Comics Fondle

Barr finally gets back to revealing Halo’s origin, gives a suspect portion of it, then leaves it for later again. Unfortunately, so much time has past since he last dealt with it (four issues, I think) and he lays the suspicion (Halo’s discovering she might have been a murderer) on so heavy, it’s hard to […]

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Unfortunately, Barr gets rid of his pervy, statutory rape ready romance between Halo and Geo-Force at the beginning of the issue. How? Well, Geo-Force’s romantic feelings toward Halo were really just misdirected feelings he never got to direct toward deceased little sister Terra. Yes, really.
For her part, Halo was just confusing her feelings of brotherly […]

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Barr spends a whole issue getting rid of Halo–the Outsiders (minus Metamorpho) bring her home to Missouri where, big shock, Halo discovers ominous secrets–and then spends the next two dealing with Metamorpho. I’m not sure if it counts as a retcon for his origin, but might if tylenol counts as a retcon.
Oh, I guess I’m […]

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Barr celebrates the first year of Batman and the Outsiders with Katana’s origin and a startling development for the intuitive Outsiders (they find out Batman is Bruce Wayne–and in a nice move from Barr, Halo feels really sorry for him, remembering how much Bruce Wayne hates Batman). The Katana origin part is lackluster. Though the […]

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In today’s comics, supervillains are evil enough to compare to Armadillo on “The Shield.” In the 1980s, apparently they were just as evil, but had environmentally conscious nicknames and powers. (I’m mostly referring to the bad guys–the Masters of Disaster–killing their employer because they know it’ll piss off Black Lightning). These two issues contain three […]

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