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Jog on Batwoman

June 25th, 2009 by | Tags: , , , , , ,

As usual, Jog did it better than I was going to:

Almost every ‘superhero’ page in this comic is like that, often crashing across double spreads for maximum exhibitionism. It’s not enough for Batwoman to take on a gang of villains; inset panels must transform into red-tinted lightning bolts raining from the sky. Perversely, it’s not a quick read at all, since these vainglorious layout do everything to grab your attention as soon as you turn the page and force you to linger on their contours, even as, say, a panel of Batwoman getting into costume is shaped as an arrow, guiding you to the next image in a way that draws screaming attention to the obvious act of reading in sequence.

I may have some thoughts later, but I enjoyed Batwoman’s first issue.

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7 comments to “Jog on Batwoman”

  1. I read that headline differently, “Jog on” means “fuck off” in English slang, I thought you meant it was crap.

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Jog%20on&defid=355386

    I haven’t read the ish yet, but I’m looking forward to it.

         by Valhallahan June 26th, 2009 at 05:38 --replyReply to this comment

  2. @Valhallahan: Which puts certain scenes of “The Winter’s Tale” in an entirely different context…

         by Salieri June 26th, 2009 at 07:28 --replyReply to this comment

  3. @Valhallahan: Ha! That’s fascinating.

         by david brothers June 26th, 2009 at 08:18 --replyReply to this comment

  4. Referring to this image, perhaps?

    http://www.the-isb.com/?p=1758

         by Liquidben June 27th, 2009 at 14:55 --replyReply to this comment

  5. Finally read it, Great stuff I thought.

    Another point on slang, she goes to the “Morning Glory” cafe in this ish, does that mean the same as it does in England?

         by Valhallahan July 5th, 2009 at 12:48 --replyReply to this comment

  6. @Valhallahan: I don’t think so, I haven’t heard any double entedres involving Morning Glory. What’s it mean over there?

         by david brothers July 5th, 2009 at 17:56 --replyReply to this comment

  7. Umm… it’s… well, you know sometimes when you wake up and one part of you is more awake than the rest of you.

    Basically, a morning erection.

    http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/morning_glory

         by Valhallahan July 9th, 2009 at 06:40 --replyReply to this comment