Selina's Big Score...

I am happy with this one. Selina's Big Score sets up the new Catwoman series by showing us how Selina Kyle got rich again. She stole money from the mob. (The Canadian mob, no less. Heh.)

It's such fun to have a comic to read that's clever, intelligent, and different. It plays the superhero game perfectly, and gets the characters and mood just right, so you care about the characters - even incidental characters, good or bad. That's always the bottom line for me. It's like discovering a TV show like Firefly where everything fits together better than could even hope.

There's a good review of it at this site, but I don't agree with Will Moss that "The story isn't what takes you places, it's the art". The point is, story and art are both superb and intertwined just as they should be in comics. If it weren't such a good story, there would be no point to the art.

I liked the characters so very much: especially Stark, one of Selina's lovers in the past. There's lots about the psychological background here, too, and about what matters to Selina and what doesn't.

It's one of those rare things: a story about a woman that gets it all right, and doesn't either weaken the character or make her act like a man.

I liked the one glimpse we had of Batman - one panel, no words, but lots of significance.

50 Questions...

Silly stuff, but I'm in the mood, so I'll do this and then go to the fitness club, buy some food I need for supper, come back and cook and clean up the place for guests.... Such is Thanksgiving!

( 50 Questions gakked from dargie )

Today's Thanksgiving dinner...

The turkey was delicious. The cranberry sauce (made from scratch from fresh Ontario cranberries that I bought in the Byward Market this afternoon) was everything I hoped for. The pies from the 3 Tarts... well, they were as good as anything I've ever had from them.

Afterwards we watched Billy Elliot, a movie I've seen before, and loved. I cried over it again. I think the actor who plays Billy's brother Tony is really cute - he looks familiar, but I don't think I've seen him in anything else. The actor's name is Jamie Draven.

Then I finished my reading of all the Catwomen comics I was able to get. They were superb, and I think it gets better as it goes - though it's hard to say. It isn't so much that the quality improves as that each story draws on characters and events that came before, so it deepens in richness and significance.

Of course, I only have some of the issues, so there are huge gaps in the story for me. As usual, I loved the rare appearances of Batman, with his mysterious personality and his ambivalent relationship with Selina.