A Trip To MGCC (Malaysian Games & Comic Convention)
Sunday, 20th May, the convention was held at KD University College. It was my first time going to a comic convention. I was so pump going to the convention that I made a list of comics that I wanted (& needed, as I develop my drawing skills only through observation)Hoping that I would finally bought comics that I wanted (most of the comics I wanted are about Damian Wayne & Jason Todd)
List Of Comics To Buy :
1) Batman Streets Of Gotham (Issue 7-13, cause those issues had a lot of Damian & Colin moments, oh and Issue 18 'cause there's funny scene of Batman taking a picture of Penguin)
2) Red Hood Lost Days (I'm a Jason fan & also where Jason has an awesome line saying to a dude "Your accents gets thicker when you're pissed, it's cute !")
3) Batman Annual #25 (where Jason was resurrected and buried deep & trapped in a coffin. The grave is the most phenomenal scene ever !!!)
4) Red Hood & The Outlaws #3 & #6 (cute scene of Young Jason, Starfire wearing a beautiful short white dress & more Jason)
5) Batman & Robin (New 52) #8 (Damian & Bruce having a father & son moment)
6) Kingdom Come (whole series...this is Alex Ross, we're talking about !)
...But unfortunately, there's a lot of Superman comics, old comics from the 80's and 90's & Tim Drake's (not a lot of Damian & Jason) and I couldn't find anything on the list except Kingdom Come & Batman Streets Of Gotham but it was DAMN expensive. The Kingdom Come has a complete set of the series but it costs RM200 while Batman Streets Of Gotham (there's only a set of #1-3 and no other issues) cost RM 50 ! $1 is equal to more than RM 3. It's probably more cheap buying in the States.I don't know whether to slit my throat or hang myself when saw those sets. Instead I bought 2 comics the New 52 Teen Titans (which cost RM 2) & Batwoman...(cost RM 5, quite a bargain, no ?) they're both cool but I feel unsatisfied...
I don't really like the new outfits in the New 52 but...Of all the makeovers of all the members of Teen Titans, I say the most satisfactory is Red Robin/Tim Drake or maybe Solstice/Kiran Singh...or both.
If you look closely, you'll see the members of the Teen Titans, Solstice, Static Shock, Raven, Miss Martian Beast Boy....& even Starfire ! (For some reason...)
Tim Drake fans would probably squeal by this scene....
The Red Robin wings & jet pack still doesn't convince me much but it does look good. If you look closely, you'll see Pandora the Hooded Lady
What I really don't like about this page is that Tim kicks the bad guy from the back of his neck and the bad guy hits his face at the side of the sports car...and oozes a lot of excessive blood like someone pealed his face...
An Introduction of Katherine Kane, Batwoman.
I'm quite glad Batwoman's story has some supernatural and paranormal elements (which I did not expect) in it which goes quite well and also not making another boring carbon copy stereotype Batman version with superhero fist fight with supervillians 'cause there's a lot of Bat titles in the New 52 like Batman, Nightwing, Batwing, Batgirl Batman & Robin and etc...Nighwing's probably the worst of the worst...not because I dislike Nightwing, don't get me wrong he's witty, has a lighthearted attitude which balances the other dark tones in the comic and he makes jokes along the way.The story is so predictable and cliche to me...and also reminds me that DC is being too sweet to him just because he's a popular character. Whatever Dick does whether he slept with Barbara Gordon/Batgirl even though he's already engaged to Starfire/Koriand'r (which he later admits to Barbara and invites her to his wedding after they slept) or always rushing into a relationship but not making a commitment and gets away with it and still going into numerous one night stand with many DC women that you could think of and yet everyone still forgives him and still making him look like he's the only good guy in DC and he doesn't seem to change (which makes it flaw as humans make mistake and trying to be better people is something we all never seem to get bored and enjoy to read ) even with the reboot of the New 52, going through an endless cycle of Dick's unchanged attitude and not blooming to anywhere. It would be nice to Dick having a nice deep well written mystery story without getting into some other woman's pant (Maybe that's why he's name is Dick) and next to fist fighting violence. It's just too boring and predictable...It's like another endless cycle rated 18SX.
