Finished reading through Nodwick; started Insufferable.

Injustice Year 5 #18
Huck #6
Invincible #127
Silk #7

So "no self-respecting 21st-century girl is going to settle for a tambourine."
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Any stories where they're listening to records or cassette tapes.

One more B&V variant and they'll run out of alphabet ...

... and not a single Dark Circle title listed ... 

Supergirl

Dilton, absolutely..    Midge and Ethel, I think so but I should check to be sure ..(and yes I'll get it back up soon) 

So her parents actually named her cricket? It's not just a nickname? .,. There's something fishy about this ...

  Actually I think that looks a bit better than the current — and I'd bet you'd keep it consistent from panel to panel 

Quote from: The Bee on April 14, 2016, 04:42:14 PM
I'm just waiting for this Josie and the Pussycats group on the 1st Riverdale episode to bust out into a Destiny's Child song like Bootylicious.

The gratuitous race swapping is ... a bit annoying, but casting the one with the palest complexion as Valerie and the (is it just me?) least attractive one as Melody is just rubbing fans noses in it ... and given that, if they ever want to do the Archie/Valerie thing now then we really have an excuse to call them on racism ...

Quote from: irishmoxie on April 14, 2016, 06:08:30 PM

QuoteIn my attempt to try superheroes again I read Mockingbird #1. It was interesting. The first issue didn't explain much.

Do you think I would like issue #2? I think it was released this week. I'm on the fence with continuing the series.

Quote from: invisifan on April 14, 2016, 06:39:29 PM
I've picked it up but not read it yet — will get to it tonight and let you know 

Okay — if you thought #1 was interesting I'd say definitely give the next 4 a try ... it's a bit of a mystery and more spy than superhero for the most part — and it's supposed to be a puzzle that's shown as it goes along, with the first issue just intended to intrigue ...

Quote from: BettyReggie on April 14, 2016, 10:13:31 PM
... Plus Betty is never wears 2 ponytails. It's cute though. And I like 11 out the 15 so far.

Betty's hair styles have changed many times over the years — the single ponytail is only a "recent" norm, the double-tail was common in the '60s, as seen in DCR's recent post:

I've picked it up but not read it yet — will get to it tonight and let you know 

Quote from: irishmoxie on April 14, 2016, 04:47:36 PM
In my attempt to try superheroes again I read Mockingbird #1. It was interesting. The first issue didn't explain much.

She has a long history (which isn't totally necessary) — nothing like Patsy of course and she's always been in the superhero side of things, but about 50 years I'd say ... I could do a summary if you want, but I doubt it's essential ...

If only to annoy Reggie —  probably a valid rationale 

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on April 14, 2016, 05:20:10 AM
I took 'the point' such as it is, to be approximately the same as that of Ultimate Spider-Man when that title started out, i.e. "What If Peter Parker, the Amazing Spider-Man were just beginning his career today?" Come to think of it, that's pretty much what Kurt Busiek & Pat Oliffe's Untold Tales of Spider-Man was as well, except that they weren't concentrating so much on making a point of modernizing things, just telling modern-style stories "interstitially" dispersed between those classic adventures. SPIDEY wasn't doing a straight retelling of the original Lee/Ditko stories so much as a reinterpretation of Peter's first encounters with various foes in a modern context, which I think is perfectly valid. If you're going to sweat how it fits into "Spider-Man continuity", it's probably just going to be a burr in your saddle.

On the one hand, they just went to a lot of trouble to get rid of the Ultimate Universe ... so why start a new one? Retelling in a modern style is no problem — this certainly isn't the main universe, so they can do what they want it's just that it's rushed and aimless ... They are changing fundamental things for no apparent reason and skipping over details (new and old) apparently rushing to get somewhere, with nowhere to go ... it's a new continuity, but they aren't giving us an actual story, just vignettes along the way, so — pointless and aimless. If they treated it as a new continuity (like Spider-Gwen) I'd be fine with that but it has no substance.

QuoteIs there a place in modern comics for a stripped-down, back-to-basics Spider-Man? I think there is; but then again, the execution is everything (Bradshaw's art made those stories dynamic and fun, whereas the art in #4 made it all look rather dull and pedestrian). I pretty much have zero interest in the continuity-heavy, complexly-interwoven adventures of the current Spider-Man. Marvel Universe Spider-Man fans obviously disagree vehemently with my opinion.

This is stripped down beyond the point of readable on my opinion — the art isn't the determining factor, the whole thing just falls flat ... and a sad part of it is that this is really all there is for Peter Parker — anywhere else he's just a big name cameo — including what should be his own book: "The Amazing Spider-man" which is now really "Parker Ind. Inc." with him pretending to be his own bodyguard/security force like Stark's original Iron Man deal ...