Black Cat

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More of the same fun from Jed MacKay.  Felicia rescues Doctor Strange in some kind of Venom event tie-in, betrays her mentor in order to save New York City, and uses the Infinity Stones to cure her mother of cancer.  Through it all, she maintains a breezy confidence and ability that’s awesome to watch.  MacKay bakes in just enough character development (the conflict with Black Fox, her relationship with Odessa, her loyalty to her crew) to keep it from being nothing but fluff.

Regret buying: No

Would buy again: Yes

Would read again: Yes

Rating: Pretty good

Batman: White Knight, New comics

New comics!

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Black Cat’s enlisted to help Tiger Division, the South Korean Avengers.  It’s a perfectly fine action comic.

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Daniel Warren Johnson is clearly setting up a romance between Bill and Skuttlebutt.  But first Bill must learn to love himself.  Works for me!  Johnson’s art is in that ugly Paul Pope region, but it totally works here.  His Bill is powerful and awesome.

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Elena Casagrande continues to stun with her splash pages.  Kelly Thompson continues to tug at my heartstrings with Natasha’s memories of her son Stevie.

Batman: White Knight

I’m going through this again in preparation for my Curse of the White Knight re-read.  

My original review.  I felt so strongly about it that I gave it a rating on my first go-through.  Turns out I was spot on, and this came really close to Pure Joy today.  Not quite, but oh so close.  

Something about Sean Murphy’s art: He has this ability to arrest me with a beautiful image, but then I look down the page and realize that there’s more to the picture than I was capable of initially processing, blowing me away a second time with the same art.  He caught me like that twice today:

I can't explain why I love that finger placement on the table.

Stunning dress, and then I see the leg...

Other things that stood out:

Love Harley's posture on the table.

Nice Yorick moment.

Duke totally looks like Bishop with that jacket.

Great reveal from this page...

...to this.  Batman 90 Batmobile!

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Jed MacKay infuses so much joy into Felicia Hardy, this is one of those “read with a grin on my face” titles.  Super happy to be back up to date with this title.

A lovely, understated (for him) cover by J Scott Campbell

Heh, Stark and redheads.

Iron Black Cat armor.  Pretty sweet.  Love how Felicia chose to add the pink.

Joy.