudos to Burchett and the incomparable Paul Dini.

The faces!  The fan service!

Every expression is perfection.

Regret buying: No

Would buy again: Yes

Would read again: Yes

Rating: Pure joy

Mad Love

This is what I think of when I heard “Dini & Timm.”  Harley Quinn’s origin story remains a delightful mix of humor, pathos, and action.  And this page remains one of my favorites of all time.

The combination of text and art cracks me up every time.  “Don’t ya wanna rev up your Harley? Vrroooom vrroooom!”  

Regret buying: No

Would buy again: Yes

Would read again: Yes

Rating: Really good

Batman Adventures 1-6

This classic run got off to a slow start with these first issues.  Kelley Puckett hadn’t quite figured out that magic formula and Mike Parobeck hadn’t joined the team yet.  Ty Templeton certainly does a fine job, but, he would return in the future to do better work. The potential is there, and things are only going to get better.  

Regret buying: No

Would buy again: Yes

Would read again: Yes

Rating: Fine