Just Stay at Home

... in my comics this week.

• Countdown to Final Crisis #17, or, as I like to call it, "The All-Jean Loring Issue". Crazy whacked out Eclipso-evil Jean Loring alongside Earth-51 pre-psychotic wasp-waisted Jean Loring. And a flamethrower, of sorts. Jean -- either one -- gets more than she bargained for!
• Speaking of the Atom, if you get invited to a barbecue in Ivytown, don't go.
• Ra's keeps his receipts? That's hilarious.
  
• When you're the Joker, it only takes you one panel to hijack a space shuttle.
• I just love that all the very worst people in comics can be found in one place: Jonah Hex.
• The Return of Aqualad the Pathetic Wuss! Shrieking like a little girl. YAY!!!!!!
• The Crimson Avenger versus Harley Quinn. Priceless.
• The Globe. Thank you, Mr. Dini. Now I demand he return, next issue, just like in the Golden Age. And I want him to team up with the Clock and fight Robin. Sincerely, Scipio G., Washington DC. P.S. Please bring back Vibe!
• Note the background color changes in Teen Titans Year One between each segment of the story. Nicely done.
• Mary Marvel makes a poor choice of vacation spots.
• Legion 37. More from me on this later. Much more.
• Aquaman on a seahorse. That never gets old.
• Panda gets slapped. That's always funny!
• Speaking of which... ouch! Maybe Robin can go live with Joey Jeremiah?
• "I will not stand for it." Oh, black humor thy name is Jonah Hex.
• Okay, I've never been a fan of Mongul, with his over-obvious "yellow hun invader" schtick. But darned if the DOMINATION house ad isn't eye-catching!
• Wally West, the original Impulse.
• "That was pointless and annoying" was pretty funny; plus, it took lots of guts to put that line in an issue of Countdown!
• I adore the fact that Grant Morrison took, what, eight issues building the tedious Ra's Al Ghul back into a Big Bad, and Dini had Batman take him out in about eight pages and with fantastic irony.
• Chinese arithmetic humor. Gets me every time.
• Most original, and possibly best, visual representation of aquatic telepathy ever.
• The Joker versus Zatanna. Yes, it's that easy.
• Leave it to Palmiotti and Gray to make a charmingly unique addition to the "Starman" legacy!
• Teen Titans Year One is not at all what I expected; it's much better. Eat your heart out, Frank Miller!
• Ryan Choi in the stocks. Sigh. Really, sometimes it's as if they want us to write fanfic.
• Please tell me I'm going to get to see Aquaman pimp-slap Aqualad next month. PLEASE.